Everett Fire Department (EVERETT, Wash.) — An incident at a Washington jail Wednesday prompted a significant emergency response and sent seven inmates to the hospital after a potential fentanyl exposure. The incident resulted in seven inmates being transported to a local hospital, with no fatalities reported, according to the Everett […]
Bloomberg Creative Photos/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — An 8-year-old girl died while under U.S. Border Patrol custody in Texas on Wednesday, authorities said. The child and her family were in custody at the Border Patrol station in Harlingen, near the border with Mexico, where she had “a medical emergency,” according […]
mbbirdy/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser on Wednesday said officials must “act urgently” to combat crime in the nation’s capital after a 17-year-old was fatally shot in a high school parking lot while class was still in session, according to police — the third shooting involving a […]
Courtesy Guffey family (NEW YORK) — Brandon Guffey’s 17-year-old son Gavin died by suicide after he said Gavin fell victim to a sexual extortion scheme online, and now he’s fighting to protect other kids from this crime. Sexual extortion, or “sextortion,” is a form of blackmail where victims are lured […]
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (GREENVILLE, S.C.) — A South Carolina woman who ran an autism clinic is facing federal charges of health care fraud, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of South Carolina. Stamatina “Nina” Bourret, 41, from Greenville — 200 miles northwest of Charleston — was indicted […]
Al Seib/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images (GRAND RAPIDS, Minn.) — A federal grand jury indicted a Minnesota man on Tuesday for allegedly stealing a pair of the ruby slippers that actress Judy Garland famously wore playing Dorothy in “The Wizard of Oz.” Federal prosecutors allege that Terry Martin stole the […]
Probal Rashid/LightRocket via Getty Images (NEW ORLEANS) — A federal appeals court in New Orleans on Wednesday heard arguments in a high-stakes bid to invalidate FDA approval of the most widely used abortion medication in the country more than two decades after it hit the market and despite its safe use […]
Obtained by ABC News (WASHINGTON) — The Army National Guardsman charged with leaking a trove of military secrets was twice admonished by his superiors last year over “concerning actions” he took with regards to classified information, federal prosecutors said in a court filing on Wednesday. Jack Teixeira, who is set to […]
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (SCHOHARIE, N.Y.) — A limousine company operator was found guilty of second-degree manslaughter for a 2018 crash in upstate New York that left 20 people dead. Nauman Hussain was in charge of the day-to-day operations of Prestige Limousine when the company rented the stretch Ford Excursion SUV to […]
Selcuk Acar/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Police sources are countering a claim by Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, that they were involved in a “near catastrophic car chase” while being pursued by paparazzi in Manhattan on Tuesday night. A spokesperson for the couple, who […]
