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A weekend fire that destroyed a Baltimore school playground has reignited a broader fight over how Maryland should respond to youth crime.Two suspects, ages 12 and 13, were arrested in connection to the fire, which reportedly caused more than $100,000 in damage, WBFF reported. Images posted on Facebook by the Baltimore City Fire Department Engine 57 show flames towering over a charred play structure.While the arson case alarmed parents and […]

A girls’ trip to a remote cabin in Kentucky nearly ended in tragedy when two women in their 80s took a soak in a hot tub and could not get themselves out of the heated water, rescuers said on Friday.The group was enjoying a dip in the hot tub at a cabin in the Red River Gorge area in southeastern Kentucky earlier this month when two of the elderly women […]

California, Washington and New Mexico may lose millions of dollars in federal funding if they continue to fail to enforce English language requirements for truckers, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Tuesday.Duffy said the three states have 30 days to comply with federal English Language Proficiency (ELP) requirements after an investigation into a deadly crash in Florida earlier this month revealed the states made significant failures regarding the illegal immigrant truck […]

After yet another bloody weekend, some Chicago residents said they would welcome reinforcements if President Donald Trump decides to federalize the police force in Chicago.Trump first floated the idea on Friday during a press conference in the Oval Office after seeing success with the same effort in Washington, D.C., which went 12 days without a homicide. "Chicago’s a mess," Trump said on Friday, adding that it would "be our next one […]

A Venezuelan national wanted for attempted femicide in a Russian roulette-style attack has been arrested in Texas, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said Monday.ICE identified the suspect as 31-year-old Raul Enrique Pargas Rodriguez, who was wanted on a Venezuelan warrant for allegedly torturing and trying to kill a woman in the deadly game."This dangerous criminal alien allegedly beat, demeaned and tortured a young woman in some twisted version of […]

Agents with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) foiled a carjacking in Washington, D.C., on Monday amid the Trump administration’s crackdown on crime in the capital.The CBP agents were making the city "safe and beautiful" when they received a call about a carjacking in progress."Agents immediately responded to the area and stopped the fleeing suspect," a CBP post on X stated.DC ARRESTS SURPASS 1,000 AS TRUMP-BACKED CRACKDOWN ENTERS 12TH HOMICIDE-FREE […]

An American tourist was reportedly stabbed in the face by a Syrian asylum seeker in Germany while protecting two women being harassed on a tram.John Rudat, 21, was traveling in Dresden early Sunday when he stepped in as the women were being attacked by a pair of Syrian men, according to an online fundraiser set up by his brother’s girlfriend, Molly.Rudat, who recently qualified as a paramedic and also works […]

Firefighters battling the Oregon Flat Fire, which has so far torched nearly 22,000 acres, could face setbacks if the latest weather conditions shift, officials cautioned Monday.The raging blaze, which is only 5% contained, has destroyed homes and buildings. Thousands of families have been forced to evacuate. "The winds here can shift at any moment and that could change everything," Jason Carr, public information officer for the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office, told […]

A suspect described by prosecutors as "the man who started" the viral July 26 downtown Cincinnati beatdown faces new legal trouble, this time with the federal government. Jermaine Mathews, 39, has been indicted on federal drug charges, the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Ohio announced in a Monday afternoon release. "According to the superseding indictment, Mathews is responsible for conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute […]