RiverNorthPhotography/iStock(NEW YORK) — Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced Thursday that they made the largest fentanyl bust in U.S. history over the weekend, seizing hundreds of pounds of the drug along the U.S.-Mexico border. Officers at the Port of Nogales in Arizona arrested Juan Antonio Torres-Barraza and charged him with […]
wellesenterprises/iStock(NEW YORK) — A federal investigation slammed Michigan State University’s handling of sexual assault reports stemming for the Larry Nassar scandal and for violating campus safety laws in general to the point that it “posed an ongoing threat” to students and staff. The findings are part of a U.S. Department […]
tzahiV/iStock(NEW YORK) — The New York City Police Department is “failing sexual assault victims across the city,” two Brooklyn women alleged Thursday in a lawsuit that accused the nation’s largest police department of a “male-dominated culture” unwilling to address “an entrenched gender bias.” Jennifer Welch Demski and Alison Turkos said […]
ChiccoDodiFC/iStock(CHICAGO) — The Chicago Police Department has released dramatic body-cam footage showing officers rescuing a man trapped in the frigid waters of Lake Michigan. Five officers formed a human chain, grabbing onto each others’ belts and stretching a dog leash into the water to reach the 33-year-old man on Sunday […]
Photo by Stewart F. House/Getty Images The casket carrying Botham Shem Jean arrives at Greenville Avenue Church of Christ on September 13, 2018 in Richardson, Texas.(DALLAS) — The woman who filmed the aftermath of the shooting of Botham Jean — the man killed in his own apartment by former Dallas […]
icholakov/iStock(WASHINGTON) — Pentagon officials are concerned that despite significant prevention efforts, a new, anonymous survey indicates a nearly 50 percent spike in the prevalence of unwanted sexual contact at the three military service academies last year, while the number of incidents that were reported directly to authorities remained relatively unchanged. […]
tzahiV/iStock(WASHINGTON) — Eleven detainees at an ICE detention facility in El Paso, Texas, have been refusing food, some for more than 30 days, and six of the detainees are being force-fed per orders by a federal judge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed Thursday. An additional four other detainees are […]
Spencer Platt/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Firefighters from New Jersey and New York to Indiana are pushing through the brutally cold temperatures to do their jobs. In New Jersey, a monstrous fire broke out Wednesday night at a paper mill in Elmwood Park. The fire was so massive people that people […]
cmannphoto/iStock(ST. LOUIS) — A St. Louis police officer accused of shooting and killing his colleague while playing a Russian roulette-like game had his bond doubled during a court hearing Thursday morning. A judge at the St. Louis Circuit Court raised Nathanial Hendren’s bond from $50,000 to $100,000, of which he […]
ABC News(NEW YORK) — A dangerous deep freeze is blasting the Northeast and Midwest, where record-breaking cold temperatures are paralyzing cities and communities. At least eight people have died in connection with the coldest weather in decades across the Northern Plains and Midwest. The wind chill in Chicago plunged to […]
