The Illinois State Police is warning the public of phone scammers who are impersonating state police special agents in an attempt to obtain personal and financial information. The Illinois State Police (ISP) said in an announcement Thursday that they learned of a new phone scam. ISP received several phone calls this week from individuals reporting […]
The scammer claimed the call recipient had missed jury duty and needed to pay $3,000 via Coinstar.
Emerging cicadas are so loud in one South Carolina county that residents are calling the sheriff’s office asking why they can hear sirens or a loud roar.
Fortunately no dogs have died as a result of the coyote attacks, but police have advice for pet owners to keep their animals safe.
Two broods of cicadas emerging simultaneously have some comparing their deafening mating calls to sirens or even heavy machinery. The natural phenomenon last happened more than 200 years ago.
Some in Newberry County, S.C., thought the noise was a siren. The sheriff
Syracuse police put out an alert at 1:06 p.m. Sunday asking residents
NEWBERRY COUNTY, S.C. – The emergence of cicadas in South Carolina has caused a disturbance so loud that it prompted uneasy residents to call police for help. The Newberry County Sheriff's Office said they had several calls Tuesday about a noise in the air that sounded like "a siren, or a whine or a roar." "The sound is cicadas," deputies informed residents. On hot, sunny days, the brood's collective sounds can reach the volume of a lawnmower or motorcycle. "Cicadas are a superfamily of insects...
"Cicadageddon," "Cicadsamania, "Cicadadoomsday." No matter what you call it, it's here.
Callers are impersonating deputies and telling victims they need to pay fines to avoid an arrest.
VERNAL, Utah, April 28, 2024 (Gephardt Daily) — A Vernal Police officer struck by multiple bullets after responding to a firearms threat drove himself to a local hospital Saturday night, and was later airlifted to a hospital along the Wasatch Front. A Uintah County Sheriff’s deputy called to the scene on the same case suffered […] The post Vernal Police officer shot multiple times after responding to firearms call; Uintah County deputy also injured first appeared on Gephardt Daily.
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