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A mass shooting at Leinbach Park in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on Monday (April 20) left two teenagers dead and five others injured, according to local authorities. Police said the violence began as a planned fight involving several young people, which escalated into gunfire around 9:52 a.m. Officers arrived to find Erubey Romero Medina, 17, dead in the parking lot and Daniel Jimenez Millian, 16, dead inside the park. Both had suffered fatal gunshot wounds. Five other young people—a 14-year-old girl, a 15-year-old girl, a 17-year-old girl, an 18-year-old boy, and a 19-year-old girl—were also shot, with injuries ranging from minor...

MADISON, Wis. — Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway is calling for the encampment at Williamson and Baldwin streets to be dismantled, just one day after speaking to News 3 Now on how the city’s response could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. The encampment was established late last week after the police shooting death of Corey Ruiz. Police allege Ruiz was "checking parked vehicles" on July 22 before encountering law enforcement. They said he used a knife and injured an officer before police shot him. The City of Madison has provided resources to help keep the protest area safe, including salt...

Black Lives Matter and Antifa protesters have blockaded two trendy blocks in downtown Madison, Wisconsin a week after armed serial felon Corey Ruiz was shot and killed by police — erecting barricades similar to the infamous 2020 “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” (CHAZ) in Seattle And the city of Madison — home to the state capitol and the University of Wisconsin — is helping them by providing portable toilets and other resources. Neighbors have had enough, telling WMTV 15 News they feel “trapped” by the rapidly expanding protest zone. “I feel the protest has turned into a very disrespectful occupation focused...

Fourth of July descended into mayhem across Southern California as unruly crowds overwhelmed packed-out fireworks displays, looted stores, ignited fires and saw cops charge on horseback. The worst unrest erupted in Newport Beach, where Independence Day revelers poured into Orange County, choking traffic and triggering a police response as disorder spread near the pier. Authorities ultimately shut down businesses from the Newport Pier to Pacific Coast Highway as officers moved in to restore order. Officers were swarmed by hundreds of people who hurled bottles and other debris at them before the crowd turned on one another and began fighting. Mounted...

NEW: Known s*x offender found naked in bed with a bottle of lotion on top of a screaming 9-year-old boy after breaking into the home. Lavern Scott, also known as "Cookie Monster," has been a known s*x offender for 40 years, but was still allowed to roam the streets. According to Omaha, Nebraska, police, Scott was found with no clothes on in the child's bed. Scott, according to police, "pinned the child to the bed and set his legs in, using his feet as hooks to hold the child in place." The boy's grandfather rushed into the room and was...

A Chicago man is accused of robbing a Red Line passenger last week while on electronic monitoring for robbing another CTA passenger last year. Incredibly, he was on electronic monitoring at the time of last year’s robbery, too. Shannon Stephens, 23, was arrested following the February 19 robbery of a 16-year-old boy on a Red Line train near Garfield, Chicago police said. He and 20-year-old Markell Harper, of Gary, Indiana, approached the boy while wearing ski masks and hoodies and demanded the victim’s scooter and its key, according to a CPD report. When the victim said he did not have...

U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon has joined the growing number of official voices urging Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to resign in the wake of massive welfare fraud in his state.Walz has been under fire in recent weeks following the uncovering of a billion dollar fraud scheme that funneled federal taxpayer funds to various groups including Somali immigrants with ties to al Shabaab, a Somali-based al Qaeda affiliate.McMahon sent Walz a scathing letter on Dec. 15, accusing the Minnesota governor of carelessness and lack of oversight that has “attracted fraudsters from around the world, especially from Somalia, to establish a...

Multiple sources confirmed to Denver7 Investigates that Walter Huling, 31, was the driver of the Toyota Matrix that caused the fatal crash Monday. Court documents show he was out on parole The man who caused a fatal crash Monday along Highway 83 near Franktown was on parole and had a lengthy criminal record dating back to at least 2013, Denver7 Investigates learned. Multiple sources close to the investigation confirmed to Denver7 Investigates that Walter Huling, 31, was the man driving a stolen Toyota Matrix hatchback when he lost control and slammed into a Ford sedan in the oncoming lane. Huling...

What’s clear is that the 2024 election was not the final boss. It didn’t destroy wokeism. You have to picture the spider in The Lord of the Rings, Shelob, crawling back into her cave after being stabbed by Samwise. Is she injured? Yes. Dead? No. She will probably be back to kill you. Republicans and pundits and podcasters will come up with all sorts of reasons for the latest losses (including blaming the Jews), but it comes down to fundamentals. Ground game. Optics. And of course, “It’s the economy, stupid!” The GOP has no ground game in part because it...

A suspected homicide near a Charlotte light-rail station rekindled crime fears that have plagued officials since the August gruesome caught-on-video murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said Zephaniah Adewale Little Rivers, 23, was found at about 6:30 p.m. Monday near the Norfolk Southern train tracks with a gunshot wound. He was transported to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Preliminary reports indicated the shooting followed an altercation at a nearby business and that the victim did not know the suspect. Authorities have not named a suspect. The crime scene is near the Archdale light-rail station...

The naked body of a young woman was found stuffed in a green duffel bag and dumped on a sidewalk in Manhattan, according to police and sources. MTA Police were called to 125th and Park Ave. in East Harlem shortly before 7 p.m. on Monday after a passerby made the grisly find underneath the Metro-North railway. The body was described as that of a white female in her 20s, inside of a black garbage bag, which was then left in a green duffle bag secured by a drawstring and dumped on the sidewalk, sources told The Post.

Crime In NYC @Crime_In_NYC Bronx September 24 An Allerton mother is demanding justice after her 11-year-old daughter was brutally attacked while walking her dog after school. Surveillance video shows a group of young people surrounding the girl, throwing her to the ground and repeatedly punching her, even kicking her 3-month-old puppy. A bystander eventually rushed in to stop the attack. The girl, who has epilepsy, suffered a seizure during the assault and was taken to Jacobi Hospital. The young girl also suffered several injuries to her face and body. Her mother says she had previously gone to the school district...

NORWEGIAN GRANNIES STRIKE AGAIN! Over two dozen masked robbers steal an estimated $1 million worth of jewelry from Heller Jewelers in San Ramon, California. The robbers accidentally locked themselves in the store and ended up firing multiple rounds at the glass door to escape. The thugs arrived in six vehicles and parked 100 feet from the store entrance. After they left, the police engaged in a high-speed pursuit but called it off due to "public safety concerns." Seven of the 25 suspects have been arrested, ranging in age from 17 to 31. They were all from Oakland, California, and are...

Watching the circus in Chicago is appalling. Week after week people are dying in the streets. democrats seem so inured by the violence and death that it's all normal to them. The past weekend saw 54 people shot and 8 killed. To Gov. "JBeefy" Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson it's another day at the office. Pritzker, who went to the safest part of Chicago with his retinue of bodyguards to proclaim how safe the city is says "Authoritarians thrive on your silence." He adds "There's no emergency that warrants deploying troops in Chicago". To date this year 1166 people have...

Some political tricks are obvious, even to the chumbolones. Like the weak-minded fat man prancing along Chicago’s lakefront at dawn, downtown, telling us that he feels so safe in Chicago he’ll fight President Trump if Trump dares bring the National Guard to Chicago. Violent crime? What violent crime, says the weak-minded fat man to his adoring audience of corrupt corporate journalists who repeat his idiocies even as they protect his massive behind. Democrats are rabidly pro-crime, and I do mean rabid. Hey Gov. Pritzker, if Chicago is so safe why not prance around the West and South Sides at night...

"We greatly appreciate the surge of officers that enhance what MPD has been able to do in this city." Mayor Muriel Bowser says crime rates have decreased significantly since @POTUS' recent deployment of the National Guard, citing an 87% decrease in carjackings between the past 20-day time period and that same time period in 2024.

If progressivism prevails, we may have to go without benefits of civilization that have been taken for granted for centuries. Stores are an example. From the moonbattery-addled Seattle area: Kroger announced its plans to permanently close two more grocery stores, one in Kent and one in Everett… The stores belong to Kroger’s Fred Meyer subsidiary. Kroger noted that the closures could affect approximately 360 workers from both stores. A Fred Meyer spokesperson explains why the closures were necessary: “Unfortunately, due to a steady rise in theft and a challenging regulatory environment that adds significant costs, we can no longer make...

California’s leaders like to boast that our state is a sanctuary. And it is — a sanctuary for criminals. Since the so‑called sanctuary laws went into effect in 2018, tens of thousands of criminal illegal aliens have walked out of California jails instead of being transferred to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Violent crime has jumped nearly 20% statewide. That’s not compassion. That’s not progress. That’s negligence. Every preventable crime committed by someone who should have been deported is proof of these policies’ failure. Even in deep‑blue Los Angeles, some officials admit the obvious: violent offenders should be deported. That’s just...

The homeless man accused of a shooting spree in Santa Monica has been charged with three counts of attempted murder amid a wave of violence from transients that has Los Angeles residents on edge. David John Hairston II, 31, allegedly ambushed and shot a police officer at a pedestrian mall in the seaside enclave on Wednesday, just days after allegedly shooting two teens who were riding a self-driving taxi, according to prosecutors. Hairston was arrested after a citywide manhunt; he faces various weapons charges on top of the attempted murders, with a maximum sentence of 104 years to life in...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump made no secret of his willingness to exert a maximalist approach to enforcing immigration laws and keeping order as he campaigned to return to the White House. The fulfillment of that pledge is now on full display in Los Angeles. The president has put hundreds of National Guard troops on the streets to quell protests over his administration’s immigration raids, a deployment that state and city officials say has only inflamed tensions. Trump called up the California National Guard over the objections of Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom — the first time in 60 years a...