Tag: rampage

Local businesses boarding up after car rampage in downtown Colorado Springs

(COLORADO SPRINGS) — Downtown Colorado Springs business owners spent the day cleaning up and boarding up their walls after a car crashed through them early Sunday morning. Police reported that the incident stemmed from a domestic disturbance, culminating in a dramatic series of events involving a suspect identified as 24-year-old Fidencio Meza-Pelayo. According to authorities, […]

Man convicted in South Korea over fatal car and stabbing rampage

A South Korean judge convicted a man of murder on Thursday for an unprovoked car-and-stabbing rampage that killed two people and injured 12 others in a city near Seoul last year. Prosecutors had sought the death penalty for Choi Won-jong, 23, who was arrested in August after he rammed his car into pedestrians in a […]

Weak economy, COVID rampage likely shrank China’s population again in 2023

By Farah Master HONG KONG (Reuters) – China’s population likely dropped for a second consecutive year in 2023 due to a surge in COVID-related deaths after the country abruptly ended strict lockdowns, while weak confidence in the economy’s prospects keeps birth rates depressed. Demographers estimate population data on Jan. 17 to show the number of […]