Category: Social

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School held its senior prom in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Saturday night, nearly three months after a gunman killed 17 people and injured numerous others at the school. The Westin Fort Lauderdale Beach Resort hosted 850 of Stoneman Douglas students, according to The Sun-Sentinel. The publication reports that the hotel’s ballroom was adorned with trees, […]

A police officer was shot and killed in a shootout with a homicide suspect in Indiana Friday evening. The suspect was also killed in the exchange, police said. The shooting occurred just after 6:30 p.m. in Terre Haute, Indiana, as a group of officers was investigating a homicide at an apartment complex, authorities said. “As […]

LOS ANGELES — Following last month’s DNA-driven arrest of a suspect in California’s four-decades-old Golden State Killer investigation, detectives on the trail of the infamous Zodiac Killer say they believe genetic evidence could provide a breakthrough. A suspect calling himself the Zodiac Killer is believed to be responsible for at least five killings in Northern […]

The Boy Scouts is getting a name change. Starting in February, 2019, the program will switch to a gender neutral title and allow girls to join. After 108 years, the Boy Scouts program is set to drop the gender from its name and re-emerge as “Scouts BSA,” a more “inclusive” group that will also soon […]

Hundreds of public schools across Arizona remained closed on Tuesday due to the fourth day of teacher walkouts. An estimated 840,000 students were out of school again Tuesday as educators and school employees committed to a fourth day of demonstrations over low pay and low funding for school systems. Reuters reports that organizers announced late Monday that they would […]

Adult-film star Stormy Daniels has filed a defamation suit against President Trump in addition to her ongoing one against his personal attorney, Michael Cohen. Daniels’s lawyer, Michael Avenatti, tweeted Monday that his client has filed the lawsuit for Trump’s “irresponsible and defamatory statements” about Daniels, whom Cohen paid $130,000 as part of a nondisclosure agreement […]

Golden State Killer suspect Joseph DeAngelo is being looked at in the 1978 deaths of 24-year-old Rhonda Wicht and her 4-year-old son Donald, CBS Los Angeles reports. “We’ve made a request for a DNA comparison to find out if the DNA they recovered from Mr. DeAngelo is consistent with the DNA that we have in […]

Manhunt under way after sheriff’s deputy killed in Maine. Suspect is considered armed and dangerous. The man wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of a Maine deputy was in custody after a four-day intense manhunt, arrested with the slain deputy’s own handcuffs, the police said. John Williams, 29, was captured by authorities Saturday, Somerset […]

James Shaw Jr., the hero of the April 22 Waffle House shooting, has launched a campaign on a crowdfunding site to raise money for the victims of the deadly attack in a Nashville suburb. Shaw initially wanted to raised $15,000. By April 28 the site had collected over $183,000. “Please take the time to donate […]

Teachers in Colorado and Arizona walked out of their schools on Thursday to protest education funding in their states, marking the latest demonstration over school funding in the U.S. The protests forced the closures of hundreds of public schools in the states, with over 840,000 of Arizona’s public school students potentially affected by the protests. Twenty-seven […]

A decades-long search for the “Golden State Killer” — who police say committed 12 murders, 45 rapes, and 120 home burglaries during a reign of terror back in the 1970s and 1980s — may be finally over. A 72-year-old ex-police officer named Joseph James DeAngelo, who appears to fit the description of the elusive California […]

ISTANBUL –  A Turkish court has convicted journalists and other staff members from the opposition Cumhuriyet newspaper on terror charges. Turkey’s official Anadolu news agency said Wednesday that 14 employees were found guilty of “aiding a terror group without being a member,” with sentences ranging from 2 ½ to 7 ½ years. The newspaper said […]