PARRISH, Fla. (WFLA) — A teenager was charged with attempted murder after breaking into a home on New Year’s Eve, according to the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office. Manatee County deputies said at about 7:50 a.m., they were called to a burglary at a newly constructed home in the Prosperity Lakes neighborhood. Motorcyclist killed in Tampa […]
Dec. 22—WINONA, Minn. — A 13-year-old girl created and distributed threatening messages on a “shoot up” at the Winona Middle and Senior High schools on Friday, Dec. 22, 2023. The threatening messages were being shared over a social media platform as of 5 a.m. Friday, according to a statement from the Winona Police Department. The […]
A man accused of repeatedly emailing the FBI, threatening to “unabomb” the agency’s office and go on a “mass murder spree,” was arrested at his home Dec. 21, officials say. Mark William Anten, 52, of Sun Valley, California, made references to the “Unabomber” and threats against the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office in Westwood in […]
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — A New Hampshire man has been indicted after threatening text messages were allegedly sent to three presidential candidates, including Republicans Vivek Ramaswamy and Chris Christie. Tyler Anderson of Dover, New Hampshire, was charged with three counts of transmitting interstate threats stemming from text messages sent to three presidential campaigns, the Justice Department […]
WHEELING, W.Va. (AP) — A self-proclaimed white supremacist was sentenced to more than six years in federal prison Wednesday for making online threats toward the jury and witnesses at the trial of a man who killed 11 congregants at a Pittsburgh synagogue. Hardy Carroll Lloyd, 45, of Follansbee, West Virginia, was sentenced in federal court […]
A Florida man has pleaded guilty in connection with threatening to kill a Supreme Court justice. The guilty plea from 43-year-old Neal Brij Sidhwaney of Fernandina Beach stemmed from a call he made to a Supreme Court justice in July, the Justice Department said in a news release Monday. He faces up to five years […]
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s Congress on Thursday overturned a veto by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva so it can reinstate legislation that undoes protections of Indigenous peoples’ land rights. The decision sets up a new battle between lawmakers and the country’s top court on the matter. Both federal deputies and senators voted by […]
Dec. 10—An email threat made to Ohio school districts, including several in the region, made through an account claiming to be a Russian terrorist is under investigation by the FBI and the Joint Terrorism Task Force. Numerous sheriff and police departments in the region have been alerted to the email threat targeting multiple schools throughout […]
SEATTLE (AP) — Some patients of a Seattle-based cancer center received threatening emails following a data breach last month. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center officials said a Nov. 19 hack hit a portion of the health care system’s clinical network, possibly leaking patient data. This week, some former and current patients received threatening emails claiming names, […]
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is putting pharmaceutical companies on notice, warning them that if the price of certain drugs is too high, the government might cancel their patent protection and allow rivals to make their own versions. Under a plan announced Thursday, the government would consider overriding the patent for high-priced drugs that have been developed […]
CNN — The governor of Oklahoma is calling on four McCurtain County officials to resign after they allegedly participated in a secretly recorded conversation that included racist remarks about lynching Black people and talking about killing journalists. The McCurtain Gazette-News over the weekend published the audio it said was recorded following a Board of Commissioners […]