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Noah Ney, a 16-year-old teenager, has been recently sentenced to more than 50 years. KTUL states that around ten charges have been imposed on him including firearm and drug possession and shooting with intent to kill. The charges stemmed from a shooting incident in April last year where he fired a shot at a 5-year-old girl. Ney was arrested after the incident and in August 2023, he escaped from a Tulsa juvenile detention center. News On 6 stated that he was arrested three days after his escape. He was again sentenced to a year for his escape from the juvenile...

Includes a report of the large crowds and traffic for the Grateful Dead's second concert at the Star Lake Amphitheater in Burgettstown, PA (Which is now S&T Bank Music Park). Pretty cool

A Minnesota National Guard and Minneapolis Police Department neighborhood security team were fired upon early Sunday morning in north Minneapolis. According to the Minneapolis Police Department, at around 4:15 a.m., a light-colored SUV fired shots at a Minnesota National Guard and Minneapolis Police team who was providing neighborhood security in the vicinity of Penn Avenue and Broadway Avenue. “I am relieved to know none of our Guardsmen were seriously injured,” said Adjutant General Maj. Gen. Shawn Manke. “This event highlights the volatility and tension in our communities right now. I ask for peace as we work through this difficult time.”...

An accused ma-and-son killing team were indicted Friday in the slaying of a construction worker. Raymond Jackson, 22, is accused of firing more than a dozen bullets into the victim’s car — after which is mother, Avita Campbell, 38, smashed the victim’s windshield, prosecutors said. Jackson, 22, has yet to be caught but Queens prosecutors say they have enough evidence to charge him with the murder of Lasaaun Lawrence. Campbell was charged Oct. 14 with murder and weapons possession in Lawrence’s death, and is being held at Rikers Island without bail. Sources said Campbell had a long-simmering feud with the...

Police are investigating after a Republican headquarters in Volusia County, Florida, was riddled with bullets this past weekend, party leaders said. At least four shots were fired overnight Sunday, Volusia County Republican Chairman Tony Ledbetter confirmed to Fox News on Monday. Ledbetter said "everything was OK" when volunteers left the building at about 4 p.m. Sunday, but when they returned at 9:30 a.m. Monday, at least one window was broken.

"There's been so many," a neighbor said of shootings in the area. "It's just random. During the daytime, during the nighttime, all times of the day you just hear them shooting."Family members are grieving and neighbors are outraged after an East Side drive-by shooting killed a 4-year-old boy and left the boy's mother with two gunshot wounds in her leg. Police said the gunmen involved in the shooting pulled up in front of a simple, one-story home in the 200 block of Hub Avenue around midnight Wednesday and opened fire. De-Earlvion Whitley lay sleeping in the front room of the...

A horse pulling an Amish buggy was killed Sunday in a drive-by shooting in Pennsylvania, police report. The horse was towing a buggy with five occupants around 9 PM when “an unknown type car also traveling north passed the buggy,” according to East Lampeter Township Police officials.

As noted here yesterday, former Obama car czar Steve Rattner, in a Politico piece, lashed out at Ron Suskind, depicting Suskind's book on bad times in the Obama White House as a "drive-by shooting" of President Obama and his staff. That hardly seemed in the spirit of President Obama's pious call, in his much-touted Tucson memorial speech, for people to speak in a way "that heals, not wounds" . Joe Scarborough called Rattner out on the matter on today's Morning Joe. But Rattner blithely batted away Scarborough's depiction of "drive-by" as harsh and rhetorically inflammatory. View the video here.

(MyNews4.com & KRNV) Sparks, Nev. – Sparks Police Department has confirmed one person died after a late night shooting inside John Ascuaga's Nugget near the Trader Dick's Bar. Police say the shooting involved a fight with a large group who were armed with firearms. Officers found three victims of gunshot wounds when they arrived. One victim has died. The other two victims are currently still at medical facilities with non-life threatening injuries.

April 13, 2011 (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- A 10-year-old boy was among those hit in a drive-by shooting on Chicago's Southeast Side. Police say the shooting happened at approximately 9 p.m. Tuesday during a barbecue party honoring someone who was killed last year. Remnants of the party were scattered Wednesday throughout the vacant lot near 79th Street and Escanaba in the city's South Chicago neighborhood. The night before, a group of people gathered to remember a friend who was shot and killed in the same place in 2010. But the memorial ended abruptly when someone opened fire on the crowd from...

NOTE The following text SNIPPET is a quote: newyork.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/nyfo082410.htm Two Additional Arrests Made of Members of Violent International Organized Crime Group Albanian Government Aide Arrested; Newly Unsealed Indictment Charges 17 Defendants with Murder, Kidnapping, and Other Racketeering Offenses PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, JANICE K. FEDARCYK, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI"), and RAYMOND W. KELLY, the Police Commissioner of the City of New York, announced the arrests of FLORIAN VESHI and ALMIR RRAPO for their roles in a racketeering enterprise that engaged...

<p>Latest Video:Little Rock - One person is in custody, and two others have been transported to a local hospital in serious condition following a double-shooting in west Little Rock Monday morning.</p> <p>Authorities say the incident occurred around 10:00 a.m. at the U.S. Army Navy Career Center inside the Ashley Square Shopping Center at 9112 North Rodney Parham Road. According to Lt. Terry Hastings with the Little Rock Police Department, two recruiting officers standing outside the office were hit when the unidentified suspect drove up in a black SUV and began shooting.</p>

Authorities are investigating the shooting death of an off-duty sheriff's deputy at sunrise today in the gang-ridden Cypress Park area of Los Angeles, authorities said. Police chief William Bratton and sheriff Lee Baca rushed to the scene, and Baca called this "a difficult day." Baca said "we know that the public at large is grieving the loss of a deputy sheriff, a new deputy sheriff who was in the department for just two years, working at our central jail." The name of the slain deputy sheriff has not been released, although neighbors told Los Angeles station KNX that the victim's...

$10,000 Reward Offered February 7, 2005 Anna Wagnild A bullet hole is left in a window at a deputy's home in Dunn County. Sheriff Dennis Smith announced Monday the department is now offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of those responsible. The shooting is believed to be retaliation for a drug arrest the officer made. The money has been donated from other area law enforcement agencies and unions including the FBI and the West Central Drug Task Force. "Officers from all around are pretty upset about it," says Smith. "There was phone calls right and left...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An Iraqi policeman was killed in a bomb blast near Baghdad and gunmen attacked a U.S. Army patrol in the northern city of Mosul Monday, the latest attacks on Iraq's occupiers and those seen as collaborating with them. The policeman, a bomb disposal expert, was killed when a tank round planted on a busy street in the city of Baquba, 40 miles north of Baghdad, was detonated by remote control, a U.S. military commander in the city said. Iraqi police and others seen to be working or cooperating with U.S. and allied authorities are increasingly the target...

SKOPJE, Macedonia - Attackers killed a former ethnic Albanian rebel commander in a drive-by shooting in Macedonia on Wednesday, police said. Jusuf Ilazi, also known as Qufa, was shot in the tense northwestern city of Tetovo, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the capital, Skopje. Illazi commanded ethnic Albanian insurgents in the region and was known as a staunch ally of rebel leader Ali Ahmeti. Sedat Suleimani, an ethnic Albanian from the village of Poroj, which is just outside of Tetovo, was arrested in connection with the attack, Macedonian police said in a statement. A ranking Macedonian police official, who spoke...

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) -- A former gang member who was given probation in a 1993 drive-by shooting death in Southern California thought he could return to preaching and a new life he had started in Alabama, but has been deported instead. Geronimo Galvan Burgos thought he had put his past behind him and was planning to return to Russellville, Ala., to lead a church congregation where he served as pastor and mentor to troubled teens. Last month, the 30-year-old was sentenced to probation for aiding in a Santa Ana drive-by. Immediately after he left an Orange County court, Immigration...