Author: Kent Smith

Google Street View(NEW YORK) — A North Carolina man died in a “freak accident” after rough waters in the ocean caused him to break his neck, according to his family. Lee Dingle, 37, was playing in shallow waters with his children on Oak Island in North Carolina on Friday when an “intense” wave crashed over him, slamming him into the sand, his wife, Shannon Dingle, wrote on Twitter. The swelling in his throat was so severe that it cut off oxygen to his brain, according to a GoFundMe campaign set…

iStock/Brian Sevald(NEW YORK) — Four teenagers were hospitalized in Pennsylvania over the weekend after a gunman opened fire at graduation party. The teens were enjoying a backyard celebration at a home in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, on Saturday when shots rang out, according to police. Chaos ensued as the crowd of about 125 attempted to flee, the Allegheny County Police Department said. Thankfully, there were no fatalities, but the department said three teen girls and one boy were wounded. The teens, all between the ages of 14 and 18, sustained multiple…

iStock/Fedorovekb(JACKSONVILLE, Fla.) —  Police in Florida are searching for a pair of teenagers who allegedly staged a fight to escape from juvenile jail over the weekend. Authorities said four teens managed to escape from a juvenile justice facility in Jacksonville late Saturday night by staging an altercation in their dorm room and attacking staff members who tried to intervene. The inmates — identified as Tajah Bing, 16, Davionne Baldwin, 17, Tyjuan Monroe, 16, and Marcus Ledbetter, 17 — then allegedly overpowered workers in the facility’s control room and opened the…

iStock(BOSTON) — Police in Massachusetts asked a simple favor of residents who may be planning a crime over the weekend: Please wait until the heat wave is over to conduct your criminal activity. Around 93 million people were under excessive heat warnings and advisories over the weekend, including several states in the Northeast. In Massachusetts, the heat index was slated to reach as high as 112 degrees in some places, according to ABC Boston affiliate WCVB-TV. Multiple police departments requested that any would-be criminals spare them from having to respond…