iStock/Thinkstock(DENVER) — An Uber driver allegedly shot and killed his passenger in Denver on a major interstate early Friday morning, police said. The shooting happened as the vehicle drove across a ramp from University Boulevard bridge to southbound Interstate 25 in Colorado’s capital city, forcing the temporary closure of the […]
Abcnews.com(ATLANTA) — Two Georgia parents are facing fines and prison time for allegedly giving their 15-year-old son marijuana to treat his seizure disorder, authorities said. Suzeanna and Matthew Brill of Macon were arrested in April on reckless conduct charges after an investigation by the Georgia Division of Family and Children […]
iStock/Thinkstock(NASHVILLE) — The fugitive who allegedly killed a sheriff’s sergeant has been captured after a dayslong manhunt in Tennessee, authorities said. Steven Wiggins, who had been on the run since the fatal shooting earlier this week, was taken into custody Friday morning, according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI). […]
iStock/Thinkstock(ST. PAUL, Minn.) — The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis has reached a $210 million settlement to be dispersed among 450 survivors of alleged clergy abuse as part of its bankruptcy reorganization, an archbishop said. The archdiocese filed for bankruptcy in 2015, two years after the Minnesota Legislature opened […]
ABC News(NEW YORK) — More than 300 damaging storm reports were made Thursday from the Rockies into the Midwest, including 11 reported tornadoes. Lots of damage was reported in the Ohio Valley from Louisville, Kentucky, to Cincinnati, Ohio, leaving thousands without power. More storms are expected in the Plains and […]
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.) — Karthik Nemmani called it a “dream come true” to win this year’s Scripps National Spelling Bee. “It felt really good, and it was a dream come true,” he said on Good Morning America. “I was just really, really happy that I could win.” Karthik […]
iStock/Thinkstock(SPRINGFIELD, Mass.) — Three bodies have been found at a Massachusetts home associated with a kidnapping suspect. The investigation is active and ongoing, according to Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni. The bodies were found in and around the Springfield home, he added. Police have not yet named a suspect in […]
Wildwood Police(WILDWOOD, N.J.) — The attorney for a 20-year-old woman who was punched multiple times by police on a New Jersey beach insisted on Thursday that officers reacted excessively. “What they did to her was just an overreaction,” defense attorney Stephen Dicht told ABC affiliate WPVI-TV in a phone interview. […]
McDonough County Jail(MACOMB, Ill.) — An Illinois pet store owner was arrested and charged with felony animal cruelty this week after 41 dead rabbits, hamsters, snakes and mice were discovered in her store, authorities said. An additional 56 animals were found alive inside the store, as well, and taken to […]
KTRK-TV(HOUSTON) — The man accused of killing a teenage girl in a car accident in Houston had previously been deported from the United States three times, federal records show. Edy Lopez-Hernandez, 27, was arrested after crashing into another vehicle and fleeing the scene Sunday. He was later determined to be […]
