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A homeowner in Florida fired an AK-47 at three invaders in self-defense, officials said. According to Escambia County Sheriff Chip Simmons, one person has been arrested in the case, but officials are still looking for the other two suspects. The home invasion took place just before midnight on July 7. The incident was captured on home surveillance video. At least one of the suspects was armed, as...

Ask just about anyone for their thoughts on what causes homelessness, and you will likely hear drug addiction, mental illness, alcoholism and poverty. A pair of researchers, however, looked at those issues across the country and found they occur everywhere. What does vary greatly around the country, they found, was the availability of affordable housing. Join this channel to get access to perks: h...

Less than three weeks after Indiana’s new constitutional carry law went into effect, an armed bystander stopped an assailant suspected of fatally shooting three people and injuring two others in an Indiana mall on Sunday evening. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHm8vWol8eNjTJZSjq2jaLQ/join LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new videos everyday. https://bit.ly/3KBUD...

A group of consumers are suing candy maker Mars, alleging Skittles contain a "known toxin" that makes the rainbow candies "unfit" to eat.   A class action lawsuit filed on Thursday in Oakland, California by San Leandro resident Jenile Thames alleged that Skittles are unsafe for consumers because they contain "heightened levels" of titanium dioxide. Seeking class-actio...

The U.K. climate group whose members deflated tires on an estimated 40 vehicles in New York City last month recently announced similar actions in cities nationwide. The Tyre Extinguishers, which encourages activists to deflate tires of parked sports utility vehicles (SUV) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, said it has already spread to Chicago and the San Francisco area this month. Individuals af...

For months, CBS2 has been reporting on landlords of smaller properties, "mom and pop" landlords, who say their tenants have not paid rent in years. The problem was exacerbated by the pandemic.  Monday, CBS2's Natalie Duddridge spoke with an elderly landlord who still can't evict, even though the eviction moratorium was lifted months ago.  "It's disrupting my family an...

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell and Interim Police Chief Adrian Diaz unveiled their new recruitment strategy to address staffing shortages in Seattle Police Department Wednesday afternoon. Officer staffing levels reached their lowest point seen in three decades this year, with over 400 officers departing SPD since 2019. The Seattle Police Officer Guild President Mike Solan told the Dori Monson Show th...

Starbucks is shuttering more than a dozen stores due to reports of rife drug use and disturbances by brazen members of the public at the popular cafés. The planned closures, announced Monday, will see 16 stores closed in several cities across the country - all set in left-leaning locales.  The reported disruptions include drug use by paying customers and, more often than not, members of the public...

Arizona Republican Jerone Davison released a new political ad this week in which he wields a rifle as a defense against “angry Democrats in hoods.” While Davison — a Republican running to represent Arizona’s 4th Congressional District– is sitting at home drinking peacefully from an American flag coffee mug, figures wearing white robes sporting donkey logos who are armed with various weapons such a...

Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav has pushed CNN to return to a focus on "journalism" as the network's ratings nosedive. Zaslav appears to be pushing for the network to deliver straight news for everyone, according to a report. "Journalism first. America needs a news network where everybody can come and be heard; Republicans, Democrats," Zaslav said. LIKE & SUBSC...

Farmers protested around the Netherlands as lawmakers voted Tuesday on proposals to slash emissions of damaging pollutants, a plan that will likely force farmers to cut their livestock herds or stop work altogether. The government says emissions of nitrogen oxide and ammonia, which livestock produce, must be drastically reduced close to nature areas that are part of a network of protected habitats...

Starbucks will close five Seattle stores and one in Everett with high rates of crime as part of a broad initiative to boost security at the cafes, the company announced Monday. The closed stores include five in Seattle — stores on Capitol Hill, Ravenna, Pike/Pine, Union Station and Westlake Center — and one in Everett. In total, 17 U.S. stores will close July 31. The stores were chosen based on th...

Dylan Rounds, a 19-year-old who struck off on his own as a farmer in rural Utah, has been missing for almost a month after police found his boots and grain truck abandoned 5 miles from his camper in Lucin. The circumstances of his disappearance appear suspicious: Rounds' mother suspects foul play and investigators haven’t ruled it out. Meanwhile, tips are scarce and a large-scale search of th...

A treasure chest of valuable metals that sits underneath every car has sparked a rash of thefts. Now legislators in Washington and statehouses are fighting back. Thefts of catalytic converters — an antipollution car part laden with platinum, palladium and rhodium — have exploded since the pandemic began, fueled by a surge in the value of those metals. Thieves made off with 12 times as many catalyt...

The left-wing activist group ShutDownDC on Friday offered to pay people who messaged them the location of the six conservative Supreme Court justices. ShutDownDC tweeted Friday that it would pay $50 to anyone who shares a "confirmed sighting" of Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett or John Roberts, adding that they would pay $200 if the...

The way Cherylene Stritenberg says she sees it, the issue comes down to cost. A board member with the Eagle Point School District near Medford, Stritenberg is also a mom. She wants more money for school supplies and books, she said. And she’s concerned that a state law that goes into full effect in the 2022-23 school year to require public K-12 schools, community colleges and universities to provi...

A school principal has told the City Council that homeless encampments across Los Angeles, California, expose students to "unsafe, unsanitary conditions.'' The principal said this at a meeting that was repeatedly disrupted by audience yelling when the City Council tentatively approved an ordinance banning homeless encampments within 500 feet of schools and daycare centers. The Los A...

For decades, Judy and Ed Craine parked their car in the driveway in front of their San Francisco home. Parking in the Golden City can be tricky with its steep hills and busy streets, and the Craines say they were lucky to have a spot that's all their own for the past 36 years. That is, until they received a $1,542 fine for parking on their own property -- with the threat of a $250-per-day fee...

Climate change protesters targeted a copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” at London’s Royal Academy of Arts Tuesday, gluing themselves to the painting’s frame and spray-painting “No New Oil” next to it. The protest, organized by supporters of the campaign group “Just Stop Oil,” came a day after two activists from the group were arrested after gluing themselves to the frame of John Constab...

The Gettysburg College student newspaper editorial board in Pennsylvania is calling for the school’s mascot, the “Bullet,” to be changed because of nationwide gun violence.  In an editorial published online by the Gettysburgian on June 13, the board argues that its mascot, the “Bullet” is an “embarrassment” to students. “So how do we as a College most frequently recognize our connection to ‘those...

The Oregon Health Authority (OHA) is a government agency that coordinates medical care and social well-being in the Beaver State. During the pandemic, OHA was responsible for coordinating Oregon's vaccination drive and disseminating information about COVID-19—both vital tasks. The agency's office for equity and inclusion, however, prefers not to rush the business of government. In fact,...

Two men from Yakima accused of possessing $750,000 worth of fentanyl are now out of jail. “How does this happen without the top two law enforcement officers of the county not even know it?” asked Tulare County District Attorney Tim Ward. Ward and Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux says they didn't learn about the release until Monday. "That's incredibly frustrating for someone who...

Dozens of demonstrators gathered in downtown Portland on the night of the 4th of July, smashing windows, shooting off mortars into the federal building and burning an American flag in a protest over the death of Jayland Walker in Ohio. This gathering in Lownsdale Square on the 4th of July coincided with large crowds in downtown Portland for both the Waterfront Blues Fest and the fireworks over the...

A lawful gun owner in Iowa is not facing any charges after she shot an attacker at a grocery store earlier this month. The woman was at the Hy-Vee food store on June 19 when she was "blindsided, beat up and put in a headlock," according to the Des Moines Police Department. The incident was a "totally unprovoked attack," and police said the legally armed gun owner acted in self-...

When Grace DeWitt recalled the robbery of her daughter's and nieces' lemonade stand on Norpoint Way, she said it was like something from a movie. "We had a customer right behind him, and we're all just kind of in shock," she told The News Tribune on Monday afternoon. "We all just couldn't believe he did it because he, like, did it with a smile on his face."...