Year: 2017

iStock/Thinkstock(CHICAGO) -- Three "current or former" Chicago police officers have been indicted on state felony charges related to the 2014 death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, according to officials.The police officers were indicted for allegedly engaging in a conspiracy in an attempt to prevent or shape the independent criminal investigation into McDonald's police-involved shooting death, according to a release from Special Prosecutor Patricia Brown Holmes.Det. David March, 58, and patrol Officers […]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Federal authorities are investigating a breach into computer systems of at least one U.S. nuclear power plant, sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News.There is no evidence that any particularly sensitive or operational systems were breached. Instead, authorities believe only a less sensitive, business-associated side of systems were compromised.The breach was first reported by E&E News, which covers the energy and environment sectors.E&E notes that the […]

iStock/Thinkstock(PEMBROKE PINES, Fla.) -- An approximately 32-year-old man died in a lightning strike in Florida, and a second man at the scene was injured, according to authorities.The lightning strike was reported at a construction site around 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, according to the Pembroke Pines Fire Department's division chief of operations, Ruben Troncoso.Bystanders had already began CPR on one of the men, who was unresponsive, by the time firefighters arrived, Troncoso […]

iStock/Thinkstock(HUNTSVILLE, Ala.) -- Movements were restricted Tuesday afternoon at the Redstone Arsenal, an Army base in Huntsville, Alabama, as authorities investigated morning reports of an active shooter.The "potential active shooter incident" was in the Sparkman Center building, Redstone said in a Facebook statement.Redstone spokesman Christopher Colster told reporters that authorities have not yet confirmed whether there is a gunman on the Arsenal grounds. No one is in custody at this […]

WABC-TV(NEW YORK) -- A morning commute for New Yorkers turned into a chaotic scene Tuesday when a subway scraped the side of a tunnel wall, forcing passengers to evacuate and walk underground through the smoke and darkness.The southbound A train was just outside the 125th Street station in Harlem when the emergency break automatically turned on, according to Joe Lhota, chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The train bucked forward […]

iStock/Thinkstock(CHARLOTTE, N.C.) -- The parents of a Charlotte, North Carolina teenager who disappeared more than a year ago and was found safe and returned home over the weekend are thanking authorities and calling her return a "miracle."Hailey Burns, now 17 years old, was located in a home in Duluth, Georgia on Saturday after a Facebook tip led authorities to her. The teen, who has been diagnosed with a form of […]

iStock/Thinkstock(LOS ANGELES) -- California fire officials issued evacuation warnings for some residents in Riverside County Monday night after a car crash ignited a 5,000-acre brush fire in a remote area located about 80 miles east of Los Angeles.The massive wildfire was about 10 percent contained as of late Monday night, according to the Riverside County Fire Department, as it continued to burn between the cities of Beaumont and San Jacinto […]