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 […]
iStock/Thinkstock(CLEARWATER, Fla.) — A lawyer for the family of a man gunned down over a parking space in Florida called on lawmakers Thursday to change the state’s “Stand Your Ground” law to stop “wannabe cops from killing unarmed black men.” During a press conference in front of the Pinellas Criminal […]
KNXV-TV(GOODYEAR, Ariz.) — An Arizona trooper who just graduated 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 at […]
KABC-TV(LOS ANGELES) — Police in California on Wednesday arrested a 32-year-old man accused of setting multiple wildfires in Riverside County that have scorched thousands of acres and forced mass evacuations. Brandon N. McGlover of Temecula has been charged with five counts of arson to wildland, according to the Riverside County […]
Civilian Office of Police Accountability(CHICAGO) — The Civilian Order of Police Accountability in Chicago has released body camera footage showing the shooting a 24-year-old man while he was running away from officers last month. Maurice Granton died after he was shot on Chicago’s South Side on June 6 as police […]
Poweshiek County Sheriffs Office(BROOKLYN, Iowa) — It’s been one week since 20-year-old Mollie Tibbetts mysteriously vanished in her rural Iowa town. Tibbetts went for a jog the evening of July 18 in her rural town of Brooklyn, Iowa, and never returned. She was reported missing the next day. Her brother, […]
Dan Honda/Bay Area News Group/TNS via Getty Images(SAN JOSE, Calif.) — An attorney for a former Stanford University swimmer found guilty of sexually assaulting an unconscious and intoxicated woman in 2015 argued the conviction should be overturned because his client was fully clothed and wanted only “outercourse” from the victim, […]
Animal Adventure Park(NEW YORK) — April the giraffe who gained prominence with millions through a live-stream of her pregnancy last year, is pregnant again. “Here we go again,” said Jordan Patch, owner of Animal Adventure Park. Animal Adventure Park in Harpursville, New York made the announcement Wednesday. Last month, Patch […]
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — Maria Butina was in court Wednesday, but her lawyer’s comments to the press drew the judge’s attention. The suspected covert Russian agent appeared on Wednesday, wearing a jail-issued orange jumpsuit, before the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, where the government has alleged that she cultivated […]
