A small-town Utah mayor who used her legal authority to let residents light fireworks over the Fourth of July weekend, while wildfires burned hundreds of thousands of acres across the state, says she was doxxed, threatened, and called "the most horrible, disgusting person" by strangers statewide. Clinton Mayor Marie Dougherty made a straightforward call. Governor […] The post Utah mayor allows Fourth of July fireworks despite statewide ban, then faces threats and doxxing appeared first on American Almanac .
A small-town Utah mayor who used her legal authority to let residents light fireworks over the Fourth of July weekend, while wildfires burned hundreds of thousands of acres across the state, says she was doxxed, threatened, and called "the most horrible, disgusting person" by strangers statewide. Clinton Mayor Marie Dougherty made a straightforward call. Governor Spencer Cox had issued an executive order imposing a temporary statewide fireworks ban ahead of Independence Day, citing extreme drought and wildfire conditions. But the order included a provision allowing local leaders to designate safe areas within their jurisdictions. Dougherty consulted her fire chief, reviewed local conditions, and concluded that most of Clinton, a suburban…Open
Authorities identified the suspect as 43-year-old Army Veteran Andrew Arrabaca, and said he allegedly threw a "makeshift incendiary device," outside 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan, which was made up of fireworks and a flammable liquid.
A California teenager lost his right hand June 3 after he lit a tennis ball-sized firework, and it exploded. Nader Hanna, 18, was with his twin brother and their friends in the parking lot of the In-N-Out Burger restaurant in Pleasanton a few days after his high school graduation when a classmate handed him a firework, according to the San Francisco Chronicle . Hanna took the firework and lit it before he said the firework exploded, and his hand “disintegrated.” “It just exploded in my hand the second I lit it,” Hanna told the outlet. “My hand took the whole blow. I looked down and I didn’t see a hand. It disintegrated.” Three days after he graduated from high school, Nader Hanna was hanging out in a Pleasanton parking lot…Open
The Kaiserslautern Military Community sets off fireworks during Freedom Fest at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, July 4, 2026. The two-day fest brought together service members and families from the KMC in a shared celebration of partnership and 250 years of American independence. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Joseph Curzi)
Six Boston police officers were struck by fireworks in what authorities believe was an intentional attack while trying to break up an illegal street takeover over the Fourth of July weekend. NEWSMAX Crime Correspondent Jason Mattera has the latest on “Wake Up America.”
