Author: Maria Monroe

Construction starts at former Inkster home of Malcolm X, will be transformed into museum & community space The group behind the construction has fought for years to make the former home of the civil rights leader a landmark. INKSTER, Mich. (FOX 2) – Construction has started this week at the former Inkster home of Malcolm X. A group called Project We Hope, Dream, and Believe has fought for years to make the former home of the civil rights leader a landmark. “When we get done with the house, we’ve come to the agreement want to turn the house into a…

Classified documents: 5 more found at Biden’s home, WH says The White House revealed Saturday that five additional documents with classified markings were found at President Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware. WASHINGTON (AP) – Lawyers for President Joe Biden found more classified documents at his home in Wilmington, Delaware, than previously known, the White House acknowledged Saturday. White House lawyer Richard Sauber said in a statement that a total of six pages of classified documents were found during a search of Biden’s private library. The White House had said previously that only a single page was found there. The latest…

article Mega Millions sign and lottery tickets are seen at a store in New York, United States on January 12, 2023. (Photo by Fatih Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) Maine scored its first Mega Millions jackpot — and someone beat the ill fortune of Friday the 13th — when a ticket purchased in the state matched the winning numbers for the lottery’s estimated $1.35 billion grand prize. he lucky combination of numbers drawn late Friday night were: 30, 43, 45, 46, 61 and gold Mega Ball 14. The winning ticket was sold at Hometown Gas & Grill in Lebanon, Maine,…

article Terry Peace won $1 million after his wife forgot about the ticket in the bottom of her purse. (Credit: NC Education Lottery) WAYNESVILLE, N.C. – It’s a good thing Terry Peace’s wife rechecked the bottom of her purse.  The couple from Waynesville, North Carolina, won $1 million with the North Carolina Education Lottery after misplacing the winning lottery ticket.  “My wife found it in her pocketbook,” Peace said in a news release. “I guess when she initially reached in to check the tickets she just missed that one.” RELATED: Ticket from Maine claims $1.35B Mega Millions grand prize Peace,…

SPRINGFIELD, Mich. (FOX 2) – A driver is dead following a fiery crash on I-75 in Oakland County on Saturday. Police say they got a 911 call about a brush fire along I-75 near Dixie Hwy.  Firefighters made the scene and discovered it was a car. Once the car fire was put out, a body was found in the vehicle, police said. Investigators say the driver was northbound on I-75 Fwy when they lost control, went off the roadway, and crashed into a tree.  The driver still has not been identified. Anyone who may have witnessed this crash is asked…

The University of Maryland Police Department is seeking a suspect in an indecent exposure incident that occurred on a school shuttle bus. Police at the University of Maryland in College Park are looking for a suspect that they say exposed himself to students on a school shuttle bus. It happened around 5:30 p.m. Friday, when three students boarded a shuttle bus on campus at the Wind Tunnel building on Paint Branch Drive, headed toward the College Park Metro station. One of the female students told police that after she boarded with two friends, a man on the bus attempted to…

ST. CLAIR COUNTY, Mich. (FOX 2) – The St. Clair County Sheriff’s Office is investigating after two people were hit by a car Friday night. At around 9 p.m., a 2010 Ford Fusion drove northbound on Starville Road. The Sheriff’s Office said the two pedestrians were walking in the road on Starville Road about half a mile from Shea Road. Both pedestrians were struck in the roadway according to investigators. Officials said this area is an unlit roadway with no sidewalks. The driver, a 70-year-old Armada man, called 911 and stayed on the scene with his passenger, a 69-year-old Armada…

A Montgomery County, Maryland, high school was put on lockdown Friday after a student reported seeing a gun outside the school. A Montgomery County, Maryland, high school was put on lockdown Friday after a student reported seeing a gun outside the school. Around 10 a.m., two students from another school in the county entered Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville without authorization, a Montgomery County police news release said. The two students allegedly assaulted a Richard Montgomery High student while inside. The two students left the high school and returned around 12:30 p.m. but did not enter. That’s when another…

D.C. council member Janeese Lewis George said the shootings in District neighborhoods are “unacceptable” and she is pleading for an end to the violence. Calling for a “cease-fire,” D.C. council member for Ward 4, Janeese Lewis George, issued a passionate plea to the community Friday, begging people to put an end to the gun violence that has flared up across the District. “Put the guns down!” George yelled with tears in her eyes. “We’re asking for the guns to go down!” George, surrounded by community and local religious leaders, said the rise in violence has been “incredibly disappointing.” Specifically, she…

D.C. Council member Brooke Pinto has requested police body-worn camera footage captured when officers responded to the fatal shooting of 13-year-old Karon Blake on Jan. 7. D.C. Council member Brooke Pinto has requested police body-worn camera footage captured when officers responded to the fatal shooting of 13-year-old Karon Blake on Jan. 7. Pinto told WTOP that she requested the video to make sure MPD followed all the right procedures when they responded. “It is really important to answer the calls that are so robust right now from our community that there be accountability and transparency and what really happened here,”…

Brian Laundrie claimed that he killed Gabby Petito after he says she fell in a cold creek, possibly hit her head and was shaking with cold. The lawyer representing the family of Brian Laundrie has released the notebook in which he discussed his girlfriend Gabby Petito’s death. “I ended her life,” pages from the notebook, which were retrieved near Laundrie’s body, read. “I thought it was merciful, that it is what she wanted, but I see now all the mistakes I made. I panicked. I was in shock.” Laundrie’s remains were found in October of 2021 in the Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park in…

“At one point, he was saying something to himself like ‘I’m fine, this is okay.’ Like he was reassuring himself that this whole thing wasn’t awful,” a police source told People Magazine of comments Bryan Kohberger allegedly made during his extradition back to Idaho last week. While being extradited back to Idaho, murder suspect Bryan Kohberger allegedly referenced the brutal killings of four University of Idaho college students, saying it was “really sad what happened to them.” The 28-year-old PhD student has been accused of breaking into an off-campus home in Moscow, Idaho in the early morning hours of Nov.…

Eric Reinbold was convicted of stabbing his wife 27 times and leaving her body to be found by her son. A note found near Lissette Reinbold’s body read, “Jesus, forgive me of my sins.” A man in Minnesota will spend the next few decades behind bars for his wife’s 2021 murder. Eric James Reinbold, 46, was sentenced Wednesday to 40 years in prison for the stabbing death of his wife, Lissette Reinbold, 34, according to CBS Minneapolis affiliate WCCO-TV. Reinbold was convicted in September after a Pennington County jury found him guilty of two counts of second-degree murder. Reinbold is…

Court records show that William Fitzgerald, who was arrested on Monday in West Virginia for allegedly killing his estranged wife, Tarae Washington, in her Pennsylvania home, has been extradited in the case. A Pennsylvania man has been returned to Pennsylvania after his arrest in West Virginia for allegedly handcuffing and then fatally stabbing his estranged wife in her home last week. Court records reviewed by Oxygen.com show that William L. Fitzgerald, 50, was in the custody of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania on Friday. He was arrested in Morgantown, West Virginia on Monday for the murder of his estranged wife, Tarae Washington, as…

Juan Bravo-Torres admitted in court Wednesday to attacking his daughters with a knife, according to the State Attorney’s Office of Brevard and Seminole Counties. He’ll spend life in prison without the possibility of parole, and avoid the death penalty. A Florida man will spend the rest of his life in prison after pleading guilty to killing his 3-year-old daughter and trying to kill his 12-year-old daughter, according to the State Attorney’s Office of Brevard and Seminole Counties. A judge accepted Juan Bravo-Torres’ guilty plea on Wednesday and sentenced him to life in prison without the possibility of parole for murder, and…

Loudoun County, Virginia’s top prosecutor says her office is “inundated” and will not participate in some misdemeanor cases, choosing to focus on violent and felony crimes. Loudoun County, Virginia’s top prosecutor says her office is “inundated” and will not participate in some misdemeanor cases, choosing to focus on violent and felony crimes. In a Dec. 30 memo to Loudoun County General District Court judges, Commonweath’s Attorney Buta Biberaj said that as of Jan. 16, her office will not participate in a number of traffic offenses and low-level criminal cases. Biberaj tells WTOP that she wants to prioritize the work of…

Administrators at a Newport News, Virginia, elementary school where a first-grader shot his teacher learned the child may have a weapon in his possession before the shooting, the school system’s superintendent said. Police said Friday they were not told about the tip before the shooting occurred. Kelly King, a spokesperson for the Newport News Police Department, told The Associated Press that some time after the shooting, police learned through their investigation that a school employee was notified of a possible gun at Richneck Elementary School before the Jan. 6 shooting. “The Newport News Police Department was not notified of this…

A Silver Spring, Maryland, man has been arrested and charged in an October shooting that damaged a car and nearby restaurant, according to Montgomery County police. A Silver Spring, Maryland, man has been arrested and charged in an October shooting that damaged a car and nearby restaurant. Keshawn Simpson, 26, was arrested on Jan. 10, weeks after fleeing an officer who was attempting to make a traffic stop and serve out a warrant for Simpson’s arrest. Simpson is charged with first degree assault and firearm related charges. He is currently being held without bond at the Montgomery County Central Processing…

What are the odds you win the lottery? What are the odds you win the lottery? You’re more likely to be struck by lightning. The second-largest prize in Mega Millions history is up for grabs on Friday the 13th after 25 straight drawings without a winner. The estimated jackpot is $1.35 billion and also comes with a $707.9 million cash option, lottery officials said. The only Mega Millions jackpot larger than Friday’s estimated prize is the game record of $1.537 billion, won in South Carolina in October 2018. The next drawing is Friday, Jan. 13 at 11 p.m. ET. Friday…