GASTON COUNTY, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — Gastonia police are investigating two separate shootings that occurred Saturday afternoon. A female was involved in a domestic situation with her boyfriend David V. McDowell III, 24 at the 100 block of Dix Street. During this dispute, McDowell shot and killed his girlfriend. At a separate shooting on […]
A Washington State Patrol trooper shot and killed a man armed with a hammer on northbound Interstate 5 in Everett on Thursday afternoon. Troopers were called to a road rage incident on I-5 just north of Highway 2 just after 4 p.m. A man was ramming his car into a Washington State Department of Transportation […]
The Pineville Police Department identified the man they say was suspected of shoplifting at a Food Lion on Tuesday afternoon and was fatally shot by a police sergeant. The deceased man was Dennis Bodden, 46, of Charlotte, the department said Wednesday. The department has not released the name of the sergeant. The sergeant was in […]
The sun has produced its biggest flare in nearly a decade, days after severe solar storms pummelled Earth and created dazzling Northern Lights in unaccustomed places. “Not done yet!” the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced in an update. It is the biggest flare of this 11-year solar cycle, which is approaching its peak, according […]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The sun produced its biggest flare in nearly a decade Tuesday, just days after severe solar storms pummeled Earth and created dazzling northern lights in unaccustomed places. “Not done yet!” the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced in an update. It’s the biggest flare of this 11-year solar cycle, which […]
An Auburn police officer shot and killed a dog at a home last week as it attacked the officer in front of two children, police said Monday. The incident is being investigated as an officer-involved shooting after a 14-year-old girl inside the home suffered a cut that investigators could not rule out as a wound […]
A North Carolina State Highway Patrol trooper shot a Virginia driver on Saturday who pointed a handgun at the officer after a pursuit that ended in Farmville, Highway Patrol Sgt. Chris Knox said. Knox identified the driver as 35-year-old Virginia Beach resident Kenneth Charles Kinard. The Highway Patrol didn’t immediately release the trooper’s name but […]
A Kansas City, Kansas, police officer fatally shot a person who fired a gun at him along Interstate 35 late Friday evening, a police spokesman said. The shooting occurred around 11:15 p.m. Friday in the area of 7th Street and Interstate 35. The officer found a stolen vehicle stopped in the roadway. As he was […]
The traffic stop started off calmly. Two Fontana police officers pulled over a black sport utility vehicle in Yucaipa, and a male officer asked the driver about what appeared to be a missing front license plate. They chatted about camping in the snow — the vehicle had overland camping gear affixed to it — and […]
A 21-year-old shot his stepmother as she went in to hug him at his charter school graduation ceremony, New Mexico police say. Cristian Bencomo was booked into jail on Wednesday, May 8, accused of shooting his stepmother, the Albuquerque Police Department said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter. Officers responded to the […]
May 9—The graduation ceremony was winding down inside the Albuquerque Convention Center on Wednesday. Students of Southwest Secondary Learning Center were asked to hand roses to relatives and friends. Then, police say, a loud pop rang out, and a woman grabbed her neck and fell to the floor. Her ex-stepson, with a gun in his […]
A man has been arrested after he was accused of firing nine shots at his girlfriend while chasing her around a gas station, killing her, Texas police said. The couple was seen fighting around midnight on May 7 as they went inside the gas station, Houston police said. They later came outside, and he chased […]