Stephen Maturen/Getty Images (MINNESOTA) — Minnesotans are lining up at the state capitol on Friday to honor a slain lawmaker and her husband as their accused killer made a brief appearance in court. Democratic Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, who were shot dead in their home on June […]
(Pine Valley, UT) — Residents of Pine Valley, Grass Valley, and Grassy Flats will be allowed to return home starting at 10:00 a.m. today as evacuation orders are downgraded from “Go” to “Set” status. Only residents will be allowed past the soft road closure, according to the Washington County Sheriff’s […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Two more cases of measles have been confirmed in Utah. Health officials say the latest patients are both pregnant women, one in Utah County and the other in the Southwest Utah Public Health District. They are unvaccinated and had contact with previously-confirmed cases. That brings […]
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (MILWAUKEE) Two Milwaukee police officers were shot after responding to a call for a person with a weapon late Thursday, police said. A suspect has been arrested in connection with the shooting on Friday morning, police said. In what is being described as an “ambush,” officers were […]
Ted S. Warren-Pool/Getty Images (MOSCOW, Idaho) — In a series of final rulings ahead of Bryan Kohberger’s capital murder trial, Judge Steven Hippler said lawyers for the man who could be executed, if convicted, won’t be permitted to present to the jury the theory that some unknown person is the […]
Wenatchee Police Department (CHELAN COUNTY, Wash.) — It’s been nearly a month since Travis Decker went on the run after allegedly killing his three young daughters near a Washington state campground, and at least one expert told ABC News he believes the fugitive father is likely still alive and will […]
Fort Worth Police Department (FORT WORTH, Texas) — A man was sentenced to 60 years in prison on Thursday for murdering a Texas college student in a random shooting in 2023. Wes Smith, a 21-year-old junior at Texas Christian University, was shot multiple times outside a Fort Worth bar in […]
Minnesota State Capitol building. Stephen Maturen/Getty Images (HENNEPIN COUNTY, Minn.) — The wife of accused Minnesota lawmaker gunman Vance Boelter said she’s “completely blindsided” by the shootings allegedly carried out by her husband. “On behalf of my children and myself, I want to express our deepest sympathies to the Hortman and Hoffman […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Relief from the extreme heat is moving in for some cities on Thursday, but more than 60 million people in the East are still on alert for dangerously high temperatures. Meanwhile, severe storms with reported tornadoes are targeting the Southeast and the Midwest. Here’s the latest: Severe […]
Florian Roden / EyeEm/Getty Images (GARY, Ind.) — Five people have been killed after a train hit their vehicle when the driver allegedly went around the crossing gate, authorities said. The incident occurred near Highway 20 and Utah Street in Gary, Indiana, when a witness told Gary Police that the […]
