iStock/D-Keine(LOUISVILLE) Two people were gunned down, including a 15-year-old boy, on Thanksgiving morning in Louisville. The city of 600,000 residents saw its 174th and 175th homicides of the year in a span of six hours, breaking the all-time record of 173 set in 2020, according to Louisville Police Department crime statistics. Louisville eclipsed its deadliest year in the same week that Milwaukee, Wisconsin, (183 homicides) and Columbus, Ohio, (178 homicides), surpassed annual records. Philadelphia recorded its 500th homicide on Wednesday, tying an all-time high set in 1990 with more than a month yet to go in the year. This week, Washington, D.C., police also investigated its 200th homicide of the year, the most to occur in the nation's capital in 18 years. "This is not a livable way for kids to grow and thrive and grow into their dreams and ambitions," Christopher 2X, a Louisville community activist who runs Game Changers, a nonprofit dedicated to helping vulnerab
Calling contradictory testimony by a Little Rock police detective "troubling," Pulaski County Circuit Judge Barry Sims on Thursday set bail at $500,000 for an 18-year-old man accused of luring four people into an ambush that left one person dead and a bystander wounded.