Year: 2017

Moodboard/Thinkstock(STEILACOOM, Wash.) -- Parts of an Amtrak passenger train derailed near Pierce County in Washington state on Sunday. Only minor injuries have been reported, according to the Pierce County Sherriff's Office. The train was carrying 267 passengers.4 cars off the track, none in the water. pic.twitter.com/W4JtpOx75r— West Pierce Fire (@WestPierce) July 2, 2017 Amtrak said the four train cars derailed around 2:30 p.m., ABC affiliate KOMO-TV reported.   The waterfront […]

KAREN BLEIER/AFP/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- New Jersey, Illinois and Maine are facing at least partial government shutdowns during the heart of the summer holiday season, which will adversely affect residents’ travel and holiday plans, as well as the payments towards some government employees, if the states don’t take action.New JerseyJersey City, New Jersey’s Liberty State Park -- a sprawling public space known for its beautiful views of Manhattan and the […]

@WestGoshenPD(CHESTER COUNTY, Pa.) -- The suspect in a road rage incident in Pennsylvania that ended in a teenage girl's shooting death on Wednesday turned himself in early this morning, officials said.The suspect, identified by police today as David Andrew Desper of Trainer, Pennsylvania, 28, had allegedly attempted to merge into the same southbound lane as 18-year-old Bianca Nikol Roberson on Route 100 in Chester County, Pennsylvania, when things became violent, […]

iStock/Thinkstock(CHAMPAIGN, Ill.) -- An Illinois man was arrested and charged Friday with kidnapping a visiting scholar from China, who authorities now believe to be dead after she disappeared three weeks ago.Brendt Christensen, 28, of Champaign, Illinois, has been charged in a federal criminal complaint with abducting Yingying Zhang, who vanished shortly after she stepped off a transit bus near the University of Illinois campus in July.The complaint, which was filed […]

iStock/Thinkstock(LITTLE ROCK, Ark.) -- Two people are in critical condition after at least 25 people were shot in a nightclub in Little Rock, Arkansas, early Saturday morning, while three others suffered unrelated injuries, police said.The shooting at Power Ultra Lounge in the state's capital city occurred around 2:30 a.m. CT. Little Rock Police Chief Kenton Buckner said at a Saturday afternoon press conference that two of the injured are listed […]

artolympic/iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- One of the physicians shot during Friday's deadly rampage at a New York City hospital remains in critical condition following surgery, officials said.At a Saturday morning news conference, Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center's Physician-in-Chief Dr. Sridhar Chilimuri said the critically wounded doctor has already undergone extensive surgery there and will be transported to nearby Mount Sinai Hospital for additional surgery."We're watching to see how he develops," Chilimuri told reporters.A […]

sudok1/iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- The doctor accused of opening fire with an assault weapon at his former workplace in New York City, killing one and injuring several others, wrote an email to a newspaper ahead of the rampage, according to the publication.Dr. Henry Bello -- who police sources say unleashed a hail of bullets from an AR-15 that was hidden under his lab coat before taking his own life -- complained […]