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After serving as a Buffalo police officer for 30 years, Aaron Salter Jr. spent the last four working as a security guard at the Tops Friendly Markets store on the east side of the city. That’s where he was Saturday afternoon when a gunman opened fire.
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According to a statement he posted Sunday, he suffered “a stroke that was caused by a clot from my heart being in an A-fib rhythm for too long.� He credited his wife, Gisele, for quickly spotting the signs and prodding him to seek medical treatment.
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EXCLUSIVE: Police believe one line was the name of Virginia Sorenson, a member of the “Dancing Grannies� parade troupe who was killed in the city of Waukesha, Wisconsin’s annual Christmas parade, a law enforcement source told The Daily Beast
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According to the Daily Mail, he was enrolled in a politics class in which students were able to create their own countries; a classmate said that he opted for a “Hitler-esque� totalitarian government in his imagined nation
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Garnell Whitfield Jr. had traveled to the scene of the mass shooting after hearing about it, only to discover that his own mother was among the dead. “She was a wonderful mother. She loved us, her family, unconditionally,� he said. “She was our hero.�
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"There’s one way to track SARS-CoV-2 without relying on drive-through testing sites or testing at pharmacies, clinics or hospitals. More and more, scientists are looking for the virus in sewer water. In our toilet flushes, in other words," writes
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"The hotel’s 83 rooms occupy a building that make you feel at every turn of the stairs and every glance out of a floor-to-ceiling window as though you’ve wandered onto a "Downton Abbey" set," writes
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Gov. Hochul says she is “watching to make sure the leaders of these social media companies are going to take responsibility and do much more to do monitoring themselves of content that is placed on their platforms before it is spread�
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UPDATE: Buffalo police told reporters that two days earlier, 18-year-old Payton Grendon checked out the Tops Friendly Market as he was looking for places with a high concentration of Black residents to inflict a targeted massacre
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“This is an absolute racist, hate crime. It will be prosecuted as a hate crime. This is someone who has hate in their hearts, soul, and mind,� Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said in a Sunday press conference
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The U.S. government has acknowledged a link between toxic water at Camp Lejeune and a variety of serious illnesses—but these families wonder why justice is taking so long. “We never had any cancer in our family history until Camp Lejeune.�
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Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown suggested on Sunday morning that real changes regarding gun control and hate speech would occur in the aftermath of this weekend’s horrific mass shooting that rocked his city
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“For some reason, the 10PM-er has a real hate-on for Oz,� Levin said of Ingraham, who hosts the 10 p.m. slot. “I don’t hate Oz. I don’t hate McCormick. I think they’re both terrific men�
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'Relieved' 'Elated' 'We will never stop fighting' I spoke to Alabama trans teens, their families, and Dr. Morissa Ladinsky about a judge's injunction that means gender-affirming care can continue for now, even as school staff must still tell on trans kids.
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Declaring Nebraska a “pro-life state,� Gov. Pete Ricketts stated that he believes life begins at conception before affirming that he believes rape victims should be forced to carry a pregnancy to term
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