A Florida woman who was reportedly seen in a now-viral video coughing in a cancer patient’s face may be criminally charged in connection with last Thursday’s video. WJXT reported that on Monday, Heather Sprague filed an incident report with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office. The report stated that the altercation occurred on June 25, after Sprague …
A Virginia couple have been charged with fraud after they allegedly received over $1.4 million in proceeds under the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) meant to help businesses struggling because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Monica Magdalena Jaworska, 43, and her husband, Tarik Jaafar, 42, were arrested on June 20 at JFK International Airport as they tried …
Authorities in California are looking for a woman who they said intentionally coughed on a 1-year-old boy during an argument with the child’s mother. The San Jose Police Department said in a press release that the incident occurred Friday at a Yogurtland in San Jose. At the time of the alleged assault, the unidentified suspect …
Grieving family members and doctors in California have said they suspect a spate of sudden deaths in late 2019 and early 2020 may have been undetected cases of COVID-19. According to the Los Angeles Times, Dr. Deirdre Amaro, the forensic pathologist for the Shasta County Sheriff in Northern California, is troubled by the sudden deaths, …
Florida’s beaches were packed over the weekend with quarantine-weary visitors who took advantage of the holiday weekend to flock into beach towns, largely ignoring social distancing guidelines put out by the state to combat the coronavirus pandemic. In Daytona Beach, a widely publicized event called Orlando Invades Daytona was cancelled at the request of police, …
A Colorado man was arrested Monday, days after he allegedly shot a Waffle House cook because he was kicked out of the restaurant for not wearing a mask. Kelvin Watson, 27, was arrested on attempted murder charges for a shooting that reportedly occurred Thursday night at a Waffle House in Aurora. Watson returned to the …
A Florida woman called police five times from an Indialantic bar to complain the company wasn’t practicing appropriate social distancing guidelines, but when officers arrived, they found she’d been wandering through the business trying to kiss random customers. The owner of the Monkey Bar and Grille told Melbourne police that multiple customers complained about Audra …
When Los Angeles police arrived at a large and loud Hollywood Hills party Saturday night, they figured they would issue orders to disperse, per state and county orders in place aimed at stemming the spread of the coronavirus. But a gunshot prompted the officers to call for back-up and be a little more cautious. There …
St Ambrose Parish priest Father Timothy R. Pelc continued a long-standing tradition last month with the Blessing of the Easter Food Baskets on the day before Easter, but he did it a little differently in the age of the coronavirus pandemic. Father Tim, as he’s known at the Michigan church, stood outside the church, flanked …
A Detroit man has been jailed on terrorism charges for “making credible threats to kill Governor Gretchen Whitmer and Attorney General Dana Nessel” over the governor’s coronavirus restriction orders meant to slow the spread of the virus. Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said that Robert Tesh, 32, made the threats to an acquaintance via social …
A Maryland mom left her two young children locked in her car while she was having her nails done at a salon that should not have been open because of pandemic restrictions. Temperatures were in the 70s when a Baltimore County police officer couldn’t find the owner of a black Honda with a 3-month-old boy …
A Turkish soccer player reportedly admitted to killing his young son who was sick with coronavirus, and then misleading medical staff to believe that the 5-year-old boy died of COVID-19. Citing a Turkish news outlet, the Sun and the New York Post report that Cevher Toktas, who plays soccer in the Turkish Regional Amateur League, …
