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A McDonald’s restaurant in the progressive Washington, D.C. suburb of Fairfax County, Virginia has banned under 21-year-olds from indoor dining after “repeated incidents of student violence.” Adults must ring a doorbell to be let in by staff. The McDonald’s is located just outside the Beltway in the Franconia neighborhood between Alexandria and Springfield. It has been a popular hangout for students of several nearby schools, including Thomas A. Edison High School. A sign posted at the door says, “RING THE DOORBELL SAFETY NOTICE: Effective immediately. Due to repeated incidents of student violence, this McDonald’s location is temporarily closed for dine-in...

A NASCAR race turned into a wrestling match for two drivers who were involved in a crash. On the opening night of the 2025 season on Saturday (April 19) at the historic Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, US, a fight broke out between drivers Zack Staley and Justin Halverson during the race. The confrontation began after the cars of the two drivers collided on the track, leading to both exiting their vehicles and engaging in a physical fight. The situation escalated quickly, prompting multiple people to intervene and pull them apart. The NASCAR broadcast captured the moment, stating,...

A motorist was viciously attacked in his car by a group of men who punched him in the head a dozen times before a woman poured liquid on him. The man was ambushed on U Street in downtown Washington, D.C., as he was stuck in traffic on Wednesday night. He was prevented from leaving by people standing in front of his car as one of the attackers pulled open the door and started punching him. ...A man claimed on Instagram that the man was attacked because he was 'recording my little sister.' However, he later made another post retracting her...

Teachers at a school have reacted with horror to a video of their middle-aged female colleague being repeatedly punched in the face and abused by a male student. The teenager has been arrested after a classmate filmed the profanity-laden physical attack at Parkland High School in North Salem, North Carolina. The teacher sits motionless in the classroom as the student lands a right-handed punch to her cheek before he steps back and demands: 'Want me to hit you again?'

A teenager was killed and four other people were injured in a shooting at a north Philadelphia bus stop on Monday afternoon, police said. The city’s police commissioner, Kevin Bethel, said about 15 to 20 students were at a bus stop in the city’s Ogontz neighborhood around 3:45 p.m. when two people walked up and opened fire. Police said people were getting on the stopped bus when the gunfire erupted. Police said one 17-year-old was pronounced dead at a hospital with multiple gunshot wounds to the body. Two 15-year-olds had graze wounds and a 49-year-old woman and a 71-year-old woman...

All Fine Wine & Good Spirits liquor stores are set to close Wednesday in Philadelphia after Tuesday night’s mass looting where 18 different store locations were broken into, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. Tuesday’s mob looting happened when a few of the stores were still open, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. The affected businesses were not just confined to the liquor industry. A Foot Locker, Apple Store, and Lululemon were beset by a mob of juveniles, The Messenger News reported. One person, who goes by the online persona of “Meatball,” who filmed the mob and was later arrested said, “Tell the police...

Fed up with illegal activity and loiterers, the community, Walgreens and Supervisor Rafael Mandelman came together to place plants outside a popular corner store in the Castro. Allen Janz, whose dad lives around the corner, took notice of the new planters outside the Walgreens at 18th and Castro streets. "They're very pretty. And I think they're going to be trashed. I mean, they'll be trashed in a couple days I think," said Janz, who is visiting from Anchorage, Alaska. "And I don't have an issue with it, but the homeless people are just going to just move around the corner."...

A man sitting outside an Ohio gas station was beaten by a group of 12 teenagers in a brutal and unprovoked attack, Cleveland officials say. Surveillance video captured the group arriving at the gas station — on the city’s northeast side — in stolen Kias and Hyundais at about 12:30 a.m. on Tuesday, July 25, city officials said at a news briefing. Several teens walk up to a man sitting against a wall and unleash a flurry of kicks and punches, video shared by officials shows. The man tries to get away, but more of the group step in, surrounding...

A more than century-old hat boutique will shutter a location in San Francisco's Union Square, the latest retail shop to close in the city in the aftermath of pandemic shutdowns and crime spikes. Goorin Bros. haberdashery opened in 1895 and specializes in fedoras and leopard print hats, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. The hat shop currently has nine locations in operation across the country. The store's location at 111 Geary St. in Union Square closed on June 23, the outlet reported, noting the city has struggled to attract tourists and office workers following government-mandated lockdowns during the pandemic The...

One grocery chain is fighting hard to keep stores open despite rampant shoplifting and an uptick in violence forcing many retailers to leave major cities across the country. Giant Food, which operates 165 supermarkets in D.C., Maryland, Virginia and Delaware, has taken multiple measures to combat theft and keep stores safe, according to a report in The Washington Post. That includes limiting store entrances; hiring security guards; restricting the number of items at self-checkout stands; putting less high-value items on shelves; and securing razor blades in containers that make noise if opened. Company president Ira Kress said he's seen theft...

Wild video out of San Clemente shows a group of teenagers apparently assaulting a pair of military members over the weekend. The two victims, who self-identified as Marines, say they were walking along the pier when they were confronted by the group of teens, of which there appeared to be more than 15, at around 9:50 p.m. Saturday.

Walmart announced they're shuttering 12 stores across nine states and Washington DC this year due to failing profits - on the same day they announced hundreds of layoffs at fulfillment centers.

A large group of teenagers ransacked a Chinese restaurant in Queens, New York the other night in a video now gone viral, with those affected by the wanton destruction lamenting the fact their city is falling apart by crime and that the criminal thugs who carried out the heinous acts will not face justice. The group of teens was still on the loose as of this writing. A dramatic video that first went viral on WeChat before later appearing on Twitter captured the large group of suspects leaving the destroyed restaurant. Chairs, tables, and pretty much everything that could be...

Video shows chaotic arrest of Florida teen accused of killing TV reporter and 9-year-old girl Florida police released dramatic bodycam footage showing the arrest of a teen suspected of fatally shooting three people Wednesday – including a local TV journalist and a defenseless 9-year-old girl. “I can’t breathe!” Keith Moses, 19, repeatedly screams as Orange County Sheriff’s Office Deputies take him to the ground. “I can’t breathe!” The footage shows police units confronting the accused triple-murderer on a residential street and yelling at him to get on the ground. Moses refuses the commands and raises his arms to his sides...

Florida delivery driver robbed by convicted felons with dozens of charges caught on terrifying video Two career criminals are back behind bars after robbing a delivery driver at gunpoint earlier this month. On Wednesday, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office released terrifying dashcam video of two men robbing an Amazon driver at gunpoint in broad daylight on Jan. 13. In the video, one man is seen holding a gun to the worker’s neck before going into the back of the truck to steal packages. The other man is outside the truck for most of the video, but he pops inside the...

This is what the Left wants to replace the police with. (Big League Politics) – A vicious black mob targeted white kids on the boardwalk in Ocean City, Md. on Tuesday night in a gruesome scene that was caught on video by a couple in a motel room. White kids were beaten senseless and presumably robbed by a large group of blacks who cackled and cheered on the thuggery as it took place.

PLANO, Texas - A manager of a Hooters restaurant was brutally attacked last week all over some chocolate bars. The fight happened on Oct. 6 at the Hooters off Central Expressway near Southwestern Avenue in Plano. Plano Police said the fight broke out after the manager asked two young boys to leave after they were trying to sell chocolate bars to their customers inside the restaurant. "They were being escorted out and causing issues according to the detectives. Turning over chairs, throwing things," Detective Jerry Minton of the Plano Police Department told KDFW. Once the boys were outside, three men...

Following a failed appeal, Ohio’s Oberlin College is finally set to pay $36.6 million in damages that the courts have awarded to a local bakery in a defamation case. In a Sept. 9 statement, Oberlin announced that it had “initiated” payments to Gibson’s Bakery, a 137-year-old, fifth-generation family business that was wrongfully accused of racial profiling after a shoplifting incident involving black students. In April, an Ohio appeals court upheld a jury’s finding that the college, in its handling of student protests over the 2016 incident, committed libel, slander, and interference with business relationships against the bakery. On Aug. 30,...

Philadelphia police released shocking video of seven teens beating James Lambert Jr., 73, with a traffic cone, who died from the injuries he sustained The video shows four boys and three girls chasing after the elderly man in the middle of the street as they hurl the makeshift weapon at him Police are offering a $20,000 reward for information on the seven teens It's the latest in a string of violent crimes plaguing the City of Brotherly Love, where two officers were shot and injured on the Fourth of July Overall crime in Philadelphia is up by more than 25...

An 82-year-old man was surrounded and assaulted by a group of people riding dirt bikes and ATVs in Boston last Thursday. Police are seeking the public’s help in identifying the suspects. The victim, a Brookline man, suffered serious injuries and remains in the hospital. He is expected to survive. State Police said the man was driving his 1996 Buick Century from Park Drive to Boylston Street when 30 to 40 dirt bike and ATV riders forced him onto the curb. Several of the suspects then began smashing windows of the victim’s car.