Year: 2017

iStock/Thinkstock(ST. LOUIS, Mo.) -- Protesters in St. Louis Friday night blocked highways, damaged public and private property, broke windows, threw rocks at the mayor's house and threw bricks at police officers -- who responded by dispersing tear gas -- after a white former police officer earlier in the day was acquitted in the 2011 fatal shooting of a black man.Thirteen people were arrested, the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department said. […]

WLS-TV(CHICAGO) -- The mother of the 19-year-old Chicago woman who was found dead in a hotel freezer on Sunday is demanding that the hotel release all of the video from the hours leading up to her daughter’s disappearance.Kenneka Jenkins was found dead in freezer at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Rosemont, Illinois early Sunday. The attorneys representing Jenkins' family said in a press conference Friday that the hotel has only […]

iStock/Thinkstock(TAMPA, Fla.) -- Nearly a week after Hurricane Irma made landfall in Florida and barreled through the state, over 1.6 million customers still have no power in the sweltering September heat.As of 4 p.m. on Friday, more than 1.5 million accounts, or 14.5 percent, were without electricity, according to state officials. Power outages climbed to 6.7 million accounts at its peak Monday, the governor's office said.Widespread outages can pose dangers, […]

Douglas Sacha/Getty(NEW YORK) -- Jose re-strengthened from a tropical storm to a Category 1 hurricane on Friday afternoon and could potentially bring Nor’easter-like conditions to New York and Boston next week.As of just before 5 p.m. ET, Jose -- with winds of 75 mph -- was located about 485 miles southwest of Bermuda.It's expected to move between Bermuda and the U.S. East Coast through this weekend, and by early next […]

Louisiana State University (BATON ROUGE, La.) -- All Greek activities were suspended at Louisiana State University on Thursday after a freshman pledge died in what is being investigated as a hazing incident.The school announced that freshman Maxwell Gruver, 18, from Roswell, Georgia, died Thursday morning in what LSU media relations director Ernie Ballard termed a "potential hazing incident" at the Phi Delta Theta chapter on campus.LSU President F. King Alexander announced […]

iStock/Thinkstock(DAMASCUS, Md.) -- A pregnant Maryland teacher who was allegedly killed by her boyfriend was shot in the back of her head, police said, citing autopsy results. Laura Wallen, 31, of Olney, Maryland, had been missing for over a week when her body was found Wednesday in a shallow grave on property in Damascus, Maryland, the Montgomery County police said. That day, her boyfriend, Tyler Tessier, 32, was arrested for […]

iStock/Thinkstock(COLUMBUS) -- A Columbus police officer has been "relieved from duty" after he allegedly made comments threatening to choke a suspect, Columbus Division of Police Chief Kim Jacobs announced Wednesday.In a news conference Wednesday night, Jacobs said a series of officer bodycam videos that captured the Sept. 1 arrest of Timothy Davis prompted the suspension of 32-year-old Joseph Bogard.In the video, Bogard can be heard telling Davis that he is […]

iStock/Thinkstock(ROCKFORD, Wash.) -- When a Washington state high school student confronted a classmate who was armed with an automatic rifle and a semi-automatic handgun inside the school, authorities said the student "tried to talk" the armed classmate "out of it," but the gunman fatally shot him."That young man gave his life ... to save his fellow classmates," Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich told reporters Thursday.The shooting took place Wednesday at […]

iStock/Thinkstock(BERKELEY, Calif.) -- A large demonstration took over the campus of the University of California, Berkeley on Thursday night once again to protest a planned speech by a controversial conservative.This time, it was the editor-in-chief of Dailywire.com and former Breitbart editor Ben Shapiro who was invited to speak by the Young America's Foundation, a conservative college group, and Berkeley's College Republicans organization. The invite sparked outrage and protests that had […]