(Salt Lake City, UT) — The fight to create a new state flag has passed its first hurdle. The Senate Business and Labor Committee voted 6-1 yesterday to advance the design of the new flag to a full vote of the state Senate. The committee heard testimony from more than […]
Jay Paul/Getty Images (NEWPORT NEWS, Va.) — The family of the 6-year-old boy accused of shooting a teacher at his Virginia elementary school is speaking out for the first time. The family said the “firearm our son accessed was secured.” The 6-year-old, who has not been named publicly, allegedly took […]
Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (BLOOMINGTON, Ind.) — A white woman charged with stabbing an Asian Indiana University student seven times in the head on a public bus in Bloomington, Indiana, is scheduled to appear in court on Wednesday. The suspect, Billie R. Davis, who has been jailed on $100,000 bail since […]
Tim Graham/Getty Images (FLINT, Mich.) — While weekly bottled water donations have ended for citizens of Flint, Michigan, according to city officials, the water crisis there is ongoing. Health officials are urging residents to continue to use faucet filters certified to remove lead until the residential lead service line replacement […]
ABC 7 (CHICAGO) — A 21-year-old man with special needs was shot three times, including once in the head, while he waited for the bus to go to school in Chicago, according to police. He’s in a hospital in critical condition, Chicago Police Commander Don Jerome said at a news conference. […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — “Extreme” drought has been completely eliminated in California for the first time in nearly three years, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. While the drastic change for California has happened over the last few weeks, the most recent batch of rain has completely eliminated the […]
Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (SPRINGFIELD, Ill.) — Two Illinois paramedics accused of killing a patient are expected to appear in court on Thursday. Peter J. Cadigan, 50, and Peggy Jill Finley, 45, are facing first-degree murder charges following the death of a man in their care last month. They are being […]
Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office (PHILADELPHIA) — Missing mom Jennifer Brown has been found dead in Royersford, Pennsylvania, Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele announced. Investigators responded to an industrial complex on Wednesday, Philadelphia ABC affiliate WPVI-TV reported. It was unclear what led authorities to the site where they found […]
avid_creative/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — An officer is in the hospital and the man who shot him has been killed following a confrontation Wednesday in a wooded area near where a police training center is set to be built, police said. The incident occurred at approximately 9 a.m. in a wooded […]
amphotora/Getty Images (BOSTON) — Mohammed Chowdhury’s alleged plan to hire contract killers to murder his wife and her boyfriend was finally coming into place on Tuesday, according to federal prosecutors. Authorities said that Chowdhury, 46, had shared their work and home locations, photos and work schedules with contract killers, along […]
