Police at a California beach town handed out a $1,000 citation to a surfer who violated closure orders Saturday in light of the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the country. Manhattan Beach Police Sgt. Mike Sistoni told the Los Angeles Times the unnamed surfer ignored warnings from police and lifeguards and waded into the surf, board in …
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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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 Manhattan judge on Thursday released 16 inmates, including a career criminal who stalked his girlfriend and stabbed her to death at a cellphone repair shop, over fears they could contract the novel coronavirus sweeping the country. The New York Post reported that prosecutors objected to releasing Pedro Vinent-Barcia, 63, who was jailed for the …
A Clinch County, Georgia, man has been jailed on charges of making terroristic threats, but the March 20 arrest wasn’t his first last week. Reinaldo Pineda, 69, was arrested on March 17 and charged with bestiality after a surveillance video showed him having sex with a chicken, the Clinch County News reported. Clinch County Sheriff’s …
A Georgia teen has been arrested and charged in the death of a newborn girl found in a cooler at the side of the road early last year. Investigators used DNA to track down Caroline Riley Propes, 19, and charge her with second degree murder, Troup County Sheriff James Woodruff said. Witnesses told investigators the …
A doctor at UConn Health in Farmington, Connecticut, was arrested Thursday and charged with breach of peace after he allegedly intentionally coughed on and hugged nurses at an outpatient surgical clinic, the Hartford Courant reported. Cory Edgar, 48, is an orthopedic team physician at the university and an assistant professor of orthopedic surgery at the …
