An 81-year-old man drove his car down the landmark Spanish Steps in Rome before getting stuck on the way down. One of Italy’s most recognisable monuments, the Spanish Steps have never been intended for vehicles to travel down. The driver tested negative for alcohol and told officers that he was on his way to work. … Read more
Descrease article font size Increase article font size An 80-year-old man who drove a Mercedes-Benz A Class down the historic Spanish Steps landmark in Rome early Tuesday could not explain how he ended up stuck atop the famed walkway, according to Italian police. The man tested negative for alcohol and was fined on the spot … Read more
A North Dakota man has been charged after he allegedly emailed violent threats to a federal prosecutor and cited the weekend fatal shooting of Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband. Charles Dalzell, a 46-year-old from St. Thomas, was arrested on Monday by FBI agents and charged with interstate threats and threats against a … Read more
Authorities in Pierce County, Washington, used a lasso to pull a man from a pond after he allegedly chased his father with a chainsaw over the weekend, according to bodycam footage released on Monday. Neighbors reported that a 32-year-old man was running after his father with a chainsaw in a yard, according to the Pierce … Read more
Bali police have arrested two people over a shooting which killed one Australian and seriously injured another. Zivan Radmanovic, 32, was shot dead just after midnight on Saturday after two men broke into his villa in Munggu, in the south of the Indonesian tourist island. One of the suspects was arrested in Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital, … Read more
A Georgia man was arraigned Monday on charges of communicating threats in interstate commerce in connection with threats of sexual violence against Republican Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Deb Fischer of Nebraska, federal prosecutors said. Robert Davis Forney, 25, of Duluth, left voicemails in January threatening sexual violence against the two senators, the U.S. … Read more
James Chater and Mike Wendling BBC News, Sydney and Minneapolis Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office/Reuters Police said suspect Vance Luther Boelter was armed at the time of his arrest A 57-year-old man has been arrested in the US state of Minnesota on suspicion of killing a Democratic state lawmaker and her husband. The arrest on Sunday … Read more
A man who was believed to be part of a peacekeeping team for the “No Kings” protest in Salt Lake City shot at a person who was brandishing a rifle at demonstrators, striking both the rifleman and a bystander who later died at the hospital, authorities said Sunday. Police took the alleged rifleman, Arturo Gamboa, … Read more
The man suspected of shooting two Minnesota lawmakers, killing one of them, has been taken into custody, a law enforcement official said. Vance Boelter was arrested Sunday evening. The arrest was confirmed to The Associated Press by a law enforcement official who not publicly discuss details of the ongoing investigation and spoke to AP on … Read more
Authorities in Bali are searching for two Australian men suspected of fatally shooting one Melbourne man and injuring another on the picturesque Indonesian island over the weekend. The incident, which happened at Villa Casa Santisya in the Badung regency in southern Bali just after midnight on Friday, killed Zivan Radmanovic, 32, from Melbourne, and left … Read more