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Lyndhurst police and EMS were called to a local restaurant where a pregnant employee's water broke, which necessitated a ride to Hillcrest Hospital.LYNDHURST, Ohio -- Suspicious person: Brainard RoadAt 11:10 p.m. June 3, a caller reported seeing a male in a wheelchair riding in the middle of Brainard Road. When an officer arrived on the scene he was told that the man was in the care of a Greens Care and Rehabilitation (1575 Brainard Road) employee and was no longer on the roadway.Emergency care: Mayfield RoadAt 9:45 p.m. June 3, police and an ambulance were called to Applebee’s restaurant, 5658 Mayfield Road. It was reported that an employee was pregnant and that her water broke. The woman was not due to give birth until late June. The woman was transferred to Hillcrest Hospital.Fraud: Alvey RoadAt 6:40 p.m. June 3, a caller reported that she was the victim of a scam. The woman said she received a message that she thought was from a friend in which the friend told of needing money.  » Read More

Posted: Jun 8, 2021 / 04:40 PM CDT / Updated: Jun 8, 2021 / 04:40 PM CDT (Facebook photo) HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Facebook announced Tuesday that it is upping its total investment in its Huntsville Data Center to more than $1 billion once it is complete. The company said it expects the 2.5 million square foot campus to be finished in October 2024. Facebook said the Huntsville center will be powered completely by renewable energy, including a solar project located in Muscle Shoals. When Facebook initially announced in 2018 its data center that would be built off Pulaski Pike near Toyota Motor Manufacturing, the company promised a $750 million investment and about 100 jobs.  » Read More

Southfield Police Chief says man's claim of being pepper-sprayed untrue The chief of police in Southfield said a man who said he was roughed up and pepper-sprayed last week wasn't true. SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (FOX 2) - The Southfield Police Department has responded to allegations of excessive force after a police stop last week. A video posted on social media claimed a man was stopped by police, ripped from his truck, and then pepper-sprayed. But on Monday, police released its own video. A Facebook post that went up last week by the user TJ Monroe has been shared hundreds of times. He claims he was thrown to the ground and pepper-sprayed during the traffic stop on Southfield Road near 12 Mile. When Southfield Police Chief Elvin Barren spoke on Monday, he released body-cam video that showed Monroe was cuffed for a short time. But Barren said there was no pepper spray. "He was not pepper-sprayed – in fact, the Southfield Police Department, we're not even equipped to pepper spray," Barren said.  » Read More

RIVERVIEW — A nearly seven-hour SWAT standoff came to a grisly end Monday when first responders pulled two dead men from a Riverview apartment that had been set on fire, the result of an apparent murder-suicide, Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister said.The daylong stalemate began shortly after 7:30 a.m. when deputies responded to the 6000 block of Cypressdale Drive. A 911 caller said he had received a FaceTime call from a friend who told him he had killed his boyfriend during a dispute.SWAT team members and crisis negotiators joined deputies outside condo 102 in a building in the Villages of Bloomingdale, a gated community in Riverview nestled between U.S. Highway 301 and Interstate 75.Inside the home, 30-year-old Keith Jackson was confessing to killing his boyfriend - “the love of his life,” he said - in a live video streamed on Facebook, Chronister said.Jackson refused to answer phone calls or open the door for deputies who had surrounded his home, Chronister said. But on Facebook, the crisis negotiators watched as he held a gun up to the camera and told viewers he had just shot and killed his boyfriend.  » Read More

Facebook is one of the top most social media giants and considering how large its user numbers are the tech giant is always looking at ways through which it can introduce new features and tools which will help both the platform and its audience.The tech giant always comes up with great features and currently it has introduced another great option for creators to take advantage from its network. Facebook is working on its “Bulletin” feature which is its own kind of news providing service. The company plans on bringing both local as well as international news all together on one platform for its users to benefit from and according to the tech giant it will provide local writers who are trying to grow online a rather great place to establish themselves.The Bulletin when first released will only be featuring news from writers who focus on topics like sports, environment and fashion and will grow forward from these in the coming weeks. What should be noted is that though this is a project initiated by Facebook on its main application,  » Read More

Topline Among Facebook’s most popular posts this week was vehement praise for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ (R) signing of a controversial bill banning trans female athletes from playing girls’ and women’s sports, which drew further outrage from LGBTQ+ activists for its timing on the first day of Pride Month.  MIAMI, FLORIDA - APRIL 08: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks to the media about the cruise industry ... during a press conference at PortMiami on April 08, 2021 in Miami, Florida. The Governor announced that the state is suing the federal government to allow cruises to resume in Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Getty Images Key Facts Evangelical leader Franklin Graham, who is one of the most popular conservatives on Facebook, posted a link to a story about the bill thanking DeSantis for his action. His praise of the Republican governor became the top-performing link-based post on the platform since May 30, according to data from CrowdTangle, an analytics tool owned by Facebook.  Sharing an article from Fox News about the new law,  » Read More

An Ocala woman was recently arrested after admitting on Facebook that she hit her friend with a metal pipe during an argument about the victim watching her children for a few hours. The victim reported on May 21 that 30-year-old Stacey Link and her children were “hanging out” at the home. The victim said Link asked her to baby-sit her children for a few hours, which she said she did. The victim said Link returned and a verbal argument broke out over how long the victim had to watch the children, so Link picked up her children and left, according to the sheriff’s report. The victim said Link returned to the home again and they started arguing about the victim dating their mutual friend, who was also at the home. The victim claimed during the argument, she walked over to get her tent she had in the yard. The victim claimed that Link approached her with a metal pipe in her hand and hit her in the forehead. The victim said she fell to the ground and Link punched her in the nose.  » Read More

If you’re one of the 1.3 billion people using Facebook Messenger, then you have already been warned of significant delays to critical security enhancements. That upgrade has been described by company executives as “essential,” even as they confirm serious slippage. Now the situation has become much worse, with two critical developments. “We need to find a balance of safety, privacy, and security,” Facebook says of its hyper-scale Messenger app, which is second only to WhatsApp in popularity. The issue is that Messenger has become center stage in the fight between law enforcement and big tech over privacy, and that has left more than a billion users in a security limbo-land. Unlike WhatsApp, your content is not fully secured on Facebook Messenger—the company itself has admitted to spying on your content and we recently exposed them for “secretly” downloading private links and files sent between users. MORE FROM FORBESWhy You Should Stop Sending Links On Facebook MessengerBy Zak DoffmanFacebook says it wants to fix this—albeit Facebook says a lot of things.  » Read More

Facebook said Friday it would suspend Donald Trump's accounts for at least two years, retaining a ban on the former U.S. president that it imposed after determining he incited the deadly January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.  "At the end of this period, we will look to experts to assess whether the risk to public safety has receded," Facebook Vice President Nick Clegg wrote in a blog post Friday.   The social media giant's independent oversight board upheld its block on Trump, which was enacted after the riot because the company said his posts were inciting violence.  On January 6, Trump implored thousands of supporters who had come to Washington for a "Save America March" to "fight like hell" to overturn his defeat, just before the riot aimed at preventing the certification of Joe Biden's presidential victory. Five people died, including a federal police officer.  The ban expires on January 7, 2023, two years after Facebook first blocked the former president.  The timing of Facebook's decision will reduce Trump's ability to influence midterm congressional elections in November 2022,  » Read More

A contractor said this week it is restoring holiday pay to Facebook Inc. janitors after questions from MarketWatch about why hundreds of workers lost more than half their paid holidays during the COVID-19 pandemic.Facebook FB, +1.32% janitors who kept their jobs but worked sporadically throughout the coronavirus pandemic went back to full-time, on-site work in April as the social media giant began to open its offices with limited capacity. Although several janitors said they are grateful to still be employed, they wondered why they had lost some perks, specifically a half-dozen paid holidays.  Like many other hourly workers at large companies in Silicon Valley and elsewhere, the janitors do not work for Facebook directly, but are employed by a contractor. In this case, the contractor is ABM Industries Inc. ABM, +0.61%, which sent janitors at Facebook’s Menlo Park, Calif., campus a letter around Thanksgiving informing them that they would be paid for only five holidays a year effective December 2020, the minimum required in their union contract and down from the 11 days previously offered.  » Read More