Category: Public Health and Safety
Stranger answers Maryland woman’s life-saving Facebook plea for a kidney transplant
Stephanie Chabalko is a veterinarian from Arnold, Maryland, who was looking down a potentially dark tunnel as she waited for a life-saving organ transplant. Stephanie needed a kidney donation; and without […]
Maryland State Troopers out and about over Thanksgiving Holiday
With extra traffic expected this Thanksgiving holiday, Maryland State Police will have additional troopers on patrol who will be using a variety of initiatives to keep traffic moving, respond quickly […]
Reward offered for information on shooting death of D.C. police officer killed in Baltimore
Tony Anthony Mason Jr., 40, a sergeant and 17-year veteran of the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C. was fatally shot while sitting in a parked car on Elgin Avenue […]
Married couple pleads guilty to sexually abusing 17-month-old girl entrusted to their care
A married couple from upstate New York pleaded guilty last week to the continued sexual abuse of a 17-month-old girl they were babysitting in the town of Sidney. Justin and […]
Bogus Craigslist ‘doctor’ who advertised for paid female volunteers for ‘anatomy research’ charged with 17 counts of rape
A Provo, Utah, man posing as a doctor on Craigslist was offering female volunteers $200 to take part in a research study. Interested parties were invited to his office to […]
Manhunt over for man charged with rape and murder of 13-month-old baby
Joshua Gurto, 37, had been on the run from police for three weeks after being charged with the October 7 rape and murder of 13-month-old Sereniti Jazzlyn-Sky Blankenship-Sutley, his girlfriend’s […]
Texas man arrested after traveling to Orlando to have sex with 9-year-old girl
Accused child predator, 64-year-old Mark Andrew Nichols of Austin, Texas, was arrested in Orlando, Florida, this weekend “on charges he traveled to Orlando to have sex with who he thought […]
Human remains found behind church in Charlotte, North Carolina, identified as missing Virginia teen Ashanti Billie
Police say that the human remains found behind a church in Charlotte, North Carolina on September 30 are those of 19-year-old Ashanti Billie who went missing on September 18. Friends […]
ICE targets Sanctuary Cities and makes nearly 500 immigrant arrests
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested a total of 498 people from 42 countries for federal immigration violations. Those arrests took place in multiple cities and jurisdictions across the […]
Child Care Workers Seen Taunting Autistic Child on Video Arrested and Charged
After a Snapchat video recently surfaced showing two female child care workers, berating, taunting and throwing a backpack at an eight-year-old autistic child, police in Winter Haven, Florida, issued warrants […]
