Joshua is a staff writer for Coffee or Die Magazine. He has covered the 75th anniversary of D-Day in France, multinational military exercises in Germany, and civil unrest during the 2020 riots in Minneapolis that followed the death of George Floyd. Born and raised in small-town South Dakota, Joshua grew up playing football and soccer before serving as a forward observer in the US Army. After leaving the service, he earned his CrossFit Level 1 certificate and worked as a personal trainer while earning his paramedic license. Joshua went on to work in paramedicine for more than five years, much of that time in the North Minneapolis area, before transitioning to a career in multimedia journalism. Joshua is married, has two children, and is currently pursuing his bachelor’s degree in multimedia journalism. His creative outlets include Skovlund Photography and Concentrated Emotion, which is where he publishes poetry focused on his life experiences.
It’s not every day that San Francisco’s firefighters are called to rescue pole dancers, but it's also not every day that the Golden State Warriors win their seventh NBA championship On Monday, June 20, thousands of fans flocked to the city’s ...
With the eyes of law enforcement focused on the May mass shootings that killed 10 shoppers at a Buffalo, New York, grocery store and 19 schoolchildren and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, first responders in South Carolina ran a drill to see whether ...
When Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District Capt. Daniel Hoy arrived at the California scrapyard on June 9, the battery compartment inside the battered Tesla Model S wouldn’t stop cooking off. The fire crew told their Hazardous Material Program ...
A California man bent on assassinating a US Supreme Court justice donned a black uniform and assembled a murder kit including a Glock G17 pistol, pepper spray, zip ties, and duct tape, according to court records released Wednesday. On Wednesday, ...
Investigators in Mississippi continue probing the June 9 death of Meridian Police Officer Kennis Winston Croom, who was shot after rushing to a domestic dispute call. Although it was his day off, he'd volunteered to work and was the first to the ...
A crackdown on corruption at Leavenworth Detention Center in Kansas has netted sentences for three guards and a nurse. Before they were caught and fired, prison guards Janna Grier, 36, Jacqueline Sifuentes, 26, and Cheyonte Harris, 29, plus nurse ...
When the race began 25 miles north of the California village of Baker, coyotes howled in the Mojave Desert, and the relay runners faced a daunting jog through Death Valley, over the Ibex Pass, and then a gallop into Las Vegas. It was April 8, and ...
Shot in the head last week, Chicago Police Officer Fernanda Ballesteros left the hospital on Monday, June 6, to the salutes of dozens of her fellow cops. A mariachi band serenaded the 27-year-old officer as she was wheeled out of the doors of the ...
After a Texas gunman began his May 24 rampage at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Pedro “Pete” Arredondo had to make a crucial decision. The police chief of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District could either identify Salvador Ramos ...
Court documents uncovered by Coffee or Die Magazine shed more light on the Jan. 18 arrest of Todd A. Burnim, the 54-year-old New Hampshire paramedic accused of drugging and sexually abusing at least two children between 2017 and 2019 and taking ...
A pair of Hillsborough County Sheriff’s deputies followed the sounds of moans inside a burning Florida home to find and save a trapped 9-year-old boy. “Hearing that someone was inside intensified things,” said Deputy Kevin Reich, the first lawman ...
On Thursday, March 19, during Arizona’s annual Ostrich Festival, emergency responders in Chandler needed to quickly reach and retrieve an unresponsive patient within a crowd of tens of thousands of people inside Tumbleweed Park. But Chandler ...
To cap off National Police Week, the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund holds a candlelight vigil in Washington, DC, every year to honor the men and women who died in the line of duty. But this year is special. Organizers have etched ...
Federal officers on May 6 in Texas seized what they suspect is $18.3 million in methamphetamines that was hidden in the diesel tank of a big rig arriving from Mexico. Homeland Security Investigations agents say Mexican semitrailer truck driver ...
Despite the release of what he called a “disturbing” video detailing the “tragic” Jan. 23 death of a 17-year-old driver of a stolen car in Missouri, St. Charles County Prosecuting Attorney Tim Lohmar insists the two cops at the scene did nothing ...
FORT BRAGG, N.C. — US Army Command Sgt. Maj. Joe Powers is on a mission. And so is Sgt. 1st Class Adam Klakowicz, two of the nine members of Raid Team 1. It’s April 23 in the warming hours of a hot Saturday morning on ...
A federal jury has convicted a retired New York cop who pummeled a Metropolitan Police officer with a US Marine Corps flag during the Capitol Hill riot on June 6, 2021. Convicted on Monday, May 2, Thomas Webster, 56, of the village of Florida, New ...
Minnesota lawmakers made consuming cannabis a petty crime in 1976, and medical marijuana has been legal there for 18 years, so you probably think the North Star State wouldn’t suffer any shenanigans on 4/20, the day partisans of pot celebrate the ...
It’s still sort of a mystery how six New Jersey teenagers fresh from the Rockin’ Jump Trampoline Park in Wayne on Friday got stuck in an exit elevator. But Wayne Fire Department Commissioner William Rodriguez has a pretty good theory. “They've ...
Flying nonstop from the United States, a swarm of C-130 Hercules and C-141 Starlifter transport planes rumbled through the night. They dipped low over the Caribbean Sea, and the Ranger jumpmasters standing in the doorways felt ...
The 62-year-old gun-toting suspect wanted for the Tuesday, April 12, attack on a Brooklyn subway train that wounded at least 10 commuters is behind bars, facing a federal terrorism charge. New York City Police Department officials said a citizen ...
Less than 11 hours after a gunman wearing a gas mask detonated a smoke bomb on a packed subway train into Manhattan and blasted away at passengers, city officials Tuesday evening named a “person of interest” possibly connected to the ...
Authorities in New York are searching for a man in a gas mask who opened fire on a subway train Tuesday morning, wounding at least 10 passengers. New York Police Department Commissioner Keechant Sewell told reporters the stocky suspect — a Black ...
Rocked by a string of what US Drug Enforcement Administration agents call “mass-overdose events,” federal officials are warning first responders nationwide about a rising wave of deaths linked to the synthetic opioid fentanyl. “This is creating a ...
Twenty-six men have led the US Coast Guard. On Tuesday, April 5, President Joe Biden announced that his nominee to be the 27th commandant of the sea service is a woman, Adm. Linda Fagan. And if she's approved by the US Senate, she’ll be the first ...
Detectives in Nevada continue to probe the slaying of an off-duty police officer from Washington who was apparently stabbed Saturday, March 26, on the Las Vegas Strip for the way he petted a dog. Freddy “Lucky” Allen remains in the Clark County ...
Nearly 15 years ago, when Jeffrey White, the supervisory deputy US marshal in the District of New Hampshire, first heard his agency was going to launch a “Fugitive of the Week” program, he was dubious. “This is going to be a weekly pain in the ...
LVIV, Ukraine — The young tattoo artist packs boxes into every square inch of his car for the 30-hour trip ahead. Roman — he asked to be identified by his first name only — lives and works in Lviv, but he's headed toward Kyiv, bringing supplies and ...
Ukrainian intelligence operatives said they intercepted a telephone call between two Russians — at least one soldier — discussing direct orders to kill civilians, which would clearly constitute war crimes. In the tape, released on social media and ...
Over the past 11 days, gunfire killed three cops nationwide, and a fourth died in a car crash tied to a hoax kidnapping. They join the ranks of 60 other law enforcement officers killed on the job so far in 2022, according to the Officer Down ...
