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A mass shooting Wednesday at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, has ended with multiple victims and the shooter dead, according to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.The shooting was reported around noon at the campus a few miles from the Las Vegas Strip.“We are responding to preliminary reports of an #ActiveShooter on the campus of UNLV,” the Police Department said in a statement on X, formerly known as Twitter, around noon. “There appears to be multiple victims at this time.”The shooting occurred at the…

The man wanted in a series of shootings that left three homeless men dead across Los Angeles last week was charged Monday with four counts of murder, prosecutors said. Jerrid Joseph Powell, 33, was charged with four counts of murder, one count of robbery and one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. He was expected be to arraigned in a downtown courtroom Monday afternoon.“I want to extend my deepest appreciation to the incredible men and women of law enforcement who worked tirelessly to bring justice to our…

A suspect was arrested in connection with a series of shootings that left three homeless men dead across Los Angeles in the past week, authorities said.Suspect Jerrid Joseph Powell, 33, is also believed responsible for a separate killing in a follow home robbery in San Dimas, Police Chief Michel Moore said at at an afternoon news conference where he was joined by Mayor Karen Bass and Dist. Atty. George Gascón. The announcement of the arrest came less than 24 hours after city officials said that a killer was “preying on…

The woman charged with fatally shooting social justice advocate Michael Latt in his home earlier this week had been accused of stalking and threatening a Hollywood film director, according to court documents reviewed by The Times. Jameelah Michl, who was arrested and charged in Latt’s killing, previously had a restraining order against her filed by film director A.V. Rockwell, who said in court filings that Michl worked as an extra in one of her films, “A Thousand And One.” After production wrapped, Michl allegedly began…

The Food and Drug Administration issued a warning in late October 2023 urging consumers to avoid purchasing and to immediately stop using 26 over-the-counter eye drop products because of risk of eye infection that could result in partial vision loss or even blindness.More products were soon added to the list, and a few others have been voluntarily recalled. No cases of eye infection from the products have been reported as of mid-November 2023.It's just the latest in a series of warnings and recalls related to bacterial…

Scientists suspect that instead of one explosion, the Big Bang involved two major explosions. The first one shaped the universe as we know it today, whereas the second one is responsible for the pervasive presence of dark matter in the universe…

Jon “Mike” Rone Jr. was killed on the 4th of July by repeated stab wounds to the chest. Sean W. Tonkin is the man police believe stabbed Rone — during a confrontation in which, police say, he repeatedly shouted the n-word at him. This occurred just after, a witness tells Rolling Stone, Tonkin bragged he could “knock a out.” Tonkin, 36, is now in jail. But the only charges prosecutors have brought against him are for “Peace Disturbance” — a misdemeanor with a maximum punishment of 6 months in jail and a…

A week after the arrest of the Long Island Serial Killer (LISK) suspect, Suffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney Harrison said that other cities have opened investigations into whether Rex Heuermann could be involved in their unsolved murder cases. Harrison told both People and the New York Post that police in Las Vegas (where Heuermann had a timeshare), Atlantic City (which had a series of still-unsolved “Black Horse Pike Strangler” murders involving sex workers, like LISK’s victims), and South Carolina (where…

The term has been shooting around the education field and news reports lately with increasing frequency: “the Mississippi miracle.” The reference is to that benighted state’s surprising success in improving reading scores for its fourth-graders through a focused program of literacy instruction for teachers and pupils alike. It’s now 10 years old, an anniversary that may have inspired the most recent assessments. Statistics show that Mississippi’s children have gone from having almost the worst scores on the standardized…

Photo: alacary (Shutterstock)The U.S. government has a long history of using unconventional informants in its ongoing effort to catch crooks. Many times, those sources end up being criminals themselves, as a recent federal case clearly highlights. Crypto Exchanges Restrict WithdrawalsThis week, Forbes reported that a Los Angeles hairdresser wasarrested for attempting to orchestrate the murder of a Louisiana man. Authorities say Julia Coda used the online pseudonym “Bonfire” and funneled $10,000 in bitcoin to a dark web…