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Woman May Not Know She Was Scammed In Maryland As Nationwide Gold Scam Hits $6.5M: PA Police
Two more victims of a nationwide gold scam involving fake federal agents had no idea they had been swindled until troopers contacted them, Pennsylvania State Police announced on Friday, Oct. 2. The scheme has been linked to approximately $6.5 million in losses across the country, with victims identified in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Washington State, according to police. The releases do not say whether the newly detailed losses are already included in that figure. “There are victims that are completely unaware that they are even victims,” Trooper Lauren Lesher wrote in an email to Daily Vo…
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Former Yale Football Coach Tony Reno Dies At 52 After Lengthy Illness
Tony Reno, the coach who guided Yale football to five Ivy League championships, has died at 52, the university’s athletic director announced on Friday, Oct. 2. Reno stepped down for health reasons in February. He had been living with a neurodegenerative disease since August 2025. Even as his health declined, Reno coached the Bulldogs through every game of the 2025 season. Yale won another Ivy League title and reached the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision playoffs. His loss reaches beyond the sidelines in New Haven. His son, Dante, serves as Yale’s starting quarterback. Re…
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Maryland Man Convicted Of Killing Girlfriend's Father, Trying To Influence Her Testimony
Killing his girlfriend's father wasn't the end of it, prosecutors say. A Maryland jury convicted Corey Conaway this week of first-degree murder in the 2024 shooting death of 67-year-old Perry Comeau, then found him guilty of trying to influence Comeau's daughter before trial. Comeau was found suffering from multiple gunshot wounds inside his home on Half Dollar Court in Columbia at around 10:49 p.m. on Feb. 8, 2024. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators quickly zeroed in on Conaway, who was dating Comeau's daughter at the time and had been involved in an earlier conflict with…
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2 Men Avoid Prison After Setting Off Blast Inside Harvard Medical School
Two Massachusetts men received probation after admitting to setting off an explosion inside a Harvard Medical School research lab. Logan David Patterson, 19, of Plymouth, and Dominick Frank Cardoza, 21, of Bourne, set off a large commercial firework that triggered a fire alarm at the school’s Goldenson Building in Boston around 2:45 a.m. on Nov. 1, 2025, federal prosecutors said. US District Judge Angel Kelley sentenced each man to three years of probation. She also ordered them to pay $28,517 in restitution to the medical school. Both men pleaded guilty in April 2026 to conspir…
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Virginia Elementary School Teacher Charged After Alleged Assault Involving Student: Sheriff
A Virginia elementary school teacher is facing a criminal charge over what allegedly happened with a student. Valerie Bowen, 49, of Ashburn, a teacher at Horizon Elementary School in Loudoun County, has been charged with assault and battery following an investigation by the sheriff's office, officials announced on Friday, Oct. 2. The investigation began one day earlier. According to the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office, the School Resource Officer assigned to Horizon Elementary was notified on Thursday, Oct. 1, about an alleged incident involving Bowen and a student. Investigators have not…
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Gary Shifler Dies Days After Being Struck By Driver In Early-Morning Maryland Crash: Police
For two days, Gary Shifler fought to survive. The 60-year-old Clinton man died on Wednesday, Sept. 30, from injuries suffered when he was struck by a driver in Prince George’s County two days earlier, police announced on Friday, Oct. 2. Officers were called to the area of Surratts Road and Lormar Court in Clinton at around 6 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 28, where they found Shifler in the roadway suffering from serious injuries. He was rushed to an area hospital, where he remained until his death. Investigators say the driver was traveling west on Surratts Road when, for reasons still under inve…
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'Your Mom Loves You': Bodycam Captures Moments Before Fatal Maryland Police Shooting (
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"I love you." Those were some of the last words 21-year-old Sadie Holman said to her loved ones before she was involved in a deadly officer-involved shooting in Maryland. Holman was fatally shot in the 1000 block of Carroll Island Road in Middle River on Thursday, Sept. 3, following a brief standoff with officers as she remained in her car and pulled a gun from the center console. In bodycam footage released by the Attorney General's Office on Friday afternoon, Cpl. James Haddix, an eight-year veteran assigned to the department's Operations Bureau, can be seen attempting to negotiate with …
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Witness Gets Plate, Police Find Driver After Deadly Montgomery County Hit-Run Crash
Police have tracked down the driver who left a 62-year-old woman dying in the roadway after a fatal hit-run in Maryland. Montgomery County Police identified the victim as Rockville resident Saijuan Chen and confirmed on Friday, Oct. 2 that investigators located both the driver and the green 2023 Jeep Wrangler that struck her. Chen was crossing Arctic Avenue in Aspen Hill at approximately 7:21 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 30, when she was struck by the Jeep, according to police. Investigators say the driver was making a left turn onto Arctic Avenue from Bel Pre Road when the Jeep struck Chen. …
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Serious Crash Shuts Down US 50 In Maryland, Forces Drivers Onto Capital Beltway (
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A serious three-vehicle crash brought westbound US 50 to a halt in Maryland on Friday afternoon, forcing drivers off the highway as crews worked to free a trapped person. The crash was reported at approximately 12:54 p.m. on Oct. 2 in Prince George's County, just before the Capital Beltway, according to the Maryland Department of Transportation. All four westbound travel lanes were shut down as firefighters, police and other first responders converged on the scene. Traffic was being diverted onto the ramp to the Outer Loop of I-95/I-495, according to the Metropolitan Area Transportation Op…
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Four Arrested After Maryland Drug Raid Uncovers Fentanyl, Cocaine, Loaded Ghost Gun: Sheriff
A suspected drug house in Maryland had a little bit of everything when detectives came knocking, authorities say. Detectives descended on a Chapman Drive home in Lexington Park on Tuesday, Sept. 29, armed with search warrants tied to an ongoing drug investigation, according to the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office. What they allegedly found inside was extensive. There was cocaine. Crack. Fentanyl. Suspected K-2. Dozens of Suboxone film packages. And sitting among it all, according to investigators, was a loaded .40-caliber handgun with no serial number. By the time detectives finished s…
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Special Prosecutor Named In Cornell Fraternity Gang Rape Investigation
New York Attorney General Letitia James is taking over the criminal investigation after members of a Cornell University fraternity were accused of a gang rape. Gov. Kathy Hochul announced the move in an executive order on Thursday, Oct. 1. The woman, identified as Jane Doe in a civil lawsuit, accused seven current and former members of the Chi Phi fraternity of drugging, sexually assaulting, and gang raping her in October 2024. Hochul said newly released information raised "serious questions" about the Cornell University Police Department's investigation and Tompkins Cou…
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Virginia Sex Offender Sent Back To Prison After Smartphone In Plain Sight Exposes Secret Stash
A convicted Virginia offender who had already served years in federal prison for child sexual abuse material is headed right back after an unauthorized smartphone sitting in plain sight helped expose what he was doing again. William Oyster, 50, of Chesapeake, was sentenced to 10 years and one month in federal prison on Wednesday, Sept. 30, for possession of child sexual abuse material, federal prosecutors announced. It wasn't Oyster's first conviction involving the material. Oyster was convicted in the Eastern District of Virginia in 2012 of receiving child sexual abuse material and remain…
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