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Two soldiers die in helicopter crash, bringing the number killed in military aviation mishaps to seven this week

Two soldiers die in helicopter crash, bringing the number killed in military aviation mishaps to seven this week

iStock/Thinkstock(HOPKINSVILLE, Ky.) — Two soldiers were killed in a training flight of an Apache attack helicopter at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. The two deaths in the crash Friday night brings to seven the number of service members who have died just this week in three military aviation crashes in the United […]

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Missing 5-year-old boy with autism presumed dead; father arrested for ‘intentionally’ killing him: Authorities

Missing 5-year-old boy with autism presumed dead; father arrested for ‘intentionally’ killing him: Authorities

iStock/Thinkstock(CHARLOTTE, Tenn.) — A 5-year-old boy with autism, who was reported missing in Tennessee earlier this week, is believed to be dead, and his father is under arrest for “intentionally” killing him, authorities said Saturday. Joseph Ray Daniels, 29, was arrested Saturday morning and charged with one count of criminal […]

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Gun laws intended to protect domestic violence victims also a boon for cops

Gun laws intended to protect domestic violence victims also a boon for cops

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — A woman reported her threatening husband to police three times in the span of two months. Warrants were ordered for him, and she was granted two iterations of a protective order during that time. Police had checked the house for him, and they knew he had a […]

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Severe weather moves across South as blast of cold air grips Midwest, Northeast

Severe weather moves across South as blast of cold air grips Midwest, Northeast

ABCNews.com(NEW YORK) — A powerful frontal system is moving through the eastern half of the U.S. on Saturday, bringing severe weather to the South. Meanwhile, another round of cold, wintry conditions are moving in behind it. There were over 80 reports of severe weather throughout the South on Friday, including […]

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Parkland shooting victim criticizes sheriff, school after release from hospital

Parkland shooting victim criticizes sheriff, school after release from hospital

Jennifer Lett/Sun Sentinel/TNS via Getty Images(PARKLAND, Fla.) — A week after the last victim of February’s school shooting in Parkland, Florida, was released from the hospital, Anthony Borges made it known in a press conference Friday he and his family were not pleased with several circumstances around the massacre. Borges, […]

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National Guard Troops begin deploying to border security mission

National Guard Troops begin deploying to border security mission

iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — The first National Guardsmen will arrive on the border with Mexico this weekend to support the new new border security mission announced by President Donald Trump earlier this week. Texas will send 150 National Guardsmen this weekend and Arizona plans to send 150 of its Guardsmen to the […]

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‘They deserve to be set free’: Aunt of Menendez brothers says of their emotional reunion

‘They deserve to be set free’: Aunt of Menendez brothers says of their emotional reunion

ABC News(SAN DIEGO) — The aunt of the Menendez brothers reacted to the news of their emotional reunion after spending more than 20 years apart, saying that her nephews are not criminals and they should be set free. Marta Cano — sister of Jose Menendez and godmother to Erik Menendez […]

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NYPD encounter that led to shooting of bipolar man lasted ‘no more than 10 seconds’: Sources

NYPD encounter that led to shooting of bipolar man lasted ‘no more than 10 seconds’: Sources

WABC-TV(NEW YORK) — The fatal encounter between New York City police and a bipolar Brooklyn man waiving what looked like a gun lasted no more than 10 seconds, police sources told ABC News. Saheed Vassell was warned to drop what turned out to be the top of a welding torch […]

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Thousands of drug convictions linked to convicted chemist thrown out

Thousands of drug convictions linked to convicted chemist thrown out

iStock/Thinkstock(BOSTON) — A Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court justice dismissed more than 7,600 criminal drug cases because of their ties to a former chemist whose use of drugs in a state lab may have tainted evidence. Justice Frank Gaziano signed a declaratory judgment ordering the cases overseen by Sonja Farak, who […]

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Menendez brothers burst into tears during emotional prison reunion after decades apart

Menendez brothers burst into tears during emotional prison reunion after decades apart

Google Maps(SAN DIEGO) — After spending over 20 years separated behind bars, brothers Lyle and Erik Menendez, convicted of killing their parents after notorious trials in the 1990s, have finally reunited in the same prison. Until this week, the last time Lyle and Erik Menendez saw each other was Sept. […]

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