Courtesy of New Hanover County Public Library, North Carolina Room. (WILMINGTON, N.C.) — Athalia Howe was just 12 years old when she, her sister and mother were forced to seek refuge in a cemetery as armed white supremacists terrorized Wilmington, North Carolina, in the fall of 1898. Separated from her father, […]
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (PHILADELPHIA) — A Temple University police officer was fatally shot in the head when trying to arrest a robbery suspect in north Philadelphia on Saturday night, officials said. He was later pronounced dead at Temple University Hospital, the university said. The suspect fled, and no arrests have […]
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images/STOCK (COLUMBUS, Ga.) — Police in Columbus, Georgia, responded to the shooting at a local Shell gas station Friday night to find nine children, including a five-year-old child, injured with gunshot wounds. The Columbus Police Department has made no arrests in the case, and the nine victims are being […]
Michael Dobuski/ABC News (NEW YORK) — The doorbell at 224 West 4th Street in Manhattan’s West Village doesn’t work, which is why Will Fann is leaving a note on the door. That note is one of the only handwritten things at the Fat Cat Fab Lab on a recent Saturday, because […]
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S military has announced that it has concluded its search for flying objects shot down over Deadhorse, Alaska, and Lake Huron. The first object was shot down on Feb. 10th over Alaska while the second was shot down over Lake Huron on Feb. 12 and […]
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images (LIVERMORE, Calif.) — A 26-year-old was shot outside a Tesla Distribution Center in Livermore, California, on Friday, according to police. Livermore Police responded to a report of a shooting on the roadway outside of a Tesla Distribution Center. When they arrived on scene, officers found one victim shot. […]
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images/STOCK (TATE COUNTY, Miss.) — Six people are dead after a “series of shootings” in Tate County, Mississippi, on Friday, authorities said. A suspect has been taken into custody, the governor said. The shootings occurred at three different locations in Arkabutla — outside a convenience store and in two […]
New Jersey Office of the Attorney General (BURLINGTON COUNTY, N.J.) — A man accused of holding a woman hostage for nearly a year was arrested and charged with kidnapping after the alleged victim managed to flee their residence to a gas station, authorities said. James Parrillo Jr., 57, was arrested on […]
Miguel Sotomayor/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — When Lindsey Spero, 25, approached the podium at a Feb. 10 public hearing of the Florida medical board on a gender-affirming youth trans care ban, they used their allotted 2 minutes, 30 seconds to inject testosterone in front of board members and the audience. The […]
KABC (LOS ANGELES) — Federal hate crime charges have been filed in the shootings of two Jewish men in Los Angeles this week, according to a criminal complaint. Jaime Tran, 28, has been charged with hate crimes in the separate shootings of two Jewish men as they were leaving religious services […]
