Hyattsville, MD
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Twice-Deported Illegal Immigrant Tried To Trade 900 Pounds Of Cocaine In Murder Plot: Feds Twice-Deported Illegal Immigrant Tried To Trade 900 Pounds Of Cocaine In Murder Plot: Feds
Twice-Deported Illegal Immigrant Tried To Trade 900 Pounds Of Cocaine In Murder Plot: Feds Revenge had a price. Nearly a kilogram of cocaine. Federal prosecutors say a twice-deported illegal immigrant tried to use discounted cocaine to hire someone to kill a suspected informant before the alleged murder-for-hire plot was cut short by authorities in Maryland. Now, Frelin Hernandez Guardado, 30, has been sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for his role in the scheme, the US Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland announced on Friday, July 24. According to court records, Hernandez Guardado had already come onto investigators' radar months earlier after illegally selling …

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by Zak Failla
Yonkers, NY
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Yonkers Blood Drive Set For Aug. 6 Amid Regional Blood Emergency Yonkers Blood Drive Set For Aug. 6 Amid Regional Blood Emergency
Yonkers Blood Drive Set For Aug. 6 Amid Regional Blood Emergency St. John’s Riverside Hospital will host a community blood drive in Yonkers as regional blood supplies remain critically low. The drive will be held Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026, from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the Andrus Pavilion, 967 North Broadway. According to St. John’s Riverside Hospital, the event is being held in partnership with the New York Blood Center. The blood center has declared an unprecedented second blood emergency this summer after extreme heat, severe storms, power outages, and storm recovery efforts reduced donor turnout. Current inventories are at about a two-day supply, below…

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by Daily Voice
Silver Spring, MD
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Montgomery Officials Push Back After Potomac River ICE Incident, Clarify County's Role Montgomery Officials Push Back After Potomac River ICE Incident, Clarify County's Role
Montgomery Officials Push Back After Potomac River ICE Incident, Clarify County's Role Montgomery County leaders are pushing back after a dramatic ICE operation along the Clara Barton Parkway ended with multiple people in the Potomac River, making one thing clear: County police and firefighters were there to save lives, not help make arrests. In a joint statement released on Thursday, July 23, County Executive Marc Elrich and County Council President Natali Fani-González said the chaos that unfolded near Lock 7 the day before has fueled fear in the community and stressed that Montgomery County agencies did not participate in federal immigration enforcement. "Yesterday's incid…

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by Zak Failla
Reisterstown, MD
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Baltimore Landlord Slipped Cash In City Hall Bathroom To Wipe Out $145K In Bills, Feds Say Baltimore Landlord Slipped Cash In City Hall Bathroom To Wipe Out $145K In Bills, Feds Say
Baltimore Landlord Slipped Cash In City Hall Bathroom To Wipe Out $145K In Bills, Feds Say Sometimes, the strangest meetings play out in a City Hall bathroom. A Maryland property owner who admitted slipping cash-filled envelopes to a Baltimore City finance employee, including during meetings in a men's restroom inside a municipal building, has been sentenced to federal prison after prosecutors say the scheme erased more than $145,000 in city debts. Glen Arm resident James Carroll Erny Jr., 55, was sentenced on Thursday, July 23, by a federal judge in Baltimore to 13 months in prison, followed by eight months of home confinement, according to the US Attorney's Office for the Distr…

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by Zak Failla
Freeport, NY
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Defendant To Superintendent: Freeport Board Brings Back Leader It Sued Months Earlier Defendant To Superintendent: Freeport Board Brings Back Leader It Sued Months Earlier
Defendant To Superintendent: Freeport Board Brings Back Leader It Sued Months Earlier One of Long Island’s biggest school districts voted to bring back its superintendent on Wednesday night, July 22. The Freeport school board voted 4-1 to reinstate Fia Davis — just months after suing her and more than a year after placing her on suspension, Newsday reported. Davis will resume her duties on Monday, Aug. 3, according to News 12 Long Island. She had been getting paid since her suspension in April 2025. Freeport Schools — a giant district with more than 6,000 students, including 2,200 at the high school — has been going back-and-forth on Davis’s fate since hiring her in August …

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by Joe Wilkinson
Alexandria, VA
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Illegal Immigrant Charged In Death, Sexual Assault Of 2-Year-Old Virginia Girl: ICE Illegal Immigrant Charged In Death, Sexual Assault Of 2-Year-Old Virginia Girl: ICE
Illegal Immigrant Charged In Death, Sexual Assault Of 2-Year-Old Virginia Girl: ICE A 2-year-old girl never made it out of the hospital. Now, weeks later, the investigators have charged a 29-year-old Mexican national with sexually assaulting her in a case that has drawn national attention. The investigation began on the Fourth of July, when the child's mother arrived at the Goochland County Sheriff's Office around 3:10 p.m. after driving from a home on Owens Creek Road in Louisa County with the unresponsive girl. Deputies began life-saving efforts until paramedics arrived to rush the child to St. Mary's Hospital, where she later was pronounced dead, according to the Louis…

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by Zak Failla
Old Saybrook, CT
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This Connecticut Home Predates America By Nearly 100 Years; Now It's For Sale For $12 Million This Connecticut Home Predates America By Nearly 100 Years; Now It's For Sale For $12 Million
This Connecticut Home Predates America By Nearly 100 Years; Now It's For Sale For $12 Million A Connecticut home built nearly 100 years before the United States was founded has hit the market, giving one buyer the chance to own a piece of American history. But some local historians worry about what could happen to the property in the future.  Bushnell Farm, home to the Elisha Bushnell House in Old Saybrook, was listed last month for $12 million. The 20.21-acre property includes a home built in 1678, making it one of Connecticut's oldest surviving colonial homes. It was built less than 75 years after English settlers established Connecticut's first colonies. Related: Click Here…

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by Josh Lanier
Burtonsville, MD
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'Not ICE': Montgomery Police Push Back After Burtonsville SWAT Raid Sparks Rumors 'Not ICE': Montgomery Police Push Back After Burtonsville SWAT Raid Sparks Rumors
'Not ICE': Montgomery Police Push Back After Burtonsville SWAT Raid Sparks Rumors An early morning SWAT operation in Maryland quickly fueled speculation online that federal immigration agents were carrying out an ICE raid. Montgomery County police say that's not what happened. Members of the Montgomery County Police Department's SWAT team executed a search warrant Thursday, July 23, at a home in the 15300 block of Graaf Place in Burtonsville as part of an ongoing criminal investigation. As photos and reports from the scene began circulating on social media, rumors spread claiming the operation was tied to immigration enforcement. By late Thursday morning, the departmen…

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by Zak Failla
Lebanon, PA
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$3M Winning PA Lottery Scratch-Off Sold At Lebanon County Speedway $3M Winning PA Lottery Scratch-Off Sold At Lebanon County Speedway
$3M Winning PA Lottery Scratch-Off Sold At Lebanon County Speedway A lucky Pennsylvania Lottery player is $3 million richer after buying a winning Scratch-Off ticket at a Lebanon County convenience store, lottery officials announced Wednesday, July 22. The winning $3 Million Mega Moolah Multiplier Scratch-Off ticket was sold at Speedway, 1082 Heidelberg Ave. in Heidelberg Township, according to the Pennsylvania Lottery. The retailer will receive a $10,000 bonus for selling the winning ticket. The $30 Scratch-Off game offers top prizes of $3 million. Lottery officials reminded players that Scratch-Off prizes expire one year after the game's end-sale date …

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by Jillian Pikora
Parkville-Carney, MD
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Police Reveal What Sent Blind Students' School Bus Crashing Into Parkville Storefront (UPDATED) Police Reveal What Sent Blind Students' School Bus Crashing Into Parkville Storefront (UPDATED)
Police Reveal What Sent Blind Students' School Bus Crashing Into Parkville Storefront (Updated) No one inside the school bus caused it to end up buried inside a Parkville storefront. Police now say it never had a chance. Baltimore County crash investigators announced Wednesday that a Ford Focus crossed the center line on Harford Road Tuesday afternoon and slammed head-on into a Baltimore County Public Schools bus carrying students from the Maryland School for the Blind. The Parkville crash. Baltimore County Fire Department The impact triggered the violent chain reaction that ended with the bus plowing through the front of a commercial building. The crash happened around 2:25…

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by Zak Failla
Parkville-Carney, MD
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Kids Among Four Hurt After School Bus Smashes Through Parkville Storefront (DEVELOPING) Kids Among Four Hurt After School Bus Smashes Through Parkville Storefront (DEVELOPING)
Kids Among Four Hurt After School Bus Smashes Through Parkville Storefront (Developing) A school bus barreled through the front of a Maryland storefront Tuesday afternoon, leaving the vehicle lodged inside the building and sending four people to the hospital. The crash happened shortly after 2:25 p.m. on July 21 in the 700 block of Harford Road in Parkville, where Baltimore County firefighters found the bus embedded inside a commercial building after smashing through its front entrance. Photos from the scene show the bus buried beneath the collapsed storefront with shattered glass, twisted metal, and debris scattered across the sidewalk as firefighters worked around the wrecka…

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by Zak Failla
Lexington Park, MD
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Maryland To Finally Have A State Park In Every County With New Eastern Shore Addition Maryland To Finally Have A State Park In Every County With New Eastern Shore Addition
Maryland To Finally Have A State Park In Every County With New Eastern Shore Addition A piece of Maryland history is about to become part of its future. State officials on Tuesday unveiled Wetipquin Creek State Park, a 445-acre preserve on the Eastern Shore that will become Wicomico County's first-ever state park, marking the first time every Maryland county will have at least one state park. The new park, now in the planning stages, sits along Wetipquin Creek near the Nanticoke River and features more than 400 acres of marsh, forest, and shoreline, along with the historic Long Hill plantation house, which dates to the mid-1700s. The Maryland Department of Natural Resources…

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by Zak Failla