The church had a morning service earlier in the day. Authorities responded to a shooting Saturday morning near the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, according to Allegheny County Sheriff’s Deputy Kevin Kraus. The shooter is in custody. At least three officers were shot. Pittsburgh police were also dispatched to reports of active gunfire […]
No additional details are available right away. DAYTON, OH (FOX19) – Wright-Patterson Air Force Base officials have said there was no real active shooter situation at the hospital on Thursday. Officials are still asking people to stay away from the area of the medical center on base. Around 12:40 p.m. base emergency responders responded […]
(RNN) – Multiple people were shot at the offices of the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, MD, on Thursday, according to a reporter at the paper who spoke to the Baltimore Sun. The Sun cited Gazette reporter Phil Davis saying multiple people were shot. The paper is owned by Baltimore Sun Media Group. Police confirmed an […]
Tuesday afternoon, tweets from YouTube employees, as well as people in the immediate vicinity of the company’s headquarters in San Bruno, California seemed to indicate that an active shooter situation was happening at their facilities. Local news outlet KRON 4 and The Hollywood Reporter subsequently confirmed with a city manager and the San Bruno Police Department respectively that an active shooter […]
Police gave the ‘all clear’ after sweeping the campus for suspicious activity. Update 2:24pm EST: All HU buildings were cleared by authorities with nothing found. We previously reported, police responded to an anonymous report of an active shooter on Howard University‘s campus early Tuesday afternoon. At 12:44p EST, a tweet from the university’s official Twitter […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – Cleveland Police captured an active shooter after setting up a perimeter near West 25th Street and Columbus Road in Tremont Friday evening. The incident unfolded Friday after a man reportedly shot at police following a road rage incident that began on the Hope Memorial Bridge. “As officers approached the vehicle, a […]
UPDATED: Wednesday, December 2, 2015 4:20 PM EST Police have confirmed fatalities, Reuters reports, although the number of dead has not been specified. Authorities are still searching for the suspects. According to the San Bernardino Sheriff, at least one suspect may have fled in a black SUV. This is a developing story. ——————- Police in […]
SAN BERNARDINO, CA (RNN) – The San Bernardino Fire Department said Wednesday it had units responding to reports of a shooting involving 20 victims. Public information officers for the fire department posted the information to Twitter at 11:14 a.m. PT. The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department tweeted city police confirmed an active shooter, with one […]
There are 160 known, active Ku Klux Klan chapters in the United States, according to research from the Southern Poverty Law Center. How many are near…
The Department of Education has approved a program that provides morning-after pills or Plan B contraception to students at 13 New York City high schools, reports the New York Post. The Plan B contraception program, Connecting Adolescents to Comprehensive Health (CATCH), was created to combat the epidemic problem of teen pregnancy throughout the city, which […]
(CNN) – September is Childhood Obesity Awareness Month, and as kids go back to school, health authorities are asking parents to make sure their youngsters stay fit during the school season. Over the last 40 years, obesity rates in children have skyrocketed. According to the American College of Sports Medicine, more than 23 million children […]
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) - 19 Action News has been following the Chardon tragedy since it broke Monday morning. The story has been making national headlines and we've found some local officers who had already been training for a situation like this. They have been learning new ways to handle what police call an active shooter. All Cleveland cops recently received an eight page order explaining what to do if a gunman is rampaging through a school or mall or even a sporting event. Cleveland police are relying more than ever on patrol officers -- counting on them to confront a gunman instead of waiting for a SWAT team.