Douglas Sacha/Getty Images/STOCK (TATE COUNTY, Miss.) — Six people are dead after a “series of shootings” in Tate County, Mississippi, on Friday, authorities said. A suspect has been taken into custody, the governor said. The shootings occurred at three different locations in Arkabutla — outside a convenience store and in two […]
New Jersey Office of the Attorney General (BURLINGTON COUNTY, N.J.) — A man accused of holding a woman hostage for nearly a year was arrested and charged with kidnapping after the alleged victim managed to flee their residence to a gas station, authorities said. James Parrillo Jr., 57, was arrested on […]
Miguel Sotomayor/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — When Lindsey Spero, 25, approached the podium at a Feb. 10 public hearing of the Florida medical board on a gender-affirming youth trans care ban, they used their allotted 2 minutes, 30 seconds to inject testosterone in front of board members and the audience. The […]
KABC (LOS ANGELES) — Federal hate crime charges have been filed in the shootings of two Jewish men in Los Angeles this week, according to a criminal complaint. Jaime Tran, 28, has been charged with hate crimes in the separate shootings of two Jewish men as they were leaving religious services […]
Angelo Merendino/Getty Images (EAST PALESTINE, Ohio) — As the cleanup and investigation continues into the freight train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, concerned residents have been pushing government officials for more answers on the state of the surrounding environment. EPA Administrator Michael Regan spoke with GMA 3 about the latest updates […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Last month outgoing Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan issued a full pardon to John Huffington, who spent years in prison for a murder that he didn’t commit. Huffington and his attorneys worked for years to get his conviction overturned, especially after DNA evidence exonerated him. In 2013 […]
Scott Olson/Getty Images (MEMPHIS, Tenn.) — Tyre Nichols’ mother vowed to attend every court date for the five former Memphis police officers accused of murder in connection to the traffic stop beating of her son at a press conference Friday as the officers pleaded not guilty in their first court […]
ABC News (CHICAGO) — A 13-year-old boy was found shot dead in Indiana this week after an apparent dispute on social media, according to his mother. The boy, identified by the Lake County Coroner’s Office as Orie Dodson, was found dead Wednesday in Gary, Indiana, a suburb of Chicago, after […]
Scott Olson/Getty Images (MEMPHIS, Tenn.) — All five former Memphis police officers accused of murder in connection to the traffic stop beating of Tyre Nichols entered not guilty pleas on Friday morning. Nichols’ parents and their attorney, Ben Crump, were in the courtroom. The former officers are set to return […]
Rebecca Kiger for The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The head of the National Transportation Safety Board said the agency “is working vigorously to understand what caused” the Feb. 3 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. In a rare series of posts on Twitter on Thursday evening, NTSB […]
