A Los Angeles couple says a simple gesture at a stop sign took a bizarre and frightening turn when the driver they waved through instead drove onto the sidewalk and chased them into a park. Ben and Celine were walking their dachshund, Olive, through the Mid-Wilshire area on Aug. 12 when they reached the intersection…
An 18-year-old Arizona man’s relationship may have been over, but police say he found a particularly destructive way to make one more visit to his ex’s house. Mesa police were called to a home near Gilbert and Baseline roads around 1:45 a.m. Sunday after a car went through a brick wall while several people were…
A Virginia concrete contractor says a couple of conversations with a new Instagram follower eventually brought some unexpected visitors to his front door: the U.S. Secret Service. Austin Connell, who lives in Carrollton, Virginia, told WAVY’s 10 On Your Side that he frequently posts about politics and government on social media. Earlier this year, a…
Michigan State Police troopers searching for a motorcyclist who fled the scene of a crash found themselves joined by an unexpected four-legged visitor. Troopers from the Marshall Post were called to River Road near Lambert Road in Lockport Township, St. Joseph County, after a motorcycle crashed into a guardrail on August 7. The incident happened…
A Florida man’s conversations with ChatGPT about his ex-girlfriend didn’t stay between him and the chatbot. OpenAI alerted the FBI after 25-year-old Darren Shida Zhou used ChatGPT to discuss plans to rape and kill his former girlfriend, according to court records reviewed by USA Today. Federal agents eventually provided roughly two months of Zhou’s messages…
A passenger going through security at San Diego International Airport had something in his pants that caught the attention of the airport scanner. He had a couple of things. The Transportation Security Administration said officers discovered 170 Xanax pills and what was later identified as two ounces of heroin concealed on a passenger after an…
A Florida man unhappy with a judge’s decisions decided to make his displeasure known by email. According to the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office, the messages went considerably further than a strongly worded complaint. Sheriff Wayne Ivey said 54-year-old Michael Christopher Barnard sent two emails to Brevard County Judge Katie Jacobus after becoming upset over recent…
Sometimes, the last thing you expect when you arrive at work is to find a duck wandering around Walgreens. So while police officers are prepared to respond to all kinds of calls, removing a stubborn duck probably does not come up very often. Officer Murry was called to the store after a duck wandered inside…
A Jacksonville drug investigation uncovered something officers did not expect to find behind a Northwest Jacksonville home. A 9-foot alligator was confined in the backyard, while nine dogs and evidence of illegal animal fighting were discovered across two properties. According to the Fourth Judicial Circuit State Attorney’s Office, a Duval County jury found Marquis Williams…