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Crime & Safety Worcester Police Find Gun In Roadway After Double-Shooting The shooting broke out Wednesday afternoon along Henchman Street, according to police. By Neal McNamara, Patch Staff Verified Patch Staff Badge Sep 24, 2020 8:38 am ET Two 21-year-old men were shot Wednesday afternoon along Henchman Street. (Neal McNamara/Patch) WORCESTER, MA — Two 21-year-old men were shot Wednesday afternoon in a neighborhood near downtown Worcester, according to police. The shooting happened at around 1:30 p.m. along Henchman Street off of Lincoln Street. By the time police arrived, the two victims had already been taken to a local hospital. One...

Cape Lejeune Marine Corps Base on the North Carolina coast has issued a safety alert after multiple people reported being attacked at the military facility by coyotes. At least four attacks have occurred recently on the eastern side of the base, near the Wallace Creek area, officials said in a Facebook post. Investigators did not give details of the injuries, but noted all victims “were running after dark in the vicinity.” The latest attack occurred at 4 a.m. Sept. 23. All the victims reported being near offices of the II Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group Command when attacked, officials said....

SAN FRANCISCO – Pacific Gas & Electric Co. is poised to shut off power to thousands of residents in the Sierra Foothills this weekend amid hot, dry and windy conditions. In a news release Thursday, PG&E said “high-risk fire conditions are expected to arrive Saturday evening, continue through Sunday evening and subside Monday morning.”

<p>LONDON (AP) — A rat has for the first time won a British charity’s top civilian award for animal bravery, receiving the honor for searching out unexploded landmines in Cambodia.</p> <p>Magawa, a giant African pouched rat, was awarded the PDSA’s Gold Medal for his “lifesaving bravery and devotion” after discovering 39 landmines and 28 items of unexploded ordinance in the past seven years, according to the charity.</p>

The Sacramento Bee will leave its 2100 Q Street headquarters next summer, a move that is intended to help offset a decline in ad revenue, according to the newspaper’s regional editor. The announcement was made on the Sacramento Bee’s website in a story surrounded by more than a dozen digital advertisements, some of which obscured the text of the article when they weren’t distractedly animated. The move comes as many non-essential Sacramento Bee staff had been asked to work from home due to the ongoing coronavirus health pandemic.

A 54-year-old man in Massachusetts suffered cardiac arrest after consuming too much black licorice, a new case report from the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) says. The patient was in a fast-food restaurant when he gasped suddenly and lost consciousness, according to the case report. His whole body began to shake, but he remained unresponsive even after those movements stopped. First responders arrived about four minutes after the man lost consciousness and started doing CPR; they also shocked the patient’s heart four times and administered multiple medications, including naloxone, which is often used to treat opioid overdoses. The patient’s...

SPANAWAY, Wash. — A 78-year-old woman from Spanaway held an intruder at gunpoint after finding the man breaking into her home, according to the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office. The woman, who goes by Sandy, knew something was wrong when her dog, Booboo, started barking Sunday night. “I opened my door, and standing right 2, 3 feet in front of me was a man. We looked at each other for a few seconds, and he turned and started to leave. And I said, ‘Oh no, you don’t. You stay right there!’” she said. Sandy said her neighborhood has been plagued by...

Brian Tatum, 45, charged with two counts of felony murder over high-speed chase in Houston Tatum is accused of crashing into back of Uber while possibly street-racing Impact caused the ride-share car to break apart, ejecting and killing two women riding as passengers in the backseat Police say search of Tatum's car turned up opened containers of alcohol and sdrugs Tatum has vast criminal record spanning two states and more than 20 years

– A bizarre blowtorch attack in Berkeley ended when the victims subdued the attacker, but not before he pulled out a knife and an hatchet.

A nurse who met her new partner on a dating app not realising he was a convicted child rapist and murderer came home from work to find her two daughters knifed to death. Vitaly Molchanov went on the run after the killings of Yana Saprunova and Elena Saprunova, aged 13 and eight and a major manhunt was launched. One month ago divorcee Valentina Saprunova, 40, moved 1,600 miles with her daughters from her Siberian home to move into her new boyfriend’s flat, convinced she had found true love. The nurse had met Molchanov online via a dating app around six...

Shooting Not Believed To Be Politically Motivated MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The 17-year-old boy killed and another man hurt Monday in a north Minneapolis shooting were members of a Republican congressional candidate’s campaign. The Lacy Johnson campaign says the two victims were members of the outreach team and were not performing campaign duties when the shooting occurred Monday afternoon at the intersection of North Fremont and Dowling avenues. According to the Lacy Johnson campaign and Minneapolis police, the shooting is not believed to be a politically motivated attack. Minneapolis police say a group of people were standing outside of a Super...

BEECHGROVE, TN (WSMV) - The search has ended for an "armed and dangerous" suspect after a deadly shooting on Interstate 24 Sunday morning in Coffee County. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says the suspect, 29-year-old Dangelo Dorsey of St. Louis, MO, is no longer a threat to public safety after a brief chase along I-24 east. Investigators say the incident all began around 9:30 a.m. when Dorsey opened fire inside a vehicle traveling westbound on Interstate 24 near Beechgrove in Coffee County. One person was shot and injured in that vehicle while a second occupant, identified as Darcey Johnson, 28,...

GRIPPING hard onto his pliers, Debroy Parrington took a deep breath and prepared to use all his strength to pull down and rip out his own tooth. The granddad-of-five had been driven to take drastic action after days of agonising pain from an infected tooth, with no option of seeing a dentist for professional help in the height of lockdown. He's far from alone, as a recent study found one in four British households opted for at least one form of DIY dentistry during lockdown. Local practices were told to suspend routine face-to-face services on March 25 and to set...

CAVE JUNCTION, Ore. — Deputies with the Josephine County Sheriff's Office arrested three men on Sunday after they allegedly tried to lure children into their vehicle at Jubilee Park. Shortly before 4:30 a.m., deputies responded to reports of a disturbance at the park, with callers advising that several men had tried to lure children into their vehicle. One man left the scene and headed towards downtown Cave Junction, but several people followed him from a distance and were able to report his location to deputies. People at the park grabbed and held onto two other men until deputies could take...

The only non-San Francisco location of La Boulangerie de San Francisco has shut its doors, Berkeleyside reports. Bussaba, an Inner Sunset Thai restaurant known for locally sourced ingredients, a modern take on regional classics.“We have fought hard to remain open and viable throughout the last several months,” the restaurant writes, “but despite all our efforts and creativity, we now know it can not be sustained indefinitely. It has been a good 10 years, but now it is time to move on.” House Rules, a Russian Hill bar known for its cozy fireplace and solid burger, has closed after five years.Upscale seafood spot Farallon closed its Union Square doors...

Draconian enforcement of COVID-19 lockdown accelerates. Yet another shock video out of Australia shows police enforcing coronavirus rules by arresting an elderly woman sitting on a park bench for not wearing a mask. “This is unlawful, on what grounds am I under arrest?” asks the woman. An officer then walks around the back of the bench and snatches her friend’s phone away, preventing her from filming the encounter. The woman is told that she is being arrested for failing to provide her name and address. ... Once a person has been targeted for not wearing a mask or violating any...

Meryl Streep’s nephew allegedly hurled racist slurs in a road-rage incident in East Hampton, the victim’s lawyer said Wednesday, as photos of the teen’s horrific head injuries emerged. David Peralta, 18, filed a lawsuit against Charles Harrison Streep over the alleged beatdown on Aug. 24, which required emergency surgery to relieve pressure in his brain, attorney Edmond Chakmakian told The Post. The John Jay College student and aspiring detective, who lives in East Hampton, is now facing significant cognitive difficulties.

Part of the decorative ceiling collapsed Tuesday at the Portland Art Museum’s Kridel Grand Ballroom. No one was inside the room at the time. A group was getting ready to tour the room as part of a possible future rental. Nobody was injured and the Art Museum says no artworks were damaged. 6 chairs and a table were lost. It says engineers examined the third floor room and the rest of the Mark Building and found no structural safety issues. Brian Ferriso, Director and Chief Curator of the Museum says “so many of us share fond memories of attending events...

The controversial French professor who vigorously defended the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine to help beat the coronavirus has been targeted by an ethics complaint that could see him face sanctions or barred from practising, a medical association said Thursday. The Marseille-based Didier Raoult is accused in the complaint by medical peers of spreading false information about the benefits of hydroxychloroquine. US and Brazilian presidents Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro seized upon Raoult's promotion of hydroxychloroquine and have trumpeted its benefits since the pandemic erupted. But the method and conclusions of Raoult's studies were challenged from the start by critics and other...

A LITTLE boy watched as his mum murdered five of his siblings before jumping in front of a train, it has been reported. The bodies of the kids - aged 1, 2, 3, 6 and 8 - were found in a flat in Solingen, western Germany today. According to broadcaster RTL, the children's older brother, 11, watched the mother, 27, allegedly carry out the horrific murders. The mum - named as Christine K in German media - then took the boy on a train journey before she got off at Dusseldorf and threw herself on the tracks. Named only as...