The Lancaster city man shot and killed by a police officer Friday morning was running toward a bystander while armed with a machete, the Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office said Monday. Luis Alex Fuentes, 39, of the 400 block of South Plum Street, died several hours after being shot once in the back on his street, according to…
Hundreds of U.S. military members are training for the next two weeks in Gulfport and across Mississippi during a combat exercise that will send low-flying helicopters and noise across the area. The event is called the Sentry South-Southern Strike exercise. It began Monday and ends Feb. 7. The Air National Guard is hosting 500 members from the U.S. military’s active, guard and reserve units, a…
A former Mercer County resident admitted Monday that he tried to join a Somalian-based terrorist organization to target “evil America” in 2023, authorities said. Karrem Nasr, 24, a U.S. citizen who previously lived in Lawrenceville, pleaded guilty to attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office District of Southern New York. Nasr moved from New Jersey to Egypt in July…
About 200 soldiers from Fort Stewart near Savannah have deployed to the U.S.-Mexican border as part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration. The troops, according to the military, will “support enhanced detection and monitoring efforts” and help set up and repair physical barriers. They will operate under U.S. Northern Command and Joint Task…
An alleged would-be Donald Trump assassin with ties to Iran says he’s been held in a cold solitary confinement cell at the notorious Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn without warm clothing, and denied basic amenities like salt and pepper to season his food. Asif Merchant has been locked up in the Special Administrative Measures, or SAMS, unit, on the eighth floor of the Sunset Park federal jail, since his…
DENVER — Two people are dead, one is in custody and a fourth is on the run after an early morning shooting at a Denver 7-Eleven, police said. Just after midnight on Monday morning, two groups arrived at a 7-Eleven gas station on the corner of East 35th Avenue and Colorado Boulevard, Denver police chief…
