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Here’s a look at the life of convicted DC-area sniper Lee Boyd Malvo. Personal Birth date: February 18, 1985 Birth place: Kingston, Jamaica Birth name: Lee Boyd Malvo Father: Leslie Malvo Mother: Una James Marriage: Wife’s name unavailable publicly (2020-present) Other Facts Currently in prison awaiting resentencing for multiple charges stemming from a multi-state shooting

Click here for updates on this story     TUCSON, Arizona (Arizona Daily Star) — Mari Katherine Scruggs carries her laptop as she walks around her classroom, peeking over her students’ shoulders as they work on their own laptops at their desks. She reminds a couple of the eighth graders — for a second time — to

Click here for updates on this story     PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — Two teen suspects were arrested in connection with a gunpoint carjacking in southeast Portland. Officers responded to Southeast 31st Avenue and Pine Street at 12:50 a.m. Sunday. The victim’s car was stolen at gunpoint by two people who drove away in the car, according

Click here for updates on this story     BUFFALO, New York (The Buffalo News) — During the day, Michael Masecchia was a respected English teacher at Buffalo’s Grover Cleveland High School, where colleagues considered him a role model who genuinely cared about his students. He also coached youth football and high school soccer, including an International

Click here for updates on this story     DANVILLE, Virginia (Danville Register & Bee) — There are now 12 cases of COVID-19 at Southern Virginia Mental Health Institute. The facility halted admissions of new patients Monday since a third COVID-19 outbreak at the facility last week. That outbreak has increased since five patients and two staff

The Jackson County prosecutor in Missouri will not charge the officer who shot and killed Donnie Sanders in March 2020, according to a statement from Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker. Sanders, who was unarmed, was shot on March 12, 2020, by an unnamed Kansas City Missouri Police (KCPD) officer, and died the next day. An independent

Click here for updates on this story     MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) — Expressing disgust over the nature of the allegations, a judge on Tuesday denied bail for a man accused of critically wounding a 5-year-old boy in a hail of gunfire on Saturday. Mobile County District Judge Spiro Cheriogotis noted that bail was “academic,” since Reginald

Click here for updates on this story     COMPTON, Arkansas (KFSM) — The National Park Service, along with numerous local agencies and volunteers, worked to rescue an injured park visitor at Buffalo National River on Saturday (Feb. 27). A 60-year-old Bella Vista man was hiking with his son in a remote part of the Ponca Wilderness

Click here for updates on this story     Boston (WCVB ) — Whipping winds sent scaffolding tumbling down into a pile of debris and rubble Monday night at a building under construction in Boston. It happened just before 11 p.m. at the seven-story building on St. Alphonsus Street, just off Tremont Street. The scaffolding struck an

Click here for updates on this story     Topeka, Kansas (KMBC ) — For decades in Topeka, rumors about Seaman School District’s namesake Fred A. Seaman, have been floating around the community. “The first time I heard about it, I was like ‘woah, why isn’t this a bigger deal?’” said Rene Cabrera, a Seaman High School

Click here for updates on this story     St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana (WDSU ) — Drug overdose deaths have destroyed countless families and lives across Louisiana. One of those lives is 31-year-old Sidney Bothman. “Heroin is a drug that will kill people. It will grab them by the throat until it kills them,” Bothman’s mother Kelly

Here’s some background information about the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing, which killed six people and injured more than 1,000. Six suspects were convicted of directly participating in the bombing. The seventh suspect, Abdul Rahman Yasin, is still at large. Facts The explosion created a hole 200 feet by 100 feet, several stories deep. It

Here is a look at the life of Harry Belafonte, civil rights activist and award-winning singer and actor. Personal Birth date: March 1, 1927 Birth place: New York, New York Birth name: Harold George Bellanfanti Jr. Father: Harold George Bellanfanti, cook Mother: Melvine (Love) Bellanfanti, domestic worker Marriages: Pamela Frank (April 2008-present); Julie Robinson (March

Click here for updates on this story     SCRANTON, Pennsylvania (WNEP) — A Scranton man is now facing charges for twice setting fire to the rooming house where he lived. Henry Scheitrumpf, 69, locked up $500,000 bail. He is charged with aggravated arson, reckless endangerment and more, for allegedly setting fire to a dumpster and garbage

An SUV packed with people crashed into a semitruck in Imperial County, California, on Tuesday morning, leaving 15 dead and others hospitalized, hospital officials said. There were 27 passengers in the SUV that struck a semitruck full of gravel, said Judy Cruz, the managing director of the Emergency Room Department at El Centro Regional Medical

Here’s a quick look at the life of former South African president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, FW de Klerk. Personal Birth date: March 18, 1936 Birth place: Johannesburg, South Africa Birth name: Frederik Willem de Klerk Father: Johannes de Klerk, politician Mother: Corrie (Coetzer) de Klerk Marriages: Elita (Georgiades) de Klerk (November 1998-current); Marike