MOSCOW (AP) — Armed militants attacked two Orthodox churches, a synagogue and a traffic police post in Russia’s southern republic of Dagestan, killing a priest and six police officers, Russian state news agency RIA Novosti said Sunday. Russia’s National Anti-Terrorism Committee said in a statement that a Russian Orthodox Church priest and police officers were […]
A person suspected in a Saturday armed robbery led police on a high-speed chase from Woodworth to the outskirts of Alexandria, shooting at Rapides Parish Sheriff’s deputies and eventually shooting himself in the head, according to a news release. The unidentified suspect was taken to a hospital, but the sheriff’s office release states the person’s […]
The Chester County Sheriff’s Office is searching for 74-year-old Roger Dale Pressley in connection with an armed robbery. Deputies said the incident occurred on Thursday in the parking lot near the intersection of Wilson Street and the J. A. Cochran Bypass. ALSO READ: Armed robbery of smokeshop under investigation in Rock Hill, police say Pressley […]
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – A day after officers with The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department shot and killed a man they said was armed with a gun inside a downtown apartment complex, those who live there spoke with 8 News Now about what they saw. “I’m truly shocked that something like this happened,” Dominque Joseph […]
A Philippine general called China’s coast guard pirates after a violent confrontation. China’s Coast Guard disrupted a Philippine resupply mission at Second Thomas Shoal. Experts say it’s not piracy, but it’s a troubling escalation all the same. The Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines accused China of behaving like pirates after […]
MORRILTON, Ark. – The search for the armed suspect tied to multiple killings in Oklahoma is over as Conway County Sheriff’s Department confirms he was taken into custody. Officials said that 50-year-old Stacy Lee Drake of Alabama was taken into custody Thursday morning. Arkansas State Police say armed fugitive sought in Oklahoma killings still in […]
A Philippine military chief demanded on Wednesday that China return several rifles and equipment seized by the Chinese coastguard in a disputed shoal and pay for damages in an assault he likened to an act of piracy in the South China Sea. Chinese personnel on board more than eight motorboats repeatedly rammed, then boarded, two […]
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Ten men were convicted Wednesday in Peru for raping nine teenagers while serving in the military during the country’s armed conflict decades ago. Judge Marco Angulo, of Peru’s First Superior Criminal Court, ordered the former soldiers to serve time in prison, with sentences ranging between six and 12 years. Authorities accused […]
ROCKFORD, Mich. (WOOD) — A Rockford homeowner who found a man standing in his Oak Street kitchen over the weekend said the stranger warned him to “be careful” and “arm” himself. It was the first of two home invasions that occurred early Saturday morning less than an hour and a mile apart. Ricardo Perez Castillo, […]
A Lake Wales man was fatally shot Tuesday night after he confronted another man outside a residence while armed, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office said. According to a Sheriff’s Office news release, Vincent Thomas Jr., 21, and at least three other people drove to a home on Northside Drive in Lake Wales about 7 p.m. […]
A man was critically hurt when he was shot by Pierce County deputies in Tacoma early Wednesday. Deputies were called to the Martins Mobile Home Park at 4800 33rd Avenue Court East at 11:49 p.m. Tuesday for an argument between family members. The person who called 911 said their brother was armed with a knife, […]
Kentucky State Police warned people in Bourbon, Harrison and Scott counties Tuesday that they were looking for a “potentially armed and dangerous” South Carolina man who is accused of torturing a child. Nathan Ginter, 43. was last seen in the Leesburg area in Harrison County, the Cynthiana Police Department said in a Facebook post Tuesday […]