Nashville liquor store owner May Boyce, an 88-year-old widow who stands 5-foot-3 and weighs 115 pounds, according to reports, got “fed up” of her store being robbed so she shot an alleged shoplifter.She told police she grabbed her late mother Mary’s .38 Smith & Wesson snub-nose revolver and shot a suspect who was trying to steal alcohol…
A California liquor store owner stood in front of his business in Santa Monica armed with an AR-15 to discourage looters, he said.The looting in Santa Monica came amid nationwide unrest sparked by the death of George Floyd, a black Minneapolis man who was died last week after a white police officer held his knee on Floyd’s…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.State-owned liquor stores in Pennsylvania have fulfilled about 25,000 orders for curbside pickup in the first three days since the program began amid the coronavirus pandemic, for sales of about $2.3 million.The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board (PLCB) opened the sale…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…