Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images (VESTAVIA HILLS, Ala.) — The alleged shooter who killed three people in an Alabama church last week had multiple firearms violations against his federal firearms business in 2018, according to Bureau of Alcohol Firearms and Tobacco documents obtained by ABC News. Robert Findley Smith allegedly failed […]
Alfredo Alonso Avila / EyeEm / Getty Images (MIAMI) — Three people were hospitalized Tuesday after a Red Air plane landed at Miami International Airport and caught on fire. There were 126 people on the flight that landed from Santo Domingo at 5:30 p.m., the Miami Dade Aviation Department told […]
Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (NEW CASTLE, N.H.) — A New Hampshire lobster fisherman saved three people and two dogs from a burning yacht near New Castle on Saturday. An investigation is currently underway into what caused the 70-foot yacht to burn and eventually sink, authorities said. “We don’t know what caused […]
Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images (SUFFOLK COUNTY, N.Y.) — Suffolk County, New York, police are looking for a man and a young girl who took money for Girl Scout cookies that residents say were never delivered. Police on Long Island said they received at least 11 […]
Tetra Images/Getty Images (MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.) — A little more than two years after the murder of George Floyd, the Minneapolis Police Department is looking for a new police chief, according to a nationwide search notification obtained by ABC News. The notification states the job opening as a “rare and incredible […]
The Texas Senate (AUSTIN) — The Texas state Senate heard testimony Tuesday on the deadly school shooting in Uvalde as part of a committee hearing on preventing future mass shootings in Texas. Among those testifying was Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw, whose office is conducting one of […]
KTRK-TV/ABC News (HOUSTON) — A 5-year-old boy has died after being left in a hot car in Houston as record-high temperatures struck the city. The boy had been inside the car, which was parked outside his home, for several hours before he was found dead on Monday, according to the […]
Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images (AUSTIN, Texas) — The embattled police chief who acted as incident commander in the Uvalde school massacre testified in front of Texas legislators for almost five hours as the grieving community calls for his resignation. Pete Arredondo, the police chief for the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Federal officials and tribal nations have formally reestablished a commission to jointly govern the Bears Ears National Monument in Utah. The agreement signed Saturday was previously set forth by the Obama administration in 2016. It marks one of the first times a national monument will […]
(Spanish Fork, UT) — A Utah lawmaker thinks allowing political signs on freeway overpasses and highway medians is a safety hazard. Republican State Senator Mike McKell of Spanish Fork says he’s planning to introduce a bill that would prohibit campaign signs on government property, including areas near a highway. He […]
