Month: October 2019

Sandeep Singh Dhaliwal became a sheriff’s deputy so he could be a bridge between his Sikh faith community and those who would protect it in the Houston area. At his funeral Wednesday, the man who effectively recruited him said he was a model for all: A man who lived to serve anyone regardless of background

Former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger insisted on the witness stand that her shooting of an unarmed black man in his apartment was “not about hate” but about her fear that he would attack her. Guyger, who was convicted of murder this week in the shooting death of Botham Jean, maintained that she feared for

A Virginia doctor convicted in May of illegally prescribing more than half a million opioid tablets was sentenced Wednesday to 40 years in a federal prison, according to a federal court in Virginia. Joel Smithers, who was convicted of 859 counts of illegally prescribing drugs, had faced between 20 years and life in prison, the

The B-17 bomber that crashed Wednesday near Hartford, Connecticut, belonged to a nonprofit group that supports educational living history events. The vintage WWII-era aircraft was a civilian-registered aircraft with the Collings Foundation, which is based in Stow, Massachusetts. Its mission is to support events featuring aircraft and the “preservation, exhibition and interaction of historical artifacts,”

It’s a long-held tradition for patrons to staple money to anything they can at Siesta Key Oyster Bar: walls, ceilings and awnings. Now it’ll go to a good cause. At the beginning of September, staff and the owners at the Siesta Key Oyster Bar in Florida were watching reports about Hurricane Dorian ravaging the Bahamas

Fifteen years ago, Crystal Wang’s father snapped a photo of her in the arms of a Harvard University police officer during a campus visit. Turns out, the photo was prophetic. Wang is now a member of Harvard’s Class of 2023. So, of course, she had to recreate the original image with Officer Charles Marren during

Maria Santa Maria was told she would never spend more than a few minutes with her son. The mother of three girls from Garfield, New Jersey, had previously given birth without complications. But in the first few weeks of her most recent pregnancy, her baby was diagnosed with a rare cranial condition that is almost

The US military has identified the remains of two American soldiers almost 70 years after they were reported missing during the Korean War. Army Cpl. Jerry M. Garrison and Sgt. Gerald B. Raeymacker were reported missing within a few days of each other in December 1950 in North Korea. North Korea returned 55 cases containing

Brendan Dassey, the man whose murder conviction is at the center of Netflix’s “Making a Murderer,” is petitioning for clemency after spending more than a decade in prison. Dassey’s attorney Laura Nirider announced Wednesday his defense had filed a petition for clemency with Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers. In 2005, when he was 16, Dassey confessed

Fall is here! ‘Tis the time for cozy sweaters and pumpkin spice and… record-breaking 90-plus degree weather across the country! Yeah, maybe those sweaters are going to have to wait. Even though it’s technically autumn, parts of the US are currently feeling some historic heat. There are 162 possible record highs and 164 record warm

A neighbor’s doorbell camera caught a man assaulting and dragging his ex-girlfriend, who was later found being held against her will in a Southern California home, police said. Robert Michael Mendez, 27, faces charges including suspicion of attempted murder, kidnapping and false imprisonment after the Arcadia Police Department on Monday received a video link to

A Virginia teacher has filed a lawsuit saying he was wrongfully fired for refusing to use male pronouns for a transgender student. In 2018, a student at West Point High School began identifying as male. He and his mother asked for him to be referred to with his preferred name and pronouns: he, him, his.

With the signing of California’s Fair Pay to Play Act, Gov. Gavin Newsom acknowledges he is picking a fight — and he thinks he’ll win. The governor put his pen to the unanimously passed Senate Bill 206 on Monday, surrounded by a fitting cast of characters on the barber shop set of Los Angeles Laker

A Virginia police officer has been suspended after he turned over to immigration officials a driver who was wanted for skipping a deportation hearing, police said Tuesday. An internal police investigation was launched after the officer, while handling a traffic accident on September 21, noticed one of the drivers did not have a state driver’s

Staff at a Chicago elementary school made a boy leave the building on a cold March day, coatless and in short sleeves, then lied about what happened, according to a lawsuit that alleges a pattern of abuse and harassment by the staff and the boy’s classmates. The fourth-grader had been bullied from the time he