This story has been updated with the name of the victim. A 71-year-old Millcreek Township man was killed Tuesday afternoon when he fell to his death into an elevator shaft in a warehouse at the corner of West 12th and Cascade streets in Erie. Erie County Coroner Lyell Cook identified the man as Igor Akopyan, […]
Eighteen Republican-led states sued the Biden administration late Monday over new federal guidance that aims to protect transgender Americans from workplace discrimination. In a lawsuit filed against the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Department of Justice, attorneys general from the 18 states, led by Tennessee, argued that the federal agency’s new rules unlawfully force […]
A Tri-Cities man has admitted to conspiring with two other people who fraudulently obtained about $265,000 in federal COVID relief loans, including by submitting false payroll and tax records to the federal government. David “Kurt” Schneider, 54, of Kennewick, and two co-defendants also applied for additional payments or loans of about $563,600, but those applications […]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A MLGW worker was attacked by a dog while checking for a faulty meter, leading to a shooting in a resident’s backyard, according to the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office. Around 8 a.m. on Saturday, deputies responded to a house in the 4200 block of Hickory Run Place, where a Memphis Light, Gas, […]
A postal carrier who federal prosecutors said was caught on camera stealing cash, lottery tickets, gift cards and other items from the mail in western New York has avoided a prison sentence. After community members in Rochester complained to the U.S. Postal Service that “their mail had been tampered with,” surveillance cameras were installed in […]
(WJW) — Neither rain, nor snow, nor a 60-mile-per-hour speed limit could stop one Ohio postal worker from her delivery route. The postal worker was pulled over for driving more than 100 miles per hour, and police believe she was trying to race a sports car in her mail truck. How to see the sunspot […]
BALTIMORE — Seven weeks after Maynor Suazo Sandoval died when the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed, his family in Honduras met his body at the San Pedro Sula airport and prepared to bury him. A commercial flight bearing the remains of the 38-year-old worker arrived at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Ramón Villeda Morales Airport. At […]
A former worker at the Hereford House in Leawood allegedly posted videos online of himself urinating in food and rubbing food items on his genitals, according to court documents released Wednesday afternoon. The Johnson County district attorney charged 21-year-old Jace Christian Hanson, of Kansas City, with one felony count of unlawfully adulterating or contaminating food […]
The body of the last missing construction worker killed in the collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge in March has been recovered, officials announced on Tuesday as demolition crews prepared to use explosives in the ongoing clean-up effort. Officials said the crew of the Dali will remain on board the grounded container ship while […]
A paraprofessional is no longer employed after a student allegedly found a liquid that wasn’t soda in a bottle. On Thursday, around 1:15 p.m., deputies were called to Morgan County Middle School regarding an employee having alcohol at the school. When deputies arrived, they were told a male student had taken a Mountain Dew from […]
An Island County maintenance worker is being praised as an unsung hero for helping to save a toddler’s life after he jumped off a dock and into the water by himself. SURVEILLANCE VIDEO: Surveillance video captured the entire incident on camera. The video showed a young child run on a dock and hop into the […]
A man recalls the terrifying moment he was beaten and robbed while working at his family’s taco truck in Long Beach — the second time they’ve now been targeted. The victim, Erick Flores, was working at the Los Bros Tacos truck located on Junipero Avenue and 7th Street when two suspects suddenly approached him on […]