Category: WORKPLACE VIOLENCE

The wife and three children of a Connecticut physical therapist charged with their deaths in Florida died from overdoses of Benadryl and “unspecified violence.”April 7, 2020, 9:53 PM1 min readKISSIMMEE, Fla. — The wife and three children of a physical therapist who has been charged with their deaths died from overdoses of Benadryl and “unspecified…

Former California homicide detective Roxane Gruenheid had helped put a murderer behind bars, and yet, there was something about the suspect that nagged at her — something in his murky past that told her this wasn’t the end of his story. It was 2003. The killer, who by then was known to authorities as “Curtis…

Two men allegedly involved in a robbery where a New York City police detective was killed in friendly fire were among the violent offenders on the list of inmates slated to be released from the infamous Rikers Island jail complex due to the coronavirus pendemic, until prosecutors intervened, multiple sources told ABC News. Christopher Ransom,…

Former Vice President Joe Biden now takes up the mantle for the Democratic Party after Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders ended a run fueled by left-wing enthusiasm and working class and progressives’ deep hunger for a revolution. His departure forces the progressive wing to face a choice: line up behind a candidate whose longstanding centrism they’ve…

After weeks of political in-fighting have paralyzed the Afghan government and frozen the peace process between it and the Taliban, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made a surprise trip to the country Monday to prod its leaders to end their dispute and form a government. But after departing Kabul and meeting Taliban leaders in Doha,…

JOHANNESBURG — The callers were in tears. One by one, women in homes across rural Zimbabwe had a pleading question: When would family planning services return? Lockdowns imposed to curb the coronavirus’ spread have put millions of women in Africa, Latin America and elsewhere out of reach of birth control and other sexual and reproductive…

A team of criminal court judges, defense attorney associations and the local chapter of the NAACP have teamed up to sue the Texas governor for issuing an executive order banning accused violent offenders from seeking bail to avoid possibly contracting COVID-19. With the outbreak infecting more than 1 million globally, including more than 10,000 in…

An illness of one officer could cause major issues for a whole department.March 19, 2020, 9:00 AM6 min read As police departments pare down resources in response to the novel coronavirus, officers are not getting adequate testing, several departments stressed to ABC News, and the effects could be drastic. In one example, 31 New York…

The exchange comes on the day of the crucial Michigan primary.March 10, 2020, 5:50 PM6 min readDETROIT, Michigan — Former Vice President Joe Biden angrily confronted a Detroit, Michigan, auto worker on Tuesday morning during an argument over his stance on the 2nd Amendment, at one point telling the man he was ‘full of s—‘…

Joe Biden has received endorsements from two of the nation’s largest gun safety groups, the latest sign Bernie Sanders’ spotty record on guns may be weighing him down in the presidential primaryBy ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated PressMarch 9, 2020, 6:13 PM4 min readGRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Two of the nation’s largest gun control advocacy groups have…