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LONDON, Ky. — Dozens of law enforcement officers are combing through the rugged terrain of southeastern Kentucky for a third day Monday as they search for the man suspected of shooting of nine vehicles and wounding five people on a busy interstate. When asked by reporters what makes this terrain so rough, Acciardo said the area off of I-75 where the shooting occurred is one of the most remote locations in The Commonwealth. "That exit along I-75 is probably the most remote throughout Kentucky," he said. "It's wooded, it's heavily wooded. It's got hills, it's got rocks. There's one business...

21 minutes. They want to arrest him for a documentary he made. He's out of the country. Unrests are blamed on him. Link to transcript below the video.

Arizona authorities have launched an urgent manhunt for a suspect accused of threatening to shoot former President Donald Trump during a visit to the border on Thursday. Ronald Lee Syrvud, 66, is wanted in connection with an alleged assassination plot targeting Trump's visit to a vulnerable section of the southern border in Cochise County, AZ. This incident comes just six weeks after an assassination attempt on Trump's life, during which a bullet grazed the former president's ear at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks shot Trump at a Pennsylvania rally in what has been called a...

An urgent manhunt is underway for an Arizona sex offender who allegedly threatened to assassinate former President Donald Trump during his Thursday visit to the U.S.-Mexico border. Ronald Lee Syvrud — whom the Cochise County Sheriff’s Office described as a 66-year-old white man who stands at six feet tall, weighs 220 pounds, and wears glasses — allegedly made the unspecified threats on social media, the Daily Mail reported. A press release from the sheriff’s office revealed that Syvrud, whose last known address is in Benson, has multiple open warrants in Wisconsin for DUI and failure to appear in court, as...

Suspect has outstanding warrants in Wisconsin and Arizona, police said A manhunt is underway in Arizona for a suspect who threatened to kill former President Trump ahead of a rally in the Copper State later Thursday. The Cochice County Sheriff’s Office has identified the suspect as 66-year-old Ronald Lee Syrvud. The sheriff’s office said Syrvud has outstanding warrants from the state of Wisconsin for DUI, failure to appear for DUI and from Graham County Arizona for hit-and-run and felony failure to register as a sex offender. The sheriff’s office said it also has an absconder hold for Syrvud for failing...

A Harris County Deputy Sheriff responding to a call regarding an armed robbery in Houston on Wednesday night was shot and killed. Shortly after 10:00 p.m., 28-year-old Deputy Fernando Esqueda was shot and killed after responding to the emergency call. The sheriff believes Esqueda was ambushed. Esqueda was shot after locating and investigating a suspicious vehicle believed to be involved in the 911 call. Hours after the murder, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzales named 44-Year-Old Ronnie Palmer as a person of interest in the armed incident and in the capital murder of Esqueda. Palmer was already wanted for aggravated assault...

Investigators uncovered a mysterious note at the home of suspected Maine mass shooter Robert Card — as the US Coast Guard joins the massive manhunt for the fugitive. The discovery was made as authorities executed a search warrant at Card’s disheveled house in Bowdoin Thursday, according to NBC News — one day after police said the unhinged US Army Reservist killed 18 people and wounded 13 others in two mass shootings in Lewiston. Investigators are trying to determine if the note, the contents of which were not revealed, provides any answers to the motive behind the Wednesday night bloodbath, the...

“Yes he had the firearm with him, yes he was a threat. I think the canine played a large role in him not being able to utilize that firearm,” Bivens said. Bivens was in the command post when the capture happened and said, “I’m very happy no one was hurt when this occurred.” “We will publish a list of everyone who helped us out because we are very, very appreciative,” Bivens said. He said it was this support that fueled Wednesday’s successful capture. Bivens said Cavalcante liked to travel through creek beds and along tree lines, most frequently at night....

Police have launched a manhunt in downtown Los Angeles after a gunman opened fire on four people near a luxury residential building. Authorities were called to the building at 2am on Saturday morning to reports of a shooting at the property. Officers are now hunting the gunman, who fled the scene of the crime, but a description has not yet been made available. LAPD officers found three men and one woman suffering from gunshot wounds on the lobby floor. Their conditions are not currently known, but police confirmed that they were taken to hospital and they were expected to survive....

At least six people were killed and several more injured after a shooting in the northern German city of Hamburg on Thursday evening, Reuters reported. Police in Hamburg tweeted that there was a major police operation in the district of Alsterdorf. Focus Online media reported that the perpetrators are on the run and that emergency services and doctors were at the scene. No details were immediately available regarding the background to the incident and it remains unclear whether the incident was terror-related, though Germany has been hit by several terrorist attacks in recent years. .....

Maryland police are searching for a lone suspect after three men were stabbed during a mass attack Tuesday inside a McDonald’s restaurant. The stabbing incident was reported around 6:45 a.m. in the 8400 block of Colesville Road in downtown Silver Spring, FOX5 DC reported. The three victims suffered what appeared to be non-life-threatening injuries, the station reported as per Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD).

Police in Monroe County Pa., have arrested a man in the fatal stabbings of four sleeping students at the University of Idaho last month. The killings discovered Nov. 13 at the off-campus apartment house shocked people across the nation. The town had not had a single murder in seven years prior to the quadruple murder. Arrest paperwork filed in Monroe County Court obtained by the Associated Press said Bryan Christopher Kohberger, 28, was being held for extradition to Idaho on a warrant for first-degree murder. The students, three of whom lived together about a mile from their campus, were: Kaylee...

Five people were shot and killed, including an off-duty police officer, on a northeastern Raleigh greenway Thursday, Mayor Mary-Ann Baldwin said at a press conference. Two others, including a Raleigh Police K9 officer, were transported to a hospital. The officer had non-life threatening injuries. Baldwin said Raleigh police have contained a suspect, but the suspect is not in custody according to a 8:27 p.m. tweet from the department. The investigation remains active.

CENTERVILLE, Texas -- The manhunt for escaped inmate Gonzalo Lopez is over after investigators tracked him down Thursday in Atascosa County, more than 250 miles away from where the criminal initially escaped from a prison bus back on May 12. Investigators said they believe Lopez killed a Houston family, one adult and four kids. The family's bodies were found Thursday inside of a getaway home in Leon County, which is the area where the inmate escaped more than three weeks ago. Leon County is roughly 116 miles north of Houston.

Officials at Ichilov Medical Center say two of the wounded in the Tel Aviv attack have died. The hospital is treating eight other wounded: Four are being operated on and are in serious condition, two more people are in moderate-to-serious condition, and two more are mildly hurt. Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai and Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai have arrived at the scene of the attack. A police spokesman says large police forces are scanning the area for the assailants. “We dove under the tables and people started crying, it was horrible,” says Evelyn Gertz, 34, who was having dinner next...

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A Florida police officer was shot in the head while escorting a man out of a car — sparking a frantic manhunt and putting an entire county on lockdown, authorities said. The 26-year-old officer, who was not immediately identified, was shot late Wednesday in Daytona Beach while conducting a “proactive patrol,” where he encountered Othal Wallace, 29, sitting in a 2016 Honda with California tags.

Police have been conducting a manhunt for hours now in Limburg, searching for a heavily armed man who made threats against virologist Marc Van Ranst. The suspect is a professional soldier from the barracks of Peutie, said to be armed with a rocket launcher, a machine gun and an ordinary pistol. The manhunt started earlier in the day in Leopoldsburg, but has since been extended northwards in the province. Van Ranst and his family have been taken to an undisclosed safe location until the man is taken into police custody. “That person has apparently moved around,” Erik Cenens of the...

A massive multi-agency manhunt including the FBI and U.S. Marshals was launched in Austin on Sunday for an armed former sheriff's detective wanted for killing at least three people near an apartment complex.Austin police said that the three lifeless bodies were all adults, including two Hispanic females, and one Black male. They said they believe the suspect is Stephen Nicholas Broderick, who is a former Travis County Sheriff's Office detective that was charged with raping a 16-year-old girl last summer. The Austin Police Department said the suspect was still on the run Sunday evening and is considered armed and dangerous.

“Dog the Bounty Hunter” is joining the manhunt for a man who allegedly said he wanted to “put a bullet” in President Trump’s head. “Dog the Bounty Hunter,” whose name is Duane Chapman, told the Mansfield News Journal he was joining the search for Shawn Richard Christy, 26, a Pennsylvania man who allegedly threatened the commander in chief. Christy has been on the run since June 19 after allegedly threatening John M. Morganelli, the district attorney of Northampton County, Pa., and Trump in a Facebook post that has since been deleted. “Keep it up Morganelli, I promise I’ll put a...