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Grim surveillance footage captured the moment a handcuffed Connecticut man broke his neck in the back of a police van after the driver braked suddenly, causing him to smash his head. Randy Cox, 36, was left paralyzed from the waist down when he was being taken to a police station in New Haven to be processed on a weapons charge on June 19, his family said. The driver of the van, Officer Oscar Diaz, said he was forced to brake hard in order to avoid a collision, police said. Diaz continued driving to the station — despite an injured Cox...

Female inmates at a prison in Indiana have filed lawsuits alleging they were subjected to a "night of terror" when a guard sold keys to their cells to male prisoners who sexually assaulted them. In a pair of lawsuits filed in U.S. District Court, a total of 28 women said they were attacked shortly after midnight on the night of October 23, 2021 at the Clark County jail in Jeffersonville. The female prisoners accused a guard at the facility, David Lowe, of providing the key to the male inmates for $1,000.

February 26, 2022 6:42am Updated Bear chases music star Alok while snowboarding Authorities in Chester County arrested a woman who fatally stabbed a 21-year-old student at Lincoln University on February 16. Nydira Smith was charged with fatally stabbing Jawine Evans, 21, in the neck at a dormitory hall on campus, according to Fox29. The suspect also stabbed two other students — Eric Dickerson, 22, and Clifton Walker, 22. Smith was the sister of a student at Lincoln University who was involved in the fight with all three students stabbed. Footage of the incident was obtained by detectives. “We believe it...

The married couple shot dead in Utah was seen relaxing at a local bar the night before they went missing — when they told friends about a “weirdo” camping near them, according to a report. Kylen Schulte, 24, and Crystal Beck, 38 — who wed in April — smiled and chatted with friends in their Moab local, Woody’s Tavern, in footage obtained by the Daily Beast. “We were just having a great time, having a couple of drinks, and all they said was there was a creep [staying] next to them,” said Kayla Borza, who was one of the last...

Please pray for her recovery, but more importantly for her salvation. She has never been a believer but she is a principled, tough, enduring woman who raised us safe and stable through hard times. Let her know God through His Son Jesus, before she dies.

A gunman attacked the home of an NYPD officer on Long Island in the early hours of Monday, spraying 30 bullets into the property and grazing her in the head in what police believe could have been a case of mistaken identity. Nathaly Gomez Iglesias, 23, was sitting at home eating when the shots tore through her house at 2.30am in Brentwood, but luckily escaped serious injury. Police suspect the gunmen were looking for her sister's boyfriend, who is believed to be a member of the MS-13 gang, The New York Daily News reports. Gomez, who joined the police in...

He has just learned cancer has spread to distant lymph nodes, and he has a very young child with special needs, whose mother has abandoned them both.

In November of 2019, CBS 2 interviewed Anjanette Young for the first time. A social worker and active in her church, Young had a jarring and traumatic story to tell: she told us her safest place – her home – was invaded that February. We quickly learned she was the latest victim in a pattern of wrong raids by the Chicago Police Department, uncovered by our team as part of its two-year series. But the story was different than others we reported in the past. Young said during the wrong raid, police entered the home and handcuffed her, all while...

The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee warned a small group of well-connected constituents three weeks ago to prepare for dire economic and societal effects of the coronavirus, according to a secret recording obtained by NPR. The remarks from U.S. Sen. Richard Burr were more stark than any he had delivered in more public forums. On Feb. 27, when the United States had 15 confirmed cases of COVID-19, President Trump was tamping down fears and suggesting that the virus could be seasonal. "It's going to disappear. One day, it's like a miracle. It will disappear," the president said then, before...

Grace Fusco — mother of 11, grandmother of 27 — would sit in the same pew at church each Sunday, surrounded by nearly a dozen members of her sprawling Italian-American family. Sunday dinners drew an even larger crowd to her home in central New Jersey. Now, her close-knit clan is united anew by unspeakable grief: Mrs. Fusco, 73, died on Wednesday night after contracting the coronavirus — hours after her son died from the virus and five days after her daughter’s death, a relative said. Four other children who contracted coronavirus remain hospitalized, three of them in critical condition, the...

Thomas was “face-planting” on the floor because he was hypothermic, Assistant District Attorney Laura Newcombe said, citing audio recordings taken from an extensive home-security system in the house. In the recording, a child can be heard asking why Thomas cannot walk. “Because he’s hypothermic,” Pollina replied, according to Newcombe. “When you wash with cold water and it’s freezing out you become hypothermic.” Later, Pollina put the same question to Valva. “Do you know why he’s falling?” Pollina asked Valva about Thomas, Newcombe said, citing recordings. "Because he’s cold. Boo f–king hoo,” Valva callously responded, according to the prosecutor. When Pollina...

BOSTON — The case of a man charged with killing two engaged doctors in their luxury Boston condominium was turned over to the jury on Monday. Bampumim Teixeira, 33, has pleaded not guilty to murder in the May 2017 deaths of Dr. Richard Field and Dr. Lina Bolanos. The evidence against Teixeira is overwhelming prosecutor John Pappas told jurors during closing statements Monday. The suspect had no known personal relationship with the victims but had once worked as a concierge in their building, prosecutors said. Teixeira told investigators he was having an affair with Bolanos. He said Field came home...

..... [Indiana, Amazon warehouse] On Sept. 24, just a few days after he’d been eating ice cream and watching college football with his grandkids, [Phillip Lee) Terry showed up for work and was sent to do maintenance on a forklift. He walked under the machine’s forks and metal platform to work on it with a wrench. Suddenly, the 1,200-pound piece of equipment dropped down and crushed him. His body lay there nearly two hours before a co-worker noticed the pool of blood.... ... Indiana OSHA issued four serious safety citations, for a total fine of $28,000. [Inspector John] Stallone sought...

A man who bludgeoned to death his fiancee with a metal bar after she wanted to leave him because of his cross-dressing has been jailed for 17 years. Roderick Deakin-White, 38, carried out the "horrendous and savage" attack on Amy Parsons, 35, while she was showering in the flat they shared in Whitechapel, east London. She was left naked and bleeding to death after suffering "horrific injuries" to her head, face and brain during the attack on April 25, a court heard. Deakin-White was found guilty of her murder by a jury on Tuesday November 19. Sentencing Deakin-White on Tuesday...

Infection was slow and insidious until all of a sudden it was fast. Friday I thought I might die. Still very weak. Thank God for antibiotics and the good people who work here. Of course without antibiotics no one would attempt elective surgery and I wouldn't be sick. :)

A Florida sheriff's deputy is facing a felony charge after he was caught on camera violently slamming a 15-year-old female student to the ground. The deputy worked at a school for children with emotional and behavioral problems. The silent two-and-a-half-minute video shows Willard Miller talking to the girl before suddenly rushing her. He's then seen grabbing her by the throat and slamming her onto the ground. Miller then flips the teen onto her stomach, before forcibly lifting her up and throwing her out of the room. "His actions were deplorable. They were uncalled for and they violated multiple policies just...

Body camera footage of SC shooting contradicts police claims By JEFFREY COLLINS COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina homeowner who was shot by a deputy checking a medical alarm did not jerk open his front door with a gun and was instead standing in the home’s foyer when the officer shot through a window, according to body camera footage released Monday. Homeowner Dick Tench has a concealed weapons permit and did have his gun in his hand, but was devastated when the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office’s initial account of the incident had him pointing his weapon at a police...

SHANGHAI—Long derided as a casino, China’s once-volatile stock market is going through a long stretch of calm. One reason is an orchestrated government effort to keep traders and investors in line. Three years after a national uproar when Chinese stocks plunged by nearly half in just over two months, traders and brokers say regulators are increasingly stepping in to influence trades and make China’s markets appear less volatile, especially during political events when Beijing wants to project stability.

"The best prophet Sulayman approached his son and said to him, ‘I have received a message from God. I want you to circle the Earth and see if there are more people who are alive in spirit or more people who are dead in spirit.’ After a period the son returned and said, ‘Father I went to many places and everywhere I went I saw more people who were dead than those who were alive.’” Hasan shared that message on a WeChat social-messaging group in 2015, when he was 23... He described himself to Darren Byler, an anthropologist from the...

Just about everyone in New Jersey has heard about what happened to Autumn Pasquale,...Less than 72 hours after Autumn was last seen, police announced the arrests of two teenage brothers, 15-year-old Justin and 17-year-old Dante Robinson. Prosecutors said the brothers lured Autumn to their home across town and killed her in a scheme to steal parts from her bike. In the waning days of 2012, the tragic story from this small corner of the state was bandied across the nation as a cautionary tale..... When she posted on Facebook about needing someone to install new rims on her bike, Robinson...