Year: 2019

ogolne/iStock(CHARLESTON, W.Va.) — Nearly a year after they went on strike and inspired educators nationwide to do the same, West Virginia teachers wielded their power again and this time politicians were quick to listen. Just [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — As one storm leaves, a new one will cross the country through the weekend. The departing storm, which wreaked havoc on the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast on Wednesday, brought up to 6 [Read More…]

MyHeritage DNA(SEOUL, South Korea) — After nearly five decades of living without knowing each other, two South Korean-born sisters embraced each other at a subway station in Daegu, a city 180 miles outside of Seoul, [Read More…]

ABC News(CHICAGO) — Empire actor Jussie Smollett has been taken into custody in relation to his false reporting of a crime, according to Chicago police. The actor allegedly told police he was attacked in a [Read More…]

ogolne/iStock(CHARLESTON, W.Va.) — Nearly a year after they went on strike and inspired educators nationwide to do the same, West Virginia teachers wielded their power again and this time politicians were quick to listen. Just [Read More…]

Newark Police Department(NEWARK, N.J.) — A bus driver is under arrest after she allegedly passed out behind the wheel from a heroin overdose and rolled through an intersection and into a tree. There were 12 [Read More…]

WABC-TV(NEW YORK) — A New York man was arrested Wednesday after he intentionally drove his car into a family of eight, killing a woman and injuring multiple children, police said. Jason Mendez, 35, was charged [Read More…]

amphotora/iStock(HOUSTON) — The Harris County District Attorney’s Office in Houston said Wednesday it would review at least 1,400 criminal cases with ties to Houston Police Department officer Gerald Goines, who allegedly lied about using a [Read More…]

Gabriel Olsen/Getty Images(CHICAGO) — “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett has been charged with felony disorderly conduct for filing a false report after allegedly staging the attack against himself in Chicago, police and the state attorney’s office [Read More…]

AndreyPopov/iStock(ATLANTA) — A Georgia couple who says their home was robbed is looking for the thieves — people who rented the space through Airbnb. The couple rented out one of its properties on Airbnb to [Read More…]

DNY59/iStock(WASHINGTON) — In a unanimous decision, the U.S. Supreme Court moved Wednesday to limit states’ ability to seize private property involved in a crime, saying the forfeitures are subject to Eighth Amendment protection against excessive [Read More…]

Newport Beach Police(NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.) — A man has been arrested through DNA and genetic genealogy in the decades-old cold case killing of 11-year-old Linda Ann O’Keefe, who was strangled to death in Southern California [Read More…]

tillsonburg/iStock(NEW YORK) — Grieving officers of the New York Police Department gathered Wednesday at an emotional funeral for Detective Brian Simonsen who was killed by friendly fire while responding to a robbery last week. Simonsen, [Read More…]

Fedorovekb/iStock(WASHINGTON) — Federal authorities have arrested a Marine veteran and U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant who they said was stockpiling weapons and “espoused extremist” and racist views for years as he sought to launch a major [Read More…]

Gabriel Olsen/Getty Images(CHICAGO) — “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett has been charged with felony disorderly conduct for filing a false report after allegedly staging the attack against himself in Chicago, police and the state attorney’s office [Read More…]