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A 16-year-old girl was stabbed to death outside a Washington, DC-area McDonald’s in an apparent dispute about sweet and sour sauce over the weekend. Naima Liggon, of Waldorf, Maryland, was allegedly killed by another 16-year-old girl outside the fast food chain in a popular nightlife section of the city around 2 a.m., the Metropolitan Police said. The deadly knife attack stemmed from an argument over the nugget dipping sauce between the teens and a third girl, Detective Brendan Jasper testified in court Monday, according to the Washington Post. The verbal dispute turned physical as Liggon and the third girl hit...

n a strange and horrifying case out of Australia, Melbourne doctors killed an unborn baby while performing a sex change on a woman who wanted her uterus removed. She had no idea she was pregnant so the baby was killed during the surgery. The woman who received the hysterectomy procedure now calls herself a man by the name of Jesse Pohlner. She was four months pregnant when she underwent a full hysterectomy at Royal Women’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. Pohlner had her uterus and ovaries removed and she told reporters “there was no pregnancy test performed.” “I would call it...

A new lawsuit accuses employees at a Popeyes restaurant in Atlanta, Georgia, of attacking a woman in the drive-thru after she attempted to have her order corrected. The incident allegedly happened in September 2022 at the Popeyes location on Cleveland Avenue in southwest Atlanta. After Denetra Dawson attempted to fix an incorrect order, employees allegedly attacked her, pulling out a chunk of her hair and leaving her bruised, according to the lawsuit filed Friday. Dawson said in the lawsuit that when she tried to have her order fixed, words were exchanged before the employees attacked. “I didn’t even think I...

Police are searching for a woman after she allegedly threatened to blow up a Moore home because of the decorations in the homeowner’s yard. “I would say that is terrorism, but that’s just me,” said Jason Sumrall, a neighbor who was shocked when he saw the footage. Pascal Quintero owns a home in Moore near Southwest Second and Janesway Avenue said that he has always been looking over his shoulder since that day. Quintero said it began in the afternoon of July 8th when the woman walked up and rang their Ring Doorbell. Camera footage from the Ring Doorbell shows...

HALLOWELL — A Belmont woman was arrested on a variety of charges Sunday after police say she struck an officer with her vehicle because she was frustrated with a traffic jam caused by a triathlon. Christopher Giles, interim Hallowell police chief , said Hallowell police officers had stopped vehicle traffic on Water Street across from Academy Street to allow a group of Ironman 70.3 runners to cross Water Street, when a woman who was driving south became irate at the delay. “She was commanded by an officer to stop because of a potential safety hazard to several runners,” Giles said....

Indiana parents have been charged after their 5-year-old son allegedly shot and killed his 16-month-old brother. Police say both young children had drugs in their systems. Around 3:00 p.m. on March 28, officers from the Lafayette Police Department responded to a report that a child wasn't breathing at an apartment building in Lafayette — about an hour north of Indianapolis. Cops discovered a 1-year-old boy deceased and determined the cause of death was a gunshot wound to the head. After an investigation, police said that 16-month-old Isiah Johnson had been shot and killed by his 5-year-old brother. Law & Crime...

A Florida woman was arrested after biting the top of another woman's ear off during a fight over vape pens and alcohol on July 4th, according to the Bay County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies responded to an assault and battery call at a home in Callaway, a suburb of Panama City, just after midnight. An investigation revealed the incident had occurred at a house party next door at 6526 Olokee Street that was thrown by unsupervised minors. When a fight kicked off between several men at the house party, 23-year-old Macy Regan attempted to leave and walk to her home next...

A man sitting outside an Ohio gas station was beaten by a group of 12 teenagers in a brutal and unprovoked attack, Cleveland officials say. Surveillance video captured the group arriving at the gas station — on the city’s northeast side — in stolen Kias and Hyundais at about 12:30 a.m. on Tuesday, July 25, city officials said at a news briefing. Several teens walk up to a man sitting against a wall and unleash a flurry of kicks and punches, video shared by officials shows. The man tries to get away, but more of the group step in, surrounding...

A New York City taxi driver was viciously beaten by a group of five brutes on a busy Midtown Manhattan street last week in a disturbing attack that was caught on camera. The horrific footage shows three women and two men repeatedly striking the 60-year-old cabbie with shoes and closed fists near Sixth Avenue and W. 34th Street on July 19. The male driver attempts to avoid their blows and bends down to pick an item off the street, but is continuously pummeled. He is knocked off balance and slumps along the side of his cab as one of the...

A five-year-old boy high on cocaine shot his toddler brother in the head, and prosecutors have charged their parents with neglect. The boy, who has not been named, shot and killed his little brother, Isiah Johnson - who had marijuana in his system - back in March at the family's home in Lafayette, Indiana. Deonta Jermaine Johnson, 27, and Shatia Tiara Welch, 24, have been charged with neglect and various drug charges after cops swooped on their property. Prosecutors say little Isiah, 16 months, died from a gunshot wound to the head and had marijuana in his blood, while his...

A 17-year-old host of a suburban Memphis restaurant said patrons beat him up and knocked him out over the weekend because they didn't like their table. What are the details? A group of eight people entered a Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen on North Germantown Parkway in Cordova on Sunday night, WHBQ-TV reported — but things were busy, and there was an hour-long wait. Cordova is about a half-hour east of Memphis. Latisha Ford, the teen's mother, told WREG-TV that "there were two people that were attacking him. They were hitting him all over the face.” The victim added to WHBQ that...

A woman suffered chemical burns after a Florida man dunked her head in a vat of tar-like substance and choked her at gunpoint. Marshall Dimick, 55, of Rosewood, was arrested this week after an unidentified woman told police she was tortured after she had an “argument” with the felon on Thursday. Dimick claimed the man “dunked her head into a vat of tar-like substance that is used to treat clam and oyster bags.” He also “pointed a shotgun at her and choked her to near unconsciousness,” the Levy County Sheriff’s Office said in a press release. The victim was hospitalized...

Tarica Brown, 34, is facing a slew of charges, including willful killing of an animal A 34-year-old Las Vegas woman is facing a slew of charges — including arson and willful killing of an animal — after she allegedly set a fire inside her boyfriend's home because he wasn’t answering his phone after a fight. Tarica Brown has been charged with first-degree arson, willful killing of an animal, residential burglary and domestic battery, FOX5 Vegas reported. She is currently out on bond. Brown is accused of starting a fire inside her boyfriend's home on April 24 because she was allegedly...

A man who was beat down by a still-at-large suspect at a Florida movie theater last week has spoken out - revealing he sustained a broken nose during the filmed assault. The incident happened July 10 at the AMC Pompano Theater in Pompano Beach, and left the 63-year-old victim bloodied, hospitalized, and in stitches - after he asked the much younger-suspect to move from a seat for which he paid in advance. Footage filmed from another moviegoer also showed the altercation in full - and how the victim was then pounced on by the suspect and punched repeatedly, while others,...

WEST MIAMI, Fla. – A man walked into a West Miami grocery store and stuffed his backpack to the brim with fresh salami and other products — and was not about to let an employee stop him from making off with the meat. Police said they’re now looking for the suspect caught on camera in the July 3 robbery. The carnivorous caper happened at the Sabor Tropical Supermarket, located at 6190 SW Eighth St., near 62nd Avenue. The video shows the suspect filling his backpack with about $400 in meat products, mostly salami, according to the store’s manager. A store...

Shocking new video footage shows the moment New Mexico police officers shot two bystanders while taking down a 25-year-old man who stabbed a Good Samaritan in the neck after being offered a free meal last month. Officers Brenda Johnson, Eric Wilensky, Violet Baca and Christian Cordova fatally shot Jeramiah Salyards, 25, while also shooting two unnamed bystanders - striking one victim at least four times, causing serious injuries. [snip] At one point, Salyards appeared to try to stand up while police fired another two gunshots at him, leading him to collapse on the sidewalk. Following the shooting, one officer mistakenly...

FLAGLER COUNTY, Fla. – A Florida man wearing only socks and a “small covering wrapped around his waist” was arrested Wednesday after multiple hit-and-run crashes, according to sheriff’s officials. The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office said an SUV was speeding on Old Kings Road when it struck multiple cars and continued down the road. A Florida Fish and Wildlife officer tried to pull over the driver, identified as 22-year-old Stephen Peterson, of Port Orange, but he did not stop the car. The SUV then drove onto Old Kings Elementary School’s property and drove around the running track before getting back onto...

Multiple people were injured in a shooting Tuesday near Virginia Commonwealth University following a high school graduation ceremony. VCU police said the shooting occurred around 5:13 p.m. in the area of Monroe Park, near the campus' Altria Theater after a graduation ceremony for Huguenot High School. Richmond police said seven people were injured, including three with life-threatening injuries. Four other people were treated for injuries other than gunshot wounds.

It took less than sixty seconds of standing on a sidewalk for Damon Atkins to be placed in handcuffs and arrested for quoting a portion of a Bible verse. On Saturday morning dozens of people were gathered outside the Reading City Hall on Washington Street to participate in the city’s first ever “Pride March and Rally” endorsed by Mayor Eddie Moran. At approximately 10:05 a.m. Atkins arrived at a public sidewalk across the street from City Hall. In less than a minute he found himself in handcuffs.

Quantaurius Simmons and Andres Brisco arrived with two other people at the fast food restaurant on Saturday and ordered a hot dog with a side of jalapeno poppers at around 7:30 p.m., according to Tulsa police. Instead, however, the group received a hot dog with jalapenos on it, triggering an argument between them and the Sonic employees. A manager stepped in to try and quell the situation, but Simmons allegedly exited the black Altima and tried to enter a closed-off section of the restaurant. When the manager tried to stop him, police said Simmons dragged the man outside and began...