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NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Abby Zwerner, the former Richneck Elementary School teacher who was shot by her 6-year-old student in 2023, has emerged victorious in her civil lawsuit surrounding the shooting. A jury found Ebony Parker, the school's former assistant principal, grossly negligent in preventing the shooting.

Police in Port St. Lucie, Florida, were called to a bar after a disagreement over chickens led to shots being fired and several arrests. WPTV said it happened at about 2:48 a.m. on Nov. 4 in a bar’s parking lot after the business had closed for the night. “There was a conversation about how many, I kid you not, how many eggs a chicken can lay. And that conversation got a little heated, and as it went out into the parking lot, the conversation continued, and the shooter became agitated, became paranoid,” Sgt. Dominick Mesiti said. Three of the four...

SANFORD, Fla. - A Florida man who killed his 18-year-old girlfriend and their unborn son after she refused to get an abortion is facing the death penalty. Donovan Faison, 23, was convicted last week in the first-degree murder of Kaylin Fiengo, of killing an unborn child and of burglary with a firearm. The jury later voted 11-1 to sentence Faison to death, the Office of the State Attorney said in a news release Friday. Faison shot Fiengo in the head as she sat in her car at Coastline Park in Sanford in 2022. Investigators discovered a bullet casing and an...

The election results should disabuse every affable conservative that there are ‘level-headed Democrats.’ Your Democrat friends might be friendly to you, but they just voted for a guy who wants you and your family dead.In what should be an unsurprising development to every conservative in America, the “everyday normal Democrat voter” we are all told exists just came out in numbers to vote for assassination fetishist Jay Jones to be the next attorney general of Virginia.We often hear some version of: I know their political leadership wants to groom and mutilate as many children as possible, kill as many unborn...

On Halloween 2024, FBI Director Kash Patel announced the FBI had thwarted a terror attack in Michigan. Most media ignored it. Here's what they found: Two Dearborn residents, Mohmed Ali and Majed Mahmoud, allegedly conspired with three others to commit an ISIS-inspired attack on "pumpkin day"—Halloween. Federal agents recovered three AR-15 rifles, two shotguns, four handguns, and over 1,600 rounds of ammunition. The suspects had scouted LGBTQ+ bars in Ferndale, purchased tactical gear, practiced at gun ranges, and communicated on encrypted apps calling each other "brothers." This deep-dive investigation analyzes the full criminal complaint, surveillance evidence, and what this reveals...

Depending on the outcome of New Jersey’s gubernatorial race on Tuesday, gun owners in the state can prepare to breathe easier or bunker down for another four years of hostility. The race pits Republican Jack Ciattarelli, who has promised to defend the Second Amendment, against Mikie Sherrill, who is backed by a plethora of anti-gun groups. The winner will appoint New Jersey’s next attorney general, who has a considerable role in enforcing the state’s gun laws and defending the Second Amendment. Matthew Platkin, New Jersey’s current attorney general, has consistently pushed for gun control after his appointment four years ago...

The Israeli anti-drone and anti-missile laser weapon, the Iron Beam 450, is said to be ready to be deployed in Israel. From the timesofisrael.com: The Iron Beam is not meant to replace the Iron Dome or Israel’s other air defense systems, but to supplement and complement them, shooting down smaller projectiles and leaving larger ones for the more robust missile-based batteries such as the David’s Sling and Arrow systems.As long as there is a constant source of energy for the laser, there is no risk of it ever running out of ammunition. Officials have hailed it as a potential “game-changer”...

Carlos Alberto Manzo Rodríguez was slain in the town's historic center. People gather to honor Carlos Manzo Rodriguez, who was shot during Day of the Dead celebrations, in Uruapan, Michoacan state, Mexico, on Nov. 2, 2025. | Eduardo Verdugo/AP ================================================================= URUAPAN, MEXICO — A mayor in Mexico ’s western state of Michoacan was shot dead in a plaza in front of dozens of people who had gathered for Day of the Dead festivities, authorities said. Local politicians in Mexico are frequently victims of political and organized crime violence. The mayor of the Uruapan municipality, Carlos Alberto Manzo Rodríguez, was gunned...

A Mississippi mom shot dead one of the aggressive monkeys that escaped from an overturned truck last week to protect her young children. Jessica Bond Ferguson said she and other Heidelberg residents had been on high alert after word spread that monkeys — believed to be carrying dangerous diseases but later confirmed by officials not to be — had been roaming loose since Tuesday. Early Sunday morning, her 16-year-old son ran into the house, claiming he had seen one of the animals in the yard. “I shot at it and it just stood there, and I shot again, and he...

Japan has had ten people killed by bears in 2025. It is a record number, with than 172 people injured by October 22. In 2023, more than 200 were injured, but only six died. Japan has more people killed by bears than the United States. Since Japan started keeping records in 2007, the number of people killed by wild (not captured) bears has been 50 in Japan, with one uncertain, as of October 2025. For the same time period, wild bears killed 35 people in the United States. From japantimes.co.jp:Separate bear attacks in Japan killed one and injured four on...

Elijah Wilks was shot after he ran his car into the off-duty officer and pistol-whipped him when they pulled over. Family and friends initially claimed that the police were lying about their account of events; however, bodycam footage proved the police account was completely accurate. "No, they are not telling the truth. The story they posted is not the truth. Not the truth at all. Not the truth at all," a family friend tried claiming. Since the dashcam has been released, the family admits that the action from the off-duty officer was justified.

1. The Tax Law That Now Finds Itself Without a TaxIn the recent discourse around the potential removal of suppressors and short barrel rifles from the provisions of the National Firearms Act (NFA) and its tax and registration requirements, a point made repeatedly was that if the tax was repealed but the registration stayed, the latter would be illegal as it was only ever justified by the former.This is indeed correct, as from its inception, the NFA was justified as a tax, with the registration being incidental to that tax and only existing ostensibly to ensure the tax was properly...

ONTARIO, Calif. (KABC) -- The day after a U.S. citizen was shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Ontario when the man allegedly tried to ram officers with his car, community members are demanding answers as to what really happened. "How these agents are acting is blatant, irresponsible, and total disregard for the humanity of American citizens," said Congresswoman Norma Torres during an interview Friday with Eyewitness News. "Every incident we have looked at, ICE's knee-jerk response is to put themselves as victims when we know they are the aggressors. "They are heavily armed, masked individuals, storming neighborhoods...

An investigation is underway after a customer shot and killed a man inside a Compton store who was reportedly threatening customers after groping a female victim, officials announced. The Oct. 19 incident, according to a news release from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, occurred just before 3:30 p.m. in the 1300 block of Alondra Boulevard, near the intersection of Poinsettia Avenue. A preliminary investigation revealed that an unidentified man followed a female customer into a beauty supply store and groped her, prompting employees at the establishment to demand he leave the premises. “The male became increasingly verbally assaultive toward...

In the Billings, Montana, Gun Free School Zone (GFSZ) case of Gabriel Metcalf, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals published a split decision, which struck down the indictment against Gabriel Metcalf. Thomas K. Godfrey, the Assistant U.S. Attorney prosecuting the case, has filed a petition requesting an additional 45 days to consider whether to file a petition for rehearing. A petition for rehearing would ask for the original three-judge panel to rehear the case.The United States of America moves the Court for an extension in which to file its petition for rehearing in this case. Rule...

President Javier Milei won a landslide victory in the October 26, 2025, election. This election is a midterm election in Argentina. There are 257 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 72 seats in the Senate. Half of the Chamber of Deputies’ seats were up for election, as were one-third of the Senate’s seats. President Milei’s party scored 41.5% of the vote, increasing its share of seats in the House of Deputies from 37 to 101. Milei’s party increased its number of Senators from 6 to 20. This is a significant increase in power for President Milei. It is likely...

Paramedics rushed to save a Virginia elementary teacher's life after she was shot in her classroom by a six-year-old student, newly released body camera footage shows. Abby Zwerner was shot in the hand and chest in January 2023 as she sat at a reading table in her classroom at Richneck Elementary School. Distressing police body camera footage presented to the jury Wednesday showed Zwerner lying on the floor as first responders applied gauze and pressure to the bloody gunshot wound on her upper chest, near her left shoulder. The first-grade teacher, whose face was pale and displayed a pained expression,...

A University of North Florida professor was fired Tuesday for comments he made in class relating to the assassination of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk in September. The professor, Jacob McElroy, was a visiting instructor in the UNF English department. McElroy’s termination letter from the provost alleges that he threatened to “f___’n shoot everyone” in his freshman English class and claims that McElroy made several other serious threats. However, McElroy and at least two student witnesses say this was all a big misunderstanding. In the notice to McElroy on Sept. 18, Patterson wrote, “This action is being taken because of a...

An Illinois jury on Wednesday convicted a former sheriff’s deputy of second-degree murder in the shooting death of Sonya Massey, a Black woman who called 911 asking for help. Sean Grayson, 31, could be sentenced to up to 20 years in prison, or probation. Sentencing is scheduled for Jan. 29. Grayson and another deputy arrived at Massey’s home in Springfield, Illinois, early on the morning of July 6, 2024, after she reported a prowler. Grayson shot the 36-year-old woman after confronting her about how she was handling a pot of hot water she had removed from her stove. Grayson and...

One of the significant advantages of using handguns to defend against bear attacks is that defense with a handgun is far more likely to result in a dead bear. This is a highly desirable result. Bears that attack humans should be killed. Killing aggressive bears is a way to condition the bear population to avoid humans.The false premise implicit in the argument for non-lethal defenses against bears is that there are such small numbers of bears that killing a bear removes a valuable resource from the bear genetic pool. This view had some legitimacy about 1975-1980, when the population of...