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LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - Louisville Metro Police have announced new details surrounding theft from an armored vehicle and the suspect, missing since the beginning of December. Police said GardaWorld employee Mark N. Espinosa, 29, went missing while performing his duties at Jefferson Mall on December 5, 2018. LMPD and the FBI have been conducting a joint investigation ever since. A federal arrest warrant was issued for Espinosa on December 10. Investigations have led police to rule out the possibility of this being a random act of violence, and instead believe Espinosa took steps to plan the theft and cover his...

In what could be a first for the nation, an Alabama Emergency Management Agency issued a public service warning this week telling people not to eat hundreds of chicken tenders spilled across a state highway. It happened Sunday in Cherokee County, and the sheriff’s office went so far as threatening to charge any sticky-fingered people caught in the act. “The Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office is asking that no one try to stop to get the chicken tenders that were spilled from the 18-wheeler accident last night,” said a Facebook post. “You’re creating a traffic hazard! It’s a crime to impede...

What appears to be a human foot inside a boot washed up on Jetty Island in Everett, according to police. Beachgoers in Everett discovered what appears to be a human foot on New Year’s Day, authorities say. The callers reached 911 just after 2 p.m. Tuesday to report finding a foot inside a boot on the south end of Jetty Island, according to the Everett Police Department. Police saw “what appears to be a human foot inside a boot,” but the Snohomish County Medical Examiner’s Office will determine whether the foot is human and will try to determine an identity,...

A security video shows a stranger approach the front door of a Salinas, California, home early Friday, then look directly into the camera before proceeding to lick the doorbell — for hours, KION reports. “Pretty creepy stuff,” said homeowner Dave Dungan, KPIX reported. The Dungans were out of town but their children were home during the incident. The video from the movement-activated Ring doorbell camera also shows the intruder interrupted his lascivious licking “to relieve himself in the front lawn” and steal extension cords used for holiday lights, KION reported. A neighbor later found the extension cords and returned them,...

A 47-year-old parolee has been arrested in connection with the weekend shooting at a crowded bowling alley that left three men dead and four others wounded, Torrance police announced Monday, Jan. 7. Police Chief Eve Irvine said Reginald Wallace was quickly identified with video footage and by witnesses as the gunman who opened fire on more than a dozen people fighting late Friday night at Gable House Bowl on Hawthorne Boulevard, a popular hangout and South Bay institution. Wallace was taken into custody after 4 a.m. Sunday by Torrance police and SWAT officers at 4th Street and Western Avenue in...

A transgender woman has prevailed in her discrimination suit against a Minnesota women's football team and league. In 2017, Christina Ginther sued the Minnesota Vixen and the Independent Women's Football League after the team barred her from playing because she was trans. Ginther, 44, told MPR News that she didn't think being transgender would pose a problem for the Vixen. She learned about the team at the Twin Cities Pride Festival, and recalled her reaction as, "Oh, this an LGBTQ-friendly organization. Cool." But after her tryouts, Ginther said, she got a surprising phone call from the team's owner, Laura Brown....

SEATTLE -- Strong wind gusts, approaching 60 mph in some areas, toppled trees and took down power lines on Sunday morning. In Seattle, more than 50,000 customers were in the dark by 2:30 a.m. according to Seattle City Light. By afternoon, crews were still working to restore power for roughly 6,000 City Light customers. Outages ballooned in cities to the south of Seattle, and on the Eastside, where Puget Sound Energy's outage map showed a combined total of nearly 220,000 customers affected early on.

CITRUS HEIGHTS (CBS13) — A Sacramento County woman is recovering Friday night after she was hit by a car while riding her skateboard in Citrus Heights. The driver, Angel Huerta, is now behind bars and a Rio Linda man says he was hit by the same man seven years ago. “What it brought back was a lot of anger that this person has now hurt somebody else,” said Derek Roberts, who was injured back in 2011.

A suspect has reportedly been taken into custody in connection with the shooting death of Jazmine Barnes, a 7-year-old Texas girl who was struck by a bullet while traveling in a car with her family on Dec. 30. A second suspect may be in custody as well, multiple sources told Houston’s FOX 26. The Harris County Sheriff's Office issued a Twitter message saying only that the case had "taken a new direction," with "persons of interest" being interviewed...l ...Police earlier this week released an artist’s sketch of a possible suspect, but KTRK reported that sources said the suspect who was...

Sylvia Chase, an award-winning television journalist who spent five years as a Bay Area news anchor, died Thursday in Marin County after a short illness. She was 80. KRON-TV hired Chase away from ABC News’ “20/20” in 1985, a move that attracted national attention. She headed back east in 1990, but not before winning a Peabody Award for her hour-long documentary here on the plight of homeless children. She returned to the Bay Area after her retirement in the early 2000s, settling in Belvedere.

A multi-vehicle crash last week that claimed the life of the son of a Knoxville, Tennessee fire department captain was the result of a “chain reaction” begun by an illegal immigrant driving in the wrong lane, investigators said. Pierce Kennedy Corcoran, 22, the son of Knoxville Fire Department spokesperson Captain D.J. Corcoran, was driving a Honda Civic south on Knoxville’s Chapman Highway the evening of December 30 when a Chevrolet pickup truck driven by Franco Cambrany Francisco-Eduardo reportedly veered into their lane and struck the vehicle. ... 44-year-old Franco Cambrany Francisco-Eduardo, an illegal immigrant, was arrested and charged with criminally...

A woman who has been comatose for at least a decade gave birth in a Phoenix nursing facility Dec. 29, sparking a police investigation into possible sexual abuse. Her caretakers had no idea the woman was pregnant “until she was pretty much giving birth,” a source familiar with the situation told CBS 5. “From what I’ve been told she was moaning. And they didn’t know what was wrong with her,” the source told CBS 5. The baby boy is healthy, but the mother remains in a vegetative state caused by a near-drowning incident years ago. The patient had around the...

<p>LAS VEGAS (AP) — A 21-year-old Las Vegas woman was being sought Thursday for allegedly using a stolen car to run over and kill a Las Vegas nail salon owner who chased her last weekend for failing to pay for a $35 manicure, police said.</p>

While Savoie was undergoing a strip search during his processing into the Lafourche Parish sub-station, deputies found a small gun concealed in his buttocks. The caliber and make of the gun has not been released.

There are only a few sure things we can count on in this crazy, ever-changing world: The moon's regal orbit around the earth. The gentle change of the seasons. And the fact that, on any given subway car, there will be at least one man with his legs spread across multiple seats. A problem as frustrating as it is mysterious, the man who takes up multiple seats on public transit with his splayed-out legs inspires all sorts of questions among his fellow riders: Is the leg-spreader exercising his male privilege, or, as some defenders would have you believe, merely attending...

Cindi Eckis doesn’t have a smartphone, and she doesn’t want one. “It makes my life simpler,” the Cheektowaga retiree said. But sticking with her flip phone will make it tougher for her and other low-tech motorists to find a place to park along some streets of downtown Buffalo. A new parking policy being rolled out by city officials adds parking zones where the only way to pay to park is through the Buffalo Roam parking app. Blue "Pay by app only" signs went up earlier this week on Cobblestone District streets. "Pay from your phone," the signs read. "Download Buffalo...

But what are they going to do with all the T-shirts they made up? The owner of a soon-to-be-opening French-Vietnamese restaurant in New Hampshire is set to meet with the city manager of Keene following concerns that the eatery's name sounds like a profane phrase. Pho Keene Great, which is not scheduled to open until March, had already displayed a small sign prominently featuring the name, which is a play on both the Vietnamese dish pho (pronounced "fuh") and the name of the town (Keene).

America Uncovered Published on Jan 3, 2019 America is a great country for so many reasons. And one of those reasons is... the variety of life experience. Which is why we can celebrate the unstoppable Florida Man.

Orange snow stakes at the mall parking lot are tools of patriarchal oppression.

Michel Houellebecq, the enfant terrible of French literature, was awarded the Legion of Honour, France’s highest civilian distinction, in the New Year honours list on Tuesday. A forthcoming novel by the celebrated but controversial author predicts the doom of western civilisation. Seratonin, due out on Friday, focuses on the festering rage in provincial France that has exploded into the “yellow vest” protests. Like his previous books, it is set to become an instant bestseller and is already being hailed as the biggest literary event of 2019. It is also likely to enrage those who object to the views that have...