Authorities have released surveillance footage showing what police called the ambush and execution of an Arkansas police officer. Stephen Carr, 27, of Fayetteville, was sitting in his patrol vehicle behind the police department on the night of December 7 when an armed man approached and opened fire, police said last week. The suspect, later identified…… MORE
James “Radio” Kennedy, the mentally disabled man whose importance to a South Carolina football team inspired the Hollywood movie “Radio,” died early Sunday at the age of 73, T.L. Hanna High School confirmed. He passed away surrounded by his family after midnight Saturday into Sunday, Athletic Director John Cann said. Details for his funeral will…… MORE
A handwritten note in a killer’s back pocket helped lead to the arrest of a man connected to a gunman in last week’s Jersey City mass shooting, authorities said. Ahmed A-Hady of Keyport, New Jersey, was arrested by FBI agents Saturday. The 35-year-old faces a charge of being a previously convicted felon in possession of…… MORE
The holidays are rapidly approaching, but most NFL teams are anything but jolly. That’s because squads are facing the pressure of a playoff push, and most spots are up for grabs. Matchups across Week 15 will have direct implications about which teams will be staying home when playoffs start in January and which will be…… MORE
The Oakland Raiders are a franchise used to change. Before the team ever even took the field, they had to switch their name. In his book “Black Knight: Al Davis and his Raiders,” author Ira Simmons details how a local columnist penned a mock petition asking for a new mascot days after the original was…… MORE
Attorneys for actress Lori Loughlin and her husband, Mossimo Giannulli, say the US government is hiding evidence that would benefit the couple’s defense in the college admission scandal. Loughlin and Giannulli are accused of paying $500,000 to the scandal’s mastermind, Rick Singer, to have their daughters pose as University of Southern California athletes. They were…… MORE
It started out as a limp. At the time, father Shawn Cress thought daughter Chloe, then 12 years old, just needed some physical therapy. That was June 2018. But the limp turned into a fever, which led to lab tests at the doctor’s office that “didn’t look good,” Shawn recalls. And by then, Chloe was…… MORE
Starbucks is apologizing after a California sheriff’s office said two of their deputies were ignored in a store. “Two of our deputies were refused service at Starbucks,” Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco said on Twitter. “The anti police culture repeatedly displayed by Starbucks employees must end.” The sheriff’s department said on Twitter Friday it was…… MORE
Ohio is the only state ranked “high” for its rate of sexual victimization in juvenile correctional facilities, according to a Department of Justice report released this week that evaluated data from 2018. However, the report highlighted the difficulty of obtaining sufficient facility data — only about a third of the 327 facilities surveyed in the…… MORE
A student attending a New Mexico university was arrested on federal court charges a day before his graduation, according to court documents and his attorney. Hassan Alqahtani, 27, an engineering student at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque was charged with illegal possession of a firearm, according to an affidavit from the US District…… MORE
