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Two men suspected in violent attacks that left multiple people injured have been found and taken into custody, according to the Oceanside Police Department Wednesday. *snip* Witnesses told police two individuals with bandanas covering their faces were seen attacking several men with baseball bats. The suspects reportedly fled the scene before officers arrived, authorities said.

The man who was caught on multiple viral videos attacking and threatening drivers across Los Angeles has been released from state prison less than one year after he was sentenced to a five-year sentence. Nathaniel Radimak pleaded guilty to felony charges of assault and making criminal threats in August 2023, and has been paroled after ten months in a state prison, prompting several of his victims to speak out about his release.

One video caught a thief almost flipping over a car as he tried desperately to rip down a utility wire. Another shows a man in a reflective vest, posing as a legitimate worker. And one picture caught a thief high in the air – on top of the wires working feverishly to steal them.

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Violence has continued to erupt across the country, with dozens more protests planned for this weekend in the wake of the Southport stabbings. Campaign group Hope Not Hate has identified more than 30 demonstrations over the next two days after far-right marches descended into all-out riots.

A soldier is in hospital with serious injuries after a horrific knife attack near an Army Barracks in Kent. Police said they were called around 5.55pm on Tuesday to a report of a serious assault in Sally Port Gardens, Gillingham. The victim, in his 40s, suffered injuries consistent with stab wounds and was airlifted to hospital for treatment. A witness told The Sun that a man armed with two kitchen knives leapt off a moped and attacked the soldier in a frenzied assault.

Very weird. Three people (maybe four) on busy I-75 S in Broward County, Florida running around trying to stop cars. The police show up about half-way through the video. The YouTube poster said this happened on July 11, 2024.

On July 4 around 10 p.m., a fire engulfed the home of Adriana Hernández and her parents. That was just the beginning of a devastating and traumatic night for Adriana. Captured in a cell phone video, Adriana can be seen trying to run towards her father amidst the chaos in Huntington Park. Officers quickly blocked her path. A bystander yells, "Hey, hey, hey! She lives here." Suddenly, a female officer punches Adriana in the face.

Target plans to crack down on retail theft by lowering the threshold for how much shoplifters can swipe before employees are allowed to finally step in, according to a report. The Minnesota-based big box retail chain — which has blamed retail theft for hurting its bottom line — instructed store staff to halt bandits who try to flee with items totaling $50, down from the previous sum of $100, Bloomberg News reported Thursday.

I live in a swing state. And sometimes I’ll have the TV on in the background as I do paperwork or housework. Well, today all sorts of ads for Joe Biden suddenly popped up. I’m not talking about ads for Democrats in general. These ads are praising Joe Biden, and only Joe Biden. I have not seen anything like this before today.

New video shows the suspects who attacked a woman with a baseball bat last week on a New York City street, police say. *snip* Surveillance video shows her taking her cellphone from her bag when the suspects walk up from behind. One punches her while the other hits her with the baseball bat several times. Investigators believe the suspects were trying to take her bag, but they ran off emptyhanded.

A gas station robbery set off a car chase down Los Angeles city streets that led to a crash and the death of one of the robbery suspects, police said. The incident unfolded Saturday evening on West Adams Boulevard, where police said a 21-year-old man was robbed at gunpoint while parked at a gas station. The man pursued the robbers as they drove away, and allegedly collided his black SUV into the back of their white sedan, police said.

A grand jury has indicted two former Uvalde school police officers in the botched law enforcement response to the 2022 mass shooting at Robb Elementary school that left 19 children and two teachers dead, two Texas state government sources with knowledge of the indictment told CNN Thursday. Former Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Chief Pete Arredondo and former school police officer Adrian Gonzales were named in the indictments, which represent the first criminal charges filed in the school massacre. Arredondo surrendered himself to the custody of the Texas Rangers in Uvalde on Thursday, an official with the Texas Department...

A 20-year-old man is accused flying across the country and trying to murder someone with whom he had an online gaming dispute in a hammer attack. Edward Kang, 20, flew from Newark, New Jersey, to Jacksonville, Florida, to confront someone he had an online dispute with, Nassau County, New Jersey, Sheriff Bill Leeper said. Court records show he was charged Monday with second-degree attempted murder and attempted burglary.

A homeless woman is charged with aggravated assault after police said she attacked a woman in Downtown Pittsburgh on Wednesday afternoon, breaking her nose. Shurontaya Festa, 27, is being held in the Allegheny County Jail pending a preliminary hearing scheduled for Thursday. According to the criminal complaint, Festa walked up behind a woman in the 600 block of Smithfield Street just after 3 p.m. Wednesday and struck her in the back of the head.

I post this story once a year, usually on June 6 or on Veterans Day. I’m putting the story in the Comment box because I’m not sure of the formatting here. If anyone has a similar story, please share it.

With more than a third of North American homes protected by a video doorbell or some other Wi-Fi-dependent device, it’s reasonable to worry about the growing threat of Wi-Fi jammers. These mysterious devices can override your smart home security monitoring, effectively neutralizing the systems you’ve relied on for peace of mind. Indeed, these increasingly cheap and accessible jamming devices make it easier than ever for criminals to block your security system’s primary communications signal.

Special counsel Robert Hur has declined to prosecute President Joe Biden for his handling of classified documents but said in a report released Thursday that Biden’s practices “present serious risks to national security” and added that part of the reason he wouldn't charge Biden was that the president could portray himself as an "elderly man with a poor memory" who would be sympathetic to a jury.

LOS ANGELES - LAPD detectives responding to a burglary alarm at a Chatsworth Pharmacy ran into a wall of fog, quite literally, coming out of the business. The relatively new security device seems to have deterred the would-be burglars, as they had disappeared with nothing seemingly taken, LAPD Detective Marc Vito Cruz said.

Actor Steve Buscemi is OK after he was punched in the face by a man on a New York City street, his publicist said Sunday. The 66-year-old star of “Fargo” and “Boardwalk Empire” was assaulted late Wednesday morning in Manhattan and taken to a nearby hospital with bruising, swelling and bleeding to his left eye.