Miami-Dade Police Director Alfredo “Freddy” Ramirez’s wife saved his life during a suicide attempt last month when she seized his arm, their lawyer said Monday in a statement.
The couple was driving home July 23 after they had a spat at the JW Marriott in Tampa, where they were staying for a sheriff’s conference, and police briefly placed Ramirez in handcuffs.
Hours later, Ramirez, 52, allegedly shot himself in the head on Interstate 75 in front of his wife of
A Georgia man was arrested after trying to break in to a building and attempting to flee police in a homeless camp.
Officials say that 37-year-old Jeffrey Furlow allegedly tried to break into a building in Atlanta, Georgia on July 28 at around 5:08 p.m.
When an officer got closer to the man, who forced officers to chase him, he realized that the suspect was carrying a machete, according to police.
“Get on the floor!” an officer can be heard
The nearly 50 remaining long-finned pilot whales that beached themselves on a southwestern Australian coast were euthanized Wednesday, despite days of attempted rescue efforts.
Nearly 100 pilot whales were left stranded on the beach Tuesday and volunteers worked frantically to attempt to rescue them, but about 50 had died by the end of the day. Rescue efforts resumed Wednesday, but after these efforts failed, the Western Australia Parks and Wildlife Service said in a statement that the remaining 45 were
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A Russian-born former dominatrix accused of trying to kill her doppelganger with a cheesecake laced with poison as part of an identity theft plot appears to have shrugged off the accusations with a smile in court.
Viktoria Nasyrova, 45, has a twisted past which has become media fodder – as stories of running from the law after the murder of a woman in Russia in 2014 emerged among accusations of targeting men on dating websites, drugging and robbing them.
Her
Police have arrested a man who attempted to grab at the Queen’s coffin – in an incident which left mourners stunned.
Officers tackled the man to the floor during the jaw-dropping incident, which took place around 10pm at Westminster Hall on Friday.
It is believed the man pushed through a queue of mourners, among them a seven-year-old girl, rushed up to coffin and tried to lift the royal standard. He is then thought to have put his hands on the
