Year: 2017

Twitter/VSPPIO (WASHINGTON) -- The aftermath of a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, turned deadly on Saturday after a 20-year-old Ohio man allegedly accelerated his car into a crowd of counter-protesters, killing a 32-year-old woman and wounding several others.Conflict in the college town, however, has been brewing for months. Here's a brief timeline of the events this year that led to this weekend's deadly crash:February and MarchThe Charlottesville City Council […]

Twitter/ VSPPIO (CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.) -- The mother of a young woman injured when a car plowed into a group of people protesting a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Saturday, called her daughter "my hero."Natalie Romero, 20, had just completed her freshman year at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, her mother, Ericka Chaves, said at a news conference Monday in Houston, Texas.Chaves said that Romero, one of the many […]

iStock/Thinkstock(UNION GROVE, Wisc.) -- A suspect is at large after three men were shot and killed Sunday at a car racing track in Wisconsin.Here's what we know about the investigation:The shootingThe deadly shooting was reported at the Great Lakes Dragaway in Union Grove at 6:59 p.m.No additional injuries were reported beyond the three people shot and killed, Sergeant Mark Malecki of the Kenosha Sheriff’s Department told ABC News.Kenosha Sheriff’s Department […]

ABC News(CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.) -- The man who allegedly drove into a group of people who were protesting a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Saturday, killing a woman and injuring several others, was denied bail Monday morning as he secures an attorney.James Alex Fields Jr., 20, is charged with second-degree murder, three counts of malicious wounding and one count related to leaving the scene.Fields, who attended his arraignment via closed-circuit […]

ABC News(EDINBURG, Texas) -- Seventeen immigrants were rescued from a stifling tractor-trailer in Texas on Sunday after being locked inside for as many as eight hours.The undocumented immigrants were driven across the Mexican border before the tractor trailer stopped in Edinburg, Texas, according to police. Edinburg is about 20 miles north of the border.Edinburg police said they received a call from Mexico reporting a relative was locked inside the trailer […]

ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Scott Peterson, who was found guilty of murdering his pregnant wife and unborn child nearly 15 years ago, is breaking his silence for the first time since the conviction, saying, "I was staggered by it. I had no idea it was coming."Peterson spoke out from death row in an interview for an upcoming A&E documentary series, "The Murder of Laci Peterson," which premieres Tuesday. The series […]

Twitter/@RichmondPolice(RICHMOND, Va.) -- Hundreds of protesters took to the streets in Richmond, Virginia on Sunday night chanting anti-Confederate slogans one day after a woman was killed during a protest in nearby Charlottesville.ABC affiliate WRIC reported the protest took place on the Virginia Commonwealth University campus, where marchers stopped at a statue of Robert E. Lee and chanted "take down the monuments." One protester was arrested, according to Richmond police.During the […]

ABC News(CHARLOTESVILLE) -- Dozens of vigils and demonstrations were held across the country Sunday a day after a woman was killed at an anti-fascist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.The vigils honored the life of Heather Heyer, who died when a man drove his car into a group of counter protesters on Saturday afternoon, with some calling for action against hate groups."Really devastated, really disappointed that terrorists came and took over," Leah […]