Archive for September 2025
Oklahoma City Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Hate Crime Violation
Braden Birdsong, 28, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, appeared before U.S. District Court Judge Bernard M. Jones for the Western District of Oklahoma today and pleaded guilty to a federal hate crime violation. According to filed plea documents and today’s court hearing, on Aug. 25, 2023, Birdsong, a white man, attacked D.G., a black man, while…
Read More16-year-old with a loaded gun threatened to shoot up his NYC high school, police say
A New York City high school student was arrested Thursday after bringing a loaded gun to class and writing on social media that he wanted to “shoot the school up,” authorities said. The 16-year-old sophomore posted the threat to Instagram around 10:15 a.m. while in class at Benjamin N. Cardozo High School in Bayside, Queens,…
Read MoreTexas man indicted over series of violent threats to Zohran Mamdani
Authorities have arrested a Texas man for allegedly making phone and written threats to New York City mayoral candidate and state Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, warning the self-described democratic socialist to “go back to Uganda” before someone shoots him in the head, the Queens district attorney said Thursday. Jeremy Fistel was arraigned on a 22-count grand…
Read More‘Threat of mass violence’ made against Univ. of Louisville traced back to North Carolina 18-year-old
An 18-year-old has been arrested for making threats against the University of Louisville, and they are from nearly 500 miles away. On Friday, around 4:45 p.m., deputies in Davie County, which is in North Carolina, said they received a request for assistance from the University of Louisville Police Department. Officials said the university had received…
Read MoreMan charged with ramming car into FBI gate in Pittsburgh later used Latin phrase about tyrants
A man who rammed a car into an FBI security gate in Pittsburgh and covered it in an American flag Wednesday later said he did it to “make a statement,” the FBI said. Donald Phillip Henson was captured seven hours after fleeing the crash and invoked a Latin phrase about tyrants, “sic semper tyrannis,” meaning…
Read MoreLithuania charges 15 over alleged Russian-backed parcel bombs
Fifteen people have been charged with terrorism offences in Lithuania over the alleged Russian-backed detonation of parcels in Germany, Poland and the UK, prosecutors say. The suspects are accused of using delivery companies DHL and DPD to send four packages of explosives hidden in cosmetics containers from the Lithuanian capital Vilnius. Fires broke out in…
Read MoreNM man arrested after allegedly making violent threats online following Kirk’s assassination
A 19-year-old New Mexico man was arrested and charged on Thursday, Sept. 11, after making violent threats online involving mass murder following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office from the District of New Mexico. The U.S. Attorney’s Office says on Thursday, Sept. 11, Jace Allen, 19, posted a series of…
Read More3 officers killed, 2 injured in York County, Pennsylvania shooting
Three officers were killed and two others were wounded in a shooting in North Codorus Township in York County, officials said. The shooting occurred shortly after 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025, in the area of Haar and Emig roads. Four of the officers were with the Northern York Regional Police Department, while a…
Read MoreBomb squad defuses working explosive at Oregon coast public park
A police explosives team defused a bomb in a public bathroom on the Oregon coast after someone spotted a suspicious backpack Tuesday morning, Oregon State Police said. Oregon State Parks staff called the police agency around 10:20 a.m. after the discovery of the backpack at the Sunset Beach State Recreation Site in Clatsop County, police…
Read MoreTeen accused of threatening school shooting in Falmouth, Massachusetts freed on $2,500 bail
Ian Fotheringham, the 18-year-old accused of threatening a school shooting in Falmouth, Massachusetts, was released from jail Wednesday, infuriating several parents. Fotheringham posted the $2,500 bail ordered by a judge at a dangerousness hearing Tuesday in Barnstable District Court. He’s also required to wear a GPS monitoring device and must not leave his home. A…
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