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Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (SMITHSBURG, Md.) — Three people are dead and one critically injured after a shooting at a factory in Smithsburg, Maryland, Thursday afternoon, authorities said. The alleged gunman was wounded in an ensuing [Read More…]

Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (SMITHSBURG, Md.) — Multiple victims have been reported in a shooting in Smithsburg, Maryland, Thursday afternoon, authorities said. “The suspect is no longer a threat to the community,” the Washington County Sheriff’s [Read More…]

Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images, FILE (NEW YORK) — Sterling Jewelers, the multibillion-dollar parent company of shopping mall stalwarts Kay Jewelers, Jared and Zales, agreed to resolve a legal dispute involving, among other [Read More…]

Scott Olson/Getty Images, FILE (GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.) —  The prosecutor in Kent County, Michigan, has decided to charge Grand Rapids police officer Christopher Schurr with second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of Patrick Lyoya during [Read More…]

Samuel Corum/Bloomberg via Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — The Department of Justice said Thursday it was opening an investigation into Louisiana State Police to determine whether its officers engaged in regular use of excessive force [Read More…]

Brandon Bell/Getty Images (AUSTIN, Texas) — Texas state lawmakers convened in Austin on Thursday for a special session to launch an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the Uvalde elementary school massacre. “It is our goal [Read More…]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — The family of a University of Missouri student who nearly died while pledging a fraternity is speaking out to help ensure that no one else experiences their pain. Daniel Santulli, [Read More…]

Hawaii County (NEW YORK) — A tourist helicopter carrying six people crashed on Wednesday evening in a lava field on Hawaii’s Big Island. Five passengers and a pilot were on a Paradise Helicopters tour over [Read More…]

200mm/Getty Images (GLAMIS, Calif.) — A military aircraft crashed in a remote, desert area of Southern California on Wednesday, authorities said. Five people were on board an MV-22B Osprey when it went down, according to [Read More…]

Emily Schutz, ABC News (NEW YORK) — Students from several elementary schools gathered at Thomas Jefferson Park in East Harlem this morning, unveiling benches they painted to advocate for social justice issues. Most notably, they [Read More…]

Thinkstock/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Attorney General Merrick Garland has named a team of nine law enforcement experts to advise the Justice Department in its review of the law enforcement response to the mass shooting at [Read More…]

Chet Strange/Getty Images, FILE (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump, his eldest son and eldest daughter have agreed to sit for depositions as part of a civil investigation by the New York Attorney General’s [Read More…]

Philadelphia Police Department (PHILADELPHIA) — A $30,000 reward is being offered in the search for a third suspect in a Philadelphia mass shooting that erupted Saturday night in the busy South Street entertainment district that [Read More…]

Mark Kauzlarich/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg has switched up his legal team as the longtime employee of former President Donald Trump prepares to go to trial on charges [Read More…]

adamkaz/Getty Images (MARSHALL COUNTY, Ky.) — A man being questioned by authorities shot and killed a Kentucky sheriff’s deputy during a cigarette break last month, authorities have told ABC News. Gary Rowland, 30, was arrested [Read More…]

Thinkstock/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Attorney General Merrick Garland is expected to provide details about a review from the Justice Department that will examine the law enforcement response to attack on the elementary school in Uvalde, [Read More…]

Brandon Bell/Getty Images (UVALDE, Texas) — The families of four students injured in the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting is suing the suspected gunman’s estate and want answers about how he gained access to the school. [Read More…]

Courtesy Monica Gallegos (UVALDE, Texas) — In August, Annabell Guadalupe Rodriguez came home from her first day of fourth grade at Robb Elementary School and told her mom about a boy. She said the boy, [Read More…]

Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (DETROIT) — Saniyah “Niyah” Pugh, 11, was sleeping over at her grandmother’s Detroit home this weekend when gunfire erupted outside. Bullets penetrated the house, striking and killing Saniyah, who was in a [Read More…]

Lowe’s Court Petition (TARRANT COUNTY, Texas) — An Arizona man sued American Airlines this week after, he claims, the carrier wrongfully identified him as a suspect in an airport burglary — leading to his arrest [Read More…]