Apartment City

Ebony Frederick × Children removed from Lancaster apartment after mother suffers overdose Ebony Frederick LANCASTER — State Police troopers removed two children — a 3-year-old and a 10-month-old — from the apartment of a woman suffering from a heroin overdose, according to a police report. Police say officers responded to an apartment on the 100 block of East King Street at 9:36 p.m. on August 7 to assist emergency medical personnel with a sick person call . Officers found an unresponsive woman, Ebony Frederick, suffering from an apparent overdose. According to police, the apartment was found to be unfit for human habitation. The floor was covered in bodily fluids, feces and vomit, police say. Soiled diapers were found lying in the open, on a bed and inside dresser drawers . Officers found part of the floor was covered in cleaning fluid and chlorine bleach. The bathtub was found to have a significant amount of standing water in it — enough to endanger the children, who had been insi...

ST. LOUIS • New details are emerging from police about the neighbor dispute that brought police Tuesday to the home of Kenny “Kiwi” Herring, who was then killed in a confrontation with officers. In court documents filed in St. Louis Circuit Court , police say Herring had accused a downstairs neighbor that morning of starting a fire on a back deck. Herring then stabbed that neighbor after Herring’s partner provided the kitchen knife, police say. Herring was fatally shot by police after Herring, in a scuffle with officers, cut an officer on the arm. Herring’s partner, Kristy Lynn Thompson , is jailed on assault charges for handing the knife to Herring. And the neighbor who was stabbed was hospitalized with stab wounds. The victim suffered a collapsed lung in the attack, police say. The two officers who fired the shots are on administrative leave, as is protocol, while the case is being reviewed. +10  Kenny "Kiwi" Herring, in a photo posted on social med...

A Lancaster woman is facing charges after police say she overdosed, and children had to be removed from her apartment that was in deplorable condition. Ebony Frederick, 33, of Lancaster, faces charges two counts of endangering the welfare of children. Police said officers were dispatched to the 100 block of East King Street at 9:36 p.m. on Aug. 7 to assist EMS with a sick person. Officers later learned that the medical issue turned out to be an overdose. Frederick was found unresponsive in the apartment, and two children ages 3 and 10 were found in a bathtub. The apartment was unfit for human habitation, as the floor was covered in bodily fluids, feces, and vomit, according to police. Officers also found soiled diapers in a bed and in a dresser. Part of the floor was also covered in cleaning solvent and bleach. Police also said the bathtub the children were found in had a "significant amount" of standing water in it. The children, who police said showed physical signs of...

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The friendship of the four young roommates — though cemented in the dark trappings of an obscure neo- Nazi group called Atomwaffen Division — never seemed destined for bloodshed. One was described as a former science nerd, serving in the Florida National Guard . Two others worked temp jobs at a recycling plant and talked about joining the military. The fourth caught flak from his roommates for wasting his days with video games. Now two of the young men are dead, the other two are in jail and authorities are left to answer this question: Was Atomwaffen Division plotting violent acts or were the four young men merely posers? Four days after police say one of the roommates shot and killed two others, Atomwaffen posted an ominous video on YouTube depicting members standing with arms extended in “Heil Hitler” salutes and posing with guns in front of a swastika flag, their faces obscured by images of skulls. It ended with a stark slogan, scrawled in red: “Join your...

I n the late afternoon of March 14 in the Toronto suburb of Woodbridge , a masked gunman jumped out of the passenger side of a black Jeep Cherokee , darted across a snow- dusted parking lot and unleashed a flurry of bullets into a black BMW. Thirty seconds later, he was back in the car, leaving Saverio Serrano – the son of a notorious Canadian Mafia figure and cocaine importer – wounded, and Mr. Serrano's 28-year-old girlfriend dead. Two weeks later, in the west end of Toronto, an SUV rolled into the driveway of a bungalow at the end of a suburban cul-de-sac around 2:30 a.m. As 53-year-old Antonio Sergi , a beefy, cigar-chomping showman known in Mafia circles as "Tony Large" or "T Large," got out of the car and lumbered toward the front door, he was shot in the head and killed, execution style. Convicted drug trafficker Diego Serrano , 69 is pictured in a police surveillance photo from Project OPHOENIX." class="article-media-photo__content_...

TAMPA — The friendship of the four young roommates — though cemented in the dark trappings of an obscure neo- Nazi group called Atomwaffen Division — never seemed destined for bloodshed. One was described as a former science nerd, serving in the Florida National Guard . Two others worked temp jobs at a recycling plant and talked about joining the military. The fourth caught flak from his roommates for wasting his days with video games. Now two of the young men are dead, the other two are in jail and authorities are left to answer this question: Was Atomwaffen Division plotting violent acts or were the four young men merely posers? Just days after police say one of the roommates shot and killed two others on May 19, Atomwaffen posted a video on YouTube depicting members standing with arms extended in “Heil Hitler” salutes and standing with guns in front of a swastika flag, their faces obscured by images of skulls. It ended with a stark slogan: “Join your local Nazis.” Inside the a...

Quote of the week "We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry of violence on many sides — on many sides. It's been going on in our country for a long time." — President Trump's initial response to the violence in Charlottesville on Aug. 12, incited by white supremacists. An Ohio man, with ties to neo-Nazi groups, plowed his car into a crowd of people, killing one woman and injuring others. Two state troopers, who were monitoring the scene, also died in a helicopter crash on Aug. 12. At least 34 people were injured in the violence. On Aug. 14, Trump condemned the K.K.K, neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups by name. On Aug. 15, Trump again blamed "both sides." Tweet of the week " White supremacy has no place in America. When it turned violent in the 80's, I prosecuted them as U.S. Attorney. #Charlottesville" — In sharp contrast of the president, Governor Hutchinson (@AsaHutchinson) offered...

© AFP The royal couple will attend the Mass at Sagrada Familia King Felipe and Queen Letizia are to attend Barcelona's famous Sagrada Familia to mourn the 14 people killed in van attacks in Catalonia. Police are still hunting the driver of the van that killed 13 at Barcelona's Las Ramblas. A 14th victim died in a second attack at Cambrils. Ministers say the jihadist cell behind the attacks has been dismantled. But police are still hunting for the van driver and an imam missing from a mosque in the town of Ripoll. The special Mass is scheduled to start at the iconic, Gaudi- designed Sagrada Familia at about 08:00 GMT. The royal couple will attend. On Saturday they laid a wreath at the site of the attack at Las Ramblas, accompanied by Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau and Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont . Catalonia has always been fiercely independent but the royals' presence brought shouts of "Long live the king!" The king and queen earlier met victims of the Barce...

Randy Coffland knew the depths of depression well. He'd tried therapy. He'd taken an increasing amount of antidepressants. But by January 2017, Coffland began shutting out family and making threats no one took seriously until it was too late. When all the mental health treatments failed , he erased his twin daughters ' names from his life insurance policy . On March 10, he murdered them in his St. Charles apartment, shot his wife and killed himself. Now his widow, Anjum Coffland , is fighting to undo that change to Randy's life insurance policy . Litigation filed this week argues Randy was not of sound mind when he made his brother and a friend the beneficiaries of his $750,000 policy. Burt Brown, the attorney representing Anjum in the case, acknowledged his client has an "uphill battle" to reverse the beneficiary changes in the insurance policy because the holder is presumed to have a right to make changes and Randy is deceased and can't...