Thurston County Sheriff Derek Sanders joined local law enforcement this weekend in chasing a suspect over the highway and through the woods — and into a pond. Sanders wrote on Facebook early Saturday morning that he personally participated in the late-night pursuit. The suspect, who had multiple warrants out for his arrest (including for assault […]
COLBY, Kan. (KSNW) -– The Thomas County Sheriff’s Office has a new tool to end chases with fleeing suspects in their county. The Thomas County Attorney’s Office has purchased new Grappler Police Bumper systems for the department’s patrol trucks. The Grappler Police Bumper looks like a normal police push bar, but inside is a net […]
Ashley Brown was roughly 27 weeks pregnant when she was killed as a bystander to a high-speed police chase on North Main Street in early April. The Columbia police were in pursuit of a suspect who was wanted in the fatal shooting of a man at J.T.’s Kia car dealership earlier that day. Police had […]
People can do some very cruel things to animals and abandoning them is one of the worst. There are so many shelters that take animals no questions asked, so there is no reason to just dump a pet, leaving them to fend for themselves…especially not a puppy. Daily Mail shared a video of a 3-month-old […]
Spaced Out A Japanese spacecraft has rendezvoused with a three-ton piece of rocket debris in a high-stakes flight, the BBC reports, in an effort to explore whether it’s possible to remove the increasing amounts of space junk floating around our planet. A satellite developed by Astroscale Japan Inc. tracked down the 15-year-old rocket segment and […]
Apr. 25—Reading police confiscated two dirt bikes and arrested a pair of riders after separate vehicle pursuits on consecutive days this week. The arrests are the latest in the crackdown on illegal off-road vehicles, which lack headlights, turn signals and other safety features and are often driven recklessly by unlicensed riders. Over the past few […]
Kansas and Missouri are among the states with the highest rate of fatal police pursuits in the nation, a new analysis has found. The Las Vegas-based firm H&P Law looked at crash data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. In Kansas, 1.79% of fatal crashes recorded between 2017 and 2021 involved a police chase. […]
Despite recommendations to reduce police chases because they can be dangerous, the number of deadly police pursuits has increased in North Carolina and nationally. Deadly police pursuits in North Carolina increased from nine in 2018 to 22 in 2022, which is the highest number of lethal police chases since 1996, according to National Highway Traffic […]
A naked woman in a stolen vehicle led sheriff’s deputies on two separate high-speed chases across San Luis Obispo County on Thursday before they were ultimately able to disable the car and arrest her. Deputies first spotted Arroyo Grande resident Jasmine Denae Lorona, 31, driving a stolen car, a Chevrolet Equinox, in Arroyo Grande on […]
President Joe Biden is in the awkward position of once again copying former President Donald Trump. Both men will head to the U.S.-Mexico border Thursday. Trump had first announced his visit to the border town of Eagle Pass, Texas. Then, lo and behold, Biden later decided to visit another Texas border city, Brownsville, on the […]
A man was shot dead after he was accused of stealing a barbecue pit from a residence, Texas authorities said. Officers responded Feb. 18 to reports of a deceased male in a residential neighborhood of Humble, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said on X, formerly known as Twitter. The victim stole the barbecue pit from […]
By Max A. Cherney and Stephen Nellis SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Nvidia is building a new business unit focused on designing bespoke chips for cloud computing firms and others, including advanced artificial intelligence processors, according to nine sources familiar with the company’s plans. The dominant global designer and supplier of AI chips aims to capture […]