ABC News (PHILADELPHIA) — Across the country, police forces are scrambling to keep their roll call numbers at full staff, but officials said they’ve been hit with challenges. Burnout, low morale, and dejection have caused many cops, both long-time veterans and newcomers, to quit and change careers and recent public […]
Bell County Sheriff’s Office (WACO, Texas) — A woman accused of helping Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Guillen’s suspected killer dismember and dispose of her body pleaded guilty to multiple federal charges on Tuesday, weeks before her trial was scheduled to start. Cecily Aguilar, 24, was indicted last year on 11 […]
Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (CHESAPEAKE, Va.) — A Virginia community is reeling after a man armed with a handgun shot and killed six people and injured several others in a mass shooting at a Walmart in Chesapeake. Survivors said the gunman walked into a break room and opened […]
Catherine McQueen/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A jury on Tuesday convicted Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes and associate Kelly Meggs of seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol while also convicting three others of various crimes in the insurrection — but jurors acquitted the five defendants of […]
Chesapeake Police Department Handout (CHESAPEAKE, Va.) — A victim of the mass shooting at a Walmart store in Chesapeake, Virginia, filed a lawsuit against the company on Tuesday. The suit accused Walmart of being negligent by hiring and continuing to employ the suspected shooter despite its knowledge of his alleged […]
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.-Tuesday, nine Utah State football standouts made the various All-Mountain West Conference football teams. The MWC’s offensive player of the year is Air Force senior tailback Brad Roberts (1,612 rushing yards, 134.3 rushing yards per game, 15 rushing touchdowns) The conference defensive player of the year is San […]
Jason Marz/Getty Images (JACKSON, Miss.) — The U.S. Department of Justice has reached an agreement and filed a new complaint with Jackson, Mississippi, over the city’s alleged mismanagement of its water system. Through its agreement with the City of Jackson, the DOJ will establish a third-party monitor to ensure that […]
Jill Connelly/Bloomberg via Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — Fifteen days into a strike across University of California system campuses, academic researchers and postdoctoral scholars have reached tentative agreements which include wage increases that reflect the cost of living, the United Auto Workers announced Tuesday. Postdocs and academic researchers said they […]
Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (NEW HAVEN, Conn.) — LaToya Boomer said it was “a slap in the face” when the five New Haven police officers allegedly involved in an incident resulting in her brother Randy Cox’s paralysis while in police custody, were only charged with two misdemeanors. Officers Oscar Diaz, Jocelyn […]
International Fund for Animal Welfare (EASTHAM, Mass.) — Five pilot whales that were stranded on a Massachusetts beach have been returned to the ocean, but they may still be in peril, according to experts. Conservationists from the International Fund for Animal Welfare’s Marine Mammal Rescue and Research team were sent […]
