Kid Rock’s absence caused mayhem at the North Dakota State Fair.
After the 51-year-old Grammy Award nominee, canceled his performance at the last minute due to weather conditions Friday. Concertgoers in Minot, N.D., started trashing the venue and at least one fan was detained by police.
Video footage shows several audience members hurling bottles at the stage and one man was tackled after he climbed onto the platform. Police officers were later seen escorting him across the parking lot in handcuffs.
Kid Rock shared a statement on Twitter after canceling the show: “SO PISSED OFF we could not play for a sold-out crowd tonight in Minot, ND (because of high winds) – I know it sucks but none of us can control mother nature. Please be safe leaving and take care of each other.”
The audience had already spent two hours watching Night Ranger perform as the opening act when an officer from the Ward County Sheriff’s Department took the stage to announce headliner, Kid Rock, had been canceled.
“The Sheriff’s Department would like to clarify to tonight’s concert fans that the decision to cancel the Kid Rock concert was not made by the Sheriff’s Department. The Sheriff simply announced the cancellation. We did not cancel the show,” WCSD said in a statement.
A wild police chase involving A man driving a stolen work truck led police on a wild chase on an interstate in San Bernardino County, California, Tuesday night.
The suspect was driving a stolen construction truck with CalTrans marking. The Fontana Police were initially involved in the chase before the Ontario Police Department took over.
A remarkable video taken from a helicopter shows the suspect driving the truck along Interstate 10 in southern California.
The truck was pulling something, possibly a road construction sign, that caused sparks to fly as it flew down the road.
At one point, the truck hit the side of a white sedan.
A police vehicle finally drove alongside the truck and shoved it into the concrete median forcing it to a stop.
The driver then jumped out of the truck and fled on foot along the freeway.
He was ultimately tackled by a police K-9 and arrested by officers. The suspect was seen being loaded into an ambulance. It is unclear whether he was seriously injured.
No other injuries were reported in the incident. Police have not released what charges the suspect will face.
U.S. cattle farms discarded thousands of cow carcasses into Kansas landfills after a heat wave gave rise to a surge in deaths that the traditional disposal methods couldn’t handle.
Cattle companies took the carcasses to the landfills following a June heat wave. The cows were then crushed by machinery and mixed in with regular trash.
Cow carcasses are typically used to create compost or feed for other animals, but the heat wave deaths exceeded the demand for such products.
State officials in Kansas say that at least 2,000 heads of cattle deaths can be attributed to the June heat, but other estimates have placed the number as high as 10,000.
Heat waves have also been responsible for multiple human deaths in recent weeks, with at least 12 heat-related deaths occurring in Arizona’s Maricopa County alone between July 10 and 16.
Several cities have experienced temperatures in excess of 110 degrees, and others have set records for the number of consecutive days with temperatures over 100 degrees.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a warning concerning heat stroke and exhaustion in late June. The U.S. suffered at least 19 heat-caused deaths in July.
A Texas family, a mother, father, brother, and sister, were all stabbed during a fight at their home, according to authorities.
Deputies with the Harris County Sheriff’s Office responded to a family disturbance call shortly before 11 p.m. on Sunday, at a home on Regional Park Drive, just outside of downtown Houston, Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said.
The altercation started between two adult siblings, a brother and sister, Gonzalez said.
The brother returned home that night intoxicated and armed with a handgun, and he and his sister got into a serious argument, that turned physical, according to Gonzalez.
The brother was disarmed during the brawl, Gonzalez said, and both parents stepped in, attempting to “break things up.” But the violence only got worse, and each family member grabbed a knife as the brawl continued, Gonzalez said.
When deputies arrived at the home, they found all four family members had been stabbed. They all survived their injuries, Gonzalez added.
The brother, 25-year-old Manuel Alfredo Gutierrez, was arrested on three charges of aggravated assault.
Two Black teenage girls in New York City were arrested and charged with hate crimes on Tuesday over the vicious attack on a 57-year-old White woman on a bus in Queens earlier this month.
The 15 and 16-year-old girls were arrested Tuesday and are being held in the 102nd precinct, according to the New York Police Department. They each face two counts of assault while carrying out a hate crime and aggravated harassment while carrying out a hate crime.
Their names have not been released in compliance with policy concerning minors. Police are still searching for a third suspect.
NYPD released a video and a photo showing the three Black girls walking down a city street earlier this month, saying investigators were seeking information on the suspects sought in a July 9 hate crime incident.
At about 6:50 p.m., police said the three individuals approached a 57-year-old female passenger on the southbound Q52 MTA bus in the vicinity of Jamaica Avenue and Woodhaven Boulevard and struck her in the head with an unknown object, causing a laceration and bleeding.
During the attack they were making “anti-White statements,” police said.
The individuals fled on foot and the victim was taken to Jamaica Hospital in stable condition. The woman required staples on her head because of her injuries.
The victim, 57-year-old Jill LeCroix, said she has three bi-racial children, is a grandmother of five and currently works as a bartender. LeCroix said the teenage assailant with green hair was shouting that she “hates White people, the way they talk” and accused her of being a fan of former President Trump.
“Before they hit me, the girl with the green hair said, ‘You probably like Trump! Don’t you?’ “I said, ‘I love him, (Trump)” I didn’t see which one hit me first,” LeCroix said.
“The one with the green hair, she was saying she hates White people, the way they talk, hates White skin, the way their skin cracks. Saying she was gangsta,” the woman added, saying she was on the way to visit her mother at the time. “I was the only White person on the bus. By the time we started passing St. John’s Cemetery on Woodhaven, she started in on me, saying, ‘That’s where I’m going to bury you!’”
“She had a bag from Bath and Body Works, and she took out a scrub and said she was going to beat me with it. It was tangerine,” LeCroix recounted. “She said, ‘You’re going to get what you deserve! All White people are going to get what they deserve.’ It was crazy.”
NYPD’s Hate Crime Task Force is investigating this incident.
In a tweet about the arrests Tuesday, NYPD Hate Crime Task Force credited a tipster for help tracking down two juveniles regarding this “anti-white assault,” as the third perpetrator remains outstanding.
A Florida woman was arrested after standing outside a grocery store during a rainstorm brandishing a pitchfork and black whip.
Lisa Anne Slone, 56, is facing charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, after she was seen Tuesday “with a pitchfork and black whip in front of the main entrance of the Publix grocery store” in Minneola, Florida shortly after 2 p.m., according to the arrest report.
The store’s owner said that Slone had been trying to sell teddy bears behind the store before she started running around with a whip and pitchfork, that she used to stab a mini-van.
Officer David Moss’s body camera footage showed a woman dressed in black walking out in front of his patrol car, stopping in the middle of the parking lot, and pointing a black whip at him.
Sloan began waving the pitchfork around as she clutched the whip in her other hand.
Moss confronted Sloan but she “would not stop” and “refused to put the weapon down,” he wrote in the report.
He said he was able to quickly remove the weapon from her and put her on the ground, place her into handcuffs and then put her in the back of the patrol car.
Moss — who noted that Slone “appeared to be highly intoxicated on some sort of stimulant drug” — asked her whether she had taken anything that day.
She told him yes, but refused to elaborate.
“It’s none of your business what God instructed,” she said in the footage, before screaming at the top of her lungs “God is great!” over and over.
Slone can then be heard asking God to “bring me out of this car,” before she screamed “Let me out!” and began kicking the windows.
Slone had unbuckled her seat belt and started kicking the rear right window, according to the report. Consequently, her feet were placed in a restraint.
Moss noted that she had “recent cut mark scars on her legs and body” and “bruises to her face and body.”
“Slone repeatedly stated that she felt no pain anymore and that God was in control,” he wrote.
After it was determined the 56-year-old did not need to be taken to a hospital, she was transported to the Orange Lake County Jail without incident.
Surveillance video captured a man sporting an ankle monitor stealing wine and other food items from a Target store near Chicago last week.
The man was wearing a mask as he walked around the store, filling a large sack with various items as a Target security employee followed him.
Footage shows the unidentified man entering a wine and beer aisle, loading up his bag with a bottle of wine. The bag makes a solid clinking noise as he moves on to find something to go with the wine.
It is unclear whether store workers reported the incident to the police.
The National Retail Federation announced in late 2021 that organized retail crime costs companies roughly $700,000 per $1 billion in sales.
Thieves have also targeted more high-end retailers in recent months. Footage shows smash-and-grab looters stealing everything they could from a Louis Vuitton store in November 2021. The entire incident lasted less than a minute.
There isn’t much a store worker can do to stop thieves once they have entered a store, and police often cannot respond quickly enough.
A viral video shows a man in Zhejiang province, catching a toddler who had fallen out of a sixth-story apartment window.
In CCTV footage uploaded to Twitter by China’s foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijiang, the man is seen talking on the phone as he runs towards the front of the building, briefly slipping. He looks up and miraculously catches the falling toddler in his arms.
The video cuts to CCTV footage of the building and shows the 3-year-old girl slipping out of the window and falling.
The video has garnered over 158,000 views and 9,000 likes.
The toddler was checked out at the Tongxiang Second People’s Hospital and released on Friday.
The man said that he heard a bang coming from the top of the apartment building and looked up to see the small toddler tumbling out of the window. He said that he was lucky to have caught the girl on time and explained that it was sheer instinct.
Weibo users hailed the man as a “hero,” including Zhao, who described the Good Samaritan as a “hero among us” in his Twitter post.
“Tribute to ordinary heroes,” one user wrote.
“For parents with children, add a protective window or window safety valve to your home,” another user suggested.
Sylvie Binder, a fencer for Columbia University, was chosen by the Ivy League over transgender swimmer Lia Thomas, a national champion, when the NCAA unveiled its conference selections for the 2022 Woman of the Year award on Monday.
Binder, a senior from Armonk, New York, was one of the eight athletes chosen from The Ivy League conference out of the 577 students that were nominated for this award earlier this month.
She won the NCAA Women’s Foil Championship in 2019 and finished third at the NCAA Championships with a final record of 17-6. This season, she finished fifth at the Ivy League Championships, second at the Northeast Regional, and third overall. She was also recognized as Columbia’s finest senior student-athlete and winner of the 2022 Women’s Connie S. Maniatty Award.
Thomas, whose candidacy in mid-July generated a discussion about her eligibility as a transgender female, lost out to Binder in the competition.
Thomas broke swimming pool records during the college swimming season of 2021–2022, which culminated in an NCAA swimming championship in March and sparked a heated discussion over transgender athletes competing in sports.
Thomas spent three seasons swimming for Penn’s men’s swim team before transitioning.
Following the announcement on Monday, the field was reduced to 151 student-athletes. The top 30 nominees from each division will now be chosen by the Woman of the Year Selection Committee, and they will be revealed in October.
The criteria for selection include each nominee’s personal statement, service and leadership, academic excellence, and athletic excellence.
The winner will be declared at the NCAA Convention in San Antonio in January.
The New York Police Department released a violent video Sunday morning that showed a man crossing the street in the Bronx when a car hit him and sent him flying into the air before the occupants jumped out of the car and robbed him.
Police are now looking for the suspects, who they say robbed the pedestrian at approximately 6:40 a.m. local time.
The video showed a black car that appeared to purposefully strike the 39-year-old victim, sending him flying into the air. While the victim lay on the ground motionless an individual could be seen running over to him and removing items from his person, then coming back and searching his body, even flipping him over onto his back while another person was looking on.
From one angle, the same car could be seen parked nearby while the theft was taking place.
Police are looking for three suspects: two who robbed the victim and one who remained in the car.
The victim was in critical condition and receiving treatment at a nearby hospital after emergency workers responded to the scene and transported him to the facility.
