Month: April 2021

A California police officer is facing multiple felony charges for the 2018 shooting death of a man during a slow-speed pursuit, the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office said in a Wednesday news release. The announcement came the same day local authorities released new body camera footage of a fatal shooting involving the same officer

An unidentified object has been spotted at the site of the ongoing search for a missing Indonesian submarine with 53 crew members on board, as authorities warn oxygen on the vessel will run out within 24 hours. An Indonesian naval vessel detected an object with “strong magnetic resonance” at a depth of 50 to 100

Russia appeared to be pulling back from a confrontation with the West on Friday as state media reported that troops were returning to their bases after taking part in exercises near the border with Ukraine and in Crimea. A buildup of Russian troops along the border in recent weeks had reignited tensions in eastern Ukraine,

Marib has the forlorn feel of a place awaiting its destiny, while embracing stoic and stubborn optimism. The fabled desert oasis, and reputed home to the Queen of Sheba, is today hot, dry and dusty. The rainy season approaches, as does an anticipated Iran-backed Houthi offensive. Empty plastic bags and crumpled water bottles interspersed with

Three Uyghur parents who publicly appealed to Beijing to let their children leave China have been accused, without evidence, of child abandonment and terrorism by the Chinese government. In separate statements, all three denied the allegations and called on Chinese authorities to allow their families to reunite. In March, CNN revealed the stories of two

Ma’Khia Bryant’s mother doesn’t want her daughter to be remembered by the incident that ended her life. “I want the world to know that Ma’Khia Bryant was a very loving 16-year-old girl. She was my daughter, my baby. I loved her. She was very talented and smart. She was funny. Her favorite color was blue,”

An Iowa woman who told police in 2019 that she ran over a girl because she “was a Mexican” pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal hate crime charges, according to court records filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of Iowa. Nicole Marie Poole Franklin had actually been involved in three separate racist

Click here for updates on this story     AVON, Connecticutt (WFSB) — It’s that time of the year where more and more people are starting to see bears walking around their yards. In fact, a family in Avon got an unpleasant surprise visit recently when a bear ripped their garage door right open. “I was actually

Ma’Khia Bryant and two other young women argued over a messy house and unmade bed before a fight that ended with the fatal police shooting shooting of the Black teenager, the woman who cared for Ma’Khia in foster care said Thursday. Angela Moore said two of her former foster children had come to her Columbus,

Zimbabwe will “soon” start selling rights to shoot as many as 500 elephants this year, the country announced this week. Tinashe Farawo, a spokesman for the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority, told CNN Thursday that declining tourism revenue owing to the coronavirus pandemic was among the main reasons for the move. “We eat what

Ma’Khia Bryant and two other young women may have argued over a messy house and unmade bed before a fight that ended with the fatal police shooting shooting of the Black teenager, the woman who cared for Ma’Khia in foster care said Thursday. Angela Moore said two of her former foster children had come to

Russia ordered its top military brass to return troops to their permanent bases starting Friday, saying it had concluded a “snap inspection” of its forces in the country’s east and west, near the Ukrainian border. A buildup of Russian troops along the border in recent weeks has reignited tensions in eastern Ukraine, where government forces

The families of George Floyd and Philando Castile joined mourners in Minneapolis on Thursday to bid farewell to Daunte Wright, a Black man whose death this month at the hands of a police officer prompted renewed cries for justice and accountability. In his eulogy for Wright, whom he called the “Prince of Brooklyn Center,” the

LeBron James tweeted, then deleted, a post about the killing of 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant at the hands of Columbus police. The Ohio teen was killed Tuesday, about 30 minutes before the verdict was delivered in the killing of George Floyd. On Wednesday, James, an Ohio native, tweeted a photo of a Columbus police officer who

A New York woman who was attacked in her driveway is hoping for answers, as police try to hunt down the man who threw a cup of acid in her face. Nafiah Ikram, 21, was in the driveway of her Elmont home on March 17, when a man approached her from behind and threw a

Clinton police are investigating after a baby was abandoned outside a hospital.

Click here for updates on this story     SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is currently considering spending hundreds of millions of dollars to have homeless people sleep in tents on city property, it’s an expansion of the so-called ‘safe sleeping sites’. Critics say this legislation would prioritize tents over actual housing.

Neighbors on Thursday described a chaotic scene of North Carolina deputies trying to serve a warrant, a car pulling away and shots fired — leaving one man dead. The shooting took place Wednesday morning in a working-class neighborhood of Elizabeth City in the northeastern corner of the state. The Pasquotank County Sheriff Office said Wednesday

Click here for updates on this story     HAYWARD, California (KPIX) — A Hayward woman has been a mother to more than 80 babies over the years through foster care. Linda Owens has cared for a 7-week-old baby girl since she left the hospital as a newborn. She is the 81st infant Owens has brought into

The families of George Floyd and Philando Castile joined mourners in Minneapolis on Thursday to bid farewell to Daunte Wright, a Black man whose death this month at the hands of a police officer prompted renewed cries for justice and accountability. In his eulogy for Wright, whom he called the “Prince of Brooklyn Center,” the

Click here for updates on this story     SACREMENTO, California (KOVR) — A property owner says two neighbors’ German Shepherds are to blame for a brutal attack at her family’s Sacramento farm. Sebastian Garibaldi grew up alongside the animals on his family’s farm. “He’s been with these goats, he loves them as much as we do,”

An alternate juror in Derek Chauvin’s trial told reporters Thursday that Dr. Martin Tobin, the soft-spoken doctor who explained how George Floyd died, convinced her of the former police officer’s guilt. “Dr. Tobin was like the turning point for me,” said Lisa Christensen. “I appreciate him explaining it in the way that all of us

The suspect in the Colorado supermarket shooting that claimed 10 lives now faces a total of 54 charges, the Boulder County district attorney said Thursday. And more charges could follow. Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa was already charged with 10 counts of murder and one count of attempted murder for the March 22 mass shooting at