Archive for June 12, 2024
Rockville student receives indictment for alleged manifesto with school shooting plan
Formal indictments were filed against a Rockville, Maryland student accused in April of writing a manifesto that detailed a potential school shooting as the teen is expected to make another court appearance in late June. Friday was supposed to be a court appearance for Andrea Ye, known as Alex, to set a trial date for…
Read MoreHezbollah Fires Scores Of Rockets At Northern Israel As Gaza Cease-Fire Talks Hang In The Balance
Lebanon’s Hezbollah fired a massive barrage of rockets into northern Israel on Wednesday to avenge the killing of a top commander, further escalating regional tensions as the fate of an internationally-backed plan for a cease-fire in Gaza hung in the balance. The retaliatory attack came as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was in the…
Read MoreAp Sources: 8 People With Possible Islamic State Ties Arrested In Us On Immigration Violations
Eight people from Tajikistan with suspected ties to the Islamic State group have been arrested in the United States in recent days, according to multiple people familiar with the matter. The arrests took place in New York, Philadelphia and Los Angeles and the individuals, who entered the U.S. through the southern border, are being held…
Read More1 dead after shooting on hijacked Gwinnett County bus, wild police chase up I-85
One person is dead after police said a gunman hijacked a bus from downtown Atlanta with 17 people on board while holding a gun to the bus driver’s head. Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum identified the gunman as Joseph Grier, 39, of Stone Mountain. He said Grier had been arrested 19 times previously and was…
Read MoreMan is arrested for allegedly placing an explosive device near home in Rancho Cucamonga
A man was arrested for allegedly placing an explosive device near a residence in Rancho Cucamonga, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department. The incident occurred on June 3 at 4:36 p.m., when deputies from the Rancho Cucamonga Police Department responded to the 9300 block of Lomita Drive regarding reports of an explosive device…
Read MorePakistani army kills 11 militants in raid in the northwest following bombing that killed 7 soldiers
Pakistani security forces raided a militant hideout, killing 11 in an overnight operation in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban in the restive northwest, authorities said on Tuesday. The intelligence-based raid was in retaliation to Sunday’s roadside bombing that killed seven soldiers in the same Lakki Marwat district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, bordering Afghanistan,…
Read More1 arrested after FBI, other agencies respond to bomb threat at Anchorage federal building
One person was arrested Tuesday after the FBI responded with other law enforcement agencies to an alleged bomb threat at the downtown Anchorage federal courthouse, an official said. Few details were immediately available about the threat or the arrest. FBI spokeswoman Chloe Martin said in an email that the FBI “became aware of reports of…
Read MoreHoustonian convicted for sending death threats to U.S. senator
A federal judge has returned a guilty verdict against a local man for making threats to injure a U.S. senator, announced U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani. U.S. District Judge Lee H. Rosenthal, after careful deliberation, found Issac Ambe Nformangum, 24, guilty on one count of interstate communications with a threat to injure following a two-hour…
Read More15-year-old Montgomery County student charged with threats of mass violence at school
Montgomery County Police charged a student after a bomb threat was phoned in at a high school on June 7th. Police were called to Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda just before 11:00 am. After the threat, school officials evacuated students and staff. Authorities later determined the threat was not valid and there was no…
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