Multi-agency police presence in Frankfort, Herkimer County
NOTE: This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available. UPDATE: 08/01/2022 0937 Sources confirm the original incident was an armed robbery on Acme Road in Frankfort. No information, including whether there were any injuries, has yet to be officially released. Police are actively looking for at least one suspect in the case. Authorities say there will be a “heavy police presence” in the area for some time and the public is advised to avoid active search areas near Acme Road and along Route 5 in the Schuyler and Frankfort area in this moment Original…
Read More »LATEST: $1 million Mega Millions ticket sold in Kaukauna
KAUKAUNA – Someone you know could be a million dollars richer. On Friday, July 29, a winning Mega Millions ticket was sold at Lighthouse Corner on Crooks Ave. in Kaukauna, WBAY reports. Kaukauna’s $1 million prize winner matched all five numbers, but not the mega-multiplier. The winning numbers are 13, 36, 45, 57, 67. The $1.28 billion jackpot ticket was sold in Illinois, but none of the winners have yet been identified. The next Mega Millions drawing will be on Tuesday, August 2nd. The estimated jackpot is $20 million. Sponsored post . . . Post navigation [ad_2] Source link
Read More »An Indiana police officer was shot and killed during a traffic stop
A police officer was shot and killed during a traffic stop in Elwood, Indiana, on Sunday. Officer Noah Shahnavaz, 24, was conducting a traffic stop in Madison County around 2 a.m. when a suspect got out of his car and started shooting, Indianapolis ABC affiliate . WRTV reported “For an unknown reason, the suspect exited the Buick and fired several rounds striking the officer at least once. Before additional officers arrived, the suspect fled the scene,” Indiana State Police said in a statement press release, according to WRTV. Shahnavaz was taken to a local hospital and then to one in…
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Mass shootings and mental illness: It’s complicated | World | Breaking news and perspectives from around the world | DW
“I shoot in Copenhagen, Denmark, where guns are BANNED?” This is how Lavern Spicer, Republican candidate for Congress from Florida, explains it he wrote in a tweet which went viral the day after last Sunday’s deadly shooting at a shopping mall in Copenhagen. He was one of several US politicians who used the incident to argue that stricter gun laws do not prevent mass shootings. The argument gun rights advocates repeat after almost every mass shooting is that mental disorders are to blame for violence, not guns. The media tends to promote this oversimplified narrative, according to multiple studies, even…
Read More »ASUU extends the strike four weeks
The National Executive Council of the Academic Staff Union of Universities has announced a four-week extension of the ongoing strike in public universities, The PUNCH reports. A statement made available to our correspondent in Abuja partially confirmed the development. It read in part: “After extensive deliberations and bearing in mind the Government’s past failures to meet its own deadlines to address the issues raised in the 2020 FGN/ASUU Memorandum of Action (MoA), NEC resolved that the strike was extended for four weeks to give the Government more time to satisfactorily resolve all outstanding issues. “The role strike action takes effect…
Read More »McKinney Fire, California’s largest of the year, turns deadly
McKinney Fire burns near Yreka, California on July 30, 2022. FRED GREAVES / REUTERS Des Moines, Iowa – California’s largest wildfire this year has claimed at least two lives and forced thousands to evacuate as it destroyed homes and swept through the state’s dry land, fueled by high winds and lightning storms on Sunday . The McKinney fire was zero percent contained as it burned in Northern California’s Klamath National Forest, CalFire said, spreading across more than 52,000 acres near the town of Yreka. The blaze challenged a state that has already battled several large wildfires this summer. Siskiyou County…
Read More »CMPD investigates after man shot dead in southwest Charlotte motel room – WSOC TV
CHARLOTTE – The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department is investigating after a man was shot and killed in a southwest Charlotte motel room. Police said they responded to a call about a person shot at the Quality Inn on Wallingford Street shortly before 8:30 p.m. Sunday. At the scene, police said they found a man who had been shot. He was taken to the hospital where he later died, investigators said. Detectives said the shooting is being investigated as a homicide. “There was a lot of people outside one of the rooms at the Quality Inn,” said CMPD Major Brad Koch. “Several…
Read More »First grain shipment since Russian invasion leaves Ukraine
The first shipment of Ukrainian grain since the Russian invasion in February left the port of Odessa on Monday morning under a landmark agreement to lift Moscow’s naval blockade of the Black Sea. UN chief Antonio Guterres, who negotiated the plan with Turkey, welcomed the announcement, while Kyiv said it would bring “relief for the world” if Moscow kept its side of the deal. . The five-month halt in deliveries from war-torn Ukraine, one of the world’s biggest grain exporters, has contributed to rising food prices, particularly affecting the world’s poorest nations. Officials said the Sierra Leonean-registered cargo ship Razoni…
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