BY: JON HAWORTH, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Three police officers have been injured in a possible explosion after being dispatched to a vacant home.The incident happened just after 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 27, when Patrol South officers from the Wichita Police Department in Kansas received a call and were…
BY: BILL HUTCHINSON, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Two sheriff's deputies were shot and wounded, one critically, on a Georgia highway Saturday night when two brothers in a vehicle being chased allegedly opened fire with a rifle, authorities said.A search for one of the brothers, Troy Arthur Phillips, 40, continued Sunday…
By SAMANTHA WNEK, ABC News (NEW YORK) -- The Pacific Northwest will get a bit of a break in the active weather Saturday as the latest storm to drop feet of snow moves further east.Snoqualmie Pass was shut down for a while Friday to allow for crews to do avalanche…
By MORGAN WINSOR and MARLENE LENTHANG, ABC News (NEW HAVEN, Conn.) -- Police have secured an arrest warrant charging Qinxuan Pan, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate student, with murder for the death of a Yale graduate student earlier this month.On Feb. 6. 26-year-old Kevin Jiang was shot dead on…
By ROSA SANCHEZ, ABC News (GAINESVILLE, Ga.) -- A small plane crashed in Gainesville, Georgia Friday afternoon, killing three.Gainesville fire division chief Keith Smith told reporters the fire department responded to a 911 call made shortly after 6 p.m. from a passerby who noticed debris from the plane on the…
By WILL MCDUFFIE, ABC News (NEW YORK) -- Coronavirus vaccines were allegedly stolen and two children were wrongly administered shots in Shelby County, Tennessee, the state's top health official disclosed Friday.The incident is the latest in a string of embarrassing hiccups in the county's vaccine rollout.Lisa Piercey, Tennessee's health commissioner,…
By ROSA SANCHEZ, ABC News (NEW ORLEANS) -- A Tulane police officer was shot and killed outside a high school basketball game Friday evening, the New Orleans Police Department announced.At around 6:15 p.m. a person attempted to enter the George Washington Carver High School gymnasium, where the game was being…
By MEREDITH DELISO, ABC News (NEW YORK) -- A self-described neo-Nazi and white supremacist was sentenced to over 19 years behind bars for plotting to blow up a historic Colorado synagogue in 2019, authorities said.Richard Holzer, 28, pleaded guilty in October to federal hate crime and explosives charges for planning…
By MINA KAJI, ABC News (NEW YORK) -- A passenger is facing a $27,500 fine for allegedly hitting a Delta flight attendant in the face in October.The Federal Aviation Administration announced the proposed penalty for the passenger on Friday.The unnamed passenger was traveling on a Delta flight from Miami to…
By MARLENE LENTHANG, ABC News (NEW YORK) -- Pamela A. Smith has been named as the first Black woman to lead the U.S. Park Police in the agency's 230-year history.Smith, a 23-year veteran of the Park Police, officially takes over on Sunday.The appointment comes as the nation has seen a…
