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Weapon used to shoot at NYPD officer during morning commute was found inside teddy bear in baby’s crib: court docs https://t.co/cvPvVu0xIQ pic.twitter.com/kwzumi6EmI— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) March 25, 2022

Metro train derailed Tuesday afternoon on the Blue Line near the Arlington Cemetery station, the transit agency reported. The incident occurred about 4:50 p.m. Metro rail controllers in the Rail Operations Control Center received a report of a disabled Blue Line train in the tunnel between the Rosslyn and Arlington Cemetery stations in Northern Virginia, Metro spokesman Ian Jannetta said. Metro officials said the train, a 7000-series train that is one of Metro’s latest models, partially slipped off the tracks. Metro officials said that 300 to 400 people were on the train and that 187 passengers had been evacuated by...

Three police officers were shot in Delaware on Wednesday night after they responded to a call from a local resident. The officers were shot after they responded to a call at around 10:30 p.m. at the 2400 block of North Market Street, in Wilmington, according to a police statement. Dozens of their colleagues responded, with the officers transported to a local hospital, where they are in a stable condition...

The FBI this week raided a Homer, Alaska couple’s home looking for Nancy Pelosi’s laptop. 12 agents broke down the Hueper’s front door with their guns drawn, separated the husband and wife, cuffed them, seized their electronics and interrogated them for 3 hours. Advertisement - story continues below After a 3 hour interrogation, it turned out it was a case of mistaken identity. The Hueper’s just happened to be on vacation in DC the same week Trump spoke at the Ellipse on January 6 and decided to attend the rally, however they never entered the Capitol building. Marilyn Hueper said...

SAN DIEGO — The San Diego Association of Governments will partially close a section of Interstate 5 in La Jolla Tuesday evening to continue construction of a future trolley bridge. Work crews will close all northbound lanes of I-5 from state Route 52 to La Jolla Village Drive from 9:30 p.m. to 5 a.m. Wednesday morning to pour concrete for the future bridge. Motorists on northbound I-5 will be detoured to I-805 via state Route 52, according to SANDAG. SANDAG crews completed similar closures of southbound I-5 last week to pour concrete for the future trolley bridge, which will cross...

The Fraternal Order of Police district that includes Broward County has dropped U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston, from its endorsements. Instead, the big police union said it’s endorsing Carlos Reyes, one of three Republicans seeking his party’s nomination to challenge Wasserman Schultz in the Broward/Miami-Dade County 23rd Congressional District. ...the FOP district said it endorses “people who have supported or will support the FOP and its mission. Both parties have endorsements along with non-partisan” contests. Others use it as a different kind of guide, which one reader posted on the FOP’s Facebook page: “Pretty easy for me. Vote against...

A state police internal affairs investigator concluded there was “no evidence” to support an activist’s claim that three troopers conspired to concoct charges against him during a contentious interaction at a DUI checkpoint in 2015. Michael Picard, who supports the open carrying of firearms and opposes random DUI checkpoints, was charged with two infractions while protesting at an I-84 ramp in West Hartford. Police seized Picard’s camcorder during the confrontation, which, unbeknownst to the troopers involved, captured them discussing whether to file charges. In the audio, one trooper is heard stating that the officers “gotta cover our ass,” while another...

The real evil here is the Progressive Left and their tyranny of low expectations Sunday night a police office was ambushed and shot near my home in St. Louis. He was one of four officers nationwide shot within a couple of hours by thugs egged on by Black Lives Matter and blessed by our Community Organizer in Chief Barack Hussein Obama. (The others were in a suburb of Kansas City, in Texas, and in Florida.) The officer survived and is in good shape. He is expected to make a full recovery. The shooter, a man linked to other murders, has...

(CNN)An Ohio grand jury has decided not to return an indictment in the 2014 police shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, prosecutor Tim McGinty said Monday. Rice was holding a pellet gun when he was shot. It was "reasonable" to believe that the officer who killed the boy was facing a threat, McGinty said. The officer was in training outside a Cleveland recreation center in November 2014. The shooting sparked controversy given Tamir's age and the fact that he had a gun that resembled a handgun. McGinty called Rice's killing an "absolute tragedy." "But it was not, by the law...

Lebanon complained again to the UN on Monday that Israel’s setting a maritime border in the resource-rich triangle between Israel, Lebanon, and Cyprus threatens peace and security in the region. The move comes as Lebanon rotates into its September presidency of the Security Council at the world body, giving it the power to raise the issue for discussion. Israel’s cabinet on July 10 approved the demarcation of the northern maritime border with Lebanon, in an effort to protect economic rights in offshore territories that Lebanon is claiming as its own. Israel submitted its map to the UN to counter a...

SNIPPET: "CHARLOTTE, N.C.— The FBI is asking for the public's help in identifying a man who was seen near a restricted area along the light rail near uptown Charlotte. A worker monitoring security cameras said the man was spotted in the area in late April, according to investigators. The man was clearly in an area he wasn't supposed to be in and was acting suspiciously, the FBI said."

The DSCC sends Michael Meehan, Blue Line's President with ties to Massachusetts, to assist the Coakley camp with messaging.

Note: The following text Snippet is a quote: Chicago Man Arrested for Interfering with Operation of CTA Trains and Busses Robert D. Grant, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was joined today by Patrick J. Fitzgerald, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois in announcing the arrest of a Chicago man for making unauthorized radio transmissions over frequencies utilized by the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA). MARCEL CARTER, age 20, who resides at 235 West 37th Place in Chicago, was arrested late Friday evening, without incident, by Officers of the Chicago Police Department...

One out of every eight votes in Rick Perry's margin of victory in the 2002 race for governor came from the rural counties along the Interstate 35 path of Perry's proposed Trans-Texas Corridor. Now, as he seeks re-election, Perry's long-range transportation vision is turning into a political liability for the Republican chief executive. More than 14,000 Texans — almost all opposed to the Trans-Texas Corridor — turned out at public hearings held by the Texas Department of Transportation this summer to express their displeasure with the highway and the governor. "I'd like to admit that I made one big mistake...

Region | Officials say Hege's foundation not licensed DAVIDSON COUNTY LEXINGTON - A charitable organization started by Davidson County Sheriff Gerald Hege to help families of police officers killed or injured in the line of duty lacks the proper licenses to solicit donations, officials say. Officials with the Internal Revenue Service in Ogden, Utah, say they have no records indicating that the Blue Line Foundation, which Hege began in 1999, is tax-exempt. Pamphlets and a Web site about the foundation say all donations are tax-deductible. Officials with the state secretary of state say the Blue Line Foundation has not been...