United Airlines (CALIFORNIA) — A United Airlines pilot has adopted a dog that had been left at San Francisco International Airport by a traveler this fall, according to the San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals . United Airlines Capt. William Dale and his family welcomed Polaris […]
Alex Wong/Getty Images (UVALDE, Texas) — The Texas Department of Public Safety on Thursday released a pair of videos depicting an altercation between one of its troopers and a visibly anguished mother of one of the students who died in last year’s mass shooting at Robb Elementary School, after an […]
C. Morgan Engel/NCAA Photos via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Department of Education on Thursday announced a proposed change to Title IX to prohibit categorical bans on transgender student athletes. If adopted as a rule, the change would make it illegal for schools or universities to bar transgender student athletes […]
Federico Candoni / EyeEm / Getty Images (EVERMAN, Texas) — The search for a missing 6-year-old Texas boy who hasn’t been seen since October is now a death investigation, police said Thursday, while vowing to find his body. Texas authorities issued an endangered missing person alert late last month for […]
Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post via Getty Images (BALTIMORE, Md.) — More than 150 priests and others associated with the Archdiocese of Baltimore are accused of sexually abusing more than 600 children in a newly released report from Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown. The report, which examined thousands of documents […]
Kali9/Getty Images (SAN FRANCISCO) — A day after Cash App Founder Bob Lee was killed in San Francisco, a customer walked into a cafe blocks away from the crime scene and began to cry. “She was looking at our pastry case and I did my normal, ‘Hey how is it […]
JOHN AMIS/AFP via Getty Images, FILE (NASHVILLE, Tenn.) — Nashville, Tennessee, Mayor John Cooper publicly called on lawmakers to pass an extreme risk protection law and take action on gun safety one week after a shooter killed six people at a local private school. Tennessee has “some of the weakest […]
Stephanie Mendez/ABC News (TEXAS) — As Miah Cerrillo and Khloie Torres made their way to the stage at the Galveston Island Ballroom in Galveston Texas, the entire convention erupted in a standing ovation. The two 11-year-old students—who called 911 during the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas—were […]
East Cleveland Police Department/Facebook (NEW YORK) — Police departments across the country are facing a “vicious cycle” of retirements, resignations, and fewer hires, according to policing experts, leaving the communities they protect with understaffed departments and potentially underqualified officers. A survey released on April 1 from the Police Executive Research […]
Hugh T. Clements/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The new director of a Department of Justice office that financially supports police departments nationwide says that community engagement is what defines successful law enforcement. And he knows from experience. Before being chosen to head the Community Oriented Policing Services within the DOJ, Hugh […]
