From the Trenches World Report
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Prominent restaurant owner Scott Dolich owes more than $580,000 to 41 former employees for the practice of tip pooling.
A Multnomah County jury decided that the owner of Park Kitchen must pay employees back for six years of tips that were taken and split among kitchen staff, salaried managers and the general manager. Continue reading “Park Kitchen fined $580,000 for wrongfully taking employee tips”
Pontiac once made a car called The Judge, but soon there may be a car that judges you.
Criminals should dread it.
Mobile communications company Motorola has filed a patent for an autonomous police car outfitted with all of the equipment needed to process a suspect and even hold a court hearing for them from the back seat, The Sunday Times reports. Continue reading “Here comes the judge: Autonomous cop car is a mobile courthouse”
A 74-year-old disbarred lawyer accused of killing a South Carolina law enforcement officer and wounding six others in an ambush-style shooting and his son were denied bond Friday.
Fred Hopkins is charged in the death of Florence Police Sgt. Terrence Carraway and six counts of attempted murder in the Wednesday shooting of Florence, S.C., police officers and Florence County sheriff’s deputies, FOX Carolina reported. Continue reading “South Carolina father, son each denied bond in aftermath of police killing”
Art prankster Banksy has struck again.
A work by the elusive street artist apparently self-destructed in front of startled auction-goers on Friday, moments after being sold for 1.04 million pounds ($1.4 million).
The spray-painted canvas “Girl With Balloon” went under the hammer at Sotheby’s in London, fetching more than three times its pre-sale estimate and equaling a record price for the artist. Continue reading “Banksy Artwork Self-Destructs Moment After $1.4 Million Sale”
HARTFORD, Mich. – The term “higher education” is taking on a new meaning in Van Buren County after police say a cheerleader allegedly brought some pot-laced brownies to school.
Hartford Police can’t recall anything like this ever happening in their town. They say that the student, a 17-year-old female, gave those brownies to some athletes at the school. The brownies were included inside goodie bags for the football team during Homecoming week, according to WXMI. Continue reading “Cheerleader allegedly brings pot brownies to school to win votes for Homecoming queen”
Police at Rome’s Fiumicino airport were in for a surprise when the suspicious suitcase they reportedly blew up contained nothing more than personal belongings — and coconuts.
Journalist Ned Donovan, who was inside Terminal 3 when the incident occurred, shared images of the luggage’s charred remains on social media.
“The Italian police have just blown up someone’s bag in Rome Airport and are now going through someone’s pants,” Donovan wrote. Continue reading “Italian authorities blow up suitcase in middle of Rome airport, traveler claims”
Chase, a German shepherd police K-9 with the Wilkes-Barre department, was deployed to chase a burglary suspect Tuesday when the dog chomped down on the leg of a cop, instead.
As the Citizens’ Voice reports, citing sources, officer Shane Smith on the leg while the officer was holding a perimeter during the search for a man who had fled the scene of the break-in. Continue reading “Pa. police K-9 bites cops for second time despite being retrained”
When a key witness in a major Pa. casino fraud case was found dead in a Wilkes-Barre creek Saturday, suspicions went into overdrive.
But according to the Luzerne County Coroner, the cause of 28-year-old Matthew Crane’s death wasn’t nefarious, but rather bad luck. Continue reading “Cause of death ruled for casino fraud witness found in Pa. creek”
My sister in law passed away unexpectedly on Saturday. its been really tough on my little brother. Prayers on his behalf would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Swifty
Two North Carolina children got ahold of a gun and fatally shot a man police said was assaulting and strangling their mother.
During the attack, Steven Kelley, 46, said he was going to cut the throat of Chandra Nierman, his girlfriend, and kill everyone in the home, the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office said. Continue reading “North Carolina kids fatally shoot man abusing their mother, police say”
Extremely rare video footage captured in the Amazon shows the last surviving member of an uncontacted tribe that was massacred in 1995.
FUNAI, the Brazilian government’s Indian Affairs department, released the video of the man in Tanaru, a remote indigenous territory in Brazil’s Rondônia state. The territory covers just over 8,000 hectares. Continue reading “Amazing Amazon sighting: ‘World’s loneliest man’ spotted in remarkable video footage”
Authorities have seized more than 550 guns at two Southern California homes and made one arrest after getting a tip that a convicted felon was storing an arsenal.
Sixty-year-old Manuel Fernandez was arrested last week after Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies and state and federal investigators raided his Agua Dulce home.
Officials Monday say the searchers found 432 rifles and handguns, then returned later and found 91 more hidden weapons. Continue reading “More than 500 guns seized from Southern California homes”
Nearly two dozen people were injured after gunfire broke out early Sunday during a fight at an all-night art event in New Jersey’s capital city, leaving one suspect dead which authorities said appeared to be caused by “neighborhood beef.”
Mercer County Prosecutor Angelo Onofri said at a news conference that a total of 22 people were injured in the shooting, 17 of whom were treated for gunshot wounds at nearby hospitals. A second suspect is in custody. Continue reading “New Jersey arts festival shooting leaves 22 injured, 1 suspect dead, officials say”
An employee closing up shop at a Little Caesars restaurant in Florida on Saturday night shot and killed a man in a clown mask after he was attacked with a wooden post, according to authorities.
Police in Holly Hill, Florida, said the employee exited the back door of the pizza place just before midnight when a man in a grotesque clown mask jumped him with a wooden post. According to the police report, the post broke over the man’s back, upon which the attacker tried to stab the employee with a pair of scissors. Continue reading “Little Caesars employee allegedly shoots, kills man in clown mask outside store”
Kelly Clarkson opened up the Billboard Music Awards on Sunday night with a tribute to the eight students and two teachers who died on Friday in the mass shooting at Santa Fe High School in Texas.
“I’m a Texas girl and my home state has had so much heartbreak over this past year,” an emotional Clarkson, the host of the show this year, told the audience. Continue reading “Billboard Music Awards host Kelly Clarkson demands ‘action’ after Texas school shooting”
One man is dead and another is injured after they were attacked by a cougar Saturday while mountain biking in Washington State, police said.
King County Sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. Ryan Abbott said the pair, whose identities haven’t been released, were attacked while they were going for a mountain bike ride in North Bend, east of Seattle. Continue reading “Cougar attack in Washington kills 1 biker, injures another”
YREKA, Calif. — The parents of two different Yreka children were arrested Friday for failing to bring their children to school, according to Siskiyou County Probation Department.
Bessie Grant, 28, was charged with delinquency of a minor and three counts of failure to supervise pupil’s school attendance.
David Goodwin,31, was charged with failure to send child to school and failure to supervise pupil’s school attendance. Continue reading “Two Yreka parents arrested for children’s unexcused absences”
A former Brownsville juvenile detention center employee was sentenced to 50 years in prison for theft by a public servant.
Gilberto Escamilla, the former purchaser for Darrel B. Hester Juvenile Detention Center, confessed he used taxpayer money to buy fajita meat and sell it for profit. Continue reading ““Fajita Bandit” Sentenced to 50 Years for Stealing, Selling $1.2M in Beef”