4+ week, 1+ day ago   (404+ words) BRADENTON, FL — A Pennsylvania university is exploring the possibility of establishing a presence in downtown Bradenton, with a performing arts program among the potential offerings, city officials said in a news release. Discussions between Pittsburgh’s Point Park University and the…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (1632+ words) HAUPPAUGE, NY — An elderly Suffolk County woman was preparing to convert approximately $140,000 of her savings into gold for scammers when two detectives arrived at her home and discovered that the fraudsters were secretly listening to their conversation through her compromised…...

2+ mon, 1+ hour ago   (181+ words) MANATEE COUNTY, FL — A woman was killed in a weekend crash near the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Manatee County, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. The incident occurred around 10 a.m. Saturday on Interstate 275 near mile marker 5, just east of the…...

2+ mon, 5+ day ago   (116+ words) WESTFIELD, NJ — A Westfield resident lost nearly $75,000 in a gold scam after wiring thousands of dollars in exchange for what they believed would be a pure, one-ounce gold bar, according to police. Police said the resident reported the incident on…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (176+ words) ASHBURN, VA – The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a Gaithersburg man in connection with a scheme to defraud seniors in Loudoun and Prince William counties by instructing them to move their savings into fake “gold bar” accounts. Junjie Wu,…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (338+ words) MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MD — The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office in Virginia announced on Wednesday the arrest of a Gaithersburg man tied to a fraud scheme that instructed seniors to move their savings into fake “gold bar” accounts. Junjie Wu, 29, was arrested…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (262+ words) A former reserve police officer for the Anne Arundel County Police Department was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison this week for threatening to kill Marjorie Taylor Greene, a former Republican congresswoman from Georgia. Reginald Gray Jr., a 33-year-old Baltimore…...

4+ mon, 6+ hour ago   (261+ words) BRADENTON, FL — The mother of a 4-year-old who drowned at a pool party on Saturday night was intoxicated and had been looking at her phone for several minutes before she realized her daughter was missing, according to a report citing arrest…...

4+ mon, 4+ week ago   (163+ words) BRADENTON, FL — While wrapping up a patrol shift, “an unexpected ‘dock inspector’ showed up for a drink” of water as Marine Unit officers rinsed off their boat, Bradenton police wrote in a social media post. “Yes - a manatee. And no,…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago   (164+ words) BRADENTON, FL — A man was arrested for fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend at a Bradenton medical office Thursday afternoon, authorities said. Keith Roberts, Jr., 29, was charged with first-degree murder with a firearm and attempted first-degree murder with a firearm, Bradenton police…...