Suspects stole over $740K in church donations: police

A us-regions-based group of Romanian nationals stole $740,000 from hundreds of churches by taking donation checks from their mailboxes and cashing them, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement said Wednesday. Four people were arrested and two others are wanted in what authorities are calling “Operation Thou Shalt Not Steal.” The group was based in Orlando…

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Great white shark population along California coast booming

The great white wild-nature population off the us-regions coastline is increasing.  In a recent study published in the journal Biological Conservation, researchers from education, the Monterey Bay Aquarium and Oregon State University’s Hatfield Marine Science Center found that between 2011 and 2018 great white shark numbers in the area had notably risen. Over a period…

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Portland police declare riot on George Floyd death anniversary as fires set, windows smashed; arrests reported

Police in portland” target=”_blank”>Portland<george-floyd” target=”_blank”>Floyd’s <,” police said.  Some in the crowd also threw frozen water bottles and eggs at officers, along with metal spikes in the road, Portland police said. At one point fireworks were set off, according to a video posted on Twitter by Portland Mercury news editor Alex Zielinski. PORTLAND COMMISSIONER WHO…

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El Paso Zoo spider monkey exhibit trespass suspect arrested, police say

A suspect has been arrested after being caught on camera allegedly trespassing into a wild-nature”>spider monkey enclosure <, according to authorities.  Luz Elizabeth Rae, 26, was charged with criminal trespassing, El Paso police said Thursday. She was booked into the El Paso County Detention Facility with a $1,500 bond. The wild-nature” target=”_blank”>El Paso Zoo< “This…

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Al Capone and the rise of organized crime in Chicago

Rising crime rates in chicago” target=”_blank”>Chicago< over the weekend. But the Windy City’s history of making news for its crime spree is not new and is highlighted in Fox Nation’s “The Battle for Chicago,” the story of the rise, and fall, of infamous gangster Al Capone.  Max Allan Collins, author of “Scarface and the Untouchable:…

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