Investigators say video from a city surveillance camera showed a woman get into a parked police van on her own, 12 days before she was found dead inside the van in Huntsville, Alabama. Police showed the video during a news conference Friday after showing it to the family of 29-year-old[Read More…]

The police department in the Wisconsin city of Kenosha is facing fresh legal action after being accused of “deputizing” a group of militia vigilantes during anti-police brutality protests last year in which 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse killed two people.   Kyle Rittenhouse, 18, is due to stand trial on Nov. 1, accused of wounding[Read More…]

One person was fatally shot and seven others were wounded Sunday at Grambling State University in the second deadly shooting at the Louisiana school within four days, officials said. The shooting happened around 1 a.m. Sunday on the campus quad, according to social media posts from the university. The person[Read More…]

A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that the city of Dallas removed from a park and later sold in an online auction is now on display at a golf resort in West Texas. The bronze sculpture, which was removed from the Dallas park in September 2017, is now[Read More…]

American officials and authorities in Haiti are working to try and free 12 adults and 5 children from a U.S. based missionary group kidnapped in Port-au-Prince over the weekend, AP reported Monday. Christian Aid Ministries said in a statement Sunday, “The group of 16 U.S citizens and one Canadian citizen[Read More…]

The Coast Guard on Saturday named both the owner and operator of a vessel as “parties in interest” believed to be connected to a massive oil spill along the southern California coastline earlier this month. Coast Guard Lieutenant (junior grade) SondraKay Kneen said Sunday that investigators believe a ship’s anchor[Read More…]

Metro trains in Washington D.C. will only run every 30 minutes on Monday while local authorities investigate an issue with axles on its newest rail cars, officials said Sunday. A defect was discovered in a car that derailed on the Metro’s Blue Line last week, and the same issue was[Read More…]

Newly surfaced emails reveal Hunter Biden admitting that a Chinese businessman was solely interested in a business deal due to his “last name” and/or his association with his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden. The Washington Free Beacon reported Wednesday on emails dated 2010-2011 between Hunter Biden and his business partner Devon Archer[Read More…]

A state trooper in Louisiana who publicly criticized his department’s role in a violent 2019 traffic stop of a Black man who died vowed Friday to fight for his job after being notified of his pending dismissal.  Carl Cavalier, 33, who has been with Louisiana State Police for 7 years, was quoted[Read More…]

The Centers for Disease Control reports 2,243 people died from drug overdoses in New York City for the 12-month period that ended March 31 — a staggering 36 percent increase in overdose deaths from the year before. Overdoses are up 31 percent nationwide, with 96,779 deaths for the same 12-month[Read More…]