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CINCINNATI — The man who ran his car into a Hamilton County sheriff's deputy working a traffic detail near the University of Cincinnati, killing him, was the father of a man shot and killed by a Cincinnati police officer one day prior, Chief Teresa Theetge said during a press conference Friday evening.Cincinnati police said 38-year-old Rodney Hinton Jr. was arrested for aggravated murder following the deputy's death. Hinton is the father of 18-year-old Ryan Hinton, who an officer shot and killed Thursday morning during a pursuit involving a stolen vehicle.Rodney Hinton Jr. appeared in court Saturday morning, with dozens of...

CINCINNATI — The family of the 18-year-old shot by police during a chase spoke out for the first time Monday. Attorneys with the Cochran Firm in Avondale said they have been hired to represent the estate of 18-year-old Ryan Hinton. Hinton was shot by an unnamed Cincinnati officer during a foot chase in East Price Hill Thursday. The following afternoon, Cincinnati police say Ryan's father, Rodney Hinton Jr., drove a car into retired Hamilton County sheriff's Deputy Larry Henderson who was directing traffic before a graduation ceremony at the University of Cincinnati. Attorney Michael Wright offered his condolences to the...

Wild story right here out of Cincinnati. [Warning: Graphic] VIDEO AT LINK.................. Unreal. 18-year-old Ryan Hinton and some friends stole a car from an apartment complex, led police on a chase, fled the scene when they got cornered, and then, when pursued, Ryan allegedly pulled a gun on them and was shot dead as a result. If you want specific details, see here: Let’s set the record straight: Ryan Hinton wasn’t killed for being in a stolen car‼️He was shot because officers perceived an immediate, deadly threat —a threat created by the loaded firearm with an extended magazine he carried...

A GoFundMe created for Rodney Hinton Jr., the Ohio father accused of killing a sheriff's deputy one day after police fatally shot his son during a stolen vehicle pursuit, is raising thousands of dollars for his attorney fees. Hinton Jr. is charged with aggravated murder after he allegedly "intentionally" struck Hamilton County Deputy Larry Henderson, who was directing traffic near the University of Cincinnati during a graduation ceremony, with a vehicle around 1 p.m. Friday, according to Cincinnati police. The deputy's murder came after Hinton Jr.'s 18-year-old son, Ryan Hinton, was shot and killed by a Cincinnati officer on Thursday....

Capitol Police arrested a 35-year-old man from Virginia on Wednesday (January 8) after he allegedly attempted to set his car on fire near the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial on Capitol Hill. The incident occurred as President-elect Donald Trump was visiting Republican lawmakers and paying respects to the late former President Jimmy Carter. The man, identified as Adrian J. Hinton, reportedly parked his vehicle in front of the memorial and set a bag on top of it ablaze. The bag extinguished itself before officers arrived and detained the suspect. Capitol Police's Hazardous Incident Response Division inspected the vehicle and found no...

A leading mind in the development of artificial intelligence is warning that AI has developed a rudimentary capacity to reason and may seek to overthrow humanity. AI systems may develop the desire to seize control from humans as a way of accomplishing other preprogrammed goals, said Geoffrey Hinton, a professor of computer science at the University of Toronto. “I think we have to take the possibility seriously that if they get smarter than us, which seems quite likely, and they have goals of their own, which seems quite likely, they may well develop the goal of taking control,” Hinton said...

Documents obtained by conservative watchdog group The Media Research Center (MRC) reveal that the Biden administration weaponized taxpayer dollars against mainstream conservative groups and the GOP. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) awarded over $350,000 in grant funding in FY 2022 to a University of Dayton program, known as PREVENTS-OH, as part of the DHS’ Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention Grant Program (TVTP).DHS’ website describes the TVTP program’s mission as establishing or enhancing capabilities to prevent targeted violence and terrorism through creating modules on media literacy and online critical thinking and identifying the risks and protective factors to prevent ideologically-fueled...

Geoffrey Hinton was an artificial intelligence pioneer. In 2012, Dr. Hinton and two of his graduate students at the University of Toronto created technology that became the intellectual foundation for the A.I. systems that the tech industry’s biggest companies believe is a key to their future. On Monday, however, he officially joined a growing chorus of critics who say those companies are racing toward danger with their aggressive campaign to create products based on generative artificial intelligence, the technology that powers popular chatbots like ChatGPT. Dr. Hinton said he has quit his job at Google, where he has worked for...

In an op-ed published in the New York Daily News, Hinton described Cuomo as a "bully" who exercised "total control," and made disparaging comments toward her. Hinton's statements came on the same day that former Cuomo aide Lindsey Boylan accused the governor of sexually harassing her and amid additional accusations that Cuomo bullies and harasses those he disagrees with.... Hinton also said that Cuomo belittled her previous experience working for Mike Espy, who later became a Democratic Mississippi congressman. "He told me I had only worked for a 'Black man from a small town in Mississippi' and, therefore, wasn't qualified...

TACOMA, Wash. — Authorities have charged four people with aiding the man accused of killing four Washington state police officers and plan on indicting two more in what investigators call a network of friends and relatives that helped Maurice Clemmons avoid capture. Rickey Hinton, 47, pleaded not guilty Thursday at his arraignment to three counts of first-degree rendering criminal assistance. Pierce County Superior Court Judge Frederick Flemming ordered him held on $2 million bail. Court documents accuse Hinton, Clemmons' half brother, of lying to police Sunday when they stopped him for questioning near the property owned by Clemmons where Hinton...