Mitchell G. Patton

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A decorated Army veteran who confronted the shooter who killed five people at a Colorado Springs gay club said he wanted to protect the tight-knit community inside the room. Richard Fierro, 45, was at Club Q celebrating a birthday with his wife, daughter and friends when he found himself one of two people who subdued the attacker armed with an AR-15 style rifle and carrying a bulletproof vest.“I just know that I went into mode and I needed to save my family, and my family at the time was everyone in that room,” he said at…

A man died and at least 16 people were injured Monday morning after an SUV drove into a Massachusetts Apple Store, authorities said. Police received calls of a car crashing into the windows of a store at the Derby Street Shops in Hingham, about 16 miles southeast of downtown Boston, around 10:45 a.m. Monday. Responding officers found multiple people with injuries in and around the Apple Store at the outdoor mall, Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz said during a news conference on the incident.A dark colored 2019 Toyota 4Runner it went through the familiar large glass windows of the…

Attorney General Merrick Garland's decision to appoint a special counsel to investigate former President Donald Trump is a miscalculation, and the main problem is timing. The impressive scope of the mandate that Garland bestowed on special counsel Jack Smith likely doomed a swift and focused determination of whether Trump should be impeached. The impressive scope of the mandate that Garland bestowed on special counsel Jack Smith likely doomed a swift and focused determination of whether Trump should be impeached. Despite Garland's assurances that special counsel will not hinder the investigation, reality suggests otherwise. Smith will oversee not one, but two…

The city of Atlanta agreed Monday to pay $1 million to the family of Rayshard Brooks, a 27-year-old black man who was fatally shot by a white police officer in a 2020 incident that deepened nationwide unrest in the wake of of the death of George Floyd. . Atlanta's city council voted 15-0 to approve the settlement nearly three months after prosecutors determined in August that the officers involved in Brooks' death on June 12, 2020 had "committed no crime" and that the use of deadly force was "reasonable."“This grieving family has been through a lot during this process. Although…