El Paso, TX

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Columbus, OH

The Independent

U.S. authorities say arrests for illegally crossing the border from Mexico plummeted 33% in July to the lowest level since September 2020, a result of asylum being temporarily suspended

Border arrests drop 33% to a 46-month low in July after asylum restrictions take hold

Officials in Mexico have destroyed 50 "monster trucks" used by cartels in their gun battles. The vehicles, which are also referred to as "Frankenstein trucks" because of the modifications made to them - such as adding gun turrets and armoured plates - were seized by the security forces. They belonged...

Seized Mexican cartel 'monster trucks' destroyed

Minneapolis, MN

 Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, has been moved to a new federal prison following his stabbing by an inmate last year.Chauvin, 48, was transferred from Tuscon Federal Correctional Institution in Arizona to the Oklahoma Federal Transfer Center last week.The Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed the move to The Independent but said it could not give any further details “for privacy, safety, and security reasons.”In November 2023, Chauvin was stabbed 22 times by inmate John Turscak, while Chauvin was serving a 21-year sentence for violating Floyd’s civil rights. Chauvin’s sentence is running concurrently with a 22.5-year...

Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin who murdered George Floyd is moved to new prison after near-fatal stabbing

Latin Times

Violence continues to ramp up in the Mexican state of Guanajuato, with new killings of civilians amid cartel turf wars. The latest episode involved two families, whose members were killed in the town of Yuriria. There were six victims, three people from one family and three from another, and included a teenager and a woman, according to state prosecutors.

More families are getting killed in Mexico amid escalating cartel turf wars

Calexico, CA

NewsNation

A California couple is accused of smuggling two Mexican children across the border by passing them off as their own.

US mom goes to Mexico with 2 minors, comes back with 4

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Herbie J Pilato

Kate Jackson began her acting career as a silent ghost on TV's classic 1960s gothic daytime drama Dark Shadows but remains alive and well years after two horrific battles with breast cancer. Jackson went on to small screen prime-time stardom on police/detective/crime drama/comedies like The Rookies, Charlie's Angels, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, and more. This is her triumphant story.

'Charlie's Angels' Star Kate Jackson Has Courageously Battled and Conquered Cancer Several Times

SEATTLE - A new migrant caravan has left the southern Mexican city of Ciudad Hidalgo, next to the Guatemala border, with the goal of reaching the United States before the November elections. The follow-on group, formed by hundreds of people, started its long journey on July 21. As the presidential...

A new migrant caravan has left southern Mexico and is headed to the U.S. border

Kaitlynn Lee, 25, was killed by her ex-boyfriend Joshua Thompson who shot her in the head through a window, police said

Mom-of-three was having fun filming a TikTok in a kitchen with her friend. Moments later she was shot dead

A cardiologist in Denver has been found guilty of drugging and sexually assaulting nearly a dozen women. On Tuesday, Stephen Matthews, 36, was found guilty on 35 felony counts of assault and sexual assault, according to the Denver Post. Matthews attacked 11 people. “Stephen Matthews took advantage of nearly a dozen women in the most egregious way imaginable, and for that he will now pay a significant price,” Denver District Attorney Beth McCann said in a statement Tuesday. “I hope today’s verdict provides a measure of comfort to all the victims.”The cardiologist was arrested in March 2023 after a woman...

Cardiologist found guilty of 35 counts of date rape and assault after attacking a dozen women

 A charity working with homeless people in Auckland, New Zealand unknowingly distributed candies filled with a potentially lethal dose of methamphetamine in its food parcels after the sweets were donated by a member of the public. Auckland City Mission told reporters on Wednesday that staff had started to contact up to 400 people to track down parcels that could contain the sweets — which were solid blocks of methamphetamine enclosed in candy wrappers. New Zealand's police have opened a criminal investigation. The amount of methamphetamine in each candy was up to 300 times the level someone would usually take...

Food bank unknowingly distributes candy made from meth

 A police officer cries as he recalls how he thought he would die from his injuries following a savage attack on duty.PC Ashley Aspinall suffered a horrific brain injury when he was attacked by Ian Scott, 50, as he tried to apprehend him outside a bar in Blackpool on 7 April, last year.PC Aspinall, of Lancashire Police, lay injured on the ground as Scott continued his assault.The police officer feared he would never see his daughter again as he lay critically injured.Scott appeared at Preston Crown Court on 30 April, and was given a 24-month suspended sentence after pleading guilty to wounding of an emergency worker.

Police officer cries recalling savage attack outside seaside bar

Red Lodge, MT

 Authorities euthanized a black bear in Montana after it mauled a three-year-old girl near Yellowstone National Park on Sunday.The incident happened about 10pm at a private campground south of Red Lodge, Montana. The child was taken to a hospital in Billings, about 62 miles away.Authorities with the Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks (FWP) set up a trap at the campsite on Sunday night and worked with the campground owner to evacuate the site by Monday morning. More traps and snares were set when the campground was fully evacuated.Officials captured the bear on the afternoon of 12 August and it...

Black bear mauls 3-year-old girl in tent just north of Yellowstone National Park

Canton, OH

Canton, MI

 A man in Canton Township, Michigan, allegedly shot and killed his neighbor because the man's daughter touched his mulch. Nathan Morris, 35, was killed just before noon on Saturday. "On Saturday, while taking a stroll with his family in his neighborhood, his daughter touched the mulch of one of the neighbors," according to the Michigan GOP in a statement by RNC National committeewoman Hima Kolanagireddy. "The neighbor took a gun out and started threatening the family. Nathan sent his family home and said that he would try and diffuse the situation, but instead was shot and killed."According to the...

Father shot dead by neighbor in argument over daughter touching ‘mulch’ on property

Seattle, WA

SEATTLE - The head of business chambers' federation in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas was killed just hours after giving television interviews complaining about drug cartel extortion. Julio Almanza was shot to death outside his offices in the city of Matamoros, just across the border city of Brownsville, Texas. "We...

Mexican business leader is killed in border town after complaining about cartel extorsions on TV

Florida State

FBI raids Florida auto shop over shooting of celebrity car designer

 Remarkable new scientific research at Stonehenge has revealed an extraordinary new mystery. Mineralogical tests on the massive six-tonne stone at the heart of the monument show that this central rock, known as the altar stone, was brought to Stonehenge from the far north of Scotland.The altar stone is arguably the most ritually important stone in Stonehenge, because it is the rock that marks the intersection of the prehistoric temple’s two most important celestial alignments – the winter solstice sunrise to summer solstice sunset alignment, and the summer solstice sunrise to winter solstice sunset alignment. It’s already known that some...

Mystery of Stonehenge deepens after ‘jaw-dropping’ discovery

A man who was convicted of pointing a gun at Burger King drive-thru worker who wouldn’t accept drugs for payment and later shooting at other people elsewhere the same night has been sentenced to 143 years in prison

Man who pulled gun after Burger King worker wouldn't take drugs for payment gets 143 years in prison

Fort Bliss, TX

It was surprising when Mexico's most-wanted drug lord landed at an airfield near El Paso, Texas in July

A gunshot, a murdered rival and a kidnapped drug lord: Mexico's ruling party faces growing scandal

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