Fire crews were called to a house fire on Rile Street around 11:30 p.m., the Memphis Fire Department said in a news release. As crews worked to put out the blaze, firefighters became trapped inside and others worked to rescue them.
A Tennessee firefighter died Tuesday night and three others were hospitalized after becoming trapped in a house fire.
One firefighter died from their injuries and three others remained hospitalized, fire officials said Wednesday morning.
Officials did not immediately release details about the severity of the hospitalized firefighters’ injuries or the cause of the blaze.
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The Dothan Police Department reported that on July 12 Shawn Maxmillion McDaniel of Headland followed the mother of his kids as she drove through Dothan. The woman’s name has not been disclosed and the couple were estranged.
McDaniel reportedly tried to meet up with the woman earlier, but she refused, so he allegedly followed her in a car. The mother was traveling with someone whom police described as an acquaintance, and the pair soon caught on that McDaniel was tailing them.
The mother and acquaintance stopped at a traffic light, where McDaniel allegedly hopped out of his car while wielding “a large knife” and confronted the pair. The acquaintance was legally armed and demanded McDaniel walk away, according to police.
McDaniel was struck in the face and “sustained a major injury but was conscious and alert,” police said in a press release. McDaniel returned to his car and drove to a nearby business to seek help.
The Dothan Police Department in Alabama (Dothan Police Department/FB)
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The mom and acquaintance also drove to a nearby business and called police.
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Heuermann, 59, purchased the Massapequa Park house he grew up in from his mother in the 1990s, according to property records. He lived there for all of his childhood and most of his adult life, staying briefly in New Jersey before his first marriage ended.
The architect and father of two commuted from his dilapidated Long Island home to an office in Manhattan for decades, but between 2007 and 2010, prosecutors allege, he was picking up prostitutes, killing them and dumping their bodies on a remote waterfront highway nearby.
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Ronald DeFeo in court in June 1992 during a hearing seeking a new trial on charges he murdered his family in Amityville, New York, in 1974. (Newsday/Getty Images)
He killed his parents, Ronald and Louise, both 43, two sisters and two brothers as they slept on Nov. 13, 1974. He was 23. His siblings ranged from 9 to 18. A year later, the home’s new owners fled in horror shortly after moving in.
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Suspected Long Island serial killer Rex Heuermann’s Massapequa Park home, which he grew up in and then purchased from his mother, pictured in a 2021 Google Maps image. (Google Maps)
George and Kathy Lutz bought the house – and were so shocked by alleged paranormal activity that they left a month later.
At first, he blamed a mob hit man for the murders, but then confessed and led police to where he ditched the murder weapon and other evidence.
DeFeo was sentenced to 25 years to life and died in prison in 2021. He was 69.
Authorities execute a search warrant of Rex Heuermann’s home in Massapequa Park, New York, on Tuesday, July 18, 2023. (Mega for Fox News Digital)
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A task force with members from multiple law enforcement agencies allegedly linked Heuermann to the crime scene with a witness statement in Costello’s disappearance and through phone records and a DNA sample collected from a box of pizza the suspect tossed in a New York City trash can.
The discarded pizza box and the bin where it was thrown away. The pizza crust was used to collect DNA allegedly linking Heuremann to one of the dead bodies. (Suffolk County DA)
They said genetics taken from the crust matched a hair sample taken from the victims.
He faces up to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole if convicted.
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According to FOX 4 Dallas, the 14-year-old boy was caught trying to steal a vehicle July 6 in West Plano. After a homeowner caught him, he was taken into custody by police.
Texas officers found out that it wasn’t the teen’s first rodeo, however, and eventually linked him to 38 thefts and attempted thefts.
“He was suspected of breaking into 38 cars. Some of them were attempted thefts, and some of them were actually stolen,” Plano Police Department Officer Jennifer Chapman explained.
“If it’s a challenge and people are trying to get out there and take cars and mine is one they want, I’m wondering if I should keep a closer eye on my car so it doesn’t happen to me,” Plano resident Patty Corsi told FOX 4.
An example of a hot-wired car inspired by a viral online challenge. (Azaela Wilburg/Fox News, File)
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Both Kia and Hyundai released software designed to hinder thefts in February, but thieves have still been able to target certain models through the spring and summer.
Both Kia and Hyundai released software designed to hinder thefts, but criminals have still targeted the cars. (FOX 4 Dallas)
Plano police are actively investigating the case. There are no additional details about the suspect at this time.
Fox News Digital’s Gary Gastelu contributed to this story.
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Paul Rodriguez Jr., 43, of Juneau, drowned July 11 when his kayak overturned at Mendenhall Lake at the foot of the Mendenhall Glacier, Alaska State Troopers said in a statement.
A passerby found a lone kayak at the lake July 11, but it had no identifying markings, troopers said. The individual reported there was no one in or around the lake in distress.
While teams are continuing to search the lake for the body of Rodriguez, troopers said a good Samaritan discovered a GoPro camera mounted on a helmet on the shore and turned it over to authorities. The camera was confirmed to have belonged to Rodriguez.
Juneau Police said the department received a report Sunday from U.S. Forest Service employees about a vehicle parked at the recreation area since July 11 and determined it was registered to Rodriguez.
Rodriguez’s roommate reported last seeing him July 10, according to police, and friends said a social media post by Rodriguez July 11 showed a kayak on a beach that appeared to be near Nugget Falls, which is in the recreation area along the lake.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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The 42-foot sport fisher, the Done Deal, caught fire near the Delaware Bay’s main shipping channel around 11 a.m., the Coast Guard said.
A good Samaritan reported the incident and provided updates to officials as a Coast Guard crew raced to the burning boat.
The good Samaritan said the boat was fully engulfed and that the vessel’s sole occupant had reached the bow. At some point, the man jumped into the water.
The sole occupant of the boat escaped to the bow before jumping into the water, where he was later rescued. (U.S. Coast Guard)
The victim was taken ashore to New Jersey for treatment, but no medical concerns were reported other than possible smoke inhalation.
The Coast Guard is continuing to investigate the fire. (U.S. Coast Guard)
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“It is important to highlight the teamwork involved in ensuring the safe recovery of the boater and extinguishing the fire,” said Lt. Cmdr. Kevin Higgins. “The efficient and fast communications from everyone involved, especially from the good Samaritan, were critical in saving this man’s life today.”
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Youngkin has argued that the 16-page model policies “on ensuring privacy, dignity and respect for all students and parents in Virginia’s public schools,” released by his administration Tuesday, are intended to prohibit discrimination while also empowering parents.
Encouraging partnership, the document explicitly states while “public schools, teachers, counselors, and administrators also play an essential role,” it is parents who “are a child’s primary and most important educator.” Regarding school restrooms, the updated guidance says, “Single-user bathrooms and facilities should be made available in accessible areas and provided with appropriate signage, indicating accessibility for all students.”
“To ensure that all students have access to a learning environment in which they feel comfortable and safe, where state or federal law requires schools to permit transgender students to share otherwise sex-segregated facilities (such as bathrooms or locker rooms) with students of the opposite sex, parents should be given the right to opt their child out of using such facilities, and the child should be given access to alternative facilities that promote the child’s privacy and safety,” it says. “Eligible students should be given the same right to opt out.”
The model states no policy, guidance, training or other written material issued by the school division may encourage or instruct teachers to conceal material information about a student from the student’s parent, including information related to gender.
Supporters of school “transgender protection measures” are seen during a Loudoun County Public Schools meeting in Ashburn, Virginia, on Aug. 11, 2021. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
School personnel shall refer to a student by a name other than one in the student’s official record, or by pronouns other than those appropriate to the sex appearing in the student’s official record if the student’s parent has instructed school staff in writing that such other name or other pronouns be used. In that case, the model states such written instruction will be memorialized in the student’s official record, but the legal name and sex of a student shall not be changed.
“This is about doing what’s best for the child,” Youngkin said in an interview with The Associated Press. “And oh, by the way, also recognizing that we need to ensure the privacy and dignity and respect of all children and all parents in the school system. And that’s what I think we have… very carefully constructed here.”
The changes have been welcomed by conservative lawmakers and advocacy groups, while some Democratic lawmakers and LGBTQ advocacy groups have strenuously objected, arguing that already vulnerable youth will be further put at risk.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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This summer, archaeologists have been gingerly digging up the ground at the Vernon Parish site in the Kisatchie National Forest. They have been sifting through dirt to unearth and preserve the evidence of prehistoric occupation of the area.
“The site appears to have been continuously occupied throughout prehistory, as evidenced by a wide range of stone tools and pottery dating to each Native American cultural era up to European contact,” the U.S. Forest Service said in an news release.
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“We’re really writing the history of these peoples that lived prior to 1492, all the way back 10,000-plus years,” said Helmer.
It’s a welcome opportunity for Mark Rees, a professor of archaeology at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and director of the Louisiana Public Archaeology Lab.
Still, Rees laments that the work is hampered by people who have made unauthorized digs and made off with material from the site.
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The leak at the R.M. Palmer Co. plant in West Reading was traced to a gas fitting that was installed in 1982 and was determined to have fractured, according to an investigative update released by the National Transportation Safety Board.
The fitting, made by DuPont, had a known tendency to crack, and was added to a federal government list of pipe materials with “poor performance histories” in 2007, the safety board said.
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UGI Corp. provided natural gas to the factory complex via two mains. UGI has said there wasn’t any utility work going on in the area, and it detected no sudden surge in gas usage before the explosion.
Safety investigators determined that UGI replaced a service line at the Palmer plant in 2021, but kept the 1982 service tee connected to the system and fully pressurized.
The cracked fitting was less than two feet from other pipelines that ran between the two plant buildings, including a steam line, a condensate line and several pipelines filled with heated chocolate. Investigators said they also saw a crack in the steam line.
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Police say an unidentified woman returned to her apartment in Philadelphia’s Germantown neighborhood at about 1:30 a.m. Sunday and discovered four men inside.
A struggle broke out between the woman and four suspected burglars, with the woman ultimately pulling out a firearm and shooting at the group.
Two of the suspects were shot and injured, while the other two managed to flee the scene. It is not clear if the two who fled were also injured by the gunfire.
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Unidentified person walks by Philadelphia Police Ford Explorer. The Philadelphia Police Department is the oldest city police agency in the U.S. (iStock)
Both men were taken to local hospitals for treatment. Miller was described as being in stable but critical condition, according to NBC Philadelphia.
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Police are calling on members of the public if they had details on the case and the whereabouts of the two other suspects.
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