Archive for April 16, 2026
D.C. pipe bomb suspect, Brian Cole Jr., hit with 2 new charges
The man accused of planting pipe bombs outside of the Republican and Democratic National Committee headquarters on the eve of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot now faces two additional felony charges, according to a superseding indictment made public Wednesday. Brian Cole Jr. was arrested and charged in December with transporting and planting the two IEDs…
Read MoreDeKalb County police investigate 3 connected shootings; suspect in custody after multi-agency search
Police in DeKalb County are investigating three shootings they now believe are connected, with a suspect in custody following a coordinated multi-agency response. Brookhaven police, in a joint news conference with DeKalb County police, identified the suspect as 26-year-old Olaolukitan Adon Abel. He has been taken into custody in connection with the shooting. According to…
Read More‘No one would be spared’: Teenage girl’s diary laid out school shooting plan later thwarted by police
Diary entries written by an eighth grader in Oneida County lay out the plans she developed for a mass shooting in her middle school’s cafeteria. The 14-year-old has been charged for a threat against Clinton Middle School, about 9 miles from Utica. The plot was thwarted by the Oneida County Sheriff’s Office after an uninvolved…
Read MoreTurkish school shooter used image referencing 2014 U.S. mass killer, police say
A 14-year-old student who shot at least nine people dead, including eight of his fellow pupils, at a school in southeastern Turkey had used an image referencing a 2014 U.S. mass killer, Elliot Rodger, on his WhatsApp profile, Turkish police said on Thursday. In Turkey’s second school shooting in just two days, the middle school…
Read MoreArrests after attempted arson attack on synagogue
A man and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of arson endangering life after a synagogue in north London had two bottles thought to contain petrol thrown at it. The attack on the Finchley Reform Synagogue is being treated as an antisemitic hate crime, according to police who arrested the 47-year-old woman and 46-year-old…
Read MoreWhitman High student faces charges after arson, graffiti incidents at Bethesda elementary school
A 16-year-old Walt Whitman High School student was charged Wednesday with vandalism, arson and threats of mass violence after he allegedly lit a shed on fire at another Bethesda school and later vandalized a fence there with graffiti referencing a 2012 mass school shooting, Montgomery County police said Wednesday in a press release. The teen,…
Read MoreOfficials arrest Annapolis man in connection to recovered destructive devices
An Annapolis man is facing multiple charges stemming from the alleged possession of a significant number of explosive devices found in his home. According to the Anne Arundel County Fire Department and the Office of the Fire Marshal, Fire/Arson & Explosives Investigative Bureau (FIB), Lee Ralston, 37, of Annapolis has been charged with multiple counts…
Read MoreRussia hits Kyiv, Odesa and Dnipro in one of deadliest attacks on Ukraine
Russia launched hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles at cities overnight on Thursday across Ukraine including the capital Kyiv, killing at least 16 people and injuring scores, authorities said. Ukraine’s air force said Russia launched 659 drones and 44 missiles, of which it shot down or neutralised 636 drones and 31 missiles. Four people…
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