MARYLAND HEIGHTS, Mo.—Five St. Louis-area police officers were injured early Wednesday when they were struck by an SUV driven by a suspected drunken driver. Three of the officers were in serious condition and two suffered moderate injuries, the Missouri State Highway Patrol said. A 2-year-old girl in the Jeep Cherokee that struck the officers suffered…
Kansas City Officer Shot, Hurt After Chiefs’ Super Bowl Win
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—A Kansas City police officer was hit by gunfire and wounded at the department’s headquarters shortly after the Chiefs won the Super Bowl, authorities said early Monday. The Kansas City Police Department said the officer’s injuries are not life-threatening. The source and motive of the gunfire are unknown. The officer was shot just…
Cameraman Injured on New Mexico Film Set Gets $66 Million in Lawsuit
A Los Angeles cameraman who suffered a spinal cord injury while on a New Mexico movie set has been awarded more than $66 million in a lawsuit, among the largest settlements in the state’s history, a news outlet reported. The Santa Fe New Mexican quoted Jame Razo as saying that the jury’s decision Friday was…
Gunman Dead After Firing More Than 100 Rounds, Officer Hurt
ROSEVILLE, Minn.—A gunman fired more than 100 rounds in his suburban Minneapolis neighborhood, seriously wounding a police officer before the suspect was shot and later died, police said Wednesday. Officers in Roseville responded to a report of shots fired around 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and encountered a chaotic scene as they immediately came under fire, Police…
1 Police Officer Dead, 1 Hurt in Offshore Helicopter Crash
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.—Authorities were investigating Sunday the cause of a police helicopter crash along the Southern California coast that killed one officer and sent another to the hospital with critical injuries. The Huntington Beach officers were responding to a disturbance in the neighboring city of Newport Beach around 6:30 p.m. Saturday when the helicopter hit…
Walnuts for Holiday Baking Languish as US Shipping Crisis Hurts Farmers
ESCALON, CALIF.—The shrink-wrapped boxes of fresh California walnuts stacked almost to the ceiling in Don Barton’s California packing facility should be headed to Europe for holiday baking and to Asia for New Year celebrations. Instead, newly cleaned and shelled nuts—about $10 million worth—are stuck at his processing plant near Sacramento, thousands of miles from their…
17 Hurt as Illegal Fireworks Cache Explodes in Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES—A cache of homemade fireworks exploded as it was being destroyed by a bomb squad, flipping and damaging cars, smashing windows in homes and injuring 17 people including police officers, authorities said. It could take days to determine why the material exploded inside an iron containment vessel on a tractor-trailer Wednesday night, tearing the…
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