Beaver County PA Aug 31 2017 Release of toxic gas at FirstEnergy’s Bruce Mansfield Power Plant claimed the lives of two workers and injured four others who were repairing a pipe in a confined, underground area at the Beaver County facility, officials said. The accident happened at about 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, according to FirstEnergy spokeswoman Stephanie […]
Baltimore MD Aug 31 2017 Police arrested two men quicker than ever on Tuesday evening after they attempted to rob a bar at gunpoint, where a group of off-duty cops were also having a retirement party. Local authorities said the two masked men who held up Monaghan’s Pub in Baltimore, which sits just across the street […]
Deputy Sheriff Robert French Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department, California End of Watch: Wednesday, August 30, 2017 Bio & Incident Details Age: 52 Tour: 21 years Cause: Gunfire Weapon: Rifle Offender: Shot and wounded Deputy Sheriff Bob French was shot and killed outside of the Ramada Inn in the 2600 block of Auburn Boulevard while attempting […]
WEST PALM BEACH FL Aug 31 2017 Stealing a license plate attached to a vehicle is always a bad idea. Stealing it while three Palm Beach County Sheriff’s detectives sit inside conducting surveillance is probably worse. Wesley J. Kelley of Loxahatchee made things worse by fleeing after he was confronted by a detective. Kelley nearly […]
Wichita KS Aug 31 2017 A gymnasium at Greiffenstein Wells Alternative School in Wichita will be dedicated to a former security guard who died earlier this year, district officials said. Amos Alford, a long-time assistant basketball coach at East High School, died in April after suffering a heart attack following a game of basketball over his […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio Aug 31 2017 – Last year, 4,050 Ohio residents died of unintentional drug overdoses, up 32.8 percent from 2015, according a state report released Wednesday. Nearly a third of those deaths were in Northeast Ohio. State officials are attributing the surge to stronger drugs, including fentanyl and the emergence of a similar drug, carfentanil. […]
Sata Ynez CA Aug 31 2017 Chumash Casino staff contacted sheriff’s deputies regarding someone who was disturbing the peace and had been detained by security personnel. Deputies arrived about 8:40 p.m. to find Keith Byron Leach of Ventura face-down in handcuffs and being detained by three employees. Casino personnel said Leach threatened to kill a blackjack […]
CAMP BULLIS, TEXAS Aug 31 2017 — Second Lt. Nicholas Taylor, a security forces officer with the 1st Special Operations Security Forces Squadron at Hurlburt Field, died in a car accident about 5 p.m. last Saturday near Camp Bullis, Texas. Taylor was pronounced dead at 5:39 p.m. by the attending physician at University Hospital of San […]
Islandia NY Aug 31 2017 A Ronkonkoma woman, her 14-year-old daughter and the teen’s 16-year-old boyfriend were arrested Tuesday after police say they left a 9-month-old boy unattended on a bench in front of Jake’s 58 Casino in Islandia. Investigators say the 14-year-old portrayed herself as an 18-year-old on the baby-sitting website sittercity.com and was hired […]
LYNN HAVEN FL Aug 28 2017 — An employee has been arrested after police say a coworker noticed a razor blade in a piece of produce at Lynn Haven’s Grocery Outlet. The Lynn Haven Police Department reported an employee found the blade in a peach on a sales floor display Friday morning at the store […]