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A Maine sheriff's office released new documents Monday that detail two past complaints about Robert Card that give a fuller picture of his mental health struggles and law enforcement's failed attempts to contact him before he fatally shot 18 people and wounded 13 others in Lewiston last week. The documents released by the Sagadahoc County Sheriff's Office say Card was hearing voices and struggling with paranoia and that, according to the U.S. Army Reserve, he recently told a friend he was "going to shoot up the drill center at Saco and other places." Family members contacted local police with their...

Mass shooter Robert Card was turned away from a Maine gun store when he tried to buy a silencer for his assault rifle months before he launched a massacre at a bowling alley and bar — a move that possibly saved countless lives. Card, 40, went to Coastal Defense Firearms in Auburn on Aug. 5 to pick up the accessory he ordered online — but was turned down when staff learned about his mental history, ABC News reported. “He came in and filled out the form. He checked off a box that incriminated himself saying he was in an institution,”...

Boston police confirmed to Boston 25 News officers took a suspect into custody for allegedly breaking the arms off a statue of Jesus Christ on a crucifix outside the Cathedral of the Holy Cross Tuesday night. A bystander had a camera handy to record the vandalism. Video shows a figure dressed in green climbing the statue and attempting to pry the body off the cross by swinging from the hanging torso. The Archdiocese and Cathedral are now reportedly looking to replace the statue. The Cathedral of the Holy Cross did not immediately respond to a request or comment from The...

'The Court concludes dismissal is the only way this Court can instill some sense of justice back into this matter...' (Ken Silva, Headline USA) An Idaho judge dismissed on Friday the state’s case against Patriot Front leader Thomas Rousseau after prosecutors flaunted rules that required them to provide the defendant with possibly exculpatory evidence, according to the Idaho Tribune. “My client is thankful that he had a fair day in court, and was unsurprised that the court saw things the way we presented them, and he believes this is a fair outcome to an unjust situation,” Rousseau’s attorney told the...

“Democracy Dies in Darkness” is the (sometimes ironic) slogan of The Washington Post. But it’s also a fair description of what’s happening in Tennessee, as the state Legislature is being called to a special session even as local and federal officials withhold information that might be critical to its decision-making. Gov. Bill Lee ordered the special session to begin Aug. 21 in response to a March 27 mass shooting in which three adults and three children at the Covenant School, a Christian school in Nashville’s Green Hills neighborhood, were killed. The Nashville Tennessean article refers only to “a shooter.” The...

Justin Christopher Moore was sentenced on Wednesday after being convicted in a plot to burn down the Seattle Police Officers Guild during the BLM Antifa riots in the summer of 2020. Moore was sentenced to 41 months in prison for manufacture of homemade bombs with intent to burn down government property. "Moore’s offense was extremely dangerous and created a substantial risk of injury to numerous bystanders," said Assistant US Attorney Todd Greenberg. "Moore carried the box of 12 Molotov cocktails in a crowd of over 1,000 people who were participating in the protest march. All of them were in harm’s...

CV NEWS FEED // A suspect is in custody for causing the fire that ravaged St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Salem, Oregon, this week. What began as a dumpster fire in the early hours of the morning of August 31 soon escalated, spreading to the roof of the church building. On the same day, the Salem Police Department announced the arrest of a suspect, Billy James Sweeten, in a statement shared with CatholicVote. “Due to the suspicious circumstances of the fire, arson detectives from the Salem Police Felony Crimes Unit responded to the scene for the investigation, resulting in the...

In silence, firefighters rested in the pews of St. Joseph Catholic Church Thursday morning, watching smoke drift from a pile of charred debris that had fallen onto the altar. . . . . The fire began in a dumpster on church property around 2:30 a.m. Thursday and spread to the building’s roof. It quickly grew to a five-alarm blaze requiring about 20 vehicles and 40 firefighters to get under control. Nobody was injured.Police said Thursday afternoon they had arrested a suspect, 48-year-old Billy James Sweeten, on first-degree arson charges. Sweeten is lodged at the Marion County Jail, police said.

A gunman fatally shot three Black people with an assault rifle covered with swastikas inside a Jacksonville, Florida store in what police are calling a “racially motivated” attack on Saturday. The victims were described as two African-American men and a woman, who were slain by a white male, who shot himself to death before he could be apprehended. The unidentified shooter was earlier seen lurking around the campus of a nearby historically black college before the attack— and he detailed his hatred of black people in one of “several manifestos,” law enforcement said.

Numbers 32:32 warns ne’er-do-wells to “be sure your sin will find you out.” But if the verse had been written about this particular criminal, it would have read, “Be sure your sin will find you out immediately - and leave you with second-degree burns.” An arsonist managed to light himself on fire while attempting to ignite the front doors of an Oakland Park church in Broward County, Florida. Investigators said they’re still searching for the person caught on surveillance camera around 1:30 a.m. on Monday. Firefighters responding to a call had arrived on scene and put out the flames before...

Michigan high school shooter Ethan Crumbley said he was “gonna have so much fun” gunning down his classmates the night before he killed four students and injured seven others, according to his recorded manifesto played in court Thursday. Relatives of Crumbley’s victims who attended the sentencing hearing heard audio of the killer chillingly declaring that he’d be the next school shooter and needed to “teach them a lesson” by carrying out the carnage at Oxford School. Crumbley, who has pleaded guilty to the massacre, made the shocking remarks in a manifesto he recorded the night before he went through with...

The Nashville Christian school shooter Audrey Hale had mysterious handwritten notes on her clothes, a knife inscribed with her chosen name of Aiden and an anklet with the number 508407 etched on it, an autopsy report revealed. The report comes four months after the transgender shooter opened fire at The Covenant School - killing three adults and three children on March 27. The autopsy revealed Hale's clothing were covered in 'handwritten words, drawings and numbers'. It's unclear what was written on her clothes. The report also noted that Hale, 28, wore an orange plastic anklet with the mysterious inscription '508407.'...

At least five Targets in multiple states received bomb threats Friday over company executives pulling the Pride collection section because of mounting boycotts, leading to multiple stores being evacuated as police and the FBI searched for explosive devices. "Target is full of [redacted] cowards who turned their back on the LGBT community and decided to cater to homophobic right wing, redneck, bigots, who protested and vandalized their store," reads a threatening email sent to several Target locations in Ohio and one in Pennsylvania, Cleveland 19 News reports. "We won't stand idly by as the far right continues to hunt us...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued a warning of “a heightened threat environment,” including possible attacks against such institutions as churches and the police, as the 2024 election draws closer. Just The News reports that the Memorial Day bulletin issued by the DHS also warned of political violence that could be sparked by “legislative or judicial decisions pertaining to sociopolitical issues.” “The United States remains in a heightened threat environment,” the bulletin declares. “Lone offenders and small groups motivated by a range of ideological beliefs and personal grievances continue to pose a persistent and lethal threat to the...

Texas mall gunman Mauricio Garcia appeared to be casing his target for weeks, attacking when it was busiest — after railing online against Jews, women and minorities while noting his own mental-health slide. Garcia, 33, shared more than two dozen photos of the Allen Premium Outlets on extremist forums in the weeks leading up to his mass shooting, seemingly determining what would be the most packed time at the mall to unleash the greatest carnage, NBC reported. … In addition to the disturbing snaps, Garcia shared several posts targeting Jewish people, women and racial minorities on the Russian social-networking platform...

The second pregnancy help organization to be firebombed by abortion extremists in response to the Supreme Court Dobbs decision has prevailed after six months of litigation, and video of Jane’s Revenge terrorists setting fire to the pregnancy medical clinic with Molotov cocktails has finally been made public in full. Rev. Jim Harden, CEO with CompassCare Pregnancy Services in Buffalo, New York, released the video via Twitter last Friday. In doing so Harden addressed the still present threat against pregnancy help centers, how law enforcement is dragging its feet in the matter, and the fact that pregnancy help will continue regardless...

Nashville shooter Audrey Hale’s manifesto is a “blueprint on total destruction” which the FBI are stalling releasing, according to local politicians, who describe its contents as “astronomically dangerous”. Almost a month after Audrey Hale, who identified as transgender, killed six at the city’s Covenant elementary school before being shot by police authorities have yet to release a motive or any of the writings seized from her home, despite growing pressure. Rep. Tim Burchett, (R-Tenn.) told The Post he knew the FBI was behind the delay, saying the news was “disappointing” and calling for documents to be released to grieving loved...

The 28-year-old transgender attacker who shot and killed six in a Nashville Christian school March 27, 2023, left behind a suicide note, 19 journals, and other items, all of which have been kept from the public. Breitbart News reported that the transgender shooter carried legally purchased firearms into the school, where she walked the halls with a pistol caliber carbine looking for victims. She was shot and killed on the second floor of the school by Metropolitan Nashville Police Department officers. The attacker left behind “cellphones and laptops, as well as a suicide note, three folders and 19 journals,” NBC...

The Department of Justice recommended zero jail time for a transgender individual who vandalized the St. Louise Catholic Church in Bellevue, Wash. Maeve Nota, 31, a male who identifies as a woman, admitted to vandalizing the church last summer, smashing two glass doors and spray-painting a number of profane messages, including “F*** Catholics,” “rot in your fake hell,” “kid groomers,” and “woman haters.” Nota also admitted to destroying a statue of the Virgin Mary, assaulting a church worker, and resisting arrest. According to filings from early March, reviewed by Fox News, the DOJ charged Nota with misdemeanor destruction of religious...

Washington D.C., Mar 22, 2023 / 14:47 pm A coalition of conservative organizations is taking legal action to obtain documents from the Department of Justice related to the surge in pro-abortion attacks on churches and pro-life pregnancy centers and a lack of prosecution from the agency. Based on data compiled by CNA, there have been more than 100 attacks on churches and pro-life pregnancy centers since the May 2022 leak of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, which overturned the abortion protections guaranteed in Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. The DOJ has...