May 23, 2024

FORT MYERS, Fla.- Police Chief Doug Baker will keep his position within the department for the next three years. City Council members approved his new contact which will pay him more than $136,000 a year. Councilman Johnny Streets was the only member to not vote for the contract.  He believes Baker has not done enough […]

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – Police say a student caught with a loaded gun at his northern Utah high school planned to shoot a former girlfriend and open fire on the rest of the school. The Weber County Sheriff’s Office says another student spotted the handgun at about noon Monday at Fremont High School. The […]

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) – A man with a lengthy prison record is wanted for three armed carjackings around South Florida Tuesday in which one person was shot to death, authorities said. Fort Lauderdale police spokeswoman DeAnna Greenlaw said the victims, a man and a woman, were shot multiple times in a car outside an […]

WASHINGTON (AP) – A bipartisan group of senators said on Tuesday that recent reforms have not been enough to improve the way sexual assault cases are handled in the military, and called on Congress to overhaul the military justice system to end retaliation against victims. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., chief sponsor of the Military Justice […]

CLEVELAND (AP) – A Cleveland policeman who fatally shot a 12-year-old thought the boy’s pellet gun was a real firearm and later said he had no choice, the officer’s father said. The Nov. 22 shooting of Tamir Rice by 26-year-old police rookie Tim Loehmann outside a recreation center sparked protests in the area. Surveillance video […]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – The FBI has confirmed it is investigating a recent hacking attack at Sony Pictures Entertainment, which caused major internal computer problems at the film studio last week. Sony’s corporate email and other internal systems were knocked offline, according to reports by Variety and other trade publications. Sony workers reportedly saw a […]

WASHINGTON (AP) – House and Senate negotiators have reached agreement on a $585 billion defense policy bill that provides funds to expand the U.S. mission in Iraq to counter Islamic State militants. It also authorizes training of moderate Syrian forces. The overall legislation endorses President Barack Obama’s request for money and authority to deal with […]

LEE COUNTY, Fla.- An Alva man is under arrest for allegedly setting his wife on fire. According to investigators, 42-year-old Kizer Pontoon’s wife told them her husband poured a gallon of gas on her and lit her on fire after an argument. The victim told police Pontoon became angry with her when she was dancing […]

BRUSSELS (AP) – NATO member countries approved a new interim quick-reaction military force on Tuesday to protect themselves from Russia or other threats, the alliance’s chief said. The initial unit, to be up and running in early 2015, will be supplanted the following year by a permanent force, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said. Foreign ministers […]

GROSSETO, Italy (AP) – Francesco Schettino, accused by survivors, politicians and the media of dereliction of duty after the 2012 shipwreck of the Costa Concordia cruise liner under his command killed 32, testified in his own defense for the first time Tuesday, defiant and gesticulating under questioning from Italian prosecutors. The testimony had a theatrical […]