Tag: Public Safety

Police: 8 People, Including Girl, Wounded in 2 DC Shootings

WASHINGTON—Two shootings in Washington, D.C., on Friday night resulted in eight people, including a young girl, suffering injuries, the Metropolitan Police Department said. There were no fatalities in the two shootings, which police said could be related because they occurred in the same area of the city in a short time frame. About 10 p.m….


Man in Custody After Standoff Near Mall of America

BLOOMINGTON, Minn.—A man with a shotgun was taken into custody Friday after a standoff in a parking lot at the Mall of America, authorities said. The Bloomington Police Department said on social media that crisis negotiators were brought to the scene and the man was taken into custody in the area of American Boulevard and…


Biden Administration Charges New York Midwives Over Fake Vaccine Cards

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has charged the owner and two employees of a New York midwife practice of distributing more than 2,600 fake COVID-19 vaccine cards. In a press release, the DOJ said that two nurse midwives (one of whom is the owner) at Sage-Femme Midwifery PLLC, as well as a nurse working at…


Hackers Breach American Bar Association, Millions of Logins Potentially Stolen

The American Bar Association (ABA) has announced that a data breach last month may have compromised the login information of over a million members. On March 17, 2023, the ABA observed “unusual activity” on its network. As a result, an “incident response plan” was immediately activated, and cybersecurity experts assisted with the investigation, according to…


Indiana Woman Charged With Federal Hate Crime in Bus Attack

BLOOMINGTON, Ind.—A southern Indiana woman now faces a federal hate crime charge in addition to attempted murder in the stabbing of an Indiana University student of Chinese descent on a public bus. Billie R. Davis, 56, of Bloomington, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Evansville Thursday on a charge of willfully causing injuries…


Man Wanted in NC Shooting Waives Extradition From Florida

TAMPA, Fla.—A North Carolina man accused of shooting and wounding a 6-year-old girl and her parents after children went to retrieve a basketball that had rolled into his yard waived extradition during a brief court appearance Friday morning in Florida. Robert Louis Singletary, 24, was arrested Thursday in the Tampa area by Hillsborough County deputies,…


Milwaukee Prosecutors Charge Jailor in Fugitive’s Death

MIlWAUKEE—A Milwaukee County Jail guard was charged with misconduct Friday in connection with the in-custody death earlier this year of an accused killer who was once on the FBI’s top 10 most wanted list. Laquisha Cowser, 32, told investigators that she had completed her safety checks when she had not, according to the criminal complaint….


Judge Stops Texas Execution After Questions Raised in Case

HOUSTON—A Texas judge has stopped next week’s scheduled execution of a death row inmate who has long said he’s innocent so there can be more time to review his claims that he was convicted more than 20 years ago with false testimony and questionable evidence. Ivan Cantu had been condemned for the fatal shooting of…


8 Years Later, Florida Man Charged in Alabama Cold Case

BAY MINETTE, Ala.—Alabama law enforcement officials said Friday they’ve arrested a man accused of murder, eight years after the victim was reported missing from a Florida city. The Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office in Alabama said Decody Herring, 32, was charged with the murder of Devin Kennedy of Pensacola, Florida. Kennedy was 22 at the time…


Drive-By Shooting Wounds 3, Kills 12-Year-Old Bystander

HARTFORD, Conn.—Bullets sprayed out from a speeding car in Connecticut’s capital, killing an innocent 12-year-old bystander and wounding three other people, authorities said Friday. The suspects in the drive-by shooting appeared to target three males who were standing on a sidewalk on a residential street not far from downtown Hartford shortly after 8:30 p.m. Thursday,…