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#1 Four Charged in Death of 5-Year-Old Michigan Boy in Oxygen Chamber Explosion
Mar 13 2025 // Four people have been charged in the death of a 5-year-old boy who was “incinerated” inside a pressurized oxygen chamber that exploded at a suburban Detroit medical facility, Michigan’s attorney general...
#2 Three Killed When Small Plane Crashes in Boca Raton Near Highway
Apr 14 2025 // BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — Three people were killed and one was injured when a small plane crashed Friday morning in South Florida near a major interstate highway and pushed a car onto railroad tracks, officials said. Boca...
#3 Two Russian Men Plead Guilty in LockBit Ransomware Attacks
Jul 22 2024 // Two Russian nationals pleaded guilty to their roles in ransomware attacks in the US, Asia, Europe and Africa for a notorious hacking gang known as LockBit. Ruslan Astamirov and Mikhail Vasiliev admitted they helped to...
#4 Three Rhode Island Men Charged in Theft of Thousands of Catalytic Converters
Apr 30 2025 // Three Rhode Island men have been charged in federal court in Providence for their alleged roles in a conspiracy to steal and sell hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of catalytic converters, announced Acting U.S....
#5 Two Oil Tankers on Fire in Waters Near Singapore, Crew Members Rescued
Jul 19 2024 // Two large oil tankers were on fire on Friday after colliding near Singapore, the world’s biggest refueling port, with two crew members airlifted to hospital and others rescued from life rafts, authorities and one of...
#6 Two Plane Crashes Lead to Deadliest Year in Skies Since 2018
Dec 31 2024 // Commercial aviation has suffered its deadliest year since 2018 after the Jeju Air Co. disaster in South Korea and last week’s downing of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane. Fatalities onboard passenger aircraft jumped to...
#7 Three Charged With Helping Agents Cheat on Florida Insurance License Exams
Jun 28 2024 // Three Miami people, two of them licensed insurance agents, have been charged with operating an unauthorized insurance agent licensing school and taking license examinations in applicants’ place. At least five...
#8 Four Hondurans Indicted in Florida on $89M Workers’ Comp, Tax Avoidance Charges
May 13 2025 // A grand jury in Orlando last week indicted four Honduran nationals for allegedly operating an off-the-books cash payroll scheme for construction workers that defrauded workers’ compensation insurers and avoided...
#9 Four Suspected Houthi Attacks Target Ship Off Yemen, Authorities Say
Aug 12 2024 // Four suspected attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels targeted a Liberian-flagged oil tanker in the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait linking the Gulf of Aden to the Red Sea, including one that saw private security guards...
#10 Three Dozen High-Rise Buildings in South Florida Are Sinking, Study Says
Dec 19 2024 // SUNNY ISLES BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Almost three dozen high-rise condos and luxury hotels along the beach in South Florida are sinking or settling in unexpected ways, in some cases because of nearby construction, according to...
#11 Two Former New York Fire Chiefs Face Bribery Charges Tied to Safety Inspections
Sep 17 2024 // Two former chiefs of the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) have been charged with bribery and corruption for allegedly expediting access to fire safety inspections for preferred customers in exchange for...
#12 Two Sentenced for Roles in Catalytic Converter Theft Ring
Apr 25 2025 // Prosecutors in Connecticut announced sentencing of two men involved in catalytic converter theft and trafficking. Alexander Kolitsas, 31, of Wolcott, was sentenced in Hartford to 60 months in prison, followed by two years...
#13 Four Killed in Georgia High School Shooting; Suspect in Custody
Sep 5 2024 // Four people were killed and nine others injured after a teen gunman opened fire at a high school in Winder, Georgia, an old railroad town northeast of Atlanta. The identities of the victims haven’t been released, but...
#14 Eight Corvettes Stolen from Kentucky Plant But Found Later, Some with Minor Damage
Mar 27 2025 // LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Thieves took eight Corvettes from the lot of a Kentucky automobile plant where the legendary muscle car is built, but officers recovered the vehicles and made an arrest, police said. The cars were...
#15 Four Canadian Banks Quit Climate Group as Exodus Begun by Wall Street Picks Up
Jan 20 2025 // Four of Canada’s biggest banks are leaving the industry’s top climate-finance alliance, joining Wall Street peers and extending an exodus that started in early December. Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce,...
#16 Four Tops Singer Sues Detroit-Area Hospital for Racial Discrimination
Jun 13 2024 // WARREN, Mich. (AP) — The lead singer of the Four Tops said a Detroit-area hospital restrained him and ordered a psychological exam after refusing to believe that he was part of the Motown music group. Alexander Morris,...
#17 Two Florida Employees Charged with Defrauding Aetna of $1M
Nov 18 2024 // It was an inside job, one that cost an insurance company in Florida more than $1.1 million, authorities said. Investigators with Florida’s Department of Financial Services on Friday charged Rochell Green and Breana...
#18 Five Charged in Multi-Million-Dollar Insurance Fraud Case
Apr 15 2025 // Five people have been charged in a large-scale insurance fraud scheme involving misrepresented life insurance policies that resulted in fraudulent commissions totaling over $1.4 million. The five, which include a former...
#19 Two Killed After Leak at Texas Oil Refinery Worked for Maintenance Subcontractor
Oct 15 2024 // DEER PARK, Texas (AP) — Two employees killed when hydrogen sulfide leaked at a Houston-area oil refinery were employees of a subcontractor performing maintenance work, the director of Pemex, Mexico’s state-owned...
#20 Four Fatal Shootings by Officers Were Justified, Mississippi Attorney General Says
Aug 30 2024 // JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The use of force was justified in four fatal shootings by Mississippi law enforcement officers last year, Attorney General Lynn Fitch said Wednesday. Fitch based her findings on investigations...
