Shirley, MA – Six maximum-security prison inmates carried out a “coordinated attack” that sent five correctional officers to the hospital on Aug. 20, according to prison officials (video below). The incident occurred at the K2 Housing Unit of the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center at approximately 11:40 a.m., The Republican reported. “This one was a coordinated attack […]

Olympia, WA – A six-year-old boy was brutally assaulted when he tried to stand up for a friend who was being bullied. The attack occurred on Aug. 22, when Carter English tried to intervene on behalf of a friend who was being beaten up by neighborhood kids, KOMO reported. “They were just bullying him, like […]

Suffolk County, NY – A 19 year old murdered his little brother last Friday night as the 17-year-old played a video game. Newsday reported that Robert Rivera had walked into the bedroom where Brian Castillo was playing video games at about 7:20 p.m. on Aug. 24 and stabbed him in the neck from behind with […]

Wilmette, IL – Police responded to investigate after a neighbor called the cops on a mother who allowed her eight-year-old daughter to walk their dog unsupervised. Corey Widen, 48, became the subject of an Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (CFS) investigation after her daughter, Dorothy Widen, was seen walking the family’s Maltese, Marshmallow, […]

Vallejo, CA – Vallejo Police Department (VPD) officials are defending officers’ use of force in arresting a man who had been holding a 14-year-old girl in his car on Friday night (video below). The incident began when police received a 911 call from a teenage girl at about 9 p.m. on Aug. 24, the Vallejo […]

San Diego, CA – An 18-year-old video gamer and YouTube star killed a 12-year-old girl and her mother, along with himself on Thursday, when he slammed his sports car into their vehicle at more than 100 miles per hour. Police said the wrong-way, head-on crash occurred when 18-year-old Trevor Heitmann drove his $250,000 2015 British […]

Philadelphia, PA – GoFundMe is investigating what happened to $403,000 raised to help a homeless veteran after he said the couple who set up the fundraising account has kept the vast majority of the money. “GoFundMe is looking into the claims of misuse regarding this campaign,” GoFundMe said in a statement. “When there is a […]

Rollinsford, NH – Just weeks after joining the department, a 26-year-old police officer learned he had been diagnosed with stage four colon cancer. “I mean, I’m 26,” Officer Shawn DePasquale told WFXT. “[I] didn’t expect to come down with this.” Officer DePasquale graduated from the New Hampshire Police Standards and Training Academy approximately three weeks […]