Police are seeking the culprit in a deadly East Harlem shooting. Gunshots were heard just before midnight Saturday near 116th Street and Lexington Avenue. A robbery developed into a shooting just after 11 p.m. at the recently opened Essex Convenience Smoke Shop at 118 E. 116th Street in East Harlem. A 34-year-old store clerk was … Read more
On Saturday, two Israelis were killed in a suspected Palestinian gun attack on a car wash in a dangerous area of the occupied West Bank, the latest outbreak of violence in the region. The Israeli military said it was looking for suspects and erecting roadblocks in Hawara, a volatile area in the northern West Bank … Read more
The number of Code Enforcement officers in Oregon City has increased, enabling them to patrol the streets seven days a week. Oregon City commissioners supported increased staffing during the budget process earlier this year because they wanted to include weekends on the Code Enforcement schedule. Additional funds were granted to boost manpower to an acceptable level allowing seven-day-a-week patrols without sacrificing coverage on other days. “We have a good crew of dedicated Code Enforcement officers, … Read more
On Friday morning (Aug. 18), existing and new wildfires fueled by strong winds were moving in several directions across Central Okanagan. According to Central Okanagan Regional District chair Loyal Wooldridge, the quick expansion of the McDougall Creek wildfire on Thursday night could be a preview of what is to come in the following days. Wooldridge … Read more
With a wildfire threatening, officials in Medical Lake, Wash., ordered the evacuation of the whole town on Friday. According to tweets from the Washington State Department of Natural Resources, the Gray Fire spread from an estimated 500 acres to approximately 9,500 acres by Saturday morning, pushed by 35 mph winds. #GrayFire in Spokane County is … Read more
A Multnomah County jury convicted a man guilty on Wednesday of the 2018 murder of 41-year-old Dominique Scott Eivers. Nathan Wayne Moore, 43, was convicted of second-degree murder with a firearm, unauthorized use of a handgun, and felon possessing a gun—Hurricane Hilary’s projected path towards the western United States. Eivers was seriously injured in the Court … Read more
Former Portland City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty decided to settle her lawsuit against the city for $5,000 and an apology from Mayor Ted Wheeler. Hardesty sued the city, the police union, the former union head, and a police officer in December 2021, alleging that they leaked information that wrongly implicated her in a hit-and-run. An … Read more
Tennessee’s Republican-dominated legislature will return to the state Capitol on Monday, months after a tragic school shooting, with a long list of ideas addressing mental health, school resources, more substantial sentences for violent felons, and other issues. Any honest consideration of improving Tennessee’s permissive gun regulations will probably be absent from the special legislative session. … Read more
The guy suspected of firing rounds outside a Jewish school in Memphis has been booked into the Shelby County jail several weeks after the shooting. Joel Bowman’s mugshot was posted online on the Shelby County inmate database Friday evening. Bowman was charged with attempted second-degree murder after allegedly shooting outside the Margolin Hebrew Academy on … Read more
It’s the first day of the new school year at Highland Park High School, where students arrived to campus Wednesday morning to find a new weapons detection system. The district approved the changes last week, but the start date was moved up because a student was shot and killed over the weekend. Wednesday morning, there … Read more