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A Baltimore teen has been charged with murder after authorities say that he killed a woman who was delivering food for DoorDash. Cheryl McCormack, 51, was accompanied by a friend while working for the food delivery service on Jan. 24. Around 2 a.m., McCormack's vehicle ran out of gas. McCormack's friend set out on foot to find a gas station, leaving McCormack at the car. According to Fox Baltimore, the teen and another suspect allegedly approached the friend and attempted to rob him. Then, police say, they demanded that he return to the car with him. When they arrived at...

Chicago woman charged with felony for allegedly vandalizing memorial for slain cop Illinois police have arrested a 26-year-old woman accused of defacing a memorial for Chicago Police Officer Ella French – who died in a shootout with suspects last year. Anna Kochakian allegedly tore down a photo of French placed at the memorial just days after her murder, crumpled it up and threw it in a trash can on a Chicago “L” platform, state police said Wednesday. It wasn’t until this week that police obtained a warrant for her arrest on a felony charge of defacement of a police memorial....

Gunshots again pierced the Portland night as nearly 100 shots were fired Tuesday night in the snow-dappled Parkrose Heights neighborhood.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WICS) — A Satanic holiday display has made a reappearance under the Illinois State Capitol dome. Members of the Satanic Temple of Illinois came to Springfield, Ill. Monday to install a Satanic display in the rotunda. The installation depicts the deity Baphomet as a baby. Satanic Temple members said that the display is meant to represent plurality, unity, compassion, and empathy, and described it as "a display of positive values."

A woman tried to stab a Hartford detective this week, police say, in the second such attack on a Hartford officer in two months. Surveillance video shows a woman police identify as Sheila Calderon walking, then running, toward three officers talking on Taylor Drive Tuesday. With an outstretched arm and a large knife in her hand, she tried to stab the detective in the head and neck, police said. The detective was a fraction of a second away from being stabbed when he was able to get out of the way while flinging the woman to the ground. She was...

WALNUT CREEK, Calif. (AP) — About 80 people, some wearing ski masks and wielding crow bars, ransacked a high-end department store in the San Francisco Bay Area, stealing merchandise before fleeing in cars waiting outside, police and witnesses said. Three people were arrested while the majority got away after the large-scale theft Saturday night shocked shoppers at the Nordstrom in Walnut Creek, police said. NBC Bay Area reporter Jodi Hernandez tweeted that she saw the thieves rush into the store in the downtown shopping district in the city some 20 miles (32 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco. “About 25 cars...

An Ithaca man was charged Thursday after he was accused of producing three sexually explicit videos with a 10-year-old child, federal prosecutors said. Remanu Phillips, 31, appeared in federal court on charges that he sexually exploited a child, according to a news release issued by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of New York. He was accused of making the three videos of the child in June of 2019, federal prosecutors said. Phillips was already registered as a level-2 sexually violent offender, after he was convicted in November of 2019 of first-degree sexual abuse and sexual contact with...

Looters were captured on video Monday ransacking a Neiman Marcus in San Francisco as thefts continue to plague businesses in the area. At least nine suspects smashed display cases, snatched handbags, and jetted out of the building before law enforcement arrived to the scene at about 6 p.m., according to footage. The suspects were seen running out of the store with their hands full of merchandise before entering an apparent getaway car that sped off down a busy intersection. A man was caught on video in June filling a garbage bag with what appeared to be hair products before leaving...

OAKLAND (CBS SF) — The Fourth of July reeled into “12 hours of non-stop chaos” Sunday night with several victims wounded by celebratory gunfire, a homicide and a massive sideshow marred by gunfire. The night culminated at the sideshow, where more than 200 participants pelted police officers with debris and flashed them with hand-held lasers. Embattled Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong told reporters that the level of violence and gunfire overwhelmed his officers. “ If you look at the shoot period of time of 6 hours with 6 shootings, that requires a lot of resources,” Armstrong said. “That was difficult...

A killer who gunned down two people after crashing a stolen box truck in a Boston suburb was a white supremacist who targeted his victims because they were black, according to officials. Nathan Allen, 28, shot and killed David Green, a retired Massachusetts State Police trooper, and Romana Cooper, an Air Force veteran, after emerging from a stolen truck that he crashed into a building in Winthrop on Saturday afternoon. After the crash, he interacted “with multiple individuals … choosing only to shoot and kill the two black people he encountered,” Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins said of the...

A shooter opened fire inside of a Florida Publix supermarket Thursday, leaving two adults and one child dead, authorities said. The Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office responded to the Royal Palm Beach grocery store inside of the The Crossroads complex and upon arrival, found an adult male, adult female and one child dead of gunshot wounds, the agency wrote on Twitter. One of the deceased was the shooter, cops said, adding that the incident was “NOT an active shooter situation.” Further details were not immediately available.

Police are hunting a man who video shows pepper sprayed a couple in a random unprovoked attack as they walked in Manhattan, in the latest in a spate of incidents that have driven up crime in New York. Surveillance video shows the couple - an 18-year-old woman and her 19-year-old male partner - walking down 8th avenue in the trendy Chelsea neighborhood. A man walks towards them and as he passes he quickly raises a can to their eyes.