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Two people who were shot late Tuesday night on Kristin Drive are expected to survive their wounds after being rushed to Vidant Medical Center , the Greenville Police Department reported . About 11:50 p.m., dispatchers sent officers to the 100 block of Kristin Drive off S.W. Greenville Boulevard for a report of shots fired, the department reported . When they arrived, the officers discovered that two young men had been shot. The victims, Randell Maleak Turnage , 18, and Robere Summers Coward , 19, were transported to the hospital with serious but not life threatening injuries , according to reports. While on the scene, officers discovered an apartment and an unoccupied vehicle had also been struck by gunfire. There were no additional injuries, although the police report listed two adults, two teenagers and two juveniles living in the building as additional victims. A burgundy Ford Explorer was hit by bullets, and damage was estimated at $4,000. Damage to the building, which consiste...

Nearly every day, Kristen Bass travels to the Park Meridian apartments in Northgate, seeking reassurance that important pieces of her life are still intact. The 30- unit apartment building where she lived for 18 months was badly damaged in an Aug. 5 fire, leaving Bass and about 70 other tenants searching for new homes while the insurance company documents the extent of the damage, and the landlord makes plans for the building’s demolition. Bass is certain that irreplaceable belongings survived the fire — her family photos, childhood mementos, and a box of her late sister’s belongings that she can’t talk about without breaking into tears. But she can’t retrieve them from the fenced and partially boarded-up building because the landlord says it’s not safe to let her back inside. Most Read Stories Unlimited Digital Access. $1 for 4 weeks. “We are so grateful no one got hurt,’’ building owner A. Mark Vanderveen said in an interview Monday. “The last thing I want to do is put someone ...

The Meridian Police Department reported an accidental shooting at the Highway Village Apartments Friday night . Meridian Police Sgt . Dareall Thompson said a man with gunshot wounds arrived at Rush Foundation Hospital 's Emergency Department around 10 p.m.  Thompson said the victim told officers he accidentally shot himself in the hand.

White nationalist s, neo-Nazis and members of the "alt-right" clash with counter-protesters as they enter Lee Park during the "Unite the Right" rally Aug. 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia. After clashes with anti-fascist protesters and police the rally was declared an unlawful gathering and people were forced out of Lee Park, where a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee is slated to be removed. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) One national survey says nine hate groups are operating in Wisconsin, although the nature of such movements makes it difficult to know their scope or predict when they will come out of the shadows, experts say. The hatred that spawned a white nationalist rally and led to a counterprotester's death last weekend isn’t unique to Charlottesville, Virginia, although it typically takes a subtler form than burning crosses and filling streets with chanting zealots. Wisconsin hasn’t had a significant public hate rally since ...

CLOSE Video and audio during the night of November 28, 2016. Angela Gosnell/News Sentinel Buy Photo Fire erupts on both side of Highway 441 near The Spur on Monday, Nov. 28, 2016. (Photo: Jessica Tezak, Special to the News Sentinel) Buy Photo The rain never came in time. Records released this week show authorities battling the deadly Sevier County wildfires looked to an expected downpour that came too late for salvation as crews struggled in a desperate tug-of-war with skyscraper-sized flames the night of Nov. 28, 2016. As the blaze approached the city limits, authorities knew the rain wouldn't arrive for another 12 hours. "Rain may not be in Gatlinburg until 4 a.m.," reads a 5:30 p.m. entry on notes kept by staff inside the incident command center . “Rain may not be in Gatlinburg until 4 a.m.” a 5:30 p.m. entry on notes kept by staff inside the incident command center Authorities didn't order a citywide evacuation for another three hours -- and had no effective wa...

A Texas 14-year-old who turned up dead in an Arlington landfill in June died of “ homicidal violence ,” officials said. The Tarrant County medical examiner announced its findings Thursday, nearly two months after Kaytlynn Cargill disappeared while walking her family dog, the Star-Telegram reported. She was last seen at her apartment where she tied up her pet at the dog park. She asked her friends to watch the pup, but never returned, police said. The teen was reported missing June 19 when she didn’t make it home to her Oak Creek West apartment , and authorities found her body at Republic Services landfill — which contracts to receive waste from nearby cities including Bedford — two days later. Questions remain after Texas teen's body turns up in landfill Her mother, Trisha West, said she later found the dog tied to a post while she was out looking for her daughter, according to the Dallas News. Police at the time told the Star-Telegram they’d b...

Amy Saltzman asaltzman@wickedlocal.com @cambridgechron Craigslist apartment scams continue to be a problem in Cambridge with 27 reported rental scams through Oct. 17 of this year versus 31 total in 2015, according to police. People looking to move to the country, such as exchange students or those traveling to the U.S. on work visas, are frequent targets of these scams, making Cambridge’s transient university populations particularly vulnerable. “There’s certainly a steady diet of these crimes,” said Jeremy Warnick, director of communications for the Cambridge Police Department . “Unfortunately, they are very difficult to investigate.” Warnick said part of the problem is that it can be difficult to figure out the location of a website or the origin of an email in order to identify a suspect. “The crimes are difficult to investigate as fraud over the Internet does not need a physical location, nor personnel, nor phones,” he said. “Internet fraud is disjointed, and spread ...

Two young children were killed and several others were injured when fire swept through their apartment building early Tuesday in Overland Park. The children’s mother and three men from another apartment were taken to the hospital for treatment of their injuries in the fire at Colonial Gardens Apartments , 8845 Broadmoor Court, according to Jason Rhodes, a spokesman for the Overland Park Fire Department . Two of the injured men reportedly jumped from the second floor to escape the blaze. Fire investigators are looking into whether there were working smoke alarms in the apartments. They have received conflicting reports , Rhodes said. The fire was reported shortly before 2:30 a.m. at the apartment complex. While firefighters were in route, there were reports of victims being trapped inside the burning building so a second alarm was called, Rhodes said. The first firefighters on the scene reported seeing heavy smoke and fire coming from the front and back of the two- story apartment b...

Cedar Ridge Apartments located in Willington, CT has had reports of discolored water. (Mustafa Mussa/The Daily Campus)" src="src" /> Cedar Ridge Apartments located in Willington, CT has had reports of discolored water. (Mustafa Mussa/The Daily Campus) Residents living in Cedar Ridge Apartments in Willington, including many University of Connecticut students, have seen brown water coming from the faucets of their apartments and have been unable to drink, do laundry, cook or bathe since moving in over a month ago. One resident, Salma Adil Yousif , posted photos from her apartment in the Facebook group “Buy or Sell UConn Tickets ” on Saturday and asked if any other residents had experienced the same thing. The photos show yellow water in the bathtub, sink and toilet as well as sediment left behind after draining them. The photos were accompanied by the caption “If anyone else in Cedar Ridge is living with this sort of bulls—t, please hit me up. I’m about to start s...

PRESCOTT, Wis. (WEAU) -- A man is arrested after the Prescott Police Department responded to a report of a stabbing. According to the police department , it happened just after 7 p.m. on Tuesday, August 15 at The Camelot Apartments at 635 Pine Street in Prescott. Officers found a woman with a cut to her neck. Police said she lived in the apartment. She was taken to a hospital for treatment, and her name isn't being released at this time. A man living in the apartment is identified as 66-year-old Dennis Frank. Police said he was home at the time, and he was arrested. The investigation is ongoing, and formal charges against Frank are pending.

Frank Fernandez @frankfff DAYTONA BEACH — Police are investigating a suspicious incident that was reported early Thursday morning as a carjacking in Daytona Beach and ended in a crash in South Daytona. Warner Christian Academy in South Daytona was locked down for about an hour, said South Daytona Police Chief Ron Wright . The lockdown was lifted before 9:30 a.m., officials said. A man told police he was sitting in his car "chillin'" about 4 a.m. at the Countryside Apartments, 1200 Beville Road, when two men carjacked him, Wright said.  But officials said they don't believe the initial report they got. "The incident from this morning is not a carjacking," said Daytona Beach police spokeswoman Lyda Longa . "It’s a suspicious incident and we’re investigating to determine what happened." The man who called in the incident said two men stuffed him in the trunk of his Lexus and then drove around for four hours with him locked in the trunk. The man ...

Firefighters of the City of Newburgh Fire Department in New York give oxygen to a puppy that was rescued from a burning apartment. (Photo: City of Newburgh Fire Department ) A puppy who was rescued from a burning apartment in New York is now being adopted by the firefighters who saved his life. When Newburgh firefighters responded to the blaze on August 3, they heard reports that two puppies were missing, People Pets reported . Firefighter Chris Baum found one of the dogs and brought it outside to give the pooch CPR. The puppy didn't survive. They ran back inside and found the other dog, Titus, under a bed. "I brought him outside and began treating him with oxygen and trying to take care of his burns, assisted by firefighter Jimmy Moore ,” Lt. Timothy Dexter said. After learning that the puppy's owner wasn't interested in keeping the 6- to 8-week-old pit bull, Moore decided to keep the dog and Dexter offered to help him care for it. © 2017 NBCNEWS.COM

NEW YORK, Aug. 16, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Key facts: -- Rent growth far outpaced incomes in New York City. City-wide asking rents increased by 33 percent from 2010 to 2017, or 3.9 percent annually, while median wages grew at less than half that pace: 13 percent since 2010, or 1.8 percent annually. -- The lowest- priced rents increased the most. Homes with the lowest rents in NYC grew 4.9 percent annually, while the highest- price rentals grew just 3 percent per year. -- The lowest earners faced the smallest wage growth . Wages for NYC workers in the bottom fifth of earners saw the smallest annual increases since 2010, while wages for top- earning professions grew the most. Despite rents rising over the past year at their slowest pace since the end of the recession, rent growth in New York City has continued to outpace wage growth , increasing the financial burden on New York City renters . According to the latest StreetEasy rent affordability report (i), rent increases are outpac...