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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX) — Crime scene tape surrounds a Linden apartment on Cleveland Avenue after a shooting incident Thursday night left an elderly woman wounded inside her home. The chaos unfolded when gunfire erupted in a breezeway of the apartment complex, with bullets penetrating the walls and striking the woman in the left arm.James Washington, a resident who lives two floors above the shot-up apartment, expressed his concern for the victim. “She’s a good friend,” said Washington. “Me and my wife try to look out for her because she is elderly.” Washington added, “It’s right underneath of us, I didn’t…
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX) — Crime scene tape surrounds a Linden apartment on Cleveland Avenue after a shooting incident Thursday night left an elderly woman wounded inside her home. The chaos unfolded when gunfire erupted in a breezeway of the apartment complex, with bullets penetrating the walls and striking the woman in the left arm.James Washington, a resident who lives two floors above the shot-up apartment, expressed his concern for the victim. “She’s a good friend,” said Washington. “Me and my wife try to look out for her because she is elderly.” Washington added, “It’s right underneath of us, I didn’t…
A Colorado Springs-area school board voted Thursday night to ban transgender students from middle and high school sports teams that match their gender identity. The 3-2 vote in District 49, a conservative-leaning district in El Paso County with 27,000 students, came after impassioned testimony from both supporters and opponents of the new policy, called “Preserving Fairness and Safety in Sports.” The high-profile decision in Colorado’s 10th-largest school district follows a February executive order from President Donald Trump targeting transgender youth in sports and represents a shift that could soon be replicated in other districts in the state. But the new…
An investigation by student journalists at Stanford University claims the school has been infiltrated by Chinese spies seeking sensitive data on critical areas like artificial intelligence and robotics. The article follows years of warnings by intelligence and national security officials that some international students report back to their home countries about top-secret research. Widespread spying at Stanford? The Stanford Review, a student-run news site, said the Chinese Communist Party is “orchestrating a widespread intelligence-gathering campaign” at the elite California university. The article cited interviews with more than a dozen faculty members, students and China experts. Most spoke on condition of…
A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to immediately release Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish Tufts University Ph.D. student whom the government has been seeking to deport over her alleged sympathies to Hamas. Ozturk, 30, has been in detention since being taken into custody by plainclothes Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers on a Boston street on March 25. Her arrest — footage of which went viral on social media — came after Secretary of State Marco Rubio “terminated” her student visa over alleged “activities in support of Hamas,” the Palestinian terror group responsible for the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on…
A baby that was in the arms of a minor who watched her mother taken away by federal immigration agents on Worcester’s Eureka Street on Thursday is safe, according to District 5 Councilor Etel Haxhiaj.The minor, who was also arrested by Worcester police officers that same day, has also been released from custody, according to Dálida Rocha, executive director of the Worcester Chapter of the social services organization, Neighbor2Neighbor.No one had any information about the woman taken into custody by ICE on Thursday.The baby is the child of the minor’s sister, who was also present when Immigration and Customs Enforcement…
On the first day of the Broncos’ rookie minicamp, as a slew of rookies reported for duty in Denver, the club made a couple of roster changes to meet the NFL’s offseason roster limit of 90. Denver cut punter Matt Haack and long snapper Zach Triner, according to the NFL wire. It’s a pair of special-teams subtractions to new coordinator Darren Rizzi’s unit, both signed for insurance purposes at their respective positions in the last couple of months. Haack, 30, agreed to a one-year deal worth $1.3 million with Denver in March, after starting punter Riley Dixon left in free…
[Kennedy Felton] If you’re tired of juggling streaming services and rising subscription costs, get ready. A big shakeup at CNN’s parent company could make things even more complicated. Warner Bros. Discovery — the company behind CNN, HBO, TLC and HGTV — is reportedly planning to separate its cable TV channels into a new company, according to CNBC. The move would follow a similar decision by Comcast, which is also spinning off its slower-growing cable networks like MSNBC, CNBC and E!. The news helped boost Warner Bros. Discovery’s stock by as much as 5% on Thursday, May 8, a sharp turnaround…
Longtime “NBC Nightly News” host Lester Holt revealed why he’s stepping away from the anchor desk — but remaining at the Peacock Network, saying he “still has gas in the tank.” In a sitdown with Variety, the 66-year-old newsman reflected on his 22-year career at the network, his fast-approaching exit from the chair once occupied by Tom Brokaw at the end of the month and his desire to return to his reporting roots at NBC’s “Dateline.” “It wasn’t like one moment of epiphany,” Holt said of his decision to exit the anchor chair after 10 years. “I never saw myself…
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX) — The new Franklin County prosecutor reassigned the case against Ricky Anderson, the former Columbus police officer who fatally shot Donovan Lewis in 2022, away from special prosecutors to an in-house assistant prosecuting attorney. Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney Shayla Favor removed special prosecutors H. Tim Merkle and Gary S. Shroyer—assigned by the former Franklin County Prosecutor Gary Tyack—from the case Friday and reassigned it to David F. Zeyen, the chief counsel of the General Felony Unit for the county.“My top priority is serving the people of Franklin County with transparency and integrity. After careful consideration we have…