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Shark Attack: 2 American Women Seriously Injured At Bahamas Resort
Two American women suffered injuries in a rare Bahamas shark attack.
The tourists were swimming in Bimini Bay, a popular resort, when the incident happened early Friday evening, Feb. 7, according to the Royal Bahamas Police Force.
After receiving initial treatment, they were airlifted to a hospital. One of the women, both of whom are from Florida, suffered severe injuries and underwent three surgeries, ABC News reports.
The incident is under investigation.
Bimini, a chain of islands, is the westernmost district of the Bahamas located about 50 miles east of Miami.
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PA Man Who Showed Friend Video Of Girlfriend’s Dead Body Found Guilty Of Murder
A Lancaster County jury has convicted a Pennsylvania man of murdering his girlfriend and firing at police during a violent standoff in 2022, authorities announced on Monday, Fed. 10.
Miguel Angel Rodriguez, now 40, was found guilty on Friday, Feb. 7 of first-degree murder, two counts of assault of a law enforcement officer, five counts of aggravated assault, four counts of reckless endangerment, and three counts of obstruction of justice, the Lancaster County District Attorney's Office said.
Rodriguez shot and killed 33-year-old Nemesis Florentino in the head inside his home on Swarr Run …
Egg Thefts Crack On As Police Scramble For Clues
Thieves in Seattle made off with more than 500 eggs earlier this month, just days before a massive heist in Pennsylvania, where 100,000 organic eggs were stolen from a distribution site, authorities said.
In Seattle, two suspects were caught on camera stealing 540 eggs and other breakfast supplies from a restaurant’s refrigerated storage shed on Feb. 5. Just four days earlier, thieves targeted a much larger haul in Franklin County, PA, stealing $40,000 worth of organic eggs from Pete and Gerry's Organics, Pennsylvania State Police announced on Tuesday, Feb. 4.
The Pennsylvania theft occur…
Shaken Toddler, Alcohol Given To Minors Lands Foster Father Jail Time: PA AG
A Bedford County foster father will serve up to eight years in prison for violently shaking a toddler, leaving the child with a brain bleed, Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday announced.
Anthony Plotts, 40, of Hopewell, was sentenced on Friday, Feb. 7, after pleading no contest to felony aggravated assault of a child and endangering the welfare of a child, authorities said.
The victim, one of three foster children in Plotts’ care, was hospitalized on July 31, 2022, with severe head trauma. Medical professionals determined the child’s injuries were consistent with a "violent shaking" …
Americans Will Get Federal Holiday Between Thanksgiving, Christmas Under New Proposal
With a brand-new federal holiday proposal, Americans could soon have an additional day off between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
The day, December 1, would be in honor of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks has been proposed by Representative Terri Sewell of Alabama.
Called "the mother of the civil rights movement," Parks invigorated the struggle for racial equality when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama, on Dec. 1, 1955.
Sewell, Alabama's first Black congresswoman, introduced the bill on Tuesday, Feb. 4, which would have been Rosa Parks' 112th birthday.&n…
Death Row Inmate Tam Le, Who Murdered Brothers, Found Dead In Pennsylvania Prison
Tam Le, a convicted murderer sentenced to death for the brutal killings of two Philadelphia brothers, was found unresponsive in his cell at the State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, officials announced on Wednesday, Feb. 5.
SCI Phoenix Superintendent Joseph Terra said prison staff and medical personnel attempted life-saving measures, but Le, 53, was pronounced dead at 7:23 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025.
Le was sentenced to death in December 2016 for the 2014 killings of brothers Vu “Kevin” Huynh, 31, and Viet Huynh, 28. Authorities said Le, a member of the Vietnamese gang "Born to Kill…
Massive Explosion, Fire Injures 13 —Including 6 Firefighters — At Pennsylvania Chemical Plant
At least 13 people were injured after a massive industrial fire led to an explosion at the Parker LORD Corporation facility in Saegertown, Crawford County, on Sunday morning, Feb. 9.
Fire officials were called to the chemical plant along South Street around 10:30 a.m. after an automatic fire alarm went off within the facility, according to a statement from the corporation. As crews worked to contain the fire, an explosion occurred at approximately 10:40 a.m., officials said.
Chuck Lawrence, Saegertown Borough Emergency Manager, described the explosion as "major," stating, "The initial crew …
