Year: 2017

iStock/Thinkstock(MINNEAPOLIS) -- Minneapolis Police Chief Janeé Harteau announced that she is resigning in the wake of the officer-involved shooting of an Australian bride-to-be."[L]ast Saturday’s tragedy, as well as some other recent incidents, have caused me to engage in deep reflection," Harteau said in part in a statement posted on the police department's Facebook page.She continued: "The recent incidents do not reflect the training and procedures we’ve developed as a Department. […]

EJ Hersom/Department of Defense(WASHINGTON) -- Hundreds of service members lined the halls of the Pentagon on Friday to welcome three of the five remaining survivors from the USS Arizona, 75 years after their ship was attacked by the Japanese in Pearl Harbor.Lauren Bruner (Fire Controlman), Donald Stratton (Seaman First Class), and Ken Potts (Coxswain) traveled to Washington, D.C. to posthumously honor a fellow sailor who saved their lives -- and […]

ABC News(NORWALK, Conn.) -- Nury Chavarria, an undocumented mother of four who has lived in the United States for 24 years, was set to be deported to Guatemala on Thursday night. Instead, Chavarria refused to leave her children, taking sanctuary in a Connecticut church.Chavarria left Guatemala and came to the United States without legal papers in 1993 when she was 19, ABC affiliate WTNH-TV reported.She ultimately settled in Norwalk, Connecticut, […]

Stephen Dunn/Hartford Courant/MCT via Getty Images(CHESHIRE, Conn.) -- This weekend marks 10 years since a horrific crime shocked a suburban Connecticut town. In the middle of the night on July 23, 2007, two men broke into a house in Cheshire, killing Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters and setting the house on fire. Only the victims' husband and father, Dr. William Petit Jr., escaped alive.That July day was "the single […]

ABC News(LOVELOCK, Nev.) -- O.J. Simpson is now in protective custody at Lovelock Correctional Center in Nevada, having been moved to a separate part of the prison and removed from the general population, according to Nevada Department of Corrections spokesperson Brooke Keast.Keast confirmed to ABC News Friday that the 70-year-old former football star has been moved as a precautionary measure for his safety due to Simpson's notoriety and the attention […]

STEPHEN MATUREN/AFP/Getty Images(MINNEAPOLIS) -- The attorney representing both the fiancé and family of the Australian bride-to-be who was fatally shot by a Minneapolis Police Department officer on Saturday says "the family wants justice in its largest sense."Justine Ruszczyk, 40, who went by her fiancé's last name, Damond, was killed by a police officer on July 15 after she called 911 to report what she believed was a sexual assault occurring […]

ABC News(NEW YORK) -- The father and sister of Ron Goldman said they found the decision to grant O.J. Simpson parole "very disappointing.""It was shocking," Kim Goldman, sister of Ron Goldman, said Friday on ABC News' Good Morning America about a Nevada parole board's granting Simpson parole for a 2007 botched robbery. "I think I expected that [Simpson] was going to come in with a script-- 'I did these crimes, […]

iStock/Thinkstock(MINNEAPOLIS) -- Hundreds of people gathered Thursday night at the Minneapolis site of Justine Damond's fatal shooting, where they held a vigil before marching to a nearby park to continue their remembrance of the Australian expatriate.Damond, 40, called 911 on July 15 to report a suspected sexual assault outside her home. Once two officers -- identified as Matthew Harrity and Mohamed Noor -- arrived at the house, she approached the […]