The San Antonio school police officer who was seen on video physically picking up a 12-year-old girl before tossing her to the ground has been fired, school officials confirmed Monday, ABC News reports. School officer Joshua Kehm was initially put on paid administrative leave after video of the incident went viral, prompting an investigation last week. The…

Washington, D.C., police are looking for a burglar (and cook) who was caught on camera making himself some food in a closed Five Guys fast-food restaurant, KHOU reports.  The suspect is believed to have followed a delivery man into the establishment and then waited until the delivery man left before starting to cook up a…

Election season tends to be rife with gaffes and rather unfortunate jokes slipping out of politicians’ mouths.  New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton casually put their feet in their mouths at New York City’s annual Inner Circle Dinner roast Saturday when Clinton made fun of de Blasio for holding…

A day fishing trip turned tragic for a Florida family that lost three members at once, including a 9-year-old. According to CBS Miami, Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Deputy Fernandas Jones; his stepfather, Willis Bell; a cousin, Robert Stewart; and his 9-year-old son, Jaiden, all went on a fishing trip on the Intracoastal Waterway on Sunday.…

A 6-year-old Chicago girl died from a rare form of cancer over the weekend, just days after being honored by local police, who presented her with a badge, a uniform and a medal of valor, the Chicago Tribune reports.  Madison Pruitt died Sunday, a year after she was diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare muscular cancer.…

A Georgia police officer is gaining quite a bit of media attention after coming to the aid of a man in distress at the side of the road, Today reports.  Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Cpl. Brandon Lord, who responded to a call about a man walking down the middle of the road last month, said he immediately…

A group of young bicyclists in the Bronx borough of New York City are doing their part to help the homeless while steering clear of the trouble that often plagues their neighborhoods, the New York Post reports.  Some of them have been building a tiny house for a homeless man they’ve befriended, the news site…

A former Texas police deputy who shot and killed an unarmed woman without warning immediately after she opened the front door of a friend’s house was found not guilty Thursday, The Guardian reports.  Daniel Willis was acquitted of murder in a Bastrop County, Texas, District Court by visiting District Judge Albert McCaig.  During the incident,…

Two people were found dead at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in Texas in an apparent murder-suicide, local authorities believe, the Associated Press reports.  Bexar County, Texas, sheriff’s spokesman James Keith said that the two bodies were discovered Friday morning inside a room at a building at the U.S. Air Force base. It is believed that the…

It’s been just over two years since the body of Gugsa Abraham “Abe” Dabela was discovered in his wrecked car, a gunshot wound to his head, in Redding, Conn. The family, after years of waiting and pleading for answers, has decided to file a lawsuit against the town of Redding; officers of the Redding Police…