Louisville Metro Police arrested Zachary Bailey on Saturday after officers say he broke into a home and chased one of its residents with a weapon resembling a medieval flail. Court documents accuse him of threatening to kill the homeowner inside. He’s now being held ahead of his first court date, WAVE3 reported. Officers were called…
A homeowner in Palm Springs says his HOA has spent over a year going after him over his entry gate’s color. Jordan Smith, who lives in the gated Escena community, calls their actions effort selective enforcement and harassment, KESQ reported. The association doesn’t agree and is in fact disputing the account. Smith says the trouble…
A 59-year-old Oklahoma City man is charged in a deadly shooting after he confronted two people he said were trespassing on his empty property. Timothy Smith is being held on charges of first-degree manslaughter and reckless conduct with a firearm, KOCO reported. The shooting happened May 1 near Southwest 44th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. The…
An Army veteran who was blinded in service has received the keys to a specially adapted home in Bradenton, Florida. Dozens of people gathered for a ceremony to honor Sgt. 1st Class Aaron Cornelius and welcome him into the house, WWSB reported. He said he was thrilled with the place. Homes for Our Troops, a…
The last living “witness tree” outside Abraham Lincoln’s former home in Springfield, Illinois, an American linden, was destroyed during severe storms Thursday night, according to The New York Times. A park ranger at the home confirmed the damage. The tree had stood beside it since before the Civil War. A line of thunderstorms swept across…
A woman named Megan Perry says the neighbors who bought the land surrounding her rural home have walled it in with mounds of dirt and manure reaching 10 feet high. The mother of five has lived on her property in Dooralong on the New South Wales Central Coast for 12 years. However, she says everything…
Firefighters in Summit County, Colorado, spent the week training for wildfire season. Their message to residents was that a home’s odds of surviving a fire depend heavily on what you do in advance. Summit Fire and EMS, as well as the Red, White, and Blue Fire Protection District, held their joint annual on-the-ground training in…
A Clarksville, Tennessee, homeowner says sinkholes that began on land owned by her homeowners’ association have spread into her backyard. She’s now pushing both the HOA and the city to do something about it. Kimberly Starr told NewsChannel 5 that there were no sinkholes on the property when her family first bought the home and…
A northeast Iowa nursing home has been added to a federal list tracking the country’s worst care facilities. Northgate Care Center in Waukon was added to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ list of candidates for special focus status. That designation is reserved for homes with a history of serious problems in resident care,…