An 11-year-old boy died in a Houston hospital Sunday after he was shot while carrying out a “ding dong ditch” prank the previous night, police said. The boy hasn’t been identified. The Houston Police Department said the boy had been playing the prank with friends late Saturday, which entails ringing the doorbell of a home…
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LONDON (AP) — A man has been arrested by police officers investigating online abuse against England defender Jess Carter during the Women’s European Championship this summer. Lancashire Police arrested a 59-year-old man from Great Harwood on Thursday “on suspicion of malicious communications in relation to some of the messages.” He has since been released under…
When police officers responded to a disturbance call at a home in Tremonton, Utah, on Sunday, a man there immediately started shooting at them. Two officers were killed, a sheriff’s deputy was wounded and a police dog was also hospitalized with injuries. It was an ambush. Mayor Lyle Holmgren said the suspect’s “intention was to…
Washington, D.C., police officers will now be able to assist federal immigration authorities by sharing information about people who are not in police custody and by transporting federal immigration agents and detained individuals, according to a new order signed by Metropolitan Police Department chief Pamela Smith and published Thursday. The order represents a shift from…
A grand jury on Monday declined to indict a former Atlanta police officer on manslaughter charges in the death of a church deacon who died in a struggle with the officer following a minor car crash. After hearing the case, Fulton County grand jurors rejected criminal charges against Kiran Kimbrough, said Jeff DiSantis, a spokesperson…
National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell called the shooting at a New York City office building where the league’s offices are headquartered an “unspeakable act of violence.” Security footage shows the gunman entered 345 Park Avenue around 6:30 p.m. on Monday evening, according to NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch. The Midtown Manhattan building is home to a number of companies,…
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s government said Monday it plans to send 400 police officers to Brazil next month for training as gang violence overwhelms the troubled Caribbean country. Currently, Haiti only has about 10,000 police officers and 1,300 soldiers protecting a country of nearly 12 million people, said Fritz Alphonse Jean, leader of the…
Hong Kong police have launched an investigation after a bottle of corrosive liquid was thrown allegedly from a high floor of a Tai Po public housing estate, injuring a couple. The force received a report of the incident at 1.11pm on Saturday, in which the injured man said that he and his female companion were…
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas man changed his plea to guilty Monday in the shooting at a grocery store last year that killed four people and injured 11 others, including two police officers. Travis Eugene Posey, 45, pleaded guilty to four counts of capital murder and 11 counts of attempted capital murder in…