(Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — On the same day that the Trump administration is proposing billions of dollars in cuts to renewable energy, environmental and climate programs, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin announced a significant reorganization of his agency. “EPA is creating the first-of-its-kind Office of State […]
(Photo by Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — One of the key witnesses in the Karen Read murder retrial continued to testify for a third day Friday on the events surrounding the death of Read’s boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe, who was found unresponsive in […]
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (HENRY’S LAKE, Idaho) –Seven people were killed in a fiery crash between a van and a pickup truck on an eastern Idaho highway near Yellowstone National Park, officials said. The Mercedes passenger van — which was operating as a tour vehicle — collided with the Dodge Ram […]
Adam Gray/Getty Images (OCEAN COUNTY, N.J.) — A second teenager has been arrested for arson in connection with a massive New Jersey wildfire as prosecutors reveal more details about how the fire allegedly began. The second suspect — an unidentified 17-year-old boy — was taken into custody on Thursday and charged with […]
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (HENRY’s LAKE, Idaho) — Seven people were killed in a fiery crash between a van and a pickup truck on an eastern Idaho highway near Yellowstone National Park, officials said. The Mercedes passenger van — which was operating as a tour vehicle — collided with the Dodge […]
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Three months after President Donald Trump returned to office and began issuing a series of executive orders against organizations and law firms whose actions have opposed him, a longtime Washington, D.C., attorney is launching a new firm that aims in part to represent those who he says […]
Justin K. Aller/Getty Images (PITTSBURGH) — The baseball fan critically hurt in a 20-foot fall at PNC Park in Pittsburgh has been identified as Kavan Markwood. Markwood fell from the bleachers onto the field during the seventh inning of the Pirates-Cubs game on Wednesday night, officials said. The game was […]
Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (CHICAGO) — An Illinois man has been sentenced to 53 years in prison for the 2023 fatal stabbing of a 6-year-old Palestinian-American boy. Wadee Alfayoumi was stabbed 26 times and his mother more than a dozen in the Oct. 14, 2023, […]
Texas Board of Nursing (HOUSTON) — Police in Houston are searching for a man who was been charged with allegedly impersonating a nurse and treating disabled people while working for two nursing agencies. Dazael Gloria, 33, is charged with practicing nursing with a fraudulent license, according to court records. Houston […]
Charleston County Sheriff’s Office (CHARLESTON, S.C.) — A man is accused of intentionally plowing into a 10-year-old, a 12-year-old and a teacher in a hit-and-run outside a school at a church on Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina, officials said. Justin Collin Adams, who was taken into custody on Thursday following an hourslong manhunt, […]
