Girl, 15, Reaches Into Backpack With Loaded Gun During Maryland Walmart Bust: Sheriff Girl, 15, Reaches Into Backpack With Loaded Gun During Maryland Walmart Bust: Sheriff Girl, 15, Reaches Into Backpack With Loaded Gun During Maryland Walmart Bust: Sheriff
Girl, 15, Reaches Into Backpack With Loaded Gun During Maryland Walmart Bust: Sheriff It started with four kids allegedly stuffing merchandise into backpacks at a Maryland Walmart. Then a 15-year-old girl reached into hers. Deputies were called to the Walmart on Guilford Drive in Frederick on Sunday, Oct. 4, after employees reported a group of kids shoplifting inside the store, according to the Frederick County Sheriff's Office. They found four of them: the 15-year-old girl, a 16-year-old boy and two younger children who investigators said were only about 7 years old. All four were taken to the store's loss prevention office after they were spotted concealing merchandise i…

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Three Arrested In Human Trafficking Probe Tied To Virginia Massage Businesses: Police Three Arrested In Human Trafficking Probe Tied To Virginia Massage Businesses: Police Three Arrested In Human Trafficking Probe Tied To Virginia Massage Businesses: Police
Three Arrested In Human Trafficking Probe Tied To Virginia Massage Businesses: Police The investigation started with suspicions about what was happening behind the doors of several Virginia massage businesses. Months later, three women are under arrest after police say investigators uncovered suspected human trafficking and prostitution activity stretching across locations in Virginia Beach and Portsmouth. The arrests were announced on Tuesday, Oct. 6, following a months-long investigation by the Virginia Beach Police Department's Special Investigations Bureau. Detectives began looking into suspected illicit activity at massage businesses along Shore Drive and Virginia Beac…
Gun Jammed During Deadly Maryland Park Shooting After Punch To Face, Prosecutors Say Gun Jammed During Deadly Maryland Park Shooting After Punch To Face, Prosecutors Say Gun Jammed During Deadly Maryland Park Shooting After Punch To Face, Prosecutors Say
Gun Jammed During Deadly Maryland Park Shooting After Punch To Face, Prosecutors Say The gun jammed before Michael Aaron Lynn could fire again. Nearly a year after a late-night confrontation in Maryland ended with Kendall "Diggs" Butler Jr. shot dead in a park, Lynn learned on Wednesday, Oct. 7, that he will spend 25 years behind bars. Lynn, 40, of Germantown, was sentenced in Montgomery County Circuit Court to 60 years in prison with all but 25 suspended, followed by five years of supervised probation. He pleaded guilty in July to second-degree murder and using a firearm in a crime of violence in the November 2025 killing of Butler, 34. The shooting capped a confrontatio…
Mercedes Plows Into I-97 Work Zone, Strikes Highway Worker In Maryland: State Police Mercedes Plows Into I-97 Work Zone, Strikes Highway Worker In Maryland: State Police Mercedes Plows Into I-97 Work Zone, Strikes Highway Worker In Maryland: State Police
Mercedes Plows Into I-97 Work Zone, Strikes Highway Worker In Maryland: State Police The Mercedes never made it through the work zone. A highway worker was struck along I-97 in Maryland early Wednesday morning after a Mercedes slammed into another car and veered into an active construction zone, according to Maryland State Police. At approximately 12:45 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 7, troopers were called to the northbound lanes of I-97 near Route 32 in Anne Arundel County, where crews were working behind a lane closure. Investigators say Javed Iqbal, 47, of Baltimore, was driving a Toyota Camry north on the interstate with Darrell Lamont Gough, 62, of Elkridge, behind him in a…
Got Old LEGO? New Dedicated Virginia Brick Shop Will Buy It, Then Sell You More Got Old LEGO? New Dedicated Virginia Brick Shop Will Buy It, Then Sell You More Got Old LEGO? New Dedicated Virginia Brick Shop Will Buy It, Then Sell You More
Got Old Lego? New Dedicated Virginia Brick Shop Will Buy It, Then Sell You More That tub of LEGO collecting dust in a Virginia basement might have another build left in it. Bricks & Minifigs has opened at 210-B Fort Evans Road in Leesburg, giving Loudoun County its first store dedicated to LEGO sets and collectibles and a new home for everything from forgotten bricks to hard-to-find treasures. And yes, they'll take some of that old LEGO off your hands. The locally owned shop buys, sells and trades new and pre-owned sets, minifigures and bulk bricks, allowing customers to bring in collections for an evaluation and written offer before choosing cash or store credit.…

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Family Pleads For Help As Massive Search For Missing UMD Student Dilan Ashar Comes Up Empty A Maryland family just wants their son home. The search for 22-year-old University of Maryland student Dilan Shaan Ashar intensified on Saturday, Oct. 3, after campus police released new surveillance images that dramatically changed the timeline of his disappearance. Ashar was last seen on camera at approximately 2:30 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 2, at the Terrapin Trail Garage on the UMD campus in College Park, according to the University of Maryland Police Department. Dilan Shaan Ashar. University of Maryland Police Police have classified Ashar as a critical missing student and are askin…

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Same County Where Trump Was Shot Now Has ISIS Terrorism Indictment: DOJ Same County Where Trump Was Shot Now Has ISIS Terrorism Indictment: DOJ Same County Where Trump Was Shot Now Has ISIS Terrorism Indictment: DOJ
Same County Where Trump Was Shot Now Has ISIS Terrorism Indictment: DOJ A Butler County, Pennsylvania man has been indicted on a federal firearms charge tied to an alleged plan to support ISIS, prosecutors announced Tuesday, Oct. 6. Jonathan Hunter Kramer, 21, of Valencia, knowingly received a semiautomatic rifle and rifle ammunition on Saturday, Sept. 12, knowing they would be used to commit a felony or federal terrorism crime, including supporting ISIS, a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh charged. Kramer remains detained pending trial. The one-count indictment carries a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison, a $250,000 fine, or both. The case is the latest h…

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You Could Get Up To $280 In Major Equifax Settlement: See Who Qualifies Millions of Americans could get cash payments from a $100 million Equifax settlement after the credit reporting company was accused of misreporting credit scores. The settlement comes from a class-action lawsuit accusing Equifax of sending inaccurate credit scores and other credit information to lenders in 2022. People whose credit information was affected by the error between Thursday, March 17, and Friday, April 8, 2022, may be eligible for a payment. The payouts are expected to be between $95 and $280, but the final amount could change depending on how many valid claims are fil…

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You Could Get Up To $280 In Major Equifax Settlement: See Who Qualifies Millions of Americans could get cash payments from a $100 million Equifax settlement after the credit reporting company was accused of misreporting credit scores. The settlement comes from a class-action lawsuit accusing Equifax of sending inaccurate credit scores and other credit information to lenders in 2022. People whose credit information was affected by the error between Thursday, March 17, and Friday, April 8, 2022, may be eligible for a payment. The payouts are expected to be between $95 and $280, but the final amount could change depending on how many valid claims are fil…

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$30 Painting Nearly Thrown Away Sells For $1.3M+ At Auction $30 Painting Nearly Thrown Away Sells For $1.3M+ At Auction $30 Painting Nearly Thrown Away Sells For $1.3M+ At Auction
$30 Painting Nearly Thrown Away Sells For $1.3M+ At Auction A painting bought for just $30 at an estate sale has sold for more than $1.35 million after nearly ending up in the trash. A private collector bought "Alderman Merriam's Shells" for $1,352,600 through Freeman's Auctions on Thursday, Oct. 1, according to the auction listing. The small 1951 oil painting was created by Gertrude Abercrombie, a surrealist painter from Chicago who died in 1977. The sale set a new auction record for Abercrombie, surpassing the $1.02 million paid for her painting "Message for Mercy" at Sotheby's last year, The New York Times reported. The painting's unlikely path …