A Walmart employee who survived last week’s mass shooting at a store in Virginia has filed a $50 million lawsuit against the company for allegedly continuing to employ the shooter — a store supervisor — “who had known propensities for violence, threats and strange behavior.” The lawsuit, which appears to be the first to stem from the shooting, was filed Tuesday in Chesapeake Circuit Court … Continue reading A survivor of the Virginia mass shooting files a $50 million lawsuit against Walmart

On Tuesday, Eric Adams the mayor of New York City, issued a directive that would allow emergency responders to transport resumed mentally ill people to hospitals involuntarily. GOTHAMIST – The move could allow non-medical professionals, such as police officers, to request such removals from streets and subways based on their judgment of a person’s inability to meet basic needs for health and safety, the mayor’s … Continue reading Mayor Adams directs NYPD, first responders to involuntarily take mentally ill to hospitals

Newly unsealed court documents reveal that a single bullet was found near the bodies of two teenage girls who were killed in Delphi, Indiana, and the bullet has been linked to a .40 gun belonging to the suspect in their 2017 deaths. ABC NEWS – A judge presiding over the Delphi, Indiana, double murder case issued an order on Tuesday unsealing the probable cause affidavit related to … Continue reading Bullet found near bodies of 2 Indiana teens in Delphi killings linked to suspect’s gun, officials say 

Stewart Rhodes, the found of the Oath Keepers, was found guilty and convicted on Tuesday of seditious conspiracy for a plot to overturn Democrat Joe Biden’s presidential win, handing the Justice Department a major victory in its massive prosecution of the Jan. 6 protest. YAHOO NEWS – A Washington, D.C., jury found Rhodes guilty of sedition after three days of deliberations in the nearly two-month-long … Continue reading Oath Keepers leader guilty of seditious conspiracy in 1/6 case

The suspect accused of killing 10 people and injuring three others in a mass shooting at a supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood in Buffalo, N.Y., in May pleaded guilty on Monday to state charges stemming from the attack. Payton Gendron, 19, pleaded guilty to 15 state-level counts: 10 counts of first-degree murder; three counts of attempted murder motivated by hate; criminal weapons possession; and … Continue reading Buffalo gunman pleads guilty to 15 charges, including domestic terror motivated by hate

Waves of orange, glowing lava and smoky ash belched and sputtered Monday from the world’s largest active volcano in its first eruption in 38 years, and officials told people living on Hawaii’s Big Island to be ready in the event of a worst-case scenario. The eruption of Mauna Loa wasn’t immediately endangering towns, but the U.S. Geological Survey warned the roughly 200,000 people on the … Continue reading Hawaii’s Mauna Loa erupts, officials warn people to prepare