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Two brothers who beat a California man to death on his wedding night when they crashed the wedding reception have been found guilty, authorities said Tuesday.  Rony and Josue Castaneda were each convicted of second-degree murder on Feb. 9 for the beating of Joe Melgoza in Chino, 35 miles east of Los Angeles.  "Although this conviction can never undo the pain caused by two individual’s actions, I hope it brings a measure of closure to the wife and loved ones of Joe Melgoza," San Bernardino County District Attorney Jason Anderson said in a statement.  LISTEN: THE FOX TRUE CRIME PODCAST WITH EMILY COMPAGNO Melgoza and his new bride, Esther Melgoza, were celebrating on Dec. 15, 2019 at a family home where a reception was being held with a mariachi band, a photo booth, bar, DJ and dance floor. The Castaneda brothers had no ties to Melgoza but lived nearby and crashed the party. They were seen socializing, dancing and taking photos with female guests, the San Bernardino C...

Former Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby's trial for perjury and making false mortgage applications was delayed again to November after her entire defense team quit last month, according to an order issued Monday.  Mosby pleaded not guilty last year to the charges, which allege that she falsely claimed a financial hardship during the COVID-19 pandemic to withdraw $90,000 from her retirement accounts, then used those funds to place down payments on two vacation properties in Florida.  Despite the claim of financial hardship, prosecutors say that Mosby received her full salary of $247,955.58 in 2020, the same year that she withdrew from her retirement accounts.  Prosecutors also alleged that Mosby lied on mortgage applications by failing to disclose unpaid federal taxes.  Mosby's former lead defense attorney, A. Scott Bolden, quit last month after U.S. District Court Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby threatened to hold him in contempt of court.  BALTIMO...

Authorities said the deaths of three people in Albuquerque last week was a double homicide and a suicide, but the offender’s name hasn’t been released yet. Albuquerque police said detectives have determined that the man fatally stabbed the two victims and then shot himself inside a house. They said the offender’s relatives may be in a different country and haven’t been notified yet of his death. There is still no known motive for what occurred as police continue to investigate the deaths. An off-duty New Mexico State Police officer found 25-year-old Omar Rodriguez-Hechemendia with serious stab wounds in the street in front of a home Thursday morning and he later died at a hospital.  3 MEN CONVICTED OF TORTURING, KILLING 2 ALBUQUERQUE TEENS BOYS IN ALLEGED DRUG DEAL GONE WRONG Police said officers entered the home and found 36-year-old Danay Morales-Hernandez and the offender dead. The Albuquerque Journal reported Tuesday that police initially thought that Morales-Hernandez had ...

A Florida judge ordered rapper Kodak Black to drug rehab for 30 days on Tuesday after he allegedly tested positive for fentanyl while awaiting trial on a drug trafficking charge. Broward County Judge Barbara Duffy allowed the performer to remain free until March 7 so he could perform at the Rolling Loud concert near Los Angeles over the weekend, The Miami Herald reported. Duffy had earlier issued a warrant for his arrest. The 25-year-old performer had missed a court-ordered drug test on Feb. 3 and then tested positive on Feb. 8. He is awaiting trial from a July arrest on a charge of trafficking oxycodone . He has pleaded not guilty. "You better get it together," Duffy told the 25-year-old performer, whose real name is Bill Kapri. FLORIDA ATTORNEY BLEW $840K IN STOLEN CLIENT MONEY ON ONLYFANS PORN SITE, DRUGS: SHERIFF During the hour-long hearing, the singer's lawyer, Bradford Cohen, suggested that a star-struck drug lab technician may have mixed up the sample or pa...

A California teacher was arrested Monday after a school employee found hidden recording devices in a local high school, authorities said.  Siu Kong Sit, 37, is charged with possession of (or manufacturing) child pornography, burglary, and two other misdemeanors .  Police officers responded to Beckman High School in Irvine, California, Monday after a contracted maintenance worker discovered hidden recording devices in the all-gender restroom near the pool.  The contractor turned over the recording devices to administrative staff, who alerted the police. Officers determined that the devices had recorded several victims while in the restroom.  SEATTLE HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER ARRESTED FOR ALLEGEDLY HAVING SEX WITH 16-YEAR-OLD STUDENT, PROSECUTORS SAY Investigators determined that the devices were put in place by Sit, police said. The teacher was arrested and booked at Orange County Jail (OCJ). Irvine police are attempting to locate additional victims based on additio...

A Seattle police officer was assaulted while recovering a stolen vehicle early Sunday morning, according to the department.  The officer found the stolen vehicle in the 2300 block of Franklin Avenue East around 1:30 a.m., police said.  While recovering the vehicle, a man appeared from a nearby apartment and tried to intervene in the tow truck driving away with the stolen vehicle. Seattle police said the man was identified as a 42-year-old suspect with multiple outstanding felony warrants. A short foot pursuit ensued, and the officer took the suspect into custody.  As the officer waited for backup to arrive, the suspect started yelling and shouting for someone inside the apartment, police said. A 49-year-old woman walked out of the apartment and attempted to insert herself between the officer and the detained suspect.  A second man, aged 32, came out of the apartment and began to assault the officer to prevent him from detaining the first suspect, police said. T...

A man fatally shot by police during an exchange of gunfire near a Massachusetts casino had called for more police transparency after his own teenage son was shot and wounded by Connecticut officers in 2017. William Tisdol, 48, of Hartford, Connecticut, was shot at about 2 a.m. Saturday near the MGM Springfield casino, according to a statement Monday from the office of Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni. Members of the Massachusetts State Police Gaming Enforcement Unit were responding to a report of a man in the casino "acting aggressive to others and possibly armed with a firearm," the statement said. MASSACHUSETTS POLICE FATALLY SHOOT WOMAN AFTER HER FAMILY REQUESTED A WELLNESS CHECK According to the preliminary investigation, the man was located as he was leaving the casino, police gave chase on foot and gunfire was exchanged, the DA's office said. Tisdol was hit and taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead, the statement said. The shooting is ...

Thousands of Texans of Asian descent had their driver's licenses sent to a New York-based Chinese crime group in New York after the state shipped the IDs in an apparent security lapse, officials said.  The Department of Public Safety identified at least 3,000 people who have been impacted, The Dallas Morning News reported. The licenses were shipped to a Chinese organized crime group based in New York working in a number of different states," Department of Public Safety Chief Steve McCraw told state House budget writers during a Monday hearing.  "We’re not happy at all," he said. "Controls should have been in place and this should have never happened." TEXAS POLICE ARREST MAN FOR HUMAN SMUGGLING AFTER FINDING HOUSE STASH WITH 46 MIGRANTS He did not identify the criminal organization .  Instead of hacking state systems, the suspected criminals fraudulently obtained the licenses by getting the personal data of the Texans on the "dark web" and r...

A woman being held hostage in Vermont was able to escape by driving off in the suspects’ car – even though her hands were still bound and her face partially covered.  Two people have since been arrested in connection with the woman’s restraint.  Witnesses in the town of St. Johnsbury called police the morning of Feb. 23 after seeing a woman suspiciously driving a truck . Her hands were bound together with duct tape and her head was partially covered with a duct-taped bag. CALIFORNIA FIREFIGHTERS CAUGHT ON CAMERA CONDUCTING DARING AERIAL RESCUE OF DRIVER CAUGHT IN FLASH FLOOD After speaking with the woman, police determined she had been held hostage and broken free.  Vermont State Police said the woman was picked up earlier on the side of the road by a man and a woman. Police didn’t say if the man and woman knew the victim.  Police said the man and woman forcibly bound the victim in their truck and held her there for several hours, threatening her life.  ...

A Georgia elementary school principal was arrested last week for multiple charges of alleged child cruelty and false imprisonment, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. In a press release, the GBI said Anastagia Carter, 51, of Douglas, Georgia, was charged with two counts of first-degree cruelty to a child, two counts of third-degree cruelty to a child, two counts of false imprisonment and two counts of simple battery that stemmed from incidents at Indian Creek Elementary School. The Coffee County Board of Education contacted the GBI after receiving information about an incident between Carter and a student. GEORGIA TEEN GANG MEMBER, ANOTHER SUSPECT ARRESTED IN GAS STATION SHOOTING THAT LEFT NINE KIDS INJURED: POLICE The GBI found in a preliminary investigation that there was allegedly a second incident involving Carter, and she was taken into custody by the Carter County Sheriff’s Office . The school district posted a statement on its Facebook page regarding the...

Rising natural gas costs in Southern California have many restaurants on the brink of raising costs of menu items or even shutting the doors. The LA Times reported that Tre Dinh, the owner of Pho 87, a Vietnamese restaurant in the Chinatown section of Los Angeles received an astronomical natural gas bill . The restaurant’s signature soup requires 16-20 hours of simmering on a gas stove, but between November and January, the bill jumped from $800 to $8,000. CALIFORNIA GOV. NEWSOM ASKS FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO INVESTIGATE HIGH NATURAL GAS PRICES Dinh’s not the only restaurant owner in California to see a big jump in the natural gas bill. Some San Diego restaurant owners saw a 400% surge in January. For instance, Rudford's Restaurant owners Jeff and Nick Kacha received an $8,200 gas bill and told "Fox & Friends" in early February that they felt betrayed by politicians as they don’t represent the people in San Diego. "It just seems like they're throwing busi...

U.S. Army Secretary Christine Wormuth made an "ambitious" pledge to recruit 65,000 new enlistees, as the military faces a major crisis in attracting new people, according to reports. "The number one priority, in my mind, for this year…is fixing our recruiting problem," Wormuth said during a discussion at George Washington University, hosted by the Project for Media and National Security. "The Army missed its recruiting target last year by about 15,000 people. That is a very serious situation for us." Stars and Stripes, a daily military newspaper, reported that the army’s goal in 2022 was to bring in 60,000 new recruits, but missed the goal by about 15,000. ARMY EXPANDS PROGRAM FOR RECRUITS WHO DON'T MEET WEIGHT AND TEST REQUIREMENTS AS RECRUITING CRISIS DEEPENS To shoot for an additional 5,000 from last year’s goal will be a challenge. "We really have to get after our recruiting challenge," Wormuth told reporters. "This is, frankly...

Yosemite National Park is closed to the public for the rest of February due to unusual winter conditions in the Bay Area. The National Park Service announced that the park plans to open on Wednesday. Yosemite was under a winter storm warning until 4 p.m. on Saturday, when it was downgraded to a winter storm watch. Pictures from Yosemite show low visibility and thick blankets of snow covering the entire park, with no seeable paths or roads. The closure comes days after a massive rockfall was recorded at Yosemite. The park closed Northside Drive for 24 hours in response, though no one was harmed during the rockfall. PROLIFIC YOSEMITE CLIMBER ZACH MILLIGAN, WHO LIVED IN CAVE, DIES IN FALL ON CANADIAN ROCKIES: REPORTS California's unusually wintry weather over the past week has brought flooding and blizzard conditions across the state. Ventura County in Southern California experienced flash floods late Friday night.  But the storm also improved California's water supply , a...

The inaugural director of Austin's Civil Rights Office reportedly submitted her resignation this week, several months after multiple city employees filed complaints about alleged workplace mistreatment.  Carol Johnson was originally chosen to be the head of Austin's newly formed Civil Rights Office in January 2021.  The department was created by the city council months earlier to be a "centralized entity to enforce civil rights anti-discrimination ordinance and federal statutes."  She was placed on administrative leave last summer amid allegations of workplace mistreatment and retaliation, then submitted her resignation on Wednesday, according to KXAN .  "Carol was instrumental in establishing the City’s Office of Civil Rights as the first Civil Rights Director," assistant city manager Veronica Briseño wrote in a memo this week, according to the local news outlet. "I want to thank her for her service to our community and this organization." ...

A West Allis, Wisconsin , 12-year-old boy was killed, and another boy injured after gunshots were fired into a party on Saturday night, according to police. The West Allis Police Department responded to reports of gunshots near 57th Street and Lincoln Avenue. When officers arrived, they discovered gunshots were fired during a party at a nearby tavern, resulting in two juvenile boys getting shot. 2 WISCONSIN OFFICERS CHARGED IN PRISONER'S OVERDOSE DEATH One of the juveniles, a 12-year-old boy, died at the scene while the other was taken to a nearby hospital and treated for his injuries. Police said nobody was in custody for the shooting and the investigation is ongoing. Shortly after the shooting, police posted to Facebook and told the public if they have a loved one who was attending a social gathering in the area of the shooting to go to Longfellow Elementary School to be reunited with their loved one. TWO MEN ARRESTED IN MILWAUKEE AFTER 5-YEAR-OLD FATALLY SHOOTS HIMSELF,...

Armed robbers who allegedly stormed into a church in Missouri were reportedly foiled when the pastor and congregation prayed for them. Former police officer Marquaello Futrell, pastor of All Creation Northview Holiness Family Church in Ferguson, Missouri, said that the alleged would-be robbers were apprehended by the Holy Spirit during the Sunday morning service on Feb. 12, according to local KSDK . The incident broke out when a man carrying two bags entered the church and started asking questions of the children's services director. "I immediately just had the hairs [stand] on the back of my neck. I’m like, 'OK, something’s about to happen,'" Futrell said. NEW FOCUS ON CHURCH ARMED SECURITY AFTER DEADLY TEXAS WORSHIP SERVICE SHOOTING Four young men in masks then entered the church. "Me being a former police officer, I immediately noticed their waistbands. I’m like, 'There’s something there,'" the pastor said. Another member of the church...

A Texas man was arrested for impersonating a police officer after a concerned citizen called 911 about a suspicious blue pickup truck trying to pull him over with emergency lights.  Deputies from the Parker County Sheriff's Office responded to the scene and arrested Luciano Amador Velazquez, a 42-year-old man from Weatherford, which is about 50 miles west of Dallas .  GOOD SAMARITAN CHASES DOWN DRUNKEN DRIVER AFTER CRASH THAT KILLED TEXAS COP: ‘YOU F---ING KILLED SOMEBODY’ Velazquez told police that he uses the blue and red emergency lights mounted on his dashboard to "make people drive better." The victim in the most recent incident told police that Velazquez was also following him closely.  "He further reported the driver of the truck was flashing emergency lights from inside the truck, while attempting to cut him off of the roadway and block his vehicle from leaving the area," the Parker County Sheriff's Office said.  Velazquez was charged with i...

Authorities have confirmed a crash in Arizona involving a pickup truck and a group of bicyclists left at least two people dead and 11 others injured. Emergency responders pronounced a woman dead at the scene, and the second fatality occurred later at the hospital after the Goodyear Police Department said the pickup was driving along Cotton Lane near Phoenix Saturday morning when it struck a "large group of adult bicyclists." Both of the deceased were bicyclists.  "We are sad to update that this is a fatal crash with two confirmed deceased cyclists. One adult female and one adult male. This crash involved a single vehicle (pick-up truck). The adult male driver remained on scene," police said. CALIFORNIA DOCTOR CYCLING ON SCENIC ROADWAY RAMMED BY LEXUS THEN STABBED TO DEATH BY DRIVER: POLICE Eleven others were taken to area hospitals with "various" injuries, police said. Cotton Lane was subsequently closed in both directions "from the circle at ...

Officials from Texas and Michigan say they were unaware that soil and water from the site of the East Palestine, Ohio, freight train derailment was being taken to their areas. A Norfolk Southern train with 50 rail cars, 10 of which were carrying vinyl chloride, derailed in East Palestine on Feb. 3. The derailment caused hazardous chemicals to spill onto the ground and sent a plume of smoke into the air.  Days after the derailment , officials conducted a controlled release of chemicals to avoid the risk of an explosion. Residents were evacuated before officials conducted the release, but have since been allowed back. Wastewater and soil from the site of the derailment was taken to hazardous waste companies in both Texas and Michigan, and some officials claim that they didn't get any notice. PETE BUTTIGIEG FACES CALL TO RESIGN AFTER EAST PALESTINE DISASTER: 'SERIOUS AND PERSISTENT PROBLEMS' A spokesperson for the Environmental Protection agency told Fox News Digital tha...

A sailor killed during the Pearl Harbor attack was laid to rest Thursday, over 81 years after the 1941 invasion. Gunner’s Mate 3rd Class Herman Schmidt was 28 years old when Japanese forces attacked the USS Oklahoma at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii . Schmidt, along with over 400 other men from the USS Oklahoma, was initially buried as an unknown soldier. Only 35 of the men on the USS Oklahoma were identified immediately after the war.  In 2015, analysts were cleared to exhume and identify the remains from the ship. As of September 2021, 346 sailors and Marines have been identified. 80 YEARS LATER, ILLINOIS SAILOR WHO DIED IN PEARL HARBOR ATTACK WILL BE LAID TO REST IN HOME STATE Schmidt was identified in 2021 through a DNA sample from his only son, Michael.  "I have mixed emotions," Michael, now 82, told The Washington Times. "I thought it was fantastic that they did it." The Navy awarded Schmidt full military honors during the ceremony. None of those in attendanc...

Environmental activist Erin Brockovich urged residents in East Palestine, Ohio to documents any health effects they are experiencing following the devastating train derailment that was carrying hazardous chemicals. Some residents this month say they have been diagnosed with bronchitis and other conditions that doctors and nurses suspect are linked to the chemical exposure. "You need to be vigilant you need to journal, you need to document information," Brockovich said to a room full of residents in a town hall meeting on Friday, Feb. 24. "I will be talking tonight because we want you to get information that you can take home, so you're better informed, so you have a better understanding." The train derailment with 50 rail cars, 10 of which were carrying vinyl chloride , caused hazardous chemicals to spill onto the ground and sent a plume of smoke into the air. In the aftermath of the ecological disaster, residents in East Palestine began experiencing symptom...

Police in Georgia have arrested two people, including one teenager, in a gas station shooting that left multiple children injured. The shooting happened in Columbus, Georgia, on Feb. 17 at around 10 p.m. when police officers responded to a shooting that left nine children injured, including a 5-year-old.  Officials with the Columbus Police Department announced on Friday that D’Angelo Robinson, Sr., 35, and an unnamed 15-year-old boy were arrested in relation to the shooting. Police said that Robinson, Sr is being charged with 8 counts of aggravated assault and. The 15-year-old is being charged with one count of aggravated assault, with police noting that additional charges are pending for both suspects.  The teenager is a "validated gang member," police say. GEORGIA GAS STATION SHOOTING LEAVES 9 CHILDREN INJURED All victims were under the age of 18 and treated for non-life threatening injuries.  Columbus Police Chief Freddie Blackmon said during a press conferenc...

A family in southeast Portland is expressing exasperation over homeless squatters cycling through an abandoned property next door and causing mayhem for the last five years. "There are fires that have been happening off and on," Jacob Adams told Fox 12 Oregon this week about the homeless encampment on a property that runs alongside his family’s. "Major ones. This recent one actually came and set our property on fire." Jacob and his wife Beth told the outlet that the fires have been a problem for five years and the last one ignited propane tanks and had his wife "screaming" as they were igniting. 'OUR CITY IS IN PERIL': PORTLAND BUSINESS OWNERS DEMAND MORE ACTION AS CRIMINALS 'WREAK HAVOC' In addition to the fires, the Adams family says they have had to deal with drug use , fights, graffiti, and theft from people on the property who have been served eviction notices to no avail.  "I don’t know how many times I’ve talked to polic...

A former soldier was arrested Thursday in Florida in connection with the death of a pregnant service member at an Army base in Germany 21 years ago, federal prosecutors said.  Shannon L. Wilkerson, 42, is charged with first-degree murder in the Nov. 3, 2001 death of Pfc. Amanda Gonzales at Fliegerhorst Kaserne, then an Army base in Hanau, Germany, the Justice Department said. Wilkerson was a soldier at the time before he was later discharged from active duty in 2004.  MEET THE AMERICAN WHO HONORS THE MEMORY OF 200,000 FALLEN WAR HEROES Gonzales, 19, was four months pregnant at the time she was killed, the FBI said. She was found on the floor of her third-floor barracks room and had been strangled. She was discovered after not reporting for work.  Her cause of death was asphyxiation.  At the time of her deat h, Gonzales served as a cook in the Headquarters Supply Company of the 127th Aviation Support battalion. A motive for the killing has not been disclosed....

Florida police released new body camera footage showing the arrest of a woman following her alleged rampage at a McDonald's over not receiving a free cookie she insisted she was owed.  Amari Bente Hendricks, 24, allegedly waved a loaded handgun at a McDonald's drive-thru after she did not receive a free cookie. Body camera footage from the encounter shows a disgruntled Hendricks continually arguing with Altamonte Spring's police officers following an officer pull over. "Why do I have to put my hands on the hood, am I being arrested?" Hendricks yelled at a police officer who asked her to place her hands on the hood of her blue Chevrolet sedan.  After not complying, the officer puts her in handcuffs .  PIZZA HUT LAUNCHES NEW MELTY SANDWICH AS PIZZA PIE ALTERNATIVE FOR SOLO CUSTOMERS "Why you being all hostile?" Hendricks asks one of the officers. As officers walk Hendricks to the patrol car and tell her to stop pulling away, she asks "why, yo...

A train derailed near Burlington, North Dakota , early Friday, and no injuries were reported, nor hazardous materials spilled, a fire official said. The train was a mile-and-a-half long with more than 60 train cars, fire Chief Karter Lesmann of the Burlington Volunteer Fire Department said. Several train cars derailed near County Road 10 between Des Lacs and Burlington, and 17 empty containers fell 4 or 5 feet off the rails without tipping over, along with two BNSF Railway locomotives. TRAIN DERAILS OUTSIDE DETROIT, MICHIGAN, WITH ONE CAR CARRYING HAZARDOUS MATERIALS BNSF Railway spokesperson Lena Kent said in an email Friday to The Associated Press , "At about 3:30 a.m. an intermodal train carrying freight of all kinds derailed seven cars with all the cars remaining upright near Des Lacs." "Crews are already on-site making repairs," Kent said. "The estimated time for the tracks to return to service is late this evening. The cause of the incident is current...

A Montana man has been charged with threatening the life of Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Tester via voicemails left at his Kalispell office, the U.S. Attorney's Office said. Kevin Patrick Smith, 45, pleaded not guilty Thursday to two felony counts of threats to injure and murder a U.S. Senator during a hearing in Missoula. U.S. Magistrate Judge Kathleen DeSoto ordered Smith held in federal custody at least until a detention hearing set for Monday. Smith’s public defender, Andy Nelson, said Smith is presumed innocent. The first count refers to calls made Jan. 30 and the second is for messages left Feb. 10, after the FBI had warned Smith against making any more threats. The voicemails included threats to "rip your head off" and were laced with profanity. The caller acknowledged in a recording that he was threatening Tester "on purpose," court records said. MONTANA TEEN SHOT WHILE WALKING TO SCHOOL, 2 SUSPECTS IN CUSTODY "I would love to see your FBI at th...

An ex-felon was hospitalized and will face felony weapon charges after allegedly shooting himself in the thigh with a concealed unregistered handgun while walking through a Las Vegas Strip casino, authorities said Friday. Ronnie Delouth, 30, of Henderson, faces a Feb. 28 court hearing in Las Vegas, where the roster at the Clark County Detention Center showed he has not yet been transferred in custody from a hospital to the jail. Delouth was hospitalized in critical condition early Tuesday after security video showed him suddenly writhe and fall to the casino floor while walking alone through the Cosmopolitan Las Vegas, according to media citing a police report. The report said Delouth was seen pulling a handgun from his waistband , throwing it under a slot machine and beginning to crawl away before security officers arrived. NEVADA'S MOONLITE BUNNYRANCH: SEX, CHAOS, ROCK 'N' ROLL SCANDALS OVER THE YEARS Las Vegas police on Friday were processing a request from The A...

DNA evidence linked identical twin brothers to two rapes in the 1990s, and one accused the other of committing the horrific crimes. Earlier this week, however, an Orange County jury convicted 57-year-old Kevin Michael Konther for raping a 9-year-old girl and 32-year-old woman in 1995 and 1998, respectively, after he accused his identical twin of committing the crimes when they were both charged in 2019. Konther was also convicted of molesting his ex-girlfriend's 12-year-old daughter. "Without the advances in DNA technology, we may have never been able to solve this case. But because of DNA and the persistent pursuit of justice by the Orange County Sheriff’s Department and the Orange District Attorney’s Office, this monster has a name – and his name is Kevin Konther," Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said in a Friday statement. A genetic genealogy investigation linked both brothers to the two rapes in 2019 because they share the same DNA, and they were b...

The Philadelphia Police Department says that seven people were shot near a school yard in the city's Strawberry Mansion neighborhood on Thursday evening. Officials said the shooting happened near the school yard of James Blaine School on Thursday just before 6 p.m., according to FOX 29. Victims include a 31-year-old female, 16-year-old boy, 13-year-old boy, 15-year-old boy, 16-year-old boy, and a 2-year-old girl who were all in stable condition. Police haven't released information on the seventh victim. source https://www.foxnews.com/us/philadelphia-police-say-7-people-shot-school-yard-including-5-teens-2-year-old

Bibb County Deputy Brad Johnson was shot and killed in 2022 by a man authorities said had his prison sentence shortened under Alabama's good-time behavior incentive law despite escaping from a prison work release center in 2019. Republican Sen. April Weaver, who was a friend of Johnson's and lives yards from where he was fatally shot, is proposing legislation that would roll back the use of good-time incentives, cutting the time that inmates can shave off their sentences, and mandating that certain actions, including escape, cause an inmate to lose all of their credit. Austin Hall, the man accused of killing Johnson and shooting another deputy, served less than four years of a nearly 10-year sentence for theft, according to state records. "They were shot by a felon who was given good-time credits even though he had a history of a lot of bad behavior when he was incarcerated," Weaver said at a news conference Thursday. The shooting has led to calls to revamp the g...