iStock/Thinkstock(HOUSTON) — The search for the suspected killer of a Houston doctor who once treated former President George H.W. Bush came to an abrupt end Friday morning when he took his own life as authorities closed in, police said. Joseph James Pappas, 62, shot himself in the head after police […]
ABC News(NEW YORK) — More than 35 million people from Georgia to Vermont remain at risk of flash flooding Friday morning, as the heaviest rainfall is expected to shift northeast with gusty thunderstorms possible. Lynchburg, Virginia, saw nearly 6 inches on Thursday, necessitating water rescues. Rain fell at a rate […]
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — The 55 boxes of human remains North Korea transferred to the United States this week are “consistent” with being American service members who lost their lives in the Korean War, according to the chief scientist at the U.S. Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. Location information accompanying the […]
iStock/Thinkstock(ROSWELL, Ga.) — Flipping a coin to decide whether to arrest a sobbing woman. Keeping a K-9 on the force after it repeatedly attacked a man despite its handler’s commands. And now, leaving a 13-year-old boy handcuffed in the back of a squad car in freezing conditions and then taunting […]
iStock/Thinkstock(DETROIT) — A Detroit police officer is the subject of a criminal investigation after a “disturbing” cell-phone video surfaced showing him repeatedly punching an apparently emotionally disturbed naked woman at a hospital, officials said Thursday. Detroit Police Chief James Craig announced at a press conference that the officer, an 18-year […]
iStock/Thinkstock(DAYTON, Ohio) — A training exercise at an Air Force base in Ohio caused an emergency active shooter response Thursday, prompting a lockdown, the evacuation of a hospital and led one security force member to open fire on a locked door to get it open. “An unknown individual called 911 […]
iStock/Thinkstock(DAYTON, Ohio) — Authorities issued a shelter-in-place order at a Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, Thursday afternoon after getting reports of an active shooter at the base’s hospital. The alert was issued on Twitter at 12:40 p.m. and security personnel were investigating the reports. This is a breaking […]
Jefferson Siegel/Pool/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Harvey Weinstein’s attorneys plan to ask a Manhattan judge this week to dismiss the most serious sex assault charge filed against him, according to a new court filing. The lawyers are going to argue that the embattled movie mogul had an ongoing romantic relationship with […]
KCRG-TV(IOWA CITY, Iowa) — The family of a missing University of Iowa student now believes she is being held captive and has increased the reward for her return. An earlier lead about a possible spotting of 20-year-old Mollie Tibbetts, who disappeared on July 18 after going for a jog, has […]
Justin Merriman/Getty Images(PITTSBURGH) — The family of Antwon Rose, an unarmed black teenager fatally shot by a white East Pittsburgh police officer, filed a lawsuit against the borough on Wednesday, alleging wrongful death and use of “excessive and deadly force.” In the federal lawsuit, the family claims that East Pittsburgh […]
