Author: Edward Campbell

Residents of Dallas’ Highland Hills neighborhood are asking for stronger action after a series of shootings has left people worried about their safety. On Tuesday, Dallas Police Chief Daniel Comeaux, City Manager Kimberly Bizor Tolbert and District 8 Councilwoman Lorie Blair visited the neighborhood to hear directly from residents and see the area where many of their concerns have been focused. The visit comes after a September 12 shooting near Highland Hills that left five people injured and 25-year-old Zariea Brown dead. Police said six victims were taken to a local hospital after the shooting in the 5900 block of…

A Blair County community is mourning the death of 14-year-old Ian K. Ulrich, a Bellwood-Antis High School freshman who died after losing control of an electric bike on a roadway in Antis Township. The crash happened Saturday evening along Sandbank Road, near Frito Lane. Ian was traveling north when the electric bike he was riding went through fresh grass clippings on the road, according to information released by Pennsylvania State Police. Police said the bike lost traction and Ian fell onto the pavement. He suffered serious injuries and was taken to UPMC Altoona, where he later died. Local reporting citing…

A year after the deaths of Maria Niotis and Isabella Salas, friends, relatives and neighbors gathered in Cranford, New Jersey, to remember the two 17-year-old girls and reflect on the impact they left on the community. The candlelight gathering Tuesday, Sept. 29, was held on Burnside Avenue, the same street where the two Cranford High School students were fatally struck while riding together on an electric bicycle in September 2025. For the families, the anniversary brought back the pain of losing two teenagers who were described by friends as inseparable. “We miss our girls very much,” Isabella’s mother, Mary Salas,…

A 57-year-old man died Monday evening at a Brooklyn subway station after the shopping bag he was carrying became caught in the doors of an A train, according to police. The incident happened shortly before 6 p.m. at the Utica Avenue station in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Authorities identified the man as Yaw Boahene of East Flatbush. Police said he was getting off the northbound train when the bag became trapped as the doors closed. As the train began moving, Boahene was pulled along the platform and onto the tracks. Emergency responders pronounced him dead at the scene. New details released Wednesday indicate…

A 29-year-old South Florida mother accused of leaving her four young children, including a 2-month-old infant, without adult supervision for several days while she went on a cruise has been released from jail on bond. Nathalie Beliezaire was released from the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center shortly before 9 p.m. Tuesday after appearing in Miami-Dade bond court earlier in the day. She faces four counts of child neglect in connection with the allegations. According to the arrest report, Beliezaire was expected to take the children to their grandmother’s home before leaving for the cruise. Investigators allege that the children instead…

A kitten is recovering safely after a terrifying incident on a busy Broward County road left her in the middle of traffic Sunday. Andrea Rivera was driving behind a pickup truck on Stirling Road when she saw something being thrown from one of the vehicle’s windows. At first, she thought someone had tossed out a piece of trash. It quickly became clear that the object was a small animal. Rivera watched as the kitten landed in the roadway. She avoided the animal with her vehicle, pulled over and immediately went back to help. The kitten, later named Enola, was lying…

Two men were hospitalized after a shooting Tuesday night in Miami’s Overtown neighborhood, as police work to determine what led to the gunfire and how the two victims were involved. Miami police responded to a ShotSpotter alert around 9:53 p.m. near Northwest 5th Avenue between 6th and 7th Street. Officers arriving at the area found two adult men with apparent gunshot wounds. Miami Fire-Rescue crews also responded and took both men to the Jackson Memorial Hospital Trauma Center for treatment. Police have not released the identities or ages of the two men, and their conditions have not been publicly detailed.…

Three adults have been arrested in Marietta, Georgia, after police found 15 children living in a two-bedroom apartment under conditions authorities described as deplorable. The children, who range in age from 1 to 17, were found at an apartment complex on Bells Ferry Road during a welfare check involving the Georgia Division of Family and Children Services. The investigation began after DFCS received a referral concerning two children believed to be living at the apartment. Workers requested assistance from Marietta police when they were unable to make contact with an adult at the residence. As detectives worked to obtain a…

A Michigan father who threatened to return to his son’s elementary school and “air the place out” after becoming upset over the child’s snack time will not serve additional jail time. David Scott Jr., 44, was sentenced last week in Macomb County Circuit Court to one year of probation and 30 hours of community service. He must also complete an anger management program and pay $360 in court costs. Scott previously pleaded no contest to making an intentional threat to commit an act of violence against a school and to disorderly person with obscene conduct. The judge also credited him…

A 16-year-old Milwaukee teenager has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the fatal shooting of his 30-year-old sister during a family confrontation in June 2025. Hezile J. Frison pleaded guilty to first-degree reckless homicide in the death of Ashley Hudson. Milwaukee County Judge David Borowski handed down the sentence on Sept. 25. Frison will also serve 10 years of extended supervision after his prison term. The shooting happened on June 16, 2025, near West Vliet Street and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Milwaukee. Frison was 15 at the time. According to the criminal complaint, the confrontation…