Google(LEXINGTON, Ky.) — Three people were injured when a lighter exploded at an estate sale in Lexington, Kentucky, on Friday, according to local police. The incident happened when someone flicked the lighter to see if it worked, Lt. Jeremy Tuttle of Lexington Police told ABC News. Three people were injured, […]
@NYPDDetectives/Twitter(NEW YORK) — A 27-year-old man wanted for the murder of a woman in New York City was arrested in a Los Angeles hotel room with another woman allegedly tied up against her will, authorities said. The suspect, Danueal Drayton of New Haven, Connecticut, is accused of using dating websites […]
(FRESNO, Calif) — At least 60 wildfires are burning in the U.S., including the Carr Fire in Northern California that’s already proven deadly. Dry, gusty winds are expected to keep spreading the fires out West, where brutal heat again is in the forecast. Fresno, California, has seen three straight weeks […]
ABC News(SHASTA COUNTY, Calif) — The Carr Fire in Northern California that has claimed the life of a bulldozer operator and injured at least three firefighters is “taking everything down in its path,” a fire official said. Winds reaching 60 mph are creating firenadoes strong enough to overturn vehicles, authorities […]
Scott Olson/Getty Images(EAST LANSING, Mich.) — Michigan State University has suspended payments from a $500 million fund set up to pay the victims of former sports doctor Larry Nassar due to allegations of fraud. The firm that manages the Healing Assistance Fund notified MSU earlier this week of potentially fraudulent […]
iStock/Thinkstock(AVONDALE, Az.) — An Arizona trooper, who just graduated from the academy in May, was shot dead when a suspect stole a police officer’s gun during a struggle, authorities said. “The [Department of Public Safety] family is in mourning,” Colonel Frank Milstead of the Arizona Department of Public Safety said […]
Rob Hess/ABC News(BROOKLYN, Iowa) — Investigators in Iowa have zeroed in on missing jogger Mollie Tibbetts’ digital footprint, including her Fitbit — which can capture GPS data — as they work to solve her mysterious disappearance. Tibbetts, a 20-year-old rising sophomore at the University of Iowa, went jogging the evening […]
Alex Mallin/ABC News(ARLINGTON, Iowa) — Pig prices are plunging – so, too, those of American soybeans. America’s heartland farmers, in states largely supportive of President Donald Trump, say they are starting to feel real financial pain from a tit-for-tat trade war Trump once promised will be “easy to win.” “We […]
iStock/Thinkstock(HOUSTON) — The onetime doctor of former President George H.W. Bush was likely “targeted” when he was shot to death by a mystery gunman in Houston, police said on Thursday. Cardiologist Mark Hausknecht, 65, was killed on Friday in a residential neighborhood as he rode his bicycle. “There is a […]
Virginia State Police(BRISTOL, Va.) — The man who allegedly abducted a teenage girl in Tennessee was arrested Thursday morning, shortly after authorities issued an Amber Alert. The FBI’s field office in Knoxville, Tennessee, announced via Twitter that Richard Tester, 52, was in custody and that Grace Olivia Galliher, 17, was […]
