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DENVER (KDVR) — Denver is set to open a micro-community in the Overland Park neighborhood off South Santa Fe Drive on Monday. It’s part of Mayor Mike Johnston’s House1000 initiative. “The micro-community is going to provide opportunity to people to survive,” Denver District 7 Council Member Flor Alvidrez said. People from an encampment off Colfax Avenue and Umatilla Street will be moved to the community, which is made up of 60 tiny homes. The community will offer wraparound services, including medical care and employment services. “We have worked so hard to get to this point,” Alvidrez

As new curfews loom for migrant shelters across the city over concerns about crime and chaos, neighbors and migrants alike remain unsure what changes the new policies will bring about — and whether they’re needed at all. “I feel that the issue of violence is not going to stop,” said Colombia Maribel Lopez, a Venezuelan who’s been living in the Big Apple with her kids for six months. “What we need are more personnel to address the problem. But I don’t think the curfew will stop anything,” she told The Post.

Brooklyn’s Democratic Party leader is dragging race and class into the city’s migrant crisis, claiming the wealthier whiter neighborhoods in her borough are not shouldering their fair share of shelters. “With dwindling resources being rapidly depleted, this situation is unsustainable without our entire borough banding together and helping together; as we have to overcome the Pandemic and other crises,” reads a statement released by local Dem chief Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn and the Brooklyn Democratic Party organization. “Let’s spread the love the Brooklyn way,” Bichotte Hermelyn said in the missive, which was obtained by The Post.

Shocking doorbell video captures a white teen repeatedly pounding on the door of a black woman and her daughter — spewing racial slurs and threatening to rape and murder the Oregon women while making stabbing motions with a knife. Nubrittany Smith told KOIN that she and her mom, Tasha, started getting the terrifying visits soon after they moved into their new apartment in Gresham, a city in the suburbs of Portland, in June. Smith shared videos from her Ring camera of the man, identified as 19-year-old neighbor Dominic Austin, repeatedly walking up to her door while shirtless — and swinging...

The vandalism last weekend of a sculpture of Republican Party icon Ronald Reagan that’s long greeted passersby of artist Miriam Baker’s home on Balboa Island’s South Bayfront has generated outcry from her neighbors and friends. Baker first learned of the incident from her nephew, who at about 9 a.m. Sunday discovered the artwork, which stands next to some potted geraniums on her front patio, had been defaced by someone using what appeared to have been foam insulation. “It’s incomprehensible that there is a person that nasty around that would do it out of meanness and small mindedness,” said Baker, who...

A white Florida woman has been arrested for shooting dead her black neighbor 'through her front door' while confronting her after a bitter two-year dispute over her children playing outside. Susan Lorincz, 58, is accused of killing Ajike 'AJ' Owens in front of her 10-year-old son after the mother-of-four went to confront her over attacking her kids on Friday. Lorincz was charged Tuesday with manslaughter with a firearm, culpable negligence, battery, and two counts of assault, Marion County Sheriff's OfficeA white Florida woman has been arrested for shooting dead her black neighbor 'through her front door' while confronting her after...

Calls are growing for the arrest of a woman accused of shooting her mother-of-four neighbor after she complained about the victim's children playing outside. The children of Ajike 'AJ' Owens were playing in a field near an apartment complex in Ocala, Florida, on Friday when her neighbor 'began yelling at them to get off her land and calling them racial slurs', renowned civil rights attorney Ben Crump said. The children then accidentally left an iPad behind after leaving the field, Crump explained, before going back to fetch it. But the neighbor, a 58-year-old white woman, who was not named, had...

A letter from a vegan neighbour asking a resident to close their window when cooking meat has sparked fierce debate. A bizarre neighbourhood dispute has erupted in Perth’s northern suburbs. And it’s over the smell of food … On behalf of their vegan family members, a Burns Beach resident has written to their neighbour asking they close their window when cooking their “sickening” meat — PerthNow reports. The upset writer presented the letter with “PLEASE TAKE SERIOUSLY” written on the front of the envelope containing the request. The letter submitted to Hey Perth on Facebook begins: “Hello neighbour, could you...

A Florida dentist was arrested over the weekend for allegedly assaulting another man with a golf club at a golf course, causing him serious injuries including broken ribs. Eddie Orobitg, 52, was arrested on the course and booked into the Lake County jail on a charge of aggravated battery, the Lake County Sheriff's Office said. Police had been called to the Harbor Hills Golf Course in Lady Lake, Florida, on Sunday afternoon after reports that a man was attacked by another with a golf club. The victim, Dr Joseph Sivak, claims he nearly died in an interview and that the...

A six-year-old girl in Gaston County, North Carolina, has been left with bullet fragments in her cheek after her neighbor, Robert Louis Singletary, opened fire on her and her parents over a stray basketball. Singletary allegedly became enraged and began firing at the children and parents, striking or grazing them with bullets. Kinsley White, the young girl injured in the shooting, was interviewed by local news station WSOC, where she asked, "Why did you shoot my daddy and me? Why did you shoot a kid's dad?" Singletary remains on the run, and police have described him as "armed and dangerous."...

It's one thing to send your neighbor a completely insane rambling letter demanding that they cease something that you don't want them to do. That alone takes a certain level of unhinged manicism. When that letter is written so poorly that parts of it are almost incomprehensible, it takes the whole thing to another level. It's kind of like getting into an argument on the internet; if you're unable to adequately and accurately express yourself, you will be torn apart based on that alone. Why on earth is this neighbor so riled up in the first place? I wouldn't consider...

GLENFIELD, N.D. – EXCLUSIVE: Neighbors of the North Dakota man who allegedly admitted to mowing down 18-year-old Cayler Ellingson with an SUV describe Shannon Brandt as being "nuts his whole life" and someone who had mental health conditions. The incident happened early Sunday morning after Brandt, 41, and Ellingson were at a local bar's street dance. An affidavit states that Brandt told the 911 operator that an individual was threatening him, adding that Ellingson was part of a "Republican extremist group." Ellingson was seriously injured and later died at a local hospital. Brandt was charged with criminal vehicular homicide, as...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) used a Wednesday press conference to highlight new state gun controls and emphasized that talking to a would-be gun buyer’s “neighbors online” is now part of a background check. Hochul’s comments to reporters and others gathered for the conference were wide-ranging, focusing broadly on New York’s Interstate Task Force on Illegal Guns.

LOUISVILLE, KY. — A Kentucky jury on Thursday cleared a former police officer of charges that he endangered neighbors when he fired shots into an apartment during the 2020 drug raid that ended with Breonna Taylor’s death. The panel of eight men and four women delivered its verdict about three hours after it took the case following closing arguments from prosecution and defense attorneys.

I was surprised to read The Washington Post’s recent editorial concluding that pro-choice protesters had crossed the line by demonstrating in front of the home of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. After all, The Washington Post is not exactly a conservative or rational voice on these types of issues. Almost all the points in the editorial made perfect and logical sense, including the concluding statement: “Leave spouses, children and homes out of it.” As I finished reading the editorial, one overriding thought came to mind. Where was this logical point of view in 2020 when many Trump administration officials, including...

In his tirade, Edward Cagney Mathews gave his address and challenged, “Come see me.” On Monday, about 100 people did. Police in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey arrested a man who went on a six-minute racist tirade Friday against his neighbors, an interaction caught on camera that led to a community showdown on Monday. “Learn your laws. This is not Africa or (inaudible) or wherever the f**k you were,” Edward Cagney Mathews says to his neighbor, who is Black. ....

https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/oregon-cat-stealing-items-neighbors-sign-warns The picture is absolutely hilarious. I had a Heinz-57 dog, all black with white paws, white ring around nose and white tip on a very long-hair tail, back when I was ten years old. Used to pull me around on a skateboard. He was awesome, smart and such a character. " Lucky" went about lifting newspapers, shoes, etc. I made a sign and drew his picture on it. Mom had my sister and me pull a wagon about the neighborhood with all the things Lucky took away to reunite them. If I can find a picture I'll post it...

I’m only airing this on this public forum because I’ve never encountered it to this degree before. Here’s the story: new neighbors moved in about three months ago in my semi rural, large lot residential neighborhood in the outskirts of my large city. I’ve lived here exactly 14 years now, and in that time I’ve experienced a level of quiet peace that most people would envy. The sounds of nature is about as loud as it gets, discounting the occasional Harley or ricer racing down the nearby thoroughfare. The neighbors are a large family of, shall we say, south-of-the-border derivation,...

When Modesti Cooper returned home to Houston in July 2019 after more than a decade overseas with the United States military, she moved into her dream house on the corner of Nance and Grove streets in Houston’s Fifth Ward. She’d bought a parcel of land and designed the home from scratch in her downtime while touring from Kuwait to Afghanistan to Iraq. It was a relief to finally move in. “It’s a calm, cool, nice area,” Cooper says. “Besides the traffic, there’s no violence, no noise. It’s so quiet, it’s unbelievable. I had rockets and mortars and missiles blown over...

Neighbors of Donald Trump’s infamous Mar-a-Lago golf club in Palm Beach, Florida are warning the president that he cannot live at the club after he leaves the White House, following an agreement he made with the town in 1993. In a letter to the town of Palm Beach and the US Secret Service sent this week, a lawyer representing a family that lives next to Mar-a-Lago reiterated that “Mar-a-Lago is a social club, and no one may reside on the property.” “To avoid an embarrassing situation for everyone and to give the president time to make other living arrangements in...