Geo Piatt/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said in a new warning they anticipate ransomware attacks could increase as the new school year begins. “The FBI, CISA, and the MS-ISAC anticipate attacks may increase as the 2022/2023 school year begins and criminal ransomware groups perceive opportunities for…… read more »
DuKai photographer/Getty Images(AUSTIN, Texas) — A power outage shut down the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Texas’ capital city for hours on Wednesday morning, causing flight delays and road closures. The airport announced via Twitter shortly before 5 a.m. local time that teams were investigating an unresolved power outage in the Barbara Jordan Terminal, the airport’s…… read more »
Tim Graham/Getty Images(BALTIMORE) — Baltimore has become the latest major city to experience a water crisis involving contamination in the water supply. City officials have been urging residents to boil tap water for at least one minute after E. coli was discovered in West Baltimore at one sampled location on Friday and another two locations…… read more »
GBI/Handout(NEW YORK) — Investigators in Georgia have used genealogy DNA testing to determine the killer of a Michigan woman who vanished more than three decades ago. Stacey Lyn Chahorski of Norton Shores, Michigan, was reported missing in January 1989. But it wasn’t until earlier this year that authorities confirmed through a new type of genealogy…… read more »
Guido Mieth/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — The dangers women face while simply going outside for a run are in the spotlight again after the death of Eliza “Liza” Fletcher, a teacher and mother of two who was abducted while on an early morning run in her hometown of Memphis, Tennessee, police said. The 34-year-old was last…… read more »
kali9/Getty Images(SAN DIEGO, Calif.) — A former naval contractor who was convicted of bribing Navy officers with millions of dollars worth of lavish cigars, prostitutes and cash allegedly cut off his ankle monitor on Sunday and is now on the run, according to the U.S. Marshals Service. Leonard Francis, also known as “Fat Leonard,” was…… read more »
Steve Proehl/Getty Images(SAN FRANCISCO) — Temperatures in parts of the San Francisco Bay Area have hit record numbers as state officials warn of blackouts throughout the state as Californians deals with intense heat. The temperature in Livermore, located in the eastern part of the Bay Area, reached 116 degrees on Monday, the highest temperature recorded…… read more »
Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images, FILE(UVALDE, Texas) — The action or inaction of five Texas Department of Public Safety officers on-site at Robb Elementary School on May 24 has been referred to the Texas inspector general to determine what, if any, discipline is warranted and whether a criminal referral to the DA should be made, the…… read more »
Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images(PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, Md.) — Officials in one Maryland county said they are going to temporarily enforce a state curfew for teens amid a “troubling” increase in juvenile arrests. Prince George’s County police officers have arrested an “eye-popping” 430 juveniles so far this year — more than double the number from this…… read more »
Utah County Sheriff’s Office(SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.) — Three hikers died and several were injured over the holiday weekend in Arizona and Utah. Several hikers in Arizona suffered heat exhaustion as excessive heat gripped the West Coast. A hiker in their 20s died and five others suffered heat emergencies while hiking a trail in Cave Creek, Arizona,…… read more »
