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Two Virginia police officers who took a selfie of themselves inside the US Capitol building during the January 6 riot have been fired. Sergeant Thomas Robertson, 47, and Officer Jacob Fracker, 29, were fired from their jobs with the Rocky Mount Police Department on Tuesday. The town announced the termination in a statement saying: 'The actions by two have driven our beautiful town into the national spotlight in ways that do not reflect our whole community and the people who call Rocky Mount home.'  On January 13 Robertson and Fracker were charged in federal court with unlawful entry into a restricted area and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds. They were off-duty during the riot and shared a photo of themselves on social media with one of them pointing and the other making an obscene gesture in front of a statue of John Stark, a general during the American Revolution. Rocky Mount Police Sergeant Thomas Robertson, 47, and Officer Jacob Fracker, 29, were fire

A missing Michigan couple and their eight-month-old son have been found dead outside their pick-up truck after crashing it into a boulder in the woods and getting stuck, according to police.  Amanda Pomeroy, Douglas Dougherty and their eight-month-old son Jacob were found dead outside the vehicle in Rose Township in northeast Michigan on Tuesday.  They had not been seen since January 12 and were reported missing on January 16.  Amanda Pomeroy, Douglas Dougherty and their eight-month-old son Jacob were found dead outside the vehicle in Rose Township in northeast Michigan on Tuesday Eight-month-old Jacob Dougherty was also found dead  Police have not revealed how they died or whether the deaths are suspicious. They have also not indicated how long they were dead for.  'There’s a lot of unanswered questions that we need to know.  'We’re doing autopsies right now, so we’ll have some final answers ,' Sheriff Brian Gilbert said on Tuesday.  They have only said that the bodies wer

Lauren Wolfe lost her gig with the Times last week following a tweet in which she described herself as 'having chills' seeing Joe Biden's plane land before his inauguration A New York Times freelance editor who was sacked last week following a tweet in which she described herself as 'having chills' seeing Joe Biden's plane land before his inauguration has claimed the paper took 'a shot at my reputation'.  Lauren Wolfe lost her gig with the Times, where she had started working last May, after a manager contacted her to say that the publication could not be associated with tweet, she told the Washington Post. According to Wolfe, the tweet was 'the only reason they fired me', as she responded to the paper for claiming otherwise. A statement from the Times had alleged that her dismissal was not on the basis of the tweet alone, but did not comment any further on the reasons for letting her go. 'There's a lot of inaccurate information circulati

Genetic genealogy helped identify the youngest known victim of one of the nation's most prolific serial murderers known as the Green River Killer almost 37 years after the 14-year-old girl's skeletal remains were discovered near a baseball field south of Seattle. Wendy Stephens, who until now had been known only as 'Bones 10,' had run away from her home in Denver before Gary Ridgway strangled her in 1983, the King County Sheriff's Office announced on Monday. Ridgway terrorized the Seattle area in the 1980s, and since 2003, he has pleaded guilty to killing 49 women and girls. Four of the victims - including Stephens - remained unidentified at the time of his plea. 'Ridgway's murderous spree left a trail of profound grief for so many families of murdered and missing women,' King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg said in a written statement. 'We are thankful that Wendy Stephens´ family will now have answers to their enormous loss suffered nearly 40 years

A West Virginia woman who once served in the Air Force was sentenced to more than 11 years in federal prison Monday for planning to hand over top-secret information from the National Security Agency to the Russian government after kidnapping her six-year-old daughter. Elizabeth Jo Shirley, 47, pleaded guilty last year as part of an agreement to one count each of willful retention of national defense information and international parental kidnapping. 'Shirley held a position that required the highest level of trust,' U.S. Attorney Bill Powell of West Virginia's northern district said in a statement. 'When she committed these crimes, she not only broke that trust, she potentially endangered the very people who employed her and her neighbors. National security is one of our highest priorities. Shirley deserves her sentence and not a day less.' Elizabeth Jo Shirley, who previously served in the Air Force, was sentenced Monday to more than 11 years in federal prison for

A Drug Enforcement Administration report found that Mexican drug cartels have taken advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic with an increased drive to push methamphetamine and fentanyl into the streets of New York.  According to Fiscal Year 2020 findings, the DEA's New York field office saw a 214% increase in methamphetamine and 59% spike in fentanyl seized, in comparison to 2019. Operations led by the DEA across the state netted 767 kilos 1,690 of meth in 2020, an estimated value of $9,280,700, compared to the previous year when the agency removed 244 kilos off the streets.  Last year, agents discovered 404 kilos 890 of fentanyl worth $22,220,000 after seizing 254 kilos in 2019.  During a DEA operation in the Bronx on January 5, agents seized thousands of heroin and fentanyl glassines and cash. The federal agency found that Mexican cartel have taken advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic by increasing its deliveries of methamphetamine and fentanyl to New York Pictured is a sample of hero

A hate crime charge has been added to attempted murder in the case of a gay Louisiana teenager who was strangled, stabbed and battered by another teen he met on the dating app Grindr last year. Police initially said the evidence did not support a hate crime charge in the attack on Holden White, then aged 18, who spent days in a coma and nearly a month in the hospital and still does not have full use of both hands seven months later.  White said the suspect, 19-year-old Chance Seneca, wrapped a cord around his neck so tightly he lost consciousness and that he woke up in a bathtub where the assailant repeatedly slashed his wrists. 'I was saying my final words to myself, which were just, "Stay calm,"' White told KLFY-TV. Louisiana prosecutors have added a hate crime charge to the attempted murder case against Chance Seneca, 19 , seven months after the brutal attack on Holden White White survived being repeatedly stabbed, beaten, slashed and strangled after going out on a

The sister of a West Virginia mother who shot dead her three sons and two stepchildren, before turning the gun on herself and burning down their home, has paid tribute to her youngest nephew, who would have turned two on Monday. Oreanna Myers, 25, carried out the quintuple murder-suicide on December 8, but law enforcement officials in Greenbrier County only revealed the harrowing details of the shootings last week. According to the local sheriff, Myers was upset that her husband, Brian Bumgarner, had been staying with relatives during the work week, instead of coming home to her. The children who were killed with shotgun blasts to the head were identified as Shaun Dawson Bumgarner, 7, Riley James Bumgarner, 6, Kian Myers, 4, Aarikyle Nova Myers, 3 and Haiken Jirachi Myers, age 1.  Scroll down for video   Haiken Jirachi Myers, pictured above as a baby, would have turned two years old on Monday. He was killed by his mother, along with four siblings, on December 8  Haiken's maternal a

Labour has called on the size of juries to be cut from 12 people to seven to help clear the backlog of criminal cases waiting to come to court amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The party called on the Government to resort to 'wartime juries', as were used during the Second World War when numbers were cut except for murder and treason trials, to reduce the space needed to hold socially-distanced trials. This could also help reduce the likelihood of jurors becoming infected with coronavirus while attending court, according to Labour. Victims of rape, murder, domestic abuse, robbery and assault are facing delays of up to four years in getting justice, the party said. It also called for more Nightingale courts to be opened, quicker. 'The justice system is facing its gravest crisis since World War Two, leaving thousands of victims waiting too long to get justice,' Shadow justice secretary David Lammy said. Shadow justice secretary David Lammy, pictured, has called on the size of j