(DDN) – Every month, the Social Security Administration (SSA) in the United States sends out millions of benefit checks across the country. Who Receives Social Security Checks in the United States? The SSA’s principal Social Security programs support those receiving retirement or survivors’ benefits, those enrolled in the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program, and...
DETROIT (DDN) – A 4-year-old child in Detroit is lucky to be alive after police say he accidentally shot himself in the hand on Friday afternoon. Authorities said the youngster got hold of an unsecured gun inside his family’s home on Fullerton Avenue on the city’s west side. The shooting, while horrifying, is regrettably more...
LAS VEGAS (DDN) – A Las Vegas man is in serious condition following a collision between an electric scooter and an SUV in the Central Valley. It occurred Friday after 2:30 p.m. along Karen Avenue and Joe W. Brown, between Paradise Road and Sahara Avenue. Las Vegas Metro police reported that a 2015 Toyota 4Runner was...
LAS VEGAS (DDN) – An off-duty Metro police officer and his wife shot and killed a guy in their front yard Friday morning, claiming they observed him strangling a lady. LVMPD Capt. Kurt McKenzie said the incident occurred shortly after 9:30 a.m. on Friday in the 700 block of 6th Street in Boulder City. The Boulder...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (DDN) – A Mississippi police officer involved in a crash that killed three people earlier this month did not talk with investigators on the site, according to the crash report. The tragic accident occurred on January 4 in Marshall County, after a Byhalia Police officer allegedly pursued a car at high speeds outside the...
BROCKTON, Mass. (DDN) – On Friday, a Brockton police cruiser and a vehicle collided, resulting in four individuals being transported to the hospital. On Friday, at approximately 9 a.m., a crash occurred close to the intersection of Warren Avenue and Winthrop Street. The driver of the silver Toyota Corolla told detectives that she was going...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (DDN) – According to the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office, an MSCS school bus crashed in Cordova on Friday morning, injuring three persons, one of whom was a child. Just after 8 a.m., officers responded to a three-vehicle crash near Macon Road and Big Orange. The Mt. Pisgah Middle School bus collided with a...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla.(DDN) – The Florida Highway Patrol said that a semi-driver was killed Thursday morning after his tractor-trailer rear-ended another and caught fire on I-10 westbound near Cecil Commerce Parkway. Troopers say a 45-year-old New York man was driving a semi on I-10 East at 5:45 a.m. when he slowed for traffic near Cecil Commerce...
BOONE COUNTY (DDN) – The Missouri State Highway Patrol verified that a 20-year-old man was preoccupied while driving down U.S. 63 on Thursday afternoon, resulting in a second death disaster while traffic stalled for another tragic accident up the road about an hour earlier. rule enforcement has not confirmed whether the motorist was distracted by...
HARTFORD, CT (DDN) – A 23-year-old Vernon woman died in a head-on, wrong-way incident in Hartford late Thursday night. Kelly Lynn Caldwell, 23, of Morrison Street in Vernon, died in a head-on collision on Route 5/15 in Hartford at 11:13 p.m. on Thursday, according to Connecticut State Police. According to police, Caldwell was going the...