holgs/iStock(JACKSONVILLE, Fla.) — A flotilla of volunteers answered the call on Tuesday to join the search off the Florida coast for two firefighters who failed to return from a fishing trip on Friday. As the search for Jacksonville, Florida, Firefighter Brian McCluney and Fairfax, Virginia, Firefighter Justin Walker stretched into its fifth day on Tuesday, search-and-rescue crews clung to hope of finding the two men alive but conceded they are in a “race against time.” Search crews focused on an area of ocean where a civilian found a bag belonging…
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New lawsuit from detainees, advocacy groups claims ICE denied medical treatment
danielfela/iStock(NEW YORK) — A group of detained immigrants are alleging in a new lawsuit that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has systemically failed to ensure individuals in the agency’s care have been given access to adequate medical and mental health care. “This lawsuit is against ICE in terms of the people who are held in facilities across the country — it’s a class action lawsuit that includes every facility in which ICE detains people … which we estimate is about 160 to 170 facilities today, and that includes about 55,000…
Escaped Georgia inmate wanted for murder kills himself as authorities close in
Gulf County Sheriffs Office(NEW YORK) — An escaped Georgia inmate who was named as the suspect in a fatal shooting over a botched drug deal in Florida earlier this week took his own life on Tuesday night as authorities closed in. The suspect, identified as 34-year-old Stephen Michael Smith, was spotted driving on a highway in Florida’s Gulf County late Tuesday evening. As a task force from the United States Marshals Service and deputies from the Gulf County Sheriff’s Office surrounded the car to apprehend him, Smith placed a pistol…
Severe weather threatens major Northeast cities
ABC News(NEW YORK) — Severe storms moved through the Plains and Midwest on Tuesday, bringing three tornadoes in Iowa, a 73 mph wind gust at Indianapolis International Airport and flash flooding from heavy rain in Washington, D.C. On Wednesday, severe storms will move into Philadelphia, New York City and Boston with damaging winds and the possibility of flash flooding. Large hail and even the slight chance for an isolated tornado are possible in New England. Summer heat Seven states in the South from Texas to Tennessee are on alert for…