Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(REDDING, Calif.) — Firefighters are making progress in battling a deadly wildfire in Northern California but the fire that’s leveled hundreds of homes and forced thousands of residents to flee the area has now crossed over 100,000 acres burned. The Carr Fire was 23 percent contained as of […]
Robin W. Baird/Cascadia Research(KAUAI, Hawaii) — Let’s face it: Unlikely couples hold a special place in our hearts, whether Romeo and Juliet, Edward and Bella — or a melon-headed whale and a rough-toothed dolphin that apparently enjoyed an unlikely inter-species romance a few years ago in the waters off Hawaii. […]
ABC News(BRANSON, Mo.) — A $100 million lawsuit was filed in the duck boat incident that killed 17 people on a Missouri lake this month and lawyers representing those who lost loved ones on the ill-fated voyage say their goal is to ban what they described as amphibious “death traps.” […]
iStock/Thinkstock(SILVER SPRING, Md.) — A Maryland police officer was justified when he fatally shot an unarmed man who attacked him in a parking lot, prosecutors who reviewed the case said on Monday. Officer Anand Badgujar of the Montgomery County Police Department was cleared of any wrongdoing in the shooting in […]
Lee County Sheriff’s Office(MEXICO CITY) — A man on the run for nearly three decades was found and captured in a small town 400 miles outside Mexico City, Lee County Sheriff’s Office said in a release. Earl Jay Slaton, 72-years-old, had been missing for the last 27 years and wanted […]
KABC(LOS ANGELES) — Police are in the process of unraveling the extent of a potential serial killer’s carnage, after he made claims about murders that have yet to be confirmed by investigators. Danueal Drayton was arrested last week in Los Angeles and is set to be extradited to New York […]
ABC News(LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa.) — A man who was shot and killed by a police officer in Pennsylvania on Saturday has been identified as 44-year-old Joseph Santos. A video of Santos being shot while across the street from Dorney Park was posted on Facebook over the weekend. The video shows […]
Facebook(NEW YORK) — The father of a missing Iowa college student says the search for his daughter may go in vain without tips from the general public. Speaking in an interview with Good Morning America, Rob Tibbetts said he believes the public may hold the key to finding his daughter, […]
The Sublette County Sheriff’s Office(SUBLETTE COUNTY, Wyoming) — Police said they have found a Utah teenager who disappeared over the weekend while hiking with a Boy Scout troop in western Wyoming. Garrett Hunter, 13, of Draper, Utah, had been missing for nearly two days when searchers located him early Monday […]
Minneapolis Police (MINNEAPOLIS) — Minneapolis police released multiple videos on Sunday of the frenetic chase that led to the fatal shooting of a 31-year-old man in an alley as he fled from officers. The video shows the chase, which lasted only about a minute from when police officers Justin Schmidt […]
