Author: Jack Bogart

The Department of Justice (DOJ) this week released the final nationwide crime statistics under the Biden administration as the president prepares to leave office. Following an uptick in violent crime in 2021 during the pandemic, it began to trend down significantly in 2023, “including double-digit drops in homicide rates across many major cities,” according to the DOJ. In 2024, violent crime continued to go down, according to preliminary DOJ data from 85 major cities. That included a 17.5% decrease in murder rates. There was also a 7.1% decrease in rape, 3.6% decrease in aggravated assault and 7.8% decline in robbery over the first…

A backlogged police evidence room in Houston, Texas, is a bountiful buffet for the city’s rats, who have been munching on loads of seized marijuana and magic mushrooms. Houston officials said they will start destroying the drugs that are no longer needed for cases. Some of the substances have been locked away for decades at the downtown headquarters of the Houston Police Department. “We’ve got 400,000 lbs. of marijuana in storage,” Houston Mayor John Whitmire said at a press conference last week. “The rats are the only ones enjoying it.” Rats have also gotten into “packaging containing magic mushrooms,” Harris…

A New Jersey elementary school teacher was arrested this week on accusations she sexually assaulted a student who lived with her for several years. The teacher, say authorities, was allegedly impregnated by the alleged victim and had his child. Laura Caron, a 5th-grade teacher at Middle Township Elementary School, allegedly had an “inappropriate sexual relationship” with the student when they lived together at Caron’s home in Cape May Court House, an unincorporated community, between 2016 and 2020, according to a press release from the Cape May County Prosecutor’s Office. Caron, now 34, and the alleged victim, born in 2005, first…

A New Jersey family is in mourning after a 38-year-old mother was allegedly slain by her ex-boyfriend, just weeks after welcoming her fourth child. Lauren Saldana was found dead in a South Brunswick Township, N.J., home by responding officers on Thursday, Jan. 9, the township police said in a statement last week. Authorities promptly arrested 41-year-old Roman Romanovskiy in connection with the killing, per the statement. Romanovskiy was Saldana’s ex-boyfriend, her daughter, Madison Saldana, told News 12. The couple shared two children together. Lauren’s three other children were aged 19, 15, and 5, per a a GoFundMe set up to assist…

Keltec is known for its out of the box thinking and they sure have come up with some unusual designs over the years. It works for them though, because they usually do well and their designs have certainly influenced other manufacturers as well. Even with that said, this latest drop is a surprising one, but if you know some Keltec history it’s not unprecedented. With that said, lets take a look at the new internal magazine, stripper clip fed, PR57…pistol. What the Heck Is the PR57? According to KelTec, the PR57 is a compact concealed carry pistol chambered in 5.7x28mm.…

FIRST ON FOX: California Gov. Gavin Newsom is calling for looting in fire evacuation zones to be a felony after prosecutors in Southern California urged him this week to issue harsher penalties, Fox News Digital has exclusively learned.”Preying on people at their most vulnerable is despicable, these criminals are among the worst kinds,” Newsom said in a statement provided to Fox News Digital on Thursday afternoon. Newsom said “looting has never been legal here” and that “it will not be tolerated” as the state continues to battle the ravenous inferno that broke out on Jan. 7. CALIFORNIA FIREBUG ARREST CAUGHT ON VIDEO…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! This past July, as anti-Israel crowds took to the streets of Washington, D.C,, to protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu address to Congress, Zaid Mohammed Mahdawi, 26, climbed atop a monument at Columbus Circle in front of Union Station and allegedly spray-painted an ominous message: ‘HAMAS IS COMIN”. He punctuated the warning with the red, inverted triangle that the terrorist organization uses as a symbol to mark its targets. Nearby, demonstrators pulled down and burned a U.S. flag to ashes, tackled U.S. Park Police officers trying to arrest agitators and spray-painted other menacing…

An Amber Alert has been issued for a missing 4-year-old girl who was inside her mother’s car when it was stolen in Illinois. The car has since been located, but the child has not, say police. On Thursday, Jan. 16, the Rock Island Police Department stated in a press release that the vehicle was taken at around 6:07 am from the 1300 block of 14th 1/2 ST. The car was left running with the child in a carseat in the back, say police. The girl was subsequently found at 6:24 a.m., but the girl was nowhere to be found. “At…

A half-score of years ago, Illinois’ most aggressive gun rights group Guns Save Life a lawsuit challenging Cook County’s (then) new gun and ammunition tax. Following those 10 years in the courts, we have two orders from Illinois Courts— including the Illinois Supreme Court—saying the ordinance establishing the tax was and remains unconstitutional. Yet, Cook County officials have told us in recent days they have no intention of ceasing collection of these (unconstitutional) taxes. Welcome to the lawless Windy City. I work as the Guns Save Life Executive Director for my day job. To this day, I vividly remember the…