Year: 2017

(Peter Houde) Jude Sparks, 10, found an animal fossil near his home in New Mexico, which is now being preserved at New Mexico State University. Peter Houde Jude Sparks, 10, found an animal fossil near his home in New Mexico, which is now being preserved at New Mexico State University. (LAS CRUCES, N.M.) -- A piece of history has been found thanks to a boy stumbling upon a rare, 1.2 […]

Alex_Schmidt/iStock/Thinkstock(ALEXANDRIA, Va.) -- Authorities in Virginia say an arrest was made Wednesday in an apparent road-rage shooting Wednesday morning, that left a woman hospitalized and the vehicle she was driving riddled with bullets.The Alexandria Police Department said Wednesday that Ernest Stickwell, 58, of Mechanicsville, Maryland, had been charged with malicious wounding and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony.Authorities said he'd been taken into custody by the […]

ChiccoDodiFC/iStock/Thinkstock(MINNEAPOLIS) -- Minnesota state officials have identified the two Minneapolis Police Department officers involved in the fatal shooting of a 40-year-old Australian woman who called 911 on Saturday.Police have launched an internal affairs review of the officers' use of force.Here's what we know about the officers and the tragic death that took place over the weekend.The responding officersMatthew Harrity, who has been with the Minneapolis Police Department for a year, […]

ABC News(NEW YORK) -- O.J. Simpson will face a Nevada parole board Thursday after serving nine years in prison for armed robbery.Craig Arnett, a former guard at Lovelock Correctional Center in Nevada, said he got to see Simpson regularly during his first three years working at the prison. Arnett described Simpson as a model prisoner."He's still an inmate, but he definitely wasn't a problem child like some of the other […]

iStock/Thinkstock(MARIPOSA, Calif.) -- An entire California town was evacuated on Tuesday evening due to a 25,000-acre wildfire that had already destroyed eight structures, officials said.California fire officials issued an evacuation order for the town of Mariposa, which has a population of about 2,000, on Tuesday as the wildfire threatened to burn some 1,500 homes and structures, according to fire officials.The wildfire, dubbed the Detwiler Fire by authorities, ignited on Sunday. […]

Julie Jacobson-Pool/Getty Images(LAS VEGAS) -- All eyes will be on one of America's most famous inmates, O.J. Simpson, on Thursday, as he appears in front of a parole board from behind bars at a Nevada prison.If granted parole, Simpson, who was acquitted of all criminal charges in the 1994 killing of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman, could be released from prison as early as October.Here […]