Man in custody after firing shots, exposing himself and climbing wires in northwest DC

COLOMBO (News 1st) – Police have commenced search and rescue operation to find a person who went missing after falling into the sea while doing maintenance work on a jetty of the Lakwijaya Power Plant in Norochcholai.Police said that a joint operation together with officers of Kalpitiya Navy Camp was underway.The missing person, aged 32, is a resident of the Pallama area.

Arizona–Utah state line pleaded not guilty Thursday to federal charges of tampering with evidence, weeks after being stopped on a highway with young girls in an enclosed trailer.Samuel Bateman, 46, was indicted earlier this month on three counts of destroying or attempting to destroy records, and tampering with criminal proceedings. He pleaded not guilty in U.S.

(FOX 9) - A Minnesota man was among the first members of the public to pay their respects to Queen Elizabeth II as she lies in state in Westminster Hall.Andrew Israels-Swenson, who is from Morris, Minnesota, was 18th in line to see the queen's coffin in London. He joined FOX 9 Good Day on Friday to talk about his experience (watch the video in the player above).Swenson's mother is British and moved to the United States in the 1960s.

OGILVIE, Minn. (FOX 9) - Disclaimer the details in this story are disturbing.A man in Ogilvie, Minnesota faces a felony murder charge after his grandmother was found brutally killed with a hatchet in her home earlier in the week. Dustin Tinklenberg, 42, was charged with 2nd-degree murder in connection to the death of his grandmother Stella Anderson, 92.

RYLAN Clark has opened up about his mother Linda's health battle as he revealed he built her a house so that she could be near to him. The popular presenter spoke to Fearne Cotton on her Happy Place podcast about his beloved Gogglebox star mum's struggle with Crohn's disease. The pair previously took time off from Gogglebox due to Linda’s struggle with the condition for which there is no cure.

the British monarchy, a new poll suggests — despite nearly equal support both for and against preserving those ties.The Ipsos poll, conducted exclusively for Global News just days after the death of Queen Elizabeth II, found support for a referendum on the future of the monarchy has gone up since last year, from 53 per cent in 2021 to 58 per cent today.“(Canadians) would like to have their say,” said Darrell Bricker, CEO of Ipsos Public Affairs.Whether support continues to grow for holding a vote on the issue will likely depend on “the performance of King Charles III and what people feel about him after we get out of this period of mourning” for the queen, Bricker added. Canada ‘came of age’ under Queen Elizabeth II, Trudeau says as MPs offer tributes Ipsos interviewed over 1,000 Canadians online earlier this week for the survey.The results suggest King Charles has a lot to prove with the Canadian public.While 82 per cent of respondents said they approve of Queen Elizabeth’s performance as monarch, just 56 per cent agree Charles will do a good job in her place.

PHILADELPHIA - Authorities are searching for a man accused of sexually assaulting a woman early Friday morning in Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square section. Officers from the Philadelphia Police Department were called to the intersection of 18th and Walnut streets around 2 a.m.Investigators say a woman was sexually assaulted by a Black man with short hair who was wearing a gray shirt and gray jeans. He was reportedly last spotted fleeing down 18th Street, according to police. No information was provided on if the sexual assault suspect was captured by nearby surveillance cameras. 

Dream Perfect Regime) have announced that they are postponing the Texas leg of their forthcoming 2022 Regime Tour.On September 14, concert organiser Kohai published a statement announcing DPR’s forthcoming show in Austin, initially scheduled for September 15, will not be pushing through after DPR IAN and DPR LIVE tested positive for COVID-19. The two members reported experiencing symptoms following a show in Hollywood, Florida.At the time, Kohai announced that ticket holders for the Houston and Dallas shows, set to take place on September 16 and 17 respectively, will receive real-time status updates while both members’ conditions were being monitored.[REGIME TOUR]Notice regarding the September 15, 2022 show in Austin.

MOORESTOWN, N.J. - Terrifying moments for a South Jersey woman when, she says, an intruder broke into her home while she was fast asleep, only waking up to an alert on her phone."I feel very violated. My entire family feels extremely violated," Jessica Goralski stated.Goralski, of Moorestown, New Jersey, recounts the real-life nightmare that unfolded around 2:30 Wednesday morning, when her mom woke up to an alert that an intruder was inside their North Stanwick Road home. The family of four jolted out of bed, horrified."She saw that the door was swung open.

FALLS TOWNSHIP, Pa. - A 69-year-old Falls Township man has been found guilty of sexually assaulting two 9-year-old girls.A Bucks County jury, Thursday, found Falls Township resident Craig S. Hartman guilty of one count of rape of a child and two counts each of aggravated indecent assault of a child, indecent assault, indecent exposure, corruption of minors and unlawful contact with a minor.

NORTH PHILADELPHIA - Police in North Philadelphia are investigating a shooting near Temple University’s campus.In tweets sent by the university's alert notification system, a shooting occurred near campus, at North Broad and Diamond Streets Thursday night, around 8:45, at a McDonald's.Residents and students were urged to avoid the area as police investigated.A man was said to have been injured in the leg as a result of the shooting.No further details were released regarding arrests or the condition of the victim.

NEW CASTLE, Del. - A 59-year-old Delaware man is wanted for allegedly committing home improvement fraud.New Castle County Police are searching for Perren Davis, of Wilmington, on a warrant of felony home improvement fraud.New Castle County officials say the warrant is for a situation in Wilmington.Officials believe there may be additional victims who have not come forward, in Delaware and possibly in Pennsylvania.Davis is described as 5’9" and weighing 135 pounds.

Mississauga two hours prior to killing Toronto police Const. Andrew Hong.In an update on Thursday, Peel and Halton’s police chiefs spoke at a news conference outlining additional information learned after several shootings that claimed the lives of two men and injured three others.Peel Regional Police chief Nishan Duraiappah said the suspect — identified as 40-year-old Sean Petrie — had been at the Tim Hortons, in the area of Winston Churchill Boulevard and Argentia Road, for two hours and 15 minutes before fatally shooting Hong.Petrie had driven there in a red Toyota Corolla and parked it in an adjacent lot, Duraiappah said.

Philadelphia police ask for help identifying a man they say robbed a woman of her purse in Center City. CENTER CITY - Philadelphia police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a man who reportedly robbed a woman in Center City.Officials say the incident took place early September 14, just after 5:30 in the morning, on the 1400 block of Callowhill Street, in front of the Philadelphia Police headquarters.A 25-year-old woman was walking on the sidewalk when a man ran up behind her and grabbed her purse.

Robert Keith Packer, 57. A Virginia man who stormed the U.S. Capitol while wearing an antisemitic "Camp Auschwitz" sweatshirt over a Nazi-themed shirt was sentenced on Thursday to 75 days of imprisonment.Robert Keith Packer, 57, declined to address U.S.

A GoFundMe campaign created for Pieper Lewis, a teenage sex trafficking victim who was ordered to pay US$150,000 in restitution after killing her accused rapist, has raised over $350,000 as of publication time, with over 9,000 donations from well-wishers.Lewis, 17, was sentenced to five years probation on Tuesday after pleading guilty last year to involuntary manslaughter and willful injury in the June 2020 killing of 37-year-old Zachary Brooks of Des Moines, Iowa. Both charges were punishable by up to 10 years in prison but the sentences were deferred. However, if Lewis violates her probation she could be sent to prison to serve that 20-year term.Lewis was 15 when she stabbed Brooks more than 30 times in his apartment in 2020.

cancer.In the days after her death, the singer – then shooting to fame as a member of Boyzone – and his siblings decided to create a charity in her name so fewer families would have to go through what they went through.‘Kicking around the house following mum passing there was a lot of emotions, anger, frustration, upset and hurt,’ Ronan, 45, tells Metro.co.uk, as we partner with breast cancer charity CoppaFeel! for Saturday’s Festifeel event. ‘It was my sister Linda who said “we’ve go to do something”.‘It was using all of the energy the family had and the negativity and bitterness and anger and try to turn it into something positive.

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd gives a press conference highlighting the arrests from 'Operation Cyber Guardian II.' WINTER HAVEN, Fla. - A total of 13 men were arrested in the latest Polk County undercover operation targeting suspects who made attempts to "sexually abuse, groom, and corrupt" children, said Sheriff Grady Judd. In addition to the agency's team, Chris Hansen from ‘To Catch a Predator’ worked alongside investigators.Sheriff Judd said three suspects believed they were speaking to the guardian or parent of a child who wanted to teach their kid to have sex or arrange for the suspect to meet the minor, officials said. Others either traveled to have sex with children, had sexually-explicit conversations, or sent "harmful material." It turned out the person on the end of those conversations was an undercover detective.Among those arrested were people who worked at Disney, Publix, and Amazon, along with a man who installs internet safety programs in schools — the very same firewall blocking systems means to protect children from sexual predators."We will continue to conduct proactive operations like this to search out these evil predators before they get to our children," Sheriff Judd said.

Jayana Tanae Webb, 21, appeared to have posted that she was the ‘best drunk driver ever’ weeks before she allegedly struck and killed two Pennsylvania state troopers and a third man while driving under the influence.  PHILADELPHIA - A woman accused of fatally striking two Pennsylvania State Troopers and a pedestrian on I-95 in March posted bail on Wednesday, according to court records. Jayana Webb, 21, was charged with third-degree murder and other offenses following the deadly crash. A Philadelphia judge previously dismissed the third-degree murder charges in June, but they were later reinstated with bail set at 10% of $600,000.Officials say she was under the influence of alcohol and behind the wheel of an SUV when it plowed into Trooper Branden Sisca, 29, Trooper Martin F.

ST. GEORGE, Maine - Video captured the shocking moment when a 7-foot mako shark jumped into the air and landed on a fishing boat off the coast of Maine. Crew and guests were on a shark fishing expedition with Sea Ventures Charters watching the shark do acrobatics in the air.

Russian energy executive Ivan Pechorin became the country’s latest elite businessman to die under mysterious circumstances after he reportedly fell from a speeding boat on Saturday night.

A car slammed into a West Philadelphia daycare. No injuries were reported.

Three teenagers are being sought in connection to the armed carjacking of an 80-year-old man. PHILADELPHIA - Authorities are searching for three teenagers accused of a broad daylight armed carjacking of an elderly man in West Philadelphia.Investigators say the gunpoint carjacking happened Sept.

PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner is planning a gathering Wednesday with supporters by his side to push back against a State House vote holding him in contempt.The two-term Democrat stood with members of Philadelphia City Council Wednesday as they detailed plans to protect abortion rights.  Krasner said he was "thrilled" to be the only man standing with the council members but was far less enthusiastic to talk about the contempt vote.In a lopsided vote, in the Republican controlled State House, the two-term Democratic D.A. was held in contempt for failing to respond to subpoenas from a special committee investigating whether to impeach him. According to the committee, Krasner declined to accept hand-delivered subpoenas and his office is not complying with an electronic copy accepted by his attorneys.When pressured for an answer on the contempt vote by FOX 29's Jeff Cole.

FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. - A Florida Chick-fil-A employee is being hailed a hero after tackling a carjacker outside the restaurant and rescuing a woman and her baby.Deputies say this happened at a location in Fort Walton Beach, Florida on Wednesday.In video by Molly Kelner, the worker can be seen jumping on the suspect and wrestling the man as the woman stands by holding the child. A bystander then shouts: "She had a baby in her hands, how dare you! How dare you scare her like that!"Kelner told Storyful that the suspect was escorted out of the Chick-fil-A "by a manager".

Rowan University, much like the rest of New Jersey, is facing a coronavirus uptick. GLASSBORO, N.J. - A night out took a terrifying turn for some college students when police say gunfire erupted near Rowan University's campus over the weekend.Police were responding to local ordinance violations on Georgetown Road when several shots were fired just before 2 a.m.

DES MOINES, Iowa - An Iowa teenage sex trafficking victim who stabbed her rapist to death was sentenced by a judge on Tuesday to five years of closely supervised probation and must pay $150,000 restitution to her abuser's family.Pieper Lewis, 17, stabbed her abuser, 37-year-old Zachary Brooks, more than 30 times in June 2020. She was initially charged with first-degree murder.Last year, Lewis pleaded to involuntary manslaughter and willful injury, both of which were punishable by up to 10 years in prison.

Edith Lemay, Sebastien Pelletier and their four children. (Credit: Edith Lemay) BALI, Indonesia - For Edith Lemay and her husband, Sebastien Pelletier, it’s a race against time to see as much of the world before their kids completely lose their vision. The couple has four children: 11-year-old Mia, 9-year-old Leo, 7-year-old Colin and 5-year-old Laurent.

R. Kelly was found guilty on Wednesday of several child pornography and sex abuse offences by a federal jury in his hometown of Chicago, delivering another blow to the singer who was once one of the biggest music stars in the world.Kelly, 55, was found guilty on three counts of child pornography and three counts of child enticement.But the jury acquitted him on a fourth pornography count as well as a conspiracy to obstruct justice charge accusing him of fixing his state child pornography trial in 2008, at which he was acquitted.

Christine Walters is acussed of burgalrizing a dead woman's home in Mohave County, among other charges she could be facing in connection to the incident. (Background image) A yellow continuous double line is seen on a road near the town of Yucca in M BULLHEAD CITY, Ariz. - A mummified body was found inside an Arizona home while police were investigating a report of a woman burglarizing that very house on Sept.

OLD CITY - A New Jersey mom wants other parents to pay attention to a new CDC warning about a virus hitting kids.It landed her little boy in the hospital and has symptoms that mimic polio.Kelley O’Neill and her 3-year-old son, Owen, were happy and excited the night before the first day of pre-school, but hours later, her son’s health took a turn."You could tell he was desperate for relief of whatever pain he was in," O’Neill stated.What Kelley thought was a mild cold, with some sniffles and cough, turned into labored breathing with a respiratory rate of 40 breaths per minute. "When he reached 40, I said we need to go to ER."Kelley says her son was admitted to the hospital and placed on oxygen. He tested positive for both rhinovirus and enterovirus.

Philadelphia police investigate a shooting on Cobbs Creek Parkway in Southwest Philadelphia that left a 30-year-old man in critical condition. SOUTHWEST PHILADELPHIA - A 30-year-old man is in critical condition after he was shot multiple times after an attempted abduction in Southwest Philadelphia.Officials say the incident happened Wednesday evening, just before 6 p.m., on the 6800 block of Cobbs Creek Parkway.Three men in a Jeep tried to abduct someone off the street, but they sped off and crashed.According to authorities, one of those men fired at the victim, hitting him three times in the side.Medics rushed him to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, where he was placed in critical condition.An investigation is ongoing.

COLUMBUS, OHIO, UNITED STATES - 2021/07/21: The Ohio State University logo at the top of the Ohio Stadium at sunset, during a summer day on The Ohio State University campus. (Photo by Stephen Zenner/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A federal appeals court ruling Wednesday revives unsettled lawsuits against Ohio State University over decades-old sexual abuse by the late team doctor Richard Strauss.A district judge in Columbus had dismissed most of the unsettled cases, acknowledging that hundreds of young men were abused but agreeing with the university’s argument that the legal time limit for the claims had long passed.

PHILADELPHIA - Police are searching for a day worker who they say stole a truck and crashed into four people, including three children, outside a Philadelphia auto repair store earlier this month. Investigators say the suspect, identified by police as a man around 50-years-old name Dre, was picked up with two other day workers near the intersection of 18th and Ontario streets on Sept. 2. The three men drove to an auto repair shop on the 5600 block of Vine Street where police say two of the men exited the vehicle, leaving the suspect asleep in the backseat. A short time later, the suspect awoke and drove the truck over a parking block into a crosswalk where a man and three children were passing. MORE LOCAL HEADLINES: Shaheed Richberg, 43, and three children between the ages of 5 and 1 were injured in the hit-and-run crash. Richberg remains in the hospital in stable condition and the Divinity McFarland, 5, is still in critical condition at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

CHICAGO - A federal jury on Wednesday convicted R. Kelly of several child pornography and sex abuse charges in his hometown of Chicago, delivering another legal blow to a singer who used to be one of the biggest R&B stars in the world.Kelly, 55, was found guilty on three counts of child pornography and three counts of child enticement.But the jury acquitted him on a fourth pornography count as well as a conspiracy to obstruct justice charge accusing him fixing his state child pornography trial in 2008.

A photo from the CIA "X-Files" showing a possible UFO sighting in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Oct. 20, 1960.

LOS ANGELES - A 15-year-old student at Bernstein High School is dead and another teen was hospitalized after overdosing on pills they purchased at a park in Hollywood, officials said.Investigators believe the pills were laced with fentanyl.The parents of the teen girls became concerned after their daughters did not return home from school and reported them missing Tuesday evening. The stepfather of one of the girls began driving around in search of his stepdaughter and kept circling back to her school. Around 8 p.m., he found her collapsed in the courtyard of the school campus located near the intersection of North Wilton Place and Fountain Avenue.In a fragile state, she managed to tell her stepfather she took half a pill she bought at Lexington Park. "She was very ill.

A teenage human trafficking victim who was initially charged with first-degree murder after she stabbed her accused rapist to death was sentenced Tuesday in an Iowa court to five years of closely supervised probation and ordered to pay US$150,000 restitution to the man’s family.Pieper Lewis, 17, was sentenced Tuesday after she pleaded guilty last year to involuntary manslaughter and willful injury in the June 2020 killing of 37-year-old Zachary Brooks of Des Moines. Both charges were punishable by up to 10 years in prison.Polk County District judge David M.

PHILADELPHIA - Prosecutors in Philadelphia announced charges against a young man accused of firing a gun inside an busy outlet mall on Tuesday night. The District Attorney's Office on Wednesday charged 18-year-old Samir Smith with aggravated assault, reckless endangerment, and weapons offenses.Investigators say Smith and another person were arguing with a group inside the Fashion District around 6:30 p.m. when Smith left the building and fired one shot towards the group.Inspector D.F.

Building partially collapses in Logan. PHILADELPHIA - Another building collapse in Philadelphia prompted an evacuation and emergency response Wednesday morning.Crews responded after the 7th floor of a commercial building partially collapsed on the 1300 block of Lindley Avenue.SkyFOX was live over the scene, where it appears the exterior of the building crumbled onto the sidewalk.

York Regional Police officer heading into work Wednesday morning was killed in a head-on crash in Markham, sources tell Global News.York police said emergency crews were called to the area of Major Mackenzie Drive East and Warden Avenue at around 6 a.m. for a report of a two-vehicle crash.When officers arrived, they learned one driver had been killed, police said.Police did not release any details about the victim or anyone else who was injured in the crash, but Global News has since learned that the individual killed was a York Regional Police officer.

Katie Price's brand new documentary discussing her mental health and past traumas has allowed her to heal and move past the incidents.

PHILADELPHIA - Police are asking for the public's help to identify a suspect after an argument escalated into a shooting last month.The incident began when two construction workers reportedly got into a verbal dispute on the 3400 block of Westmoreland Street on August 26.Police say one of the workers then pulled a gun and fired four shots, striking the victim in both legs.The suspect fled the scene on a bicycle, according to police. MORE HEADLINES:Surveillance footage reportedly caught the suspect entering a local store minutes after the shooting.He is described as being 5 feet 7 inches, 170 pounds with a beard.Anyone with information is asked to contact Philadelphia Police.

EastEnders star Paul Nicholls is to lead a major show in a dramatic TV comeback.After minor roles in the early 90s, the 43-year-old actor got his big break on the BBC One soap in 1996. Paul was cast as loveable teenage rogue Joe Wicks but departed EastEnders just one year later as his life spiralled out of control.READ MORE:EastEnders Jessie Wallace's love life - co-star's godson, policeman and fling with fanAmid the pressures of fame and his partying, Paul developed a high-dependency addiction to cocaine and upon deciding to get sober in 2008, would relapse several times.Following a throat cancer scare in 2016, Paul's health woes went from bad to worse.After yet another drug relapse in 2017, the actor suffered two broken legs after falling down a waterfall as he ran from a pack of wild dogs in Thailand.Paul spent three days trapped at the bottom of the waterfall before being rescued.The incident also left Paul with 37 different infections, which were only diagnosed after they caused him to suffer a stroke while rehearsing for a theatre role.Following the traumatic health scare, Paul suffered yet another drug relapse.He previously told The Sun: "The rabbit hole I went down led to places that I never thought I'd end up in – flats with people I didn’t know."At certain points I'd be gone for three or four days and not sleep at all.

PHILADELPHIA - Two teenagers charged in the brutal killing of a 73-year-old man who was attacked by a group of teen in June are set to appear in court Wednesday.Richard Jones and Gamara Mosely, both 14 years old, are charged with third-degree murder and conspiracy after turning themselves into authorities earlier this summer.Officials say both teens were involved in the death of 73-year-old James "Simmie" Lambert Jr. on the 2100 block of Cecil B.

Plans for a new health centre which will serve more than 13,000 Oldham residents have officially been lodged after more than 15 years of campaigning.

COLOMBO (News 1st) – Sri Lanka Police said that two men were arrested on Wednesday (14) morning for abducting a woman and making a getaway in a car.The suspects were arrested by the Baddagama Police Officers.Sri Lanka Police said that the woman in question was traveling to an apparel factory in Dikwella, where she was employed.She was abducted by the men in a car, while en route to work.The men had proceeded to the Baddegama Exit on the Southern Expressway and Police Officers manning the post, had noticed that the woman's mouth was covered by the hand of one of the men seated at the back.The Police Officers informed the Baddegama Traffic Police Division and an operation was launched to stop the vehicle in Baddegama Town.Before stopping the car, police officers who in pursuit of the vehicle had observed that the back doors were locked, and a man was forcibly holding on to the woman at knifepoint.Police Officers had also noticed a tussle between the abductor and victim, said the Police statement.Thereafter, a Police Sergeant opened fire into the sky and broke the back-door windows of the car, pulling out the suspect, and the woman.Both were admitted to the Baddegama Hospital for injuries.The 23-year-old driver of the car was arrested and the car was seized.Sri Lanka Police said that the abduction was the result of an illicit affair, however, investigations are on 

Katie Price has told pals she is desperate to put the years of turmoil behind her and “finally move on” after bravely opening up about her mental health in her new documentary, Katie Price: Trauma And Me. In the Channel 4 show, which aired last week, Katie, 44, spoke about the moments leading up to her drink-driving crash last year, following which she narrowly avoided jail and was handed a 16-week suspended sentence and two-year driving ban. She also bravely discussed a suicide attempt and how she lives with PTSD.