The plan was like a bad movie script. The intruder entered a victim’s home in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, carrying a cell phone, a stolen gun and a Taser. He was wearing pantyhose on his head, a hat and dark sunglasses, court documents show. But things did not go as planned. Now, Rossi Lorathio Adams II…… MORE
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A member of an armed group detaining migrants at the border has been arrested by the FBI
The FBI has arrested a member of an armed militia that had detained hundreds of migrants at the border this week, the New Mexico attorney general’s office said Saturday. Larry Mitchell Hopkins, 69, is a member of an armed group that had reportedly detained migrants near Sunland Park, New Mexico, state Attorney General Hector Balderas…… MORE
A bill in Washington state would allow the composting of human remains
Lawmakers in Washington state passed a bill Friday that would allow human remains to be composted. If Gov. Jay Inslee signs Senate Bill 5001 into law, it will take effect May 1, 2020. Right now, if a person dies in Washington, the body can only be cremated or buried, according to the bill’s sponsor, state…… MORE
Multnomah County, Oregon, to pay $100K to employee who complained about ‘Blue Lives Matter’ flag
An African-American employee who claimed she was subject to stress and racial harassment after she complained about a coworker’s “Blue Lives Matter” flag and after she put up an “equity wall” has settled her lawsuit with an Oregon county, her attorney said Friday. As part of the $100,000 agreement, Karimah Guion-Pledgure resigned from her job…… MORE
New York police detain person as they investigate death of woman found partially decapitated
Detectives have detained a person as they investigate the death of a woman who was found dead and partially decapitated in a Brooklyn apartment, New York police said. The body of Savannah Rivera, 20, was found early Saturday after another woman who was in the apartment flagged an Uber on the street and the driver…… MORE
Kim Kardashian on working with Trump on prison reform: ‘People sitting behind bars do not care who the president is’
Kim Kardashian West is making her case to become a lawyer after working with the White House to help commute the life sentence of a first-time nonviolent drug offender. “I know I got so many times people would say to me, ‘Don’t go to the White House, your career will be over, don’t go there,’”…… MORE
A white driver faces hate crime charges after he allegedly tried to hit an interracial couple with his truck
A Louisiana man has been arrested and booked on charges including committing a hate crime after he allegedly accelerated his truck toward an interracial couple in a suburban New Orleans parking lot, according to the local sheriff’s office. James Descant, who is white, is accused of driving his vehicle toward a black man and a…… MORE
A zookeeper suffered ‘lacerations and punctures’ in a tiger attack at the zoo in Topeka, Kansas
A zookeeper is recovering in the hospital after she was attacked Saturday morning by a tiger at the Topeka, Kansas, zoo. The woman and a 7-year-old male Sumatran tiger named Sanjiv were both in the tiger habitat shortly after the zoo opened when the tiger “essentially tackled our keeper,” Zoo Director Brendan Wiley said at…… MORE
Storms will drench the Northeast before the weather finally warms up
Warm weather is just a few more thunderstorms away. The storm system that made its way through the South and Mid-Atlantic states, killing four people, is now pouring over the Northeast and will move into New England by Sunday, the National Weather Service said. Flood watches are in effect for more than 40 million people…… MORE
Police hope this mystery letter can solve the murder of a teen 45 years ago in Texas
Police are hoping an anonymous letter can help solve the 45-year-old cold case murder of a teenage girl in Texas. In 1974, Carla Walker was a 17-year-old junior in the Fort Worth suburb of Benbrook when she and her high school sweetheart, Rodney McCoy, were attacked in his car in a parking lot. Walker was…… MORE
