For years, Jeff Sharp often relied on the same refrain when he came upon an addict. It usually involved an expletive and a blunt question: Why do you keep doing it? Back then, more than two decades ago, Sharp — a detective with the Seattle Police Department’s gang unit — was on a bike patrolling high-drug … Read more
Former New York Gov. David Paterson and his stepson were attacked Friday while on a walk in Manhattan by assailants who had “a previous interaction” with the stepson, a spokesperson for Paterson said. Paterson, 70, and his adult stepson both went to a hospital as precaution after the attack on Second Avenue in East Harlem, … Read more
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ASHEVILLE, N.C. — The deluge came furiously — and shockingly fast. Speaking from a makeshift shelter at a local technical college here, James Yulon Ferguson recalled this week how he escaped with a friend on Sept. 27 shortly before the rising floodwaters reached the roof of his trailer along the Swannanoa River. After the storm, … Read more
Dani’s Queer Bar opened its doors to Boston’s LGBTQ community last month, giving the city its first lesbian bar in decades. The venue joins a yearslong “lesbian bar renaissance” that has seen more than a dozen bars for queer women open across the country since the height of the Covid pandemic. Dani’s, which has branded … Read more
An Illinois woman manipulated her cheating boyfriend to believe he was being threatened by violent drug runners, leading him to slaughter a family of four before killing that tech-savvy girlfriend and himself, police said Thursday. Detectives in the Chicago suburb of Romeoville have been working for nearly a year to understand why Nathaniel Huey Jr., … Read more
False claims that federal emergency disaster money was given to migrants in the U.S. illegally have spread quickly in recent days, boosted by former President Donald Trump and some of his most high-profile supporters. Trump repeated one of the more extreme baseless allegations during a rally Thursday in Saginaw, Michigan, saying that the money had … Read more
At least four deaths from the factory have been confirmed. At the vigil, the crowd announced each of the victims’ names as their families lit candles in remembrance, some breaking down in sobs as they knelt before their photos. Guadalupe Hernandez Corona, the sister of one of the dead workers, Monica Hernandez, tearfully paid tribute … Read more
An Ohio woman was sentenced to 40 years in prison this week for injecting her estranged husband with an animal tranquilizer — and then burying his body — in an attack that was partly captured on a vehicle dash camera. Amanda Hovanec, 37, of Wapakoneta, pleaded guilty to multiple charges that included distributing a controlled … Read more
JONESBOROUGH, Tenn.— Vicki Hunter couldn’t make sense of the giant trees rushing toward the front porch of her one-story home. She watched them, stunned, as floodwater raged across her pasture and began to inundate the property. She yelled to her husband, Jerry, to get dressed in case they needed to evacuate. By the time he … Read more