Bill Pugliano/Getty Images(DETROIT) — A memorial service honoring the late Aretha Franklin was held in Detroit, Michigan, on Sunday. The “Queen of Soul” died on Aug. 16 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. She was 76. Outside the New Bethel Baptist Church, where the service was held, some signed boards […]
iStock/Thinkstock(SACRAMENTO) — A teenager who was stopped by Sacramento police for not having a light on his bicycle ended up being hit by a cop car going 27 mph in dramatic video released by the department on Friday. The incident, which has already prompted the department to promise to improve […]
ABC News(NEW YORK) — Strong summer storms caused 14 people to be injured at a Backstreet Boys concert in Oklahoma on Saturday night, and now another system developing in the same region is set to threaten the South and Midwest over the next two days. A new set of storm […]
iStock/Thinkstock(SAN BERNARDINO, Calif.) — A man driving his pregnant wife to a hospital for delivery of their baby was detained and taken into custody by immigration agents, according to the couple’s lawyer and a news report. The 36-year-old husband, whose lawyer said had no criminal record, was taken into custody […]
ABC News(MERIDIAN, Miss.) — A 12-year-old girl allegedly took her mother’s car and led police on a chase around a trailer park before crashing into a sheriff’s deputy responding to the incident, authorities said. Video of the event on Wednesday night near Meridian, Mississippi, shows the moments before and after […]
iStock/Thinkstock(NASHVILLE) — An all-out manhunt is underway for two “cold-blooded killers” in a rash of deadly shootings this month in Nashville — and police are investigating whether all of the crimes are linked to the same gunmen. The latest shooting happened early Friday in the parking lot of a club […]
ABC News(NEW YORK) — Severe storms brought rain, lightning and damaging winds to the Northeast on Friday evening, with wind gusts up to 65 mph in parts of central and western New Jersey, and reports of over 5 inches of rain falling in Chatham, New York, overnight. Lightning lit up […]
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — Federal officials this week warned police around the country that drones are posing an ever-growing threat to safety and security. Citing the Aug. 4 attack during an appearance of Venezuela’s president, the FBI, Department of Homeland Security and National Counterterrorism Center issued an intelligence bulletin with the starkest […]
ABC News(BALTIMORE, Md.) — Authorities in Baltimore have arrested a suspect in connection with the death of a 7-year-old girl who was killed by a stray bullet while sitting in the backseat of a car. On the afternoon of July 5, second-grader Taylor Hayes was taken to the a local […]
