NYPD via ABC News (NEW YORK) — A man driving a U-Haul was “suffering from a mental health crisis” and was off his medication when he allegedly struck nine people with the rented box truck in Brooklyn on Monday, one of whom died, NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig said. […]
mphotoi/Getty Images (EAST LANSING, Mich.) — Three students were killed and five others were wounded in Monday night’s mass shooting at Michigan State University. The Michigan State University Police Department has released the names of the young lives lost. Arielle Anderson Arielle Anderson was a junior from Grosse Pointe, Michigan. Her […]
ABC News (COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Waterways along the Ohio River are still contaminated with hazardous materials following a train derailment that spilled multiple toxic chemicals, but officials are confident that those waterways are contained and not affecting water supplies. Officials announced the latest news during a press conference on Tuesday. […]
Catherine McQueen/Getty Images (EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, Mo.) — A Missouri man accused of holding a woman captive for a month in his basement has been indicted by a grand jury on charges including kidnapping and rape, prosecutors announced Tuesday. Timothy M. Haslett, 40, was arrested in October 2022 after a woman reportedly […]
ABC News (CLEVELAND, Ohio) — For the second day in a row, the Great Lakes are at a combined ice cover low. On Feb. 13, the combined ice cover across the Great Lakes was 7.3%, breaking the old record from 2002. The historical average for ice cover season-to-date is 40%. […]
Michigan Department of Corrections via AP (EAST LANSING, Mich.) — Law enforcement officials on Tuesday named Anthony Dwayne McRae, a 43-year-old resident of Lansing, Michigan, as the suspect in the overnight shooting at Michigan State University that took the lives of three students and wounded five others. McRae led police […]
fhm/Getty Images (EAST PALESTINE, Ohio) — Ben Ratner has spent a lot of time thinking about what it would be like to survive a freight train chemical disaster. After all, he appeared in a movie about it. In 2020, Ratner and some family members traveled from his home in East […]
John Normile/Getty Images (BUFFALO, N.Y.) — Garnell Whitfield Jr., whose 86-year-old mother died in the Tops supermarket massacre last May, said he’s not interested in hearing what the gunman has to say when he plans to apologize to victims’ families on Wednesday. “Nothing he’s going to say to me is […]
Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images (HOUSTON, Texas) — The FBI has opened an investigation into allegations of federal rights violations following the deaths of two inmates at the Harris County Jail in Texas after a request by the sheriff’s office. “These investigations will be fair, thorough, and impartial, and will […]
David McNew/Getty Images (PARKLAND, Fla.) — Five years later, the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is still very much on the mind of English teacher Sarah Lerner. Lerner was teaching at the school on Feb. 14, 2018, when gunman Nikolas Cruz killed 17 people — 14 students and […]
