A Texas homeowner fatally shot two masked men late Friday after they posed as officers serving a warrant and opened fire on the house, police say. The Houston Police Department responded to reports of gunfire in the southeast part of the city around midnight, Officer C. Jones told Fox News …
Read More »TransUnion becomes latest victim in major wave of Salesforce-linked cyberattacks, 4.4M Americans affected
You might have recently noticed a wave of cyberattacks hitting companies whose services millions of Americans rely on every day. Among the victims are Google, Farmers Insurance, Allianz Life, Workday, Pandora, Cisco, Chanel and Qantas, all reporting breaches linked to Salesforce-connected applications. Now, credit reporting firm TransUnion has confirmed its …
Read More »Seattle SWAT team rescues hostage women from naked man in raid caught on bodycam video
Fast-paced police bodycam video shows a Seattle police SWAT team battering down a barricaded door and arresting a knife-wielding, naked man who was accused of holding two women hostage in Queen Anne. Hostage negotiators attempted to reason with the suspect – who allegedly made threats to harm both victims. After …
Read More »Utah children's book author who allegedly poisoned husband accused of asking brother to falsely testify
A Utah mom of three and children’s book author accused of poisoning her husband to death last year allegedly asked her brother to falsely testify in a letter she wrote from jail, according to prosecutors. Summit County Sheriff’s Office deputies located the six-page, handwritten letter written to Kouri Richins’ mother, …
Read More »Deadly ambush targets Nigerian security patrol in southeastern region amid ongoing separatist conflict
Gunmen opened fire and killed several members of a patrol of security forces in Nigeria’s southeastern region Tuesday, police said, in the latest in a spate of violent attacks that typically are blamed on separatist militants. A team of various Nigerian security agencies were patrolling a remote community in Imo …
Read More »NYC professor gets new gig teaching, months after threatening reporter with machete
A New York City college professor who threatened a reporter with a machete in May, appears to have a new gig as an adjunct professor at another school. The Cooper Union School of Art, which is a private school in Manhattan, lists Shellyne Rodriguez, 45, as an adjunct professor who …
Read More »Liberal Boston pols vote down funding elite police unit amid rising crime, leaving commissioner 'dumbfounded'
Funding for the Boston Police Department’s investigative unit is stalled after Democrats voted down the roughly $3.4 million in new funding as crime in the city surges. Last week, half of the city’s council members voted against funding the Boston Regional Intelligence Center (BRIC) – opposing the city’s progressive Democrat …
Read More »Israeli military operation in West Bank leads to death of 2 Palestinian militants amid ongoing violence
Two Palestinian militants were killed by Israeli gunfire during an army raid in the West Bank on Thursday, the Palestinian health ministry said. They were the latest deaths in a monthslong surge of violence in the occupied territory. The Israeli military said its troops carried out a raid in the …
Read More »Murder suspect who escaped DC hospital captured after seven weeks on the run
An accused murderer was taken back into custody by police after he escaped while wearing just one shoe and handcuffs clasped to a wrist seven weeks earlier, Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department said Thursday. Christopher Haynes, 30, complained of ankle pain from a previous injury when he was arrested Sept. …
Read More »Armed Texas store owner defends self in shootout with would-be robbers, video shows
An armed store owner in Texas fought back against a pair of attempted robbers, trading fire with the suspects in a shootout captured on security footage. Two armed suspects entered a Cash for Gold shop in the 1100 block of N Town EastBlvd in Mesquite just before 7 p.m. on …
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