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OAK GROVE, Ore. (KATU) — Detectives arrested a 24-year-old man on charges including rape, strangulation and more. On Thursday, Jan. 29, detectives from the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office arrested Jacob Todd Koser of Oak Grove on multiple charges, including rape in the first degree, strangulation, assault in the fourth degree, and menacing.

CHICAGO (WLS) — A pregnant mother was killed when she was stabbed 70 times by a man who was buying a truck from her husband that was listed on Facebook Marketplace, court documents show. Officials identified the victim as Eliza Morales, who was five months pregnant with her second child. Morales and her unborn child both died. Morales leaves behind a 2-year-old daughter.

At least three people are dead and several others injured after a car crashed Thursday into a grocery store in the Westwood area of Los Angeles, authorities said. The crash was reported around 12:11 p.m. local time along Westwood Boulevard, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD). fficials confirmed that three people died at the scene. At a news briefing, a LAFD spokesperson confirmed that nine people were involved in the incident, prompting calls for additional ambulances and emergency resources. "This is becoming more of a static incident, and it's being investigated so far as an accidental traffic collision,"...

A man in his 30s from Jerusalem attempted this morning (Sunday) to set a 12-year-old boy on fire during a bus ride on Route 375, near Beitar Illit. According to police, the background to the incident is a prior dispute between the suspect and the child’s father. The boy, who was on his way to an educational institution in Beitar Illit, was lightly injured in his hands. At a certain point, the bus driver noticed what was happening, stopped the bus, and allowed passengers to flee. The suspect tried to use the stop to escape but was apprehended by an...

A 53-year-old man in California will spend nearly a decade behind bars for stabbing an elderly stranger on a hiking trail late last year after the victim made eye contact with the assailant.

OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. – The Osceola County Sheriff’s Office arrested a man over the weekend accused of randomly shooting and killing three out-of-state tourists outside a rental home, a crime some in the community say has left them shaken and raised serious questions about public safety.

A man arrested in an apparent random stabbing on Miami Beach is also facing child pornography charges after officers found disturbing images on his phone, authorities said. Sebastian Tomas Datorre Rodriguez, 21, was initially arrested on an attempted murder charge in the stabbing that happened around 3 a.m. Sunday, an arrest report said.

Lately, I’ve been noticing behavior from adults that would’ve been considered unusual — or even unacceptable — not that long ago. This video isn’t about politics, sides, or beliefs. It’s about behavior, accountability, and how adults are responding to stress, conflict, and frustration in public spaces. Public outbursts, emotional escalation, lack of self-control, and performative behavior used to be rare. Now, they’re becoming common — and that should concern all of us. This isn’t a judgment. It’s an observation. And it raises an important question: When did this become normal?

Two men allegedly attacked and stabbed a Kentucky Fried Chicken worker multiple times in Nevada during a dispute over gravy, according to reports. James Carter, 48, and Gerald Carter, 32, were arrested and booked on attempted murder charges for the assault that broke out on Dec. 27 at a Las Vegas KFC, according to KSNV.

A 30-year-old man was slashed in the face and stabbed in the back during an early-morning attack in Times Square on Wednesday, according to the New York Police Department, as investigators continued searching for multiple suspects involved in the assault, as reported by The New York Post. Police said the attack occurred around 1:50 a.m. near the intersection of West 40th Street and Seventh Avenue, an area heavily trafficked by pedestrians even during overnight hours. Officers responding to the scene found the victim suffering from a slash wound to his face and a stab wound to his back. Authorities said...

A 32-year-old Tennessee nurse practitioner fatally shot her two young sons and 88-year-old grandmother before killing herself in a horrific quadruple murder-suicide, authorities said. Deputies with the Humphreys County Sheriff’s Office discovered the four bodies during a welfare check at a home in Waverly on Friday morning, with all of them suffering gunshot wounds, authorities said. The dead were identified as Arius Thompson, 4, Isaiah Johnson, 13, Evelyn Johnson, 88, and Heather Thompson, 32. Preliminary evidence indicates that Heather — who was estranged from the boys’ dad — killed the three victims before herself, authorities said. Sheriff Chris Davis said...

A crazed, shadow-boxing United Airlines passenger wildly claimed he was in a “simulation” as he allegedly assaulted the crew, punched a flight attendant in the face and forced the plane to divert mid-flight. Jordan Langston, 25, wreaked havoc on the Salt Lake City-bound flight Sunday when he got up from his seat shortly after departing Dulles International Airport in Washington, DC, and stormed the front of the plane, waving his arms and screaming, “This is a simulation,” the Lincoln Journal Star reported. When pressed by a flight attendant what he meant when he said simulation, the unruly traveler repeatedly yelled,...

The number of violent offences involving an adolescent attacking their parents or step-parents has increased by more than 60% in the past decade, according to figures recorded by the UK’s biggest police force. Data released by Scotland Yard reveals that there were 1,886 such offences recorded in 2015 but this increased to 3,091 in the first 10 months of 2025 alone. The offences involved a suspect aged between 10, the age of criminal responsibility in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and 17 who had been recorded as being the child or stepchild of the alleged victim. The Metropolitan police figures...

SAN JOSE, Calif. - A bakery in San Jose is calling on the public to help the owners identify the person who caused chaos in the shop over the weekend. It happened at Peters' Bakery, which has been around for 90 years on Alum Rock Avenue. Surveillance footage shared on social media shows a man swiping items off a countertop, then tackling a customer to the ground outside the bakery. Video shows the man damaging equipment, yelling at staff and assaulting a customer.

TWO men who mowed down a retired police chief will spend decades in prison, despite one of the monsters boasting that he would only get ‘a slap on the wrist’. Jesus Ayala, 20, and Jzamir Keys, 18, were teenagers when they murdered 64-year-old Andreas Probst. Jesus Ayala bragged to cops when he was arrested that he would be out of jail in 30 daysCredit: Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Keys was sentenced to 18 years to life for his part in the killing of 64-year-old ProbstCredit: Las Vegas Metropolitan Police 64-year-old retired police chief Probst was murdered in a 2023 hit-and-run...

Meismer, a sophomore, eventually asked his teacher to use the restroom. Matthews, a senior, did the same minutes later. The pair allegedly argued there, as Matthews confronted Meismer about a missing THC vape pen that investigators said he believed the younger student had stolen. Moments later, Matthews and Meismer allegedly walked into an empty lab classroom, which an unnamed female student also entered. That is where the fatal stabbing allegedly occurred.

Newly-released videos show the moments a man attacked a woman at random outside the King County Courthouse in downtown Seattle earlier this month. Fale Vaigalepa Pea, 42, was armed with a wooden board that had a screw through the end of it and used both hands to swing the weapon and strike the victim, 75-year-old Jeanette Marken, in the face, according to charges filed in King County Superior Court. The hit gouged out Marken's eye, and she just learned that she will not recover her eyesight in the affected eye, family members told KOMO News on Friday. "To take a...

A 47-year-old MIT professor has died after being shot in his Brookline home Monday night, the DA said. Officers from the Massachusetts State Police and Brookline Police Department responded to reports of a man shot on Gibb Street. Nuno F.G. Loureiro was transported to a local hospital and succumbed to his injuries Tuesday morning. Police are actively investigating the death as a homicide, according to the Norfolk District Attorney’s Office, writing in a statement, “No further information is being released at this time.” The DA has not said they arrested anyone in connection with the homicide and or identified any...

A law enforcement source says the person of interest was detained at a hotel in Coventry, Rhode Island. A CNN crew saw a large police presence gather at the hotel before officers moved in on a room, banging on the door and calling for the person to come out. Coventry is a town outside Providence, where the university is located.

A heroic shopkeeper (Achmad Al Achmad!) tackled and disarmed one of the terrorists who opened fire on a Bondi Beach Hanukkah celebration in Australia Sunday. Video captured the moment that the good Samaritan, wearing a white shirt, sneaked up behind the shotgun-wielding gunman and wrestled the weapon away from him. The hero dramatically tackled the terrorist to the ground and disarmed him during the attack. Two gunmen dressed in black fired multiple shots on a bridge at Bondi Beach in Sydney. … At least 12 people were killed, including children, and 29 were injured after two terrorists opened fire at...