LaCandyce Lee earned the honor of making two speeches Friday night. The senior class president welcomed friends and family to the Watson Chapel High School graduation at the Pine Bluff Convention Center. After the valediction from Bethany Phillips, Lee delivered the salutatory address.
In an unsettling intersection of property rights, self-defense, and firearms regulation, an elderly man faces serious charges for defending his property in Pennsylvania. Vincent Yakaitis, in his mid-70s, shot an alleged burglar, Dennis Powanda, who is roughly 35 years his junior, during an attempted burglary of Yakaitis' property in Port Carbon, Pennsylvania. Although it seems…
A Brooklyn man claiming self-defense in the slaying of a cousin who intruded his home was chided Tuesday by the victim’s daughter, who claimed her father was “very sickly” and hardly a threat. Lashawn Craig, 45, was charged only with weapons possession for fatally shooting his 64-year-old cousin Timothy Jones at his home on Pulaski St. near Malcolm X. Blvd. in Bedford-Stuyvesant on Friday, .