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BATON ROUGE — A woman accused of getting on a school bus and encouraging her daughter to attack another student was arrested by Baton Rouge Police, arrest records show. Alicia Clark, 27, was driving in the same direction as her daughter's school bus on the morning of Sept. 11 when she saw the doors of the bus swing open and her daughter having a fist fight with another student, she told police. Clark said she then got on the bus to break up the fight before taking her daughter and leaving. However, a review of surveillance footage showed that Clark...

A 12-year-old boy and a 20-year-old man have been charged with second-degree murder in connection with a series of violent robberies of homeless or vulnerable people in downtown Toronto last month. “This was a disturbing crime spree,” Toronto Police Det. Stacey McCabe, of the Homicide and Missing Persons Unit, told a press conference Monday. “It’s concerning that these young people would be targeting such vulnerable members of our city.” The Aug. 31 spree involved five incidents including one at 6:08 a.m. that police say turned fatal. A 62-year-old man was sleeping on a bench in the Queen and Bay Streets...

Police are hunting a woman who brutally shoved an elderly passenger off a Boston bus, leaving her with multiple injuries including broken bones. Disturbing video captured the moment the bully pushed the senior - not once, but twice - off the bus. The victim gripped onto the bus doors after the first push, but the second shove sent her face first into the concrete sidewalk. The footage also showed baffled passengers watching in horror, but apparently failing to intervene, as the elderly woman plummeted. MBTA Transit police said the assault happened at around 1pm on September 8, at the intersection...

A new image obtained by Fox News Digital now reveals Frank and Maureen Olton, the elderly Queens couple police say were brutally tied up, stabbed and set on fire after a man claimed he needed to come inside a home to charge his phone. The victims, ages 76 and 77, were "simply spending a Monday morning at home" before they were murdered and viciously tortured for hours in their Bellerose home, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said in a press release Friday. Jamel McGriff, 42, a Bronx ex-con with a decades-long rap sheet, has been charged with 14 counts of...

Multiple suspects attempted to rob a jewelry store Wednesday afternoon in Milpitas but were possibly thwarted by a business owner with a gun, according to police. Just before 1:30 p.m., officers responded to a call about a smash-and-grab robbery at a jewelry store by the Seafood City Supermarket near the 1530 block of Landess Avenue. According to police, between 10 and 15 suspected rushed into the business; at the time, only the business owner and an employee were present. The business owner shot a gun, but no injuries have been reported. Nothing was stolen. The suspects fled the scene before...

Bodycam footage has emerged showing the moment a Florida woman made a near-fatal mistake by taking a knife to a gunfight with a police officer. As WJHG reported on Tuesday, the Port St. Joe Police Department released bodycam footage showing the moment a woman was shot multiple times after charging a police officer with a 16-inch fillet knife. WMBB notes that the bodycam shows not only footage of the shooting but also events that led up to the August 15 incident. For example, the woman was involved in several hit-and-run incidents. The footage also shows officers trying to disarm her...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A 42-year-old man is charged with murder after he allegedly shot an 11-year-old boy who was playing the "ding dong ditch" game with his friends Saturday night. Gonzalo Leon Jr. is accused of fatally shooting 11-year-old Julian Guzman on Saturday night. Court records show that Guzman, his cousin, and some other friends were at a relative's house on Racine Street attending a birthday party. The boys reportedly got bored and decided to play the "ding dong ditch" game around the neighborhood. Guzman and his cousin were ringing doorbells of homes in the area and running away,...

Chaos erupted Friday in the checkout lanes of a Walmart in Indianapolis, Indiana, frightening shoppers. The incident happened at the store on Keystone Avenue, and Fox 59 reported that a witness, Kind Butler, said he was inside the building and heard the family of an alleged rape victim looking for someone they claimed was involved.

Florida State freshman linebacker Ethan Pritchard was shot Sunday night and is in critical but stable condition in intensive care at a Tallahassee-area hospital, the school said Monday. According to the Gadsden County Sheriff's Office, Pritchard was in a vehicle outside an apartment building when the shooting happened Sunday night in Havana, Florida, which is about 16 miles from Tallahassee, near the Georgia state line. An investigation into the shooting is ongoing. Florida State coach Mike Norvell said Monday during his weekly news conference that he was at the hospital with Pritchard's family Sunday night.

Large brawl at Indianapolis Walmart This is the store near Keystone and 71st. Police were called but so far nobody has been arrested. We're still waiting to hear back from police about what started all this August 30, 2025

The family of a teen girl who was tragically killed in an alleged road rage incident have rallied round her baby who was miraculously delivered before she died. Katelynn Strate, 17, was shot in the head last Sunday as she, her boyfriend and his sister were driving to his mother's house in Louisiana. Medical teams were able to keep her on life support long enough to deliver her baby girl, who was at seven months gestation and weighed just three pounds, 11 ounces. symbol

University of Miami linebacker Adarius Hayes has been arrested in connection with a May 10 car accident in Florida that killed three people and seriously injured a fourth. The 20-year-old was charged with three counts of vehicular homicide and one count of reckless driving with serious bodily injury, the Largo Police Department said in a news release Friday. Officers responded to the crash between a Dodge Durango and a Kia Soul at around 1:43 p.m. on May 10 at the intersection of Orange View Drive and Ridge Road, police said. "As a result of the crash, two children who were...

Staff at the African Development Foundation, a USAID-affiliated federal agency, have returned to work after a D.C. judge overturned the Trump administration’s abolition of the agency — even as a new inspector general’s report blasted the agency for misleading Congress.A USAID inspector general’s report released Thursday lists Mathieu Zahui as one of the agency’s current top employees, even though the IG told a D.C. judge last year that it had seized Zahui’s phone and found evidence that he took secret payments from a company to which he steered suspicious contracts.Early in the Trump administration, Zahui told the White House that...

It appears to be the case that for a very large segment of black America, the ideas of conscientiousness and good citizenship are simply nonexistent. The bottom line is that a civilized society requires that citizens respect a certain level of behavior and decorum, and we’re seeing too many black Americans ignoring that basic responsibility. When people on the edge of the Overton Window of the culture wars (that is, people most normal Americans would find deeply offensive) start saying things that significant numbers of people agree with, that suggests a tipping point might be near.

Passengers aboard an American Airlines flight were left scrambling to get off the plane as a man and a woman began brawling after it touched down. Footage of the violent incident showed the unidentified pair standing in the aisle of the aircraft after it landed in Miami on Monday. The woman appeared to make a comment to the man, who retaliated by grabbing her by the neck and pushing her back into a row of seats.

LAFAYETTE, LA (KPEL) —A Lafayette woman says she was assaulted by a Popeyes manager when she requested a refund for her incorrect order. Shena Decuir told KLFY News 10 that she suffered first-degree burns after the Popeyes manager allegedly threw freshly fried chicken at her during a disagreement about the mobile order she placed at the Johnston Street location in Lafayette. I was assaulted. I was belittled. I mean, it was a horrible experience, and no one should have to go through that. The shocking incident took place once Decuir returned to the drive-thru to inform staff about a mistake...

Las Vegas residents were left outraged as congregants at an Ethiopian orthodox church continue to illegally park their vehicles on lawns and driveways. Neighbors of the Hamere Noah Kidane Mihret and Saint Michael Ethiopian Church told KLAS they have repeatedly reached out to Clark County Commissioner Michael Naft and used the Fixit app as they were instructed, but nothing has changed in years. 'We document that and we provide that proof and we have found that there's no follow up,' said Daria Wu, who gathered her fellow neighbors to discuss the issues they have faced during the services at the...

This is the jaw-dropping moment two women brawl on the street in front of horrified onlookers at Notting Hill Carnival's family and children's day. In a clip uploaded to TikTok, two young revellers trade furious blows in the middle of the packed street. The brawling pair can be seen grappling, pulling each other by the hair and throwing punches as onlookers shout, 'Where is security?'

Three youths were arrested in connection with the assault of a bus driver in northeast Calgary last week. Calgary police say they heard from Calgary Transit that a bus driver had been assaulted in the early morning hours of Aug. 15. The female driver told police that three children were leaving the bus at Rundle CTrain station when they hit the side of the bus and then pointed a gun at her. Officers were able to find the three suspects who were getting on a train at the station. The group was arrested. Police say officers seized two replica guns...

A Northern California schoolboy learned a painful lesson after he decided to punch a staff member inside a high school gym - only to be dramatically body-slammed to the ground seconds later by a school resource officer. The wild confrontation unfolded Tuesday at Lincoln High School in Placer County, about 30 miles north of Sacramento, where a class of freshmen was watching from the bleachers. Video of the melee, which has gone viral on social media, showed the boy in a heated argument with a male teacher. The staffer appeared to lightly place a hand on the student's arm in...