Police departments are getting reports of phone scam activity across the area. [DOWNLOAD: Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] Huber Height Police said on social media that there is an increase in scam phone calls from people posing as either law enforcement or from the IRS. TRENDING STORIES: “If called, and requested…
A Florida man was arrested Wednesday and charged with a plot to “reboot” the U.S. government by planting a bomb at the New York Stock Exchange this week and detonating it with a remote-controlled device, according to the FBI. Harun Abdul-Malik Yener, 30, of Coral Springs, Florida, was charged with attempt to use an explosive…
A Florida man was arrested Wednesday and charged with a plot to “reboot” the U.S. government by planting a bomb at the New York Stock Exchange this week and detonating it with a remote-controlled device, according to the FBI. Harun Abdul-Malik Yener, 30, of Coral Springs, Florida, was charged with attempt to use an explosive…
HONG KONG — The landmark national security trial of prominent Hong Kong activist publisher Jimmy Lai resumes Wednesday, with the founder of the now-shuttered pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily expected to testify in his defense soon. Lai was arrested in 2020 during a crackdown on mass pro-democracy protests that rocked Hong Kong starting in 2019. He…
BEIJING (AP) — Dozens of people have been killed in China in the past three months in a series of mass attacks. The latest on Tuesday saw primary school students struck by a car as they arrived for classes. The attacks take one of two forms — either drivers mowing down people on foot or…
Nov. 14—A Decatur man accused of holding two adults and two children captive on Autumnwood Drive — after a victim said she rejected his advances — was a credible threat to his ex-wife and children, according to a Madison County judge, and previously convicted of attacking his stepfather. “He has showed me what he is…
HONG KONG — A foreign man living in Hong Kong has been arrested on suspicion of killing a Southeast Asian woman at a waterfall inside a park in the Chinese territory. The woman, who was about 25 years old, was a domestic worker in Hong Kong but did not work for the suspect, police superintendent…
BEIJING, China (AP) — A knife attack near a school in China’s capital on Monday injured five people, including three children, police said. The attack occurred at midafternoon in Beijing’s northwestern Haidian district. None of the injuries was life threatening, police said in a statement. A 50-year-old suspect surnamed Tang was detained at the scene…
PITTSBURGH — President Joe Biden on Saturday marked the sixth anniversary of a gunman’s deadly attack on a Pittsburgh synagogue and called out what he called an “appalling surge of antisemitism” amid the war in Gaza. The 2018 attack claimed the lives of 11 worshippers from Dor Hadash, New Light and Tree of Life congregations,…
MELBOURNE, Australia — Australian police said Wednesday they have infiltrated Ghost, an encrypted global communications app developed for criminals, leading to dozens of arrests. The app’s alleged administrator, Jay Je Yoon Jung, 32, appeared in a Sydney court Wednesday on charges including supporting a criminal organization and benefitting from proceeds of crime. Jung did not…