An 86-year-old woman died Saturday at a Brooklyn hospital after another patient shoved her to the ground because “she was too close” during the coronavirus pandemic. The woman, who was not named, fell backward and hit her head, the New York Post reported. She died three hours after the incident, while hospital staff were waiting …
New York police on Saturday released a photograph of a man they’d like to question in connection with a fire at a subway station on Friday that killed a train operator and injured several others, NBC New York reported. Garrett Goble, 36, was found unconscious on the train roadbed when emergency crews responded. He was …
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Two children were found dead in West Virginia on Saturday in what police believe is a double homicide, the Bluefield Daily Telegraph reports. The children’s bodies were discovered Saturday afternoon in the Greenville area, about 100 miles southeast of Charleston. Identities of the victims – a toddler and another child around 8 years old – …
Seeking to profit from the global coronavirus pandemic, counterfeiters across the globe are producing phony medical masks that authorities warn are unsafe, the Independent reports. “Criminals will stop at nothing to make a profit,” Jürgen Stock, secretary-general of Interpol, told the newspaper. “The illicit trade in such counterfeit medical items during a public health crisis shows their total …
A 4-year-old Alabama girl who disappeared on Wednesday while walking with her dog asked her mother to record a video as she told some of the story of her 48 hours lost in the woods before rescuers found her. Evelyn “Vadie” Sides is still hospitalized, Amanda Sides wrote in the Facebook post that included the …
A 22-year-old man tried to make off with a woman’s three children on Wednesday at a bus stop in Doña Ana, New Mexico, but the attempted kidnapping was foiled by a 16-year-old high school wrestling champion who pinned the man down inside a gas station and held him there until police arrived. Canaan Bower, who …
A Florida man “lost it” and killed his girlfriend and her new lover when he found them having sex after he bonded out of jail, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office said. Kenyatta Bellamy, 50, had been in the Osceola County jail for a year for failing to appear in court on a DUI manslaughter charge. …
Detectives from Fort Wayne, Indiana, traveled to Wisconsin this week to arrest a 33-year-old woman in the stabbing death of her best friend nearly 18 years ago, WANE reported. Holly Boisvert, 33, waits in a Fond Du Lac jail for extradition back to Indiana, where she’ll face charges in the death of Stacy Degrandchamp, who …
A pregnant New York City schoolteacher who was hospitalized for coronavirus alleges officials failed to heed warnings about an infection ripping through her school, the New York Post reports. “I had a lab report and a letter from my doctor. It still wasn’t good enough,” Raquel Iacurto told the Post. Iacurto, 32, says she asked authorities to close …
A New York city police officer has died after contracting the novel coronarvirus, which has infected more than 500 members of the NYPD. The New York Post reports that the 48-year-old detective worked in the 32nd precinct in Harlem. He reportedly died on Saturday morning at North Central Bronx Hospital. The detective’s identity has not …
