FORT WORTH, Texas – A Crowley ISD JROTC instructor told his son to stop playing with a gun before he was shot multiple times, according to an arrest affidavit. 54-year-old Master Sergeant Gene Bass was shot and killed in front of his home last Friday on Chesapeake Bay Drive in south Fort Worth. His son, […]
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With help from witnesses, Boise police arrest man in ‘serious’ downtown hit-and-run
Boise police identified the suspect in a hit-and-run incident Saturday evening with the help of witnesses. Two pedestrians, both women, were hospitalized with life-threatening injuries in a “series of serious crashes” just after 9:30 p.m. Saturday at the corner of 11th and Main streets in downtown Boise, according to a Sunday news release from the […]
Judge alters Trump’s gag order, letting him talk about witnesses, jury after hush money conviction
NEW YORK (AP) — A Manhattan judge on Tuesday modified Donald Trump’s gag order, freeing the former president to comment publicly about witnesses and jurors in the hush money criminal trial that led to his felony conviction, but keeping others connected to the former president’s case off limits until he is sentenced July 11. Judge […]
Judge alters Donald Trump’s gag order, letting him talk about witnesses and jury
A judge has modified Donald Trump’s gag order, freeing the former US president to comment publicly about witnesses and jurors in the hush money criminal trial that led to his felony conviction, but keeping others connected to his case off limits at least until he is sentenced on July 11. Judge Juan M Merchan’s ruling […]
Officers involved in shooting at Ogdensburg Police Department identified; witnesses cleared
Jun. 24—OGDENSBURG — Seven Ogdensburg police personnel who were at the building when an officer was shot by another officer during a shift change on June 20 at the city police station were allowed to return to work after being cleared by investigators, according to Police Chief Mark T. Kearns. Kearns said in a statement […]
Witnesses heard screams for help coming from a camper at Lake Lanier. What deputies discovered later
Screams from inside a camper led to the arrest of a 54-year-old woman. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] On June 13, just before 3:30 p.m., Hall County deputies were called to the Shoal Creek Campground. Authorities conducted a welfare check after campers told deputies they heard someone screaming for help. […]
Testimony could wrap up in Karen Read murder trial as defense calls final witnesses
Testimony could wrap up in the Karen Read murder trial as the defense set is to call its final witnesses to the stand. Read, 44, of Mansfield, has pleaded not guilty to charges including second-degree murder in the death of John O’Keefe, her Boston police officer boyfriend. Prosecutors say Read backed over O’Keefe with her […]
Israeli airstrike kills eight at Gaza aid centre, witnesses say
By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -Eight Palestinians were killed on Sunday in an Israeli airstrike on a training college near Gaza City being used to distribute aid, Palestinian witnesses said, as Israeli tanks pushed further into the southern city of Rafah. The strike hit part of a vocational college run by the U.N. Palestinian refugee […]
Defense begins calling witnesses after prosecution rests
Lawyers for Karen Read, the Massachusetts woman charged with murder in the 2022 death of her police officer boyfriend, began calling witnesses to the stand in an effort to portray their client as the victim of an elaborate law enforcement conspiracy seeking to frame her for the killing. The testimony began Friday as the trial […]
Two dead in shooting at Lake Pueblo State Park, witnesses reported a gunmen fled the scene
Editor’s note: This is a developing story. Check back at chieftain.com for updates. A gunman is believed to have fled the scene following a shooting that left two people dead at the Lake Pueblo State Park Sailboard Beach shortly after midnight Friday. The Pueblo County Coroner took custody of the bodies. Autopsies will determine the […]
Orange County judge was distraught after killing wife, witnesses say
Dispatched to a shooting at the Anaheim home of a longtime Orange County judge, police found Jeffrey Ferguson sitting on a planter. “Just shoot me,” Ferguson told the officer who approached with a less-than-lethal shotgun trained on the judge. Witnesses recounted the scene at Ferguson’s home at a preliminary hearing Thursday, where a judge ruled […]
Greek coastguard threw migrants overboard to their deaths, witnesses say
The Greek coastguard has caused the deaths of dozens of migrants in the Mediterranean over a three-year period, witnesses say, including nine who were deliberately thrown into the water. The nine are among more than 40 people alleged to have died as a result of being forced out of Greek territorial waters, or taken back […]