The body of kindergarten teacher, Luz Hernandez, who had been missing since Monday, Feb. 6, 2023 has been found buried in a shallow grave only a few miles away from where she lived and worked in Kearny, New Jersey. — WABC (JERSEY CITY, N.J.) — A suspect has been arrested […]
amphotora/Getty Images (MEMPHIS, Tenn.) — The local district attorney’s office in Tennessee’s Shelby County announced Thursday that it will review all prior cases — closed and pending — of the five former Memphis police officers charged in the death of Tyre Nichols. “This is still an active and ongoing investigation,” […]
Creativeye99/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The criminal case against former FBI agent Charles McGonigal will include classified information along with electronic communications, financial records and surveillance photos, a prosecutor said Thursday during a court hearing. McGonigal, who has pleaded not guilty to charges over his ties to sanctioned Russian oligarch […]
San Francisco Fire Department (SAN FRANCISCO) — One person is dead, and one civilian and one firefighter were injured in a massive, three-alarm fire that impacted three homes in San Francisco on Thursday, according to the San Francisco Fire Department. “San Francisco Fire is saddened to announce that the previously […]
Billy Schuerman/Newport News Daily Press/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (NEWPORT NEWS, Va.) — The teacher shot in class by her 6-year-old student in Newport News, Virginia, claims the shooter had a history of violent behavior at school and accused the school’s assistant principal of failure to act despite being […]
Russ Heller/Facebook (MILFORD, N.J.) — New Jersey leaders are mourning the loss of a councilman who was killed in what police said was a targeted workplace shooting on Wednesday. Russell Heller was fatally shot outside utility company PSE&G’s Somerset Central Division Headquarters in Franklin Township, where he was the senior […]
Philip Gould/Getty Images (JACKSON, Miss.) — The Mississippi House passed a controversial bill that would form a court system of unelected judges and prosecutors to preside over part of the majority-Black city of Jackson. Black residents make up 82.8% of the city’s population, according to the U.S. Census. The bill […]
Google Maps Street View (NEW YORK MILLS, Minn.) — Authorities are praising a group of factory employees they say disarmed a 21-year-old colleague who allegedly shot at and chased a co-worker at a boat manufacturing facility in northern Minnesota on Thursday morning. According to the Otter Tail County Sheriff’s Office, […]
Thos Robinson/Getty Images for The New York Times (WASHINGTON) — Former Vice President Mike Pence has been subpoenaed by the special counsel overseeing probes into former President Donald Trump, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. It’s not immediately clear what information the subpoena from special counsel Jack Smith […]
Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (TALLAHASSEE) — The College Board has addressed the Florida Department of Education’s rejection of AP African American Studies courses and subsequent criticism of the program, as well as the controversy that ensued. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ DOE initially rejected the course on Jan. 12 […]
