Scott Olson/Getty Images(CHICAGO) — Chicago police are looking to charge two suspects seen threatening to shoot and kill officers in multiple videos posted to social media. Police advocate group Chicago Code BLUE recently posted three videos to social media showing two men flashing guns and using threatening language when referring to a Chicago police officer …
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Jan 27
Sex trafficker serving life sentence captured after 3 days on the run from Alabama prison
Alabama Department of Corrections(NEW YORK) — Authorities finally caught up with a convicted sex trafficker who escaped from an Alabama prison this week after he spent over three days on the run. Corey Davis, who was serving a life sentence, was captured at about 3:30 a.m. on Saturday, according to the Alabama Department of Corrections. …
Jan 27
Georgia family looking to recover Mickey Mouse mug with more than $6K inside donated to Goodwill
Google Maps(CONYERS, Ga.) — A Georgia mother didn’t realize just how much she was giving away when she donated an old coffee mug to a local charity store. Now, Lindsay Preiss is hoping a good Samaritan will return her son’s childhood souvenir that she gave to a Goodwill in Conyers, Georgia. She didn’t realize was …
Jan 27
Fisherman’s catch of the day prompts evacuation of a Taco Bell in Ocala, Florida
Ocala Police Department(OCALA, Fla.) — A fisherman prompted the evacuation of a Florida Taco Bell when he put his catch of the day in the trunk of his car and drove to the fast-food restaurant, police said. The angler, who was not identified, reeled in a rusted WWII hand grenade on Saturday while fishing with …
Jan 27
Louisiana killing spree suspect Dakota Theriot captured in Virginia
Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office(NEW YORK) — An “armed and dangerous” 21-year-old man from Louisiana who allegedly fatally shot his girlfriend, her father and her brother before driving 25 miles in a stolen pickup truck and killing both his parents was captured Sunday morning, police said. Dakota Theriot was wanted on multiple counts of first-degree murder, …
Jan 27
Dangerous cold set to follow clipper system moving through Midwest
ABC News(NEW YORK) — The National Weather Service has already issued alerts ahead of a clipper system — a fast-moving blast of snow, ice and rain originating in central Canada — that will move into the Midwest on Sunday afternoon. Conditions are expected to be rather windy Sunday from Montana to Nebraska, with gusts in …
Jan 27
Forty dead, hundreds missing after dam collapse in Brazil
iStock/LSP1982(MINAS GERAIS, Brazil) — At least 40 people are dead and up to 300 people have been reported missing after a dam collapsed in Brazil on Friday. Eight of the 40 bodies have been identified, a spokesperson for the southeastern state of Minas Gerais said Sunday. There are still 256 people missing as a torrent …
Jan 27
Nine arrested for ‘die-in’ protest at Rockefeller Center ice skating rink in New York City
@LAKauffman/Twitter(NEW YORK) — Nine climate change activists were arrested while staging a protest at the nation’s most famous ice skating rink on Saturday. The activists, who laid down in the middle of the ice rink at Rockefeller Center around 2:45 p.m., were part of a group called the Extinction Rebellion. The protesters formed an hourglass …
Jan 27
‘You can’t think, you can’t eat, you can’t sleep, you can’t rest’: Parents bare their agony over girl, 14, now missing 2 weeks
iStock/Chalabala(NEW YORK) — Two weeks into an expanding search for a missing 14-year old girl from Tennessee, federal and local authorities are seeking public assistance, and her devastated parents are using visceral metaphors to describe the depths of their agony and plead for the public’s help as the days Savannah Leigh Pruitt has been gone …
Jan 26
Venezuela’s Maduro eases stance on US diplomats, loses highest-ranking military attaché to Guaido
beyhanyazar/iStock(CARACAS, Venezuela) — With the military support crucial to his ability to hold on to power in Venezuela beginning to fracture, embattled Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro on Saturday walked back his demand that American diplomats leave the country this weekend and instead extended that deadline to 30 days, a significant political concession. The longer time …