Baltimore prosecutors on Wednesday announced the arrest of a man in the cold case homicide of an off-duty Washington, D.C., police officer in 2017. The officer, Sgt. Tony Anthony Mason Jr., was shot to death while sitting in a parked car with a woman he had been dating, according to police. She was also shot but survived. The case sat unsolved for five years until detectives received a tip in early 2023 that reinvigorated their investigation and led to charges against Dion Thompson, 24,...
MISSION, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A suspect in a Mission murder case has been taken into custody, police said. Police told ValleyCentral that one person was arrested in connection to the killing of a 25-year-old man last week. At 8:57 p.m. April 8, police received calls of shots fired in the area of the 2500 block []
Police began removing anti-Israel protesters from an encampment on Yale’s campus early Monday after a week of protests calling for the university to divest from military weapon manufacturers. Between 40 and 45 protesters were arrested as police looked through tents set up in the encampment near Beinecke Plaza, Yale Police Chief Anthony Campbell told the Yale Daily News reported. Beinecke Plaza is where more than 250 agitators had gathered Sunday night. Protest organizers told the paper that at...
He’d been trying for almost a year to talk to the former police chief. Sgt. Mike Slaughter, a police detective in suburban Philadelphia, wanted to interview the retired chief, Thomas Mills, about a decades-old unsolved homicide. The detective said he had repeatedly gone to Mills’ home and asked intermediaries to help broker a meeting. But Mills refused, he said. Finally, in December 2015, the former chief agreed to a recorded interview and, after roughly an hour, Slaughter said he came away...
Pro-Palestine protests on the campuses of some of America’s most elite colleges have resulted in hundreds of arrests and led Columbia University in New York Read More
(WTRF) -- Weirton Police responded to a home Saturday to discover what they describe as a murder-suicide. 3 dead, one hospitalized after fatal shooting in Weirton Jordan Bettino and Zoe Antoniou were found dead at the residence on Miami Avenue. Suspect Brennan Bailey was also found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot. A woman was taken []
Australia’s housing crisis is expected to get worse before it gets better and the federal government is facing growing pressure to do more to fix it in the May budget. Deloitte Access Economics partner Stephen Smith said the nation had not been building enough homes to keep pace with population growth, and new dwelling starts […]
Barry George's defence lawyer in the case of Jill Dando's murder has claimed police should reopen the case to look at a Serbian assassin who looks like a mystery man.
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DC Comics has been criticized multiple times by fans over the last year for its wokeness. Popular YouTuber and critic Richard C. Meyer summed up DC Comics' work as “the comic book equivalent of a gay bar.” Despite its over-the-top changes to fan-loved characters' sexualities, nothing has been as egregious as a recent issue of Wonder Woman by Tom King that paints Donald Trump and Christians as villains.
A Columbia University professor is speaking out against anti-Israel protestors and calling on police to protect him. The professor, however, has a history of anti-police activism.
Stephen Lawrence, 18, an aspiring architect, was murdered on his way home in an unprovoked attack by a gang of racists in Eltham, south-east London, in April 1993.