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Two people, including a suspected gunmen, were wounded in a shooting Sunday at a Sikh temple in Sacramento County that took place as crowds gathered to celebrate a traditional festival.Officers received reports of a shooting at around 2:30 p.m. at Gurdwara Sahib Temple on Bradshaw Road in Sacramento, according to Sgt.

Two people were killed Friday in a helicopter crash in a hilly, unincorporated area of Riverside County.The Riverside County Sheriff's Office said deputies were called to the crash site near Pulsar View Road and Chastity Road in an unincorporated area of Perris at 12:39 p.m.
Upon arrival, they found a downed helicopter.

Afroman, pictured performing in 2018, made music videos featuring home video footage of a police raid of his house last year.Now some of the officers are suing him, and he plans to countersue.Johnny Louis/Getty Images After police in Ohio raided Afroman's house last August, the rapper known for early aughts hits including "Because I Got High" and "Crazy Rap (Colt 45 and 2 Zig-Zags)" decided to make something out of it.

Subscribe to our daily newsletter and have the latest stories from Mission Local delivered directly to your inbox."I feel that I prayed for years that he didn't die out on the streets.And he died in the custody of the Sheriff's Department.And that's unacceptable," said Karina Macay, at Wednesday's meeting of the Sheriff's Department Oversight Committee.

A suspect in the fatal shooting of a teller during a 1997 bank robbery in Thousand Oaks has been arrested, the Ventura County Sheriff's Office announced Friday.The suspect was identified as 55-year-old Kevin Ray James of San Bernardino.Little information about the arrest was disclosed Friday with officials set to hold a news conference about the case on Tuesday in Thousand Oaks.

A sheriff's office in Illinois said it was initially thwarted from tracking a stolen car with a 2-year-old boy inside when Volkswagen's Car-Net service refused to provide access to the tracking system because the car's subscription had expired."While searching for the stolen vehicle and endangered child, sheriff's detectives immediately called Volkswagen Car-Net, in an attempt to track the vehicle," the Lake County sheriff's office said in a statement posted on Facebook about the incident on February 23.

Thursday, January 12, 2023 by Seth Smalley
A minor debate flared up at Tuesday's Travis County Commissioners Court meeting about installing Flock, a license plate surveillance system, on public lands in the county - specifically Rob Roy, a private residential neighborhood in Austin.Members of the homeowners association of Rob Roy on the Creek requested that six automatic license plate reading cameras be installed on Furlong Drive, Newhall Lane and Beardsley Lane.

Authorities rescued a driver Friday after they plunged hundreds of feet off a cliff at Mt. Tamalpais.A driver was rescued Friday after their car plunged more than 500 feet off a cliff at Mt. Tamalpais in the Bay Area, authorities said.Multiple agencies responded to the crash at about 7:53 p.m. in the area of Ridgecrest Drive in Marin County, the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office posted on Facebook.

Los Angeles County sheriff's detectives are conducting a homicide investigation after a fetus was found early Friday near a trash can in South El Monte.The discovery was reported about 8 a.m. in the Whittier Narrows Recreation Area, according to media reports and a Sheriff's Department statement.KABC and KNX reported that the body was that of a fetus about six or seven months along, with the umbilical cord still attached.

The S.T.A.R. Center, at Central State Hospital in Dinwiddie County, Va., pictured in 2018.Bob Brown/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP Ten law enforcement officers have been charged with second-degree murder over the death of a Black man at a state psychiatric hospital last week, according to a Virginia prosecutor.

Two people were killed Sunday afternoon in a small airplane crash in Northern California, authorities said.The crash happened along Dog Bar Road near Colfax, a small city northeast of Sacramento, about 1:30 p.m., according to the Nevada County Sheriff's Office.It was not immediately clear what caused the crash, but the Sheriff's Office said officials from the Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board were en route to the scene to investigate.

In March 1995, the body of a young woman was found inside a refrigerator partially submerged in an irrigation canal in the San Joaquin County community of Holt.Investigators said the woman had been "entombed" underwater for several months, leading to "an advanced state of decomposition."

One of the men accused of gunning down six members of a Central California family had been embroiled in an "extensive history and feud" with the family and once shot at one of them, according to police records obtained by The Times.Shortly before 10 p.m. on Aug. 6, 2014, Tulare County sheriff's deputies responded to a shooting at the Wooden Shoe RV Park in Goshen.

Monday, May 1, 2023 by Seth Smalley
Despite significant work across Travis County over the last year, the number of overdose deaths increased 35 percent and the number of fentanyl-related overdose deaths climbed 108 percent.That number has increased tenfold since 2019 and has doubled since last year's report, when the county declared a public health crisis.

The second community meeting to discuss qualifications required for a new leader of the Sheriff's Department Oversight Board drew the s ame number of participants as the first - one.Tuesday night's meeting was held in District 5, which includes Cole Valley, the Haight and the Western Addition.The meeting, originally scheduled for two hours, was adjourned after barely half that time.

A Bengal tiger rests at its enclosure at the Alipore zoo in Kolkata, India, in 2019.A zoo in Georgia said two tigers escaped from their enclosures briefily Sunday, March 26, 2023.(Bikas Das/AP)Two tigers were missing briefly at a Pine Mountain, Ga., zoo on Sunday after a probable tornado damaged the attraction Saturday night.

A report from the Simon Wiesenthal Center scoring social media platforms based on the proliferation of hate speech found that mainstream sites like TikTok and Twitter fared only slightly better than much smaller platforms like Telegram favored by far-right groups."If you have TikTok at home, you should get rid of it," said the Wiesenthal Center's director of global social action, Rabbi Abraham Cooper.

A mother says bullies assaulted her 13-year-old son in a middle school bathroom after months of racist and anti-LGBTQ+ slurs.School and legal officials near Allendale-Fairfax Middle School in South Carolina have been unhelpful, she adds.Now, she's rallying community attention while pursuing charges against the students involved.

A mother says bullies assaulted her 13-year-old son in a middle school bathroom after months of racist and anti-LGBTQ+ slurs.School and legal officials near Allendale-Fairfax Middle School in South Carolina have been unhelpful, she adds.Now, she's rallying community attention while pursuing charges against the students involved.

The Mercury provides news and fun every single day-but your help is essential.If you believe Portland benefits from smart, local journalism and culture coverage, please consider making a small monthly contribution, because without you, there is no us.Thanks for your support!Good Morning, Portland!We're looking at a high of 84 degrees today, and a warm night in the mid-50s.

Just as she did any other Monday, Lindsy Doan was driving her 5-year-old son, Kyle, to Lillian Larsen Elementary School in San Miguel, where she works as a special education teacher and her son is a kindergartner.The Doans have driven through the intersection of San Marcos Road and Wellsona Road near the San Marcos Creek countless times before, according to Brian Doan, Kyle's father and Lindsy's husband.

A San Quentin State Prison captain was arrested last week on suspicion of sexually assaulting someone who was unconscious.Orlando Ponce, 43, was arrested Thursday, accused of forcible penetration of an unconscious person, the Marin County Sheriff's Office said in a news release.An individual reported the alleged incident to the Sheriff's Office on Jan. 30, saying it occurred in San Quentin Village, a neighborhood just outside the prison.

An on-duty Selma police officer was fatally shot Tuesday while responding to a resident's concern, stunning many in the small city just southeast of Fresno.Officer Gonzalo Carrasco Jr., 24, is the first officer to die in the line of duty in Selma, a majority Latino city of fewer than 25,000, according to a statement from the Fresno County Sheriff's Office, which is investigating the killing.

Southern Brooklynites shared a laundry-list of community concerns at a town hall meeting with local Council Member Ari Kagan on March 1 - touching on everything from dirty streets to illegally parked trucks.At the open mic discussion, locals were able to bring their worries to a panel of city agencies, including the Parks Department, Department of Buildings, NYPD, Department of Transportation, Housing Preservation and Development and more.

BOSTON (AP) - The Barnstable County Sheriff's Office in Massachusetts is ending an agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that gave deputies the authority to enforce federal immigration laws, civil rights attorneys said Wednesday.The Barnstable department was the last sheriff's office in New England with such an agreement, called a 287(g), according to Lawyers for Civil Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts.