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GRAVESEND, Brooklyn (PIX11) — A Brooklyn man is accused of hitting a 71-year-old man in the face with a shovel a couple of days after Christmas, police said. Sean Abt, 24, was arrested Tuesday and charged with assault in connection with the Dec. 27 attack in Brooklyn, according to the NYPD. Abt allegedly smacked the victim in the face with a shovel after an argument near Stryker Court and West 1st Street in Gravesend at around 11:30 a.m., police said. The man was taken to the hospital for treatment. The suspect then fled the scene before he was apprehended on...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS/Gray News) - The loved ones of a 29-year-old South Carolina man who was fatally struck by a car while crossing the street with his girlfriend are doing their best to cope with his loss as the suspect is being held without bond. Malcolm D. Johnson, 29, died after he was hit by a car Sunday night in downtown Columbia, according to Richland County Coroner Naida Rutherford.

MIDTOWN, Manhattan (WABC) -- Kerri Aherne, the woman who allegedly stabbed a tourist from California in a Macy's bathroom as the victim was changing her 10-month-old daughter, was previously arrested in Massachusetts for threatening to kill Senator Elizabeth Warren, according to the Manhattan district attorney's office.

Following a trial that lasted more than two weeks, a jury returned a guilty verdict for Dylan Miller, 30, who faced a civil rights charge for sexually assaulting a minor while he was on duty as a police officer with the Loveland Police Department in Colorado. The evidence presented at trial showed that Miller was on duty as a Loveland Police Department officer the evening of August 3, 2023, through the early morning of August 4, 2023. Miller contacted the victim and her friend in North Lake Park and told the victim’s friend to leave. Miller then guided the victim...

A man was arrested after an unprovoked attack in Marietta Square, where two people were punched Saturday, according to a police report.

A 33-year-old Wilmington man named Eliot Watkins was reported to be unclothed and causing damage to hotel property; he was also reported approaching hotel guests in the lobby. Police located him in a nearby wooded area, where he ran into a retention pond. The suspect was noted to have kicked an officer during the arrest.

A Statesville man will spend the next 20 years at least in prison after killing three people in a deadly golf cart crash in 2022. A jury found Austin Harmon guilty of three counts of felony death by vehicle, three counts of felony serious injury by vehicle, and driving while impaired at the conclusion of his trial on Dec. 15. //snip// A 2009 Honda Accord driven by Harmon, who was 23 at the time, hit a golf cart carrying a family of five in Statesville on June 13, 2022. Michael Shane Marlowe, 39, was driving the cart. Michael and his...

A Morris man has been arrested and charged with murder for shooting and killing another man from Morris. 58-year-old David Hand shot and killed 71-year-old Lynn Barton on November 7, 2025. Barton’s family contacted the Otsego County Sheriff’s Office, reporting they hadn’t seen him for more than two days. Through the investigation deputies were led to an area behind County Route 49 where they found Barton dead at the scene. An autopsy revealed that Barton died from a gunshot wound to the head. The investigation determined that Hand covered the body before fleeing the scene and attempted to plan the...

Court documents revealed that the woman murdered at the Morgantown Motel was the suspect’s sister. Karol Crosco, 49, of Garrett County, Md., stabbed the woman in the chest and told police he had bought the murder weapon — a kitchen knife, which was found at the scene covered in blood — on the day prior with the intention of killing his sister. Crosco also told police he stole the car specifically to drive to his sister’s motel room.