iStock/Thinkstock(LOS ANGELES) -- An alleged car thief suspected of driving under the influence led police on an odd, slow-speed car chase through the surface streets of Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley, according to ABC Los Angeles station KABC-TV. The chase began Thursday around 10:15 p.m. in Reseda and ended over an hour later in Los Angeles, KABC reported. It took four spike strips and nine different pit maneuvers […]
iStock/Thinkstock(MIAMI) -- An airport worker suffered minor injuries Friday, after his van plunged off the fourth floor of an airport parking lot, crashing into the roadway below. According to the Miami-Dade Police Department, the American Airlines employee, an adult male in his mid-50s whose identity has not been revealed, was behind the wheel of a company van when he drove through a wall in the employee parking garage. The van […]
iStock/Thinkstock(NASHVILLE) -- The fugitive who allegedly killed a sheriff's sergeant has been captured and charged with premeditated murder after a days-long manhunt in Tennessee, authorities said. Steven Wiggins, who had been on the run since the fatal shooting in Dickson County earlier this week, was taken into custody Friday morning, according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI). An image of Wiggins released by the TBI showed him in handcuffs […]
Abcnews.com(ATLANTA) -- Two Georgia parents are facing fines and prison time for allegedly giving their 15-year-old son marijuana to treat his seizure disorder, authorities said. Suzeanna and Matthew Brill of Macon were arrested in April on reckless conduct charges after an investigation by the Georgia Division of Family and Children Services determined the pair had allowed their son, David, to smoke marijuana to deal with the seizures, Twiggs County Sheriff […]
iStock/Thinkstock(DENVER) -- An Uber driver allegedly shot and killed his passenger in Denver on a major interstate early Friday morning, police said. The shooting happened as the vehicle drove across a ramp from University Boulevard bridge to southbound Interstate 25 in Colorado's capital city, forcing the temporary closure of the roadway through morning rush hour. Footage from the scene showed the silver sedan had crashed into the wall at the […]
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.) -- Karthik Nemmani called it a “dream come true” to win this year’s Scripps National Spelling Bee.“It felt really good, and it was a dream come true,” he said on Good Morning America. “I was just really, really happy that I could win.”Karthik beat out 516 spellers this year -- the highest number of competitors in the bee's decadeslong history -- after correctly spelling the […]
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- More than 300 damaging storm reports were made Thursday from the Rockies into the Midwest, including 11 reported tornadoes. Lots of damage was reported in the Ohio Valley from Louisville, Kentucky, to Cincinnati, Ohio, leaving thousands without power.More storms are expected in the Plains and Midwest on Friday.A new storm system with a cold front will be moving into the Plains and parts of the Midwest […]
iStock/Thinkstock(ST. PAUL, Minn.) -- The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis has reached a $210 million settlement to be dispersed among 450 survivors of alleged clergy abuse as part of its bankruptcy reorganization, an archbishop said.The archdiocese filed for bankruptcy in 2015, two years after the Minnesota Legislature opened a three-year window that allowed people who said they had been sexually abused in the past to sue for damages, according […]
iStock/Thinkstock(SPRINGFIELD, Mass.) -- Three bodies have been found at a Massachusetts home associated with a kidnapping suspect.The investigation is active and ongoing, according to Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni. The bodies were found in and around the Springfield home, he added.Police have not yet named a suspect in the deaths, citing an active investigation, but confirmed they are suspicious.The home is a property associated with a man named Steward Weldon, […]
