Yanira Maldonado, an Arizona mother of 7 children was arrested and detained last week in a Mexican jail. She was accused of drug smuggling last week. Authorities stopped the bus was riding in with her husband, Gary, returning from Mexico after a funeral. They found 12.5 pounds (or 5. 7 kilograms), which appeared to be under her seat.
New York City Mayor Michael 's office in New York, and his nonprofit group in Washington D.C. were targets receiving poison letters contained with ricin, the NYPD revealed on Wednesday. Two letters were sent to Bloomberg's offices in D.C. And Manhattan. An undisclosed number of NYPD who were responded to on of the letters "are being examined for minor symptoms of ricin exposure," but the it never reached him directly
A southwestern Illinois announced he was stepping down in a brief letter to the county's chief judge, days after he was charged with federal heroin and gun offenses in a widening court scandal
A Loudoun County sheriff's deputy shot and killed an unwieldy woman who came at him with him with a knife at a busy Costco on Wednesday afternoon, the Washington Post reported. Mhai Scott, who is reportedly 38, waived a knife at sheriff's deputies once they arrived at the scene. When an officer attempted to use a stun gun after she went after them reportedly "did not work," another officer then fired a gun, killing her. One officer was injured.
