TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (WBRC) – A new crime-fighting tool for the Tuscaloosa Police Department. Hundreds have already signed up for the new phone app that will better help investigators solve crimes. What makes this one stand out is the fact Tuscaloosa Police believe it really gives new meaning to the word anonymity. Officials say it’s working…
A driver had a narrow escape when his light goods van crashed into the lobby of a residential building in Hong Kong on Thursday evening. The man was driving in Yau Ma Tei when his vehicle suddenly veered off Canton Road and smashed through plate glass windows into the ground-floor lobby of the Jade Suites…
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An eye doctor at a Hong Kong public hospital has sustained multiple injuries in an alleged attack by a companion of a patient. The doctor, 45, from the department of ophthalmology at Pok Oi Hospital in Yuen Long was allegedly attacked during a consultation, sustaining injuries to the ear, head and neck, authorities said on…
A four-year-old Hong Kong boy has died after being given herbal medicine, with his mother arrested for child neglect. The boy’s mother, 36, and her husband alerted authorities at around 12pm on Sunday after she found her son passed out in their flat in Lucky Building on San Ma Tau Street, Hung Hom. An ambulance…
A 20-year-old man has been taken into custody for allegedly indecently assaulting at least eight girls in school uniform in the same Hong Kong district. Authorities received separate reports from two secondary school pupils, aged 14 and 16, who said a man had hugged them from behind and touched their chests on Kweilin Street and…
Cathay Pacific Airways has reopened one of its business lounges at Hong Kong’s airport, a day a fire broke out and triggered the evacuation of more than 250 people. The city’s flag carrier said The Pier business lounge had reopened on Sunday. “The lounge was temporarily closed yesterday following an incident involving one of the…
A Hong Kong man has died after collapsing on a boat in waters off Lamma Island, police have said. Police on Sunday received reports that a man had collapsed on a sampan – a small, traditional Chinese wooden boat – at 1.10pm near Shek Kok Tsui on Lamma Island. The victim was then sent to…
A Hong Kong taxi driver has been injured while his passenger has escaped unscathed after a cab plunged into a flooded sinkhole caused by a burst water pipe along a road in Cheung Sha Wan. The accident happened soon after midnight at 880 Lai Chi Kok Road, with a section of the route still closed…
A taxi driver in Hong Kong has been slapped with the highest demerit points possible for overcharging in the first week of a new penalty system aimed at keeping cabbies on their best behaviour. A Transport Department spokesman told the Post on Saturday that since the demerit point system’s launch on Sunday, one taxi driver…