Minnesota Department of Corrections via Getty Images (MINNEAPOLIS) — Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis Police officer convicted in the death of George Floyd, will be sentenced Friday. The sentencing starts at 2:30 p.m. ET. In April, Chauvin, 45, was found guilty on three counts: Second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and […]
kali9/iStock (GLENARDEN, Md.) — At least one person was killed and two others were wounded in a shooting at an outdoor shopping mall in Maryland on Thursday night, police said. The shooting occurred at the Woodmore Towne Centre in Glenarden, a small town in Maryland’s Prince George’s County, about 11 […]
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Thursday’s sports events: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL AMERICAN LEAGUE NY Yankees 8, Kansas City 1 Oakland 5, Texas 1 Toronto 9, Baltimore 0 Tampa Bay 1, Boston 0 Houston 12, Detroit 3 Cleveland 4, Minnesota 1 NATIONAL LEAGUE Cincinnati 5, Atlanta 3 […]
Kuzma/iStock (MINNEAPOLIS) — When Judge Peter Cahill takes the bench in Minneapolis Friday for the sentencing of Derek Chauvin, he will set about doing something that is an extreme rarity in the U.S. legal system — punishing a now-former police officer convicted of murder while on duty. In the past […]
LOGAN, Utah-Per a Thursday report, former Utah State football player Patrick “Doc” Allen died last week at his home in Seattle at 59. Allen was a four-year letter-winning defensive back for the Aggies from 1980-1983. Allen earned first-team all-Big West Conference honors as a senior in 1983 and second-team honors […]
David Tran/iStock (WASHINGTON) — The Transportation Security Administration will resume crew member self-defense training in early July. The program was previously paused due to the pandemic and its restart comes amid an increase in unruly passenger incidents on flights. “Through this training program, TSA’s Federal Air Marshals are able to […]
Miami Beach Police Department/Twitter (MIAMI) — At least three people are dead as many as 99 are unaccounted after a 12-story residential building partially collapsed in Miami-Dade County, Florida, early Thursday, a county official told ABC News. The collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium in the small, beachside town […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The police chief of the Salt Lake City suburb of Cottonwood Heights has been paid a $70,000 settlement after filing a lawsuit claiming the city had planned to wrongfully terminate him. KUTV reports the money came from the Utah Local Government Trust, which is funded […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Salt Lake City has issued a fireworks ban as drought conditions worsen throughout the state. Democratic Mayor Erin Mendenhall said Tuesday that the ban covers fireworks, including smoke bombs and sparklers. Mendenhall also issued an open burning ban that prohibits people from starting any fires […]
Miami Beach Police Department/Twitter (MIAMI) — At least one person was killed and several others were injured early Thursday after a 12-story residential building partially collapsed in southern Florida’s Miami-Dade County, authorities said. The Miami-Dade Fire Rescue received a call at around 1:30 a.m. local time about a partial collapse […]
