Month: March 2019

ABC News(NEW YORK) — Some of the worst Midwest flooding in decades, which has claimed at least three lives, is continuing across the central U.S., from the Dakotas all the way to eastern Illinois. The [Read More…]

State Department by Michael Gross/ Public Domain(WASHINGTON) — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is returning to the Middle East to again push for action against Iran, his chief foreign policy foe. But the message of [Read More…]

ABC(NEW YORK) — Theresa Okoumou may face jail time at her sentencing Tuesday for climbing the Statue of Liberty on July 4 to protest President Donald Trump’s zero-tolerance immigration policy that divided families at the [Read More…]

rustythedog/iStock(DALLAS) — Prosecutors dismissed charges against three Dallas officers indicted in the 2016 death of a handcuffed man who died after calling police for help. Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot dismissed charges against officers [Read More…]

Baltimore County Police Department(BALTIMORE) — Police arrested an off-duty Maryland State Trooper after he allegedly pointed a gun at another driver during a road rage altercation, authorities said. Zachary Tyler Bowen, 28, was arrested in [Read More…]

Goodyear Police Department(GOODYEAR, Arizona) — Before her arrest for the alleged sexual abuse of her 13-year-old student, sixth-grade teacher Brittany Zamora was confronted in a recorded phone call by that student’s father. “You are a [Read More…]

iStock/artas(WELLINGTON, New Zealand) — New Zealand residents have been told to prepare for something that Americans rarely see: legislative action in the wake of a mass shooting. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has vowed there will [Read More…]

ABC News(TACOMA, Washington) — A young woman in Washington state has pleaded guilty to pushing a now-former friend off a 60-foot bridge last summer. On Monday, Taylor Smith pleaded guilty to a charge of reckless [Read More…] [Read More…]

iStock/JANIFEST(MOSCOW) — A court in Chechnya has sentenced a prominent human rights worker to four years prison in a case that has been widely condemned by international rights organizations as fabricated, and which some fear [Read More…] [Read More…]

Utah State Parks(SALT LAKE CITY, Utah) — A 13-year-old boy was climbing in Snow Canyon State Park, Utah, when he fell to his death. Elijah Baldwin of Farragut, Iowa, who was identified on Monday by [Read More…] [Read More…]

Montgomery County, Maryland, Police Department(ROCKVILLE, Maryland) — The man behind a 1989 rape and a 1994 rape and murder in suburban, Washington, D.C., has finally been identified through DNA and genetic genealogy, according to local [Read More…] [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — The man police suspect of killing a reputed mob boss appeared in court Monday as investigators work to piece together whether or not the assassination had anything to do with the [Read More…] [Read More…]

iStock/Montes-Bradley(PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania) — Still recovering from a mass shooting at their temple in which 11 worshippers were killed, members of the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh have launched an effort to raise money for [Read More…] [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(LAGUNA BEACH, Calif.) — Authorities are investigating two “virtual kidnapping” cases which occurred within 24 hours of each other in California. The two incidents took place in Laguna Beach, California, on March 7 and March [Read More…] [Read More…]