Jewish community leaders in Texas are urging the federal government to increase security funding for religious institutions following a recent attack at a synagogue in Michigan. Miriam Zivin, board president of Mothers Against College Antisemitism, said the reports and images from the Michigan incident were disturbing but not unexpected. She said the rise in antisemitic … Read more
Authorities in Mexico say they have confiscated millions of doses of fentanyl after uncovering a clandestine drug laboratory and storage site in the country’s west. The operation took place in the municipality of Villa de Álvarez, Colima, Mexico, where security forces raided a hidden lab and nearby warehouse, according to the Mexican Secretariat of Security … Read more
The family of a man fatally shot by police in 2024 has filed a lawsuit accusing two law enforcement officers of using excessive force during the encounter. Travis Pratt, 25, was killed on Sept. 9, 2024, in Littcarr, Kentucky by Bruce Kelley, a trooper with the Kentucky State Police, and Wesley Bolen, a deputy with … Read more
A driver was detained early Wednesday after a vehicle crashed into a security barricade near the White House in Washington, D.C., authorities said. The U.S. Secret Service is investigating the incident, which occurred near the intersection of Connecticut Avenue NW and H Street NW. According to Secret Service spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi, officers with the agency’s … Read more
A couple in Richmond has been charged with multiple counts of child abuse after authorities say they locked their two autistic sons inside a closet as punishment. According to court documents and investigators in Madison County, Casey Farthing, 41, and Stephanie Harmer, 36, face five counts of first-degree criminal abuse of a child under 12, … Read more
CHICAGO — A 34-year-old man was shot Sunday night at the 35th Street Red Line station on the city’s South Side, according to the Chicago Police Department. Police said the man was riding a southbound Red Line train when he became involved in a verbal altercation with an unknown suspect. The suspect exited the train … Read more
DENVER — Dominiq Ponder, a backup quarterback for the University of Colorado Boulder, was killed in a single-vehicle crash early Sunday morning. He was 23. According to the Colorado State Patrol, troopers responded to the crash around 3 a.m. on March 1 in Boulder County. Authorities said Ponder was driving a 2023 Tesla Model 3 … Read more
CHICAGO — A man was killed and two others were wounded in a shooting Saturday afternoon in the city’s Albany Park neighborhood, according to the Chicago Police Department. Police said a 24-year-old man and a 29-year-old man were inside the basement of a home in the 4900 block of North Harding Avenue just before 3 … Read more
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — After a decades-long career in the fight for civil rights, the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. returned Monday to his home state of South Carolina to lie in state at the South Carolina Statehouse. The full state honors mark a powerful contrast to Jackson’s childhood in segregated Greenville. In 1960, he and … Read more
JEFFERSON, W.Va. — A woman was injured Sunday afternoon after being struck by a train at a railroad crossing in Kanawha County, authorities said. The incident was reported just after 3 p.m. at the crossing on Avesta Drive near Kanawha Turnpike in Jefferson, according to a Metro 911 alert. The Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office said … Read more