Police Officer Jason Knox Houston Police Department, Texas End of Watch Saturday, May 2, 2020 Bio Age 35 Tour 8 years Badge Not available Incident Details Cause Aircraft accident Police Officer Jason Knox was killed in a helicopter crash in the 17050 block of Imperial Valley Drive at about 2:00 am. He was aboard the […]
BROOKLYN, N.Y. May 3 2020— John Scrivani retired from his work in disaster response management in New York City about a decade ago. He moved to Spotsylvania County seeking a calmer life, but the COVID-19 pandemic has brought him back home. He typically commutes to work in Richmond as the Director for Safety, Security and […]
Sacramento CA May 3 2020 Amazon yesterday settled for $11m with staff at its California warehouses who’d sued it over uncompensated wait times for security checks as they began and ended shifts. As with all settlement deals, Jeff Bezos’ firm did not admit liability, the document, filed in a Kentucky federal court yesterday, confirmed. Unfortunately for […]
Orange County FL May 3 2020 A man arrested for camping at Walt Disney World’s Discovery Island told police he didn’t know he was trespassing on what looked to him like a “tropical paradise,” police sa The man, who was taken into custody Thursday, had been on the island since Monday or Tuesday to camp […]
SAN FRANCISCO CA May 3 2020 A San Francisco sheriff’s deputy shot a dog Thursday morning at a hotel being used as a shelter in San Francisco during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, sheriff’s officials said. Around 10 a.m., two deputies assigned to provide law enforcement services at the shelter at 1231 Market St. responded to […]
Washington DC May 3 2020 The dogs that Transportation Security Administration agents use at some airports to screen passengers are cute — and that’s sometimes all they are, an audit of the canine program found. In a withering report, the Department of Homeland Security inspector general said Thursday that the dogs’ training is so outdated that […]
SAN FRANCISCO CA May 3 2020 – In an internal email obtained by KTVU from San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott to officers on Friday, the chief said, “Thin Blue Line masks shall not be worn by our on-duty members.” San Francisco police were out in full force Friday afternoon to respond to people who were […]
Houston TX May 2 2020 A Houston Police Department helicopter crashed early Saturday morning, killing one pilot and leaving the other in critical condition, authorities said. Both pilots were flown to Memorial Hermann hospital for surgery and were in critical condition, Police Chief Art Acevedo said in a press briefing posted on Twitter. Houston Mayor […]
CLEVELAND, Ohio May 2 2020— An exterminator discovered a dead body in the air duct of a grocery store in the city’s Mount Pleasant neighborhood, police said. Cleveland police Sgt. Jennifer Ciaccia said it appeared that the man entered the ducts on his own and that investigators noted no obvious signs of violence on the man’s […]
MANCHESTER, NH May 2 2020— An armored vehicle slid off I-293 North and ended up on its roof Friday morning. The people inside the vehicle were able to get themselves out. It appeared there were no serious injuries. Police are investigating the rollover. There was heavy rainfall at the time of the crash. It does not […]