CBP agents arrest cruise ship workers — including Disney staffers — in San Diego child exploitation sting
Federal agents boarded eight cruise ships docked in San Diego over five days late last month and took 28 crew members into custody as part of a child sexual exploitation material enforcement operation, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said. Among those arrested were staffers employed by Disney Cru...
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Cohutta town council reverses mayor's mass firing of police force two days later
The tiny north Georgia town of Cohutta got its police department back Friday, two days after Mayor Ron Shinnick fired every officer on the force in a move the town's own attorney said violated the local charter. The Cohutta Town Council passed an ordinance at a standing-room-only special meeting rei...
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Marine Corps will retire the F/A-18 Hornet by 2030, cutting maintenance jobs across three bases
The Marine Corps is pulling the plug on one of the most recognizable fighter jets in American military history. An internal administrative message issued this week confirmed that the F/A-18 Hornet will be retired from Marine service by 2030, and every maintenance specialty tied to the aircraft will ...
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Thirteen-year-old killed riding e-motorcycle on Garden Grove street, police seek witnesses
A 13-year-old boy from Santa Ana died Thursday night after crashing an electric motorcycle into a center median on a Garden Grove street, the Garden Grove Police Department said in a news release. Officers arrived to find the child already being loaded into an ambulance. He never regained consciousn...
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Human bones found near Nancy Guthrie's Tucson home ruled prehistoric, unrelated to her disappearance
Human remains discovered in a Tucson wash less than five miles from the home of missing 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie briefly raised hopes, and fears, before police ruled them prehistoric and entirely unconnected to her case. Tucson Police confirmed the bone found near Craycroft and River was human but ...
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More than a dozen D.C. police officers placed on leave as crime statistics manipulation probe widens
Thirteen Washington, D.C., police officers, including at least two high-ranking officials, were placed on administrative leave this week after an internal investigation found evidence of alleged misconduct tied to how the Metropolitan Police Department reported crime data. The move follows months of...
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U.S. forces disable two Iranian tankers as Strait of Hormuz standoff intensifies
U.S. Central Command said Friday that American forces disabled two more Iranian tankers attempting to breach the naval blockade, the latest escalation in a fast-moving confrontation that now spans the Strait of Hormuz, the Gulf of Oman, the skies over the United Arab Emirates, and, if satellite imag...
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Former deputy Jason Meade found guilty of reckless homicide in Casey Goodson Jr. shooting
A Columbus, Ohio, jury convicted former Franklin County sheriff's deputy Jason Meade of reckless homicide on Thursday for the 2020 shooting death of 23-year-old Casey Goodson Jr., but deadlocked on the more serious murder charge, forcing the judge to declare a mistrial on that count and leaving the ...
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Special forces veteran accused of shooting wife found dead after six-day Tennessee manhunt
A six-day manhunt for a retired Army Special Forces veteran wanted for allegedly shooting his wife during a domestic dispute in rural Tennessee ended Wednesday when authorities found Craig Berry's body in the woods near his Dover home. The Stewart County Sheriff's Office said preliminary findings in...
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FBI raids Virginia Senate leader's office and cannabis dispensary in federal corruption probe
FBI agents descended on the Portsmouth, Virginia, office of state Senate President Pro Tempore L. Louise Lucas on Wednesday, executing court-authorized criminal search warrants as part of a federal corruption and illegal marijuana sale investigation. A nearby cannabis dispensary that Lucas reportedl...
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