WJLA(ANNAPOLIS, Md.) -- Members of the tight-knit community of Annapolis, Maryland, gathered to mourn the loss of five people who were shot and killed Thursday in the newsroom of its local newspaper, the Capital Gazette. A candlelight vigil was held in the states's capital, where hundreds of attendees said prayers and held up copies of the Capital Gazette's front page on Friday, which reads, "5 shot dead at The Capital." […]
Anne Arundel Police(ANNAPOLIS, Md.) -- The attorney who represented a woman who was harassed by alleged Maryland newsroom shooter Jarrod Ramos from 2009 to 2011 described him as a "dangerous person."Nearly seven years ago, Ramos pleaded guilty to a criminal harassment charge, court documents filed in the District Court of Maryland in Anne Arundel County show.Ramos, now 38, had befriended the woman on Facebook in 2009 and used information he […]
ABC News(SANTA CLARA COUNTY, Calif.) -- A California man suspected in a decades-old unsolved slaying killed himself when police arrived at his home to serve a search warrant after DNA evidence helped identify him, authorities said.Stephen Blake Crawford, 72, had been linked to the killing of Arlis Perry, 19, who was found dead at the rear of Memorial Church on the Stanford University campus Oct 12, 1974, according to the […]
iStock/Thinkstock(SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico) -- Saturday marks the final day that nearly 1,800 Puerto Ricans will receive temporary housing assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.FEMA’s transitional sheltering assistance helps natural disaster victims with temporary housing in hotels and motels if their homes were severely damaged during a storm.There are 1,744 families checked into hotels and motels in 28 states, the District of Columbia and in Puerto Rico. The largest […]
WJLA-TV(ANNAPOLIS, Md.) -- A community is reeling a day after an alleged gunman targeted the local Capital Gazette newspaper in Maryland and gunned down five unsuspecting employees. The suspect, Jarrod Ramos, allegedly walked into the newspaper office at 888 Bestgate Road in Annapolis with a shotgun and fatally shot four journalists and a sales assistant. Ramos had barricaded the back door to keep his victims from escaping, Wes Adams, state's […]
Anne Arundel Police(ANNAPOLIS, Md.) -- The alleged gunman accused of fatally shooting five people inside a Maryland newsroom may have been nursing a longstanding grudge against the newspaper.Jarrod Ramos, a 38-year-old resident of Laurel, Maryland, has been charged with five counts of first-degree murder, court records show. A judge ordered on Thursday that Ramos be held without bond because he has reasons to believe the man "is a danger to […]
ABC News(LANCASTER, Pa.) -- Danene Sorace, the mayor of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, said an investigation is underway after a viral video on social media showed a Lancaster police officer tasing a black man in broad daylight.“Like you, when I saw the video I was upset by it and it is of great concern to me,” Sorace said Friday in a video posted to her Facebook page. “We take the use of […]
Alex Wroblewski/Getty Images(ANNAPOLIS, Md.) -- Thursday's shooting inside the office of a local newspaper was the deadliest day for the media industry in the United States since the 9/11 terror attacks.Five people were killed when a gunman opened fire on employees inside the offices of the Capital Gazette, a daily newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland. The victims have been identified as Gerald Fischman, Robert Hiaasen and John McNamara, who were staff […]
Chief Terence Monahan/NYPDChiefofDept(NEW YORK) -- Prosecutors lodged criminal charges against an Indiana man after he allegedly dropped his gun in Ikea and a 6-year-old boy picked it up and fired it.Francis T. Wright, 62, of Camby, Indiana was charged Thursday with criminal recklessness committed with a deadly weapon after the child found the gun in the cushions of a couch on display and fired one round, according to a statement […]
