Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.) — Preliminary hearings began Wednesday in the trial of Club Q shooting suspect Anderson Lee Aldrich, who allegedly opened fire in a Colorado LGBTQ bar in November 2022. Aldrich is nonbinary, according to court filings released by the Colorado state public defender. As prosecutors […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — A massive winter storm is wreaking havoc on a large swath of the country, including in Minneapolis, where the city is bracing for a potentially historic snowstorm. Minneapolis is forecast to get more than 17 inches of snow, which could be a top-five storm for […]
Matthew Hatcher/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said he thinks Norfolk Southern Railway could have been more “aggressive” in its initial response to the hazardous train derailment in Ohio. “They absolutely did not handle themselves appropriately when they didn’t show up […]
Oakland Police Department (OAKLAND, Calif.) — Police in Oakland, California, said they’re searching for the driver who struck and killed a 100-year-old man in a hit-and-run. Tzu-Ta Ko, a 100-year-old from Oakland, was hit at an intersection just after 7 a.m. on Sunday, according to police. Ko suffered severe head […]
ABC News / WABC-TV (NEW YORK) — A grandmother has been arrested and charged with attempted murder after allegedly stabbing her 7-year-old granddaughter multiple times with a kitchen knife. The incident occurred on Tuesday morning when police were called to a home in the Morrisania neighborhood of the Bronx in […]
Jose Azel/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Three climbers have been killed in an avalanche after the lead climber accidentally triggered it while attempting to reach the peak of an 8,705-foot mountain over the weekend. The incident occurred on Sunday when a group of six climbers — all from the East […]
Emily Fennick / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than 6,000 people have been fatally shot in the U.S. so far this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive. While many leaders debate various solutions — restrictions on firearms, increased mental health funding, investment for youth — ABC News recently […]
amphotora/Getty Images (UVALDE, Texas) — Even though he was fired for cause, Pete Arredondo, the Texas school district police chief terminated for his actions on the day of a schoolhouse massacre last year, won an appeal to remove a blemish from his discharge file, according to a state think tank […]
ftwitty/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former Proud Boys official Jeremy Bertino — who last year pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy related to Jan. 6 — took the witness stand in Washington on Tuesday in the seditious conspiracy trial of the far-right group’s principal leadership. Bertino said interest and membership requests for […]
Jason Marz/Getty Images (SANTA FE, N.M.) — Alec Baldwin’s defense attorneys on Tuesday withdrew their motion challenging the gun enhancement charges that prosecutors in New Mexico dropped from the criminal charges but not without a few pointed words for their adversaries. The Santa Fe District Attorney’s Office announced Monday it […]
