Archive for June 2023
27-year-old man killed by homemade explosive, sheriff’s office says
Mississippi authorities said a man died Thursday after a homemade device exploded in his home. The George County Sheriff’s Department said deputies responded to a home in the Bexley community around 5:30 p.m. for the report of an unresponsive man in the yard. When deputies arrived, they found a 27-year-old man dead from “significant wounds…
Read MoreGunman found guilty on all charges Pittsburgh synagogue massacre
Jurors found the man accused of shooting and killing 11 worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue guilty on all federal charges Friday. Robert Bowers now faces the possibility of the death penalty in the Oct. 27, 2018, shooting in Squirrel Hill. Jurors signaled the court about 11:20 a.m. that they’d reached a verdict. The jury received…
Read More5 Gang Members Found Guilty of Murder of 10-year-old Girl in DC
WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — A jury convicted five gang members Tuesday for the murder of a 10-year-old girl that took place on July 16, 2018. Investigators said Makiyah Wilson was on the stoop in front of her home in Clay Terrace when five men who drove to the neighborhood fired more than 50 shots,…
Read MoreArgentina seeks arrest of four Lebanese over 1994 Jewish bombing
Argentina on Thursday sought an international arrest warrant for four Lebanese citizens suspected of involvement in the 1994 bomb attack on the AMIA Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people and injured 300. A judge granted a prosecutor’s request to seek a warrant from Interpol based on reasonable suspicion that the four…
Read MoreUS government agencies hit by cyberattack, official says
U.S. government networks were hit by a cyberattack affecting several federal agencies, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Jen Easterly confirmed on Thursday. CISA, a part of the Department of Homeland Security, previously identified a gap in software security believed to have been exploited in attack. An electronic file transfer application, MOVEit Transfer, is thought…
Read MoreVirginia Beach Man Sentenced for Dealing Illegal Machine Guns
A Virginia Beach man was sentenced yesterday to 20 years in prison for possessing and selling unregistered machineguns and possessing unregistered destructive devices. According to court records and evidence presented at trial, between approximately October 2021 and April 2022, Patrick Tate Adamiak, 28, was obtaining illegal machine guns that were not registered and he was…
Read MoreProsecutors: Suspect shouted ‘white power’ while attacking Portland strip club-steakhouse staff
A Portland man has been arrested after allegedly assaulting staff working at the Acropolis steakhouse-strip club. Prosecutors state the man shouted “white power,” racial slurs, and anti-Semitic slurs as he punched staff and smashed windows. According to court documents, Justin Anthony Gates, 32, was asked to leave Acropolis, located on SE McLoughlin Blvd, on May…
Read MorePolice: Woman arrested after shooting at Pennsylvania county district attorney’s office
A female suspect has been taken into custody in a shooting in the district attorney’s office in a rural central Pennsylvania county, state police said Wednesday. Troopers were called at about 3 p.m. Wednesday to the Cameron County district attorney’s office in Emporium, state police said. Police said the victim is believed to have sustained…
Read MoreEight Kenyan police killed in suspected al-Shabab bombing
Eight Kenyan police officers were killed when their vehicle was destroyed by an improvised explosive device in a suspected attack by Somalia-based rebel group al-Shabab, police said. The incident took place on Tuesday in Garissa county in eastern Kenya, a region on the border with Somalia, where al-Shabab has been waging a bloody rebellion against…
Read MoreMan seeks dismissal of charges in firebombing of anti-abortion group Wisconsin Family Action’s Madison office
The man indicted in the May 2022 firebombing of a prominent anti-abortion group’s office in Madison is seeking to have his case dismissed. An attorney for Hridindu Sankar Roychowdhury filed the motion on June 6, arguing the federal arson statute under which Roychowdhury was charged is unconstitutional. “Namely, it exceeds Congress’s commerce clause power and…
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