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4 high school football players charged for allegedly raping teammates with broom, prosecutors say

4 high school football players charged for allegedly raping teammates with broom, prosecutors say

WJLA(WASHINGTON) — Four sophomore junior varsity football players from a Maryland high school have been charged with rape for allegedly sexually assaulting freshman players with a broom, according to court records. The alleged incident occurred on Oct. 31 at Damascus High School, according to charging documents filed in Montgomery County […]

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Investigators find body while searching for missing 13-year-old Hania Noelia Aguilar, FBI says

Investigators find body while searching for missing 13-year-old Hania Noelia Aguilar, FBI says

FBI Charlotte(NEW YORK) — Authorities in North Carolina have located a body in the area where they are searching for 13-year-old Hania Noelia Aguilar, who has been missing since the beginning of the month, according to authorities. The body was found in the area off Wire Grass Road in Robeson […]

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Sandra Bland’s sisters still demanding answers, fighting ‘outrage fatigue’ in 3 years since her death

Sandra Bland’s sisters still demanding answers, fighting ‘outrage fatigue’ in 3 years since her death

Candice Elle Frank/ABC(NEW YORK) —  More than three years after Sandra Bland died in a Texas jail after being arrested during a traffic stop, her sisters say they are still searching for critical information about her death. “For us in particular, I think closure is and will always be in […]

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Supreme Court considers the limits of Native American Indian reservation borders

Supreme Court considers the limits of Native American Indian reservation borders

iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — Where does Native American authority over reservation boundaries end? The question was at the heart of a feisty debate today at the Supreme Court that could determine whether a man on death row in Oklahoma lives or dies and whether the Muscogee Creek Nation still has authority over […]

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Drill sparks active-shooter panic, lockdown at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

Drill sparks active-shooter panic, lockdown at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — A drill sparked active-shooter panic and prompted a lockdown at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, Tuesday afternoon, multiple sources told ABC News. Military police tweeted an alert about 2:15 p.m. of a possible active shooter and were searching through buildings, and calling in the […]

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New details emerge in Thousand Oaks mass shooting, including gunman’s possession of 7 high-capacity magazines

New details emerge in Thousand Oaks mass shooting, including gunman’s possession of 7 high-capacity magazines

Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — The suspected Thousand Oaks gunman was carrying seven high-capacity, 30-round magazines when he stormed the Borderline Bar & Grill earlier this month, authorities said. The magazines are illegal to buy or possess in California but easy to attain in […]

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Driver allegedly yells hate speech at Jews, tries to plow into them, LAPD says

Driver allegedly yells hate speech at Jews, tries to plow into them, LAPD says

KABC(LOS ANGELES) — A driver allegedly yelled “hateful remarks regarding Jewish heritage” at two men after they left a synagogue and then tried to plow into them on a Los Angeles street, police said. The two men, ages 37 and 57, were “suddenly and viciously attacked,” Los Angeles Police Department […]

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Puget Sound mystery: Series of sea lion shootings near Seattle prompts worries of landlubber safety

Puget Sound mystery: Series of sea lion shootings near Seattle prompts worries of landlubber safety

KOMO(SEATTLE) — A series of mysterious fatal shootings of California sea lions that washed up on shore in a heavily populated area of Seattle have federal authorities concerned not only the mammals but for residents living near the Puget Sound, officials said. Of the 16 sea lions that have been […]

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Demonstrators shut down major highway to protest fatal police shooting at Alabama mall

Demonstrators shut down major highway to protest fatal police shooting at Alabama mall

ABC News(HOOVER, Ala.) — Demonstrators shut down a major Alabama highway during rush hour Monday in protest of an officer-involved shooting that left an innocent black man dead. Several dozen protesters blocked traffic on U.S. Highway 31 at Interstate 459 in Hoover, Alabama, demanding justice for 21-year-old Emantic “EJ” Bradford […]

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Murder on American Indian land? SCOTUS weighs fate of convicted killer, tribal reservation borders

Murder on American Indian land? SCOTUS weighs fate of convicted killer, tribal reservation borders

iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — When Patrick Murphy mutilated and murdered his girlfriend’s former lover in eastern Oklahoma in 1999, state authorities arrested and charged him with murder in state court. He was convicted and sentenced to death in 2000. But Murphy, 48, a member of the Creek Nation, is asking that his […]

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