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The Kootenai County Sheriff's Office(YAKIMA, Wash.) — Police are searching for two "dangerous” inmates who escaped from a correctional center in Washington state Tuesday.Authorities said the men, who escaped from the Yakima County Correctional Center, in Yakima, Washington, "should be considered dangerous.”The inmates, both from the Spokane, Washington area, had been arrested and booked at the Kootenai County Jail in Idaho, but were transferred to the Washington correctional center because […]

Utah Department of Public Safety(SALT LAKE CITY) -- Utah rescuers located a family of four that had been stranded along a river for two days after "accidentally" finding them while searching for a missing kayaker, authorities said.A helicopter crew from the Utah Department of Public Safety and a Garfield County sheriff's deputy came across the family, who appeared to be in "obvious distress," on Sunday while on a search-and-rescue call […]

Atlanta Police(ATLANTA) -- A suspect is in custody in Atlanta after a gunman was caught on camera in what police call the "targeted" killing of an attorney in broad daylight.The shooting happened around 7:40 a.m. Monday, during rush hour in Midtown Atlanta, when a man ran up to a woman shooting her multiple times at an intersection, Atlanta Police homicide Lt. Ricardo Vazquez said at a news conference Monday. The […]

Utah Department of Public Safety(SALT LAKE CITY) -- Utah rescuers located a family of four that had been stranded along a river for two days after "accidentally" finding them while searching for a missing kayaker, authorities said.A helicopter crew from the Utah Department of Public Safety and a Garfield County sheriff's deputy came across the family, who appeared to be in "obvious distress," on Sunday while on a search-and-rescue call […]

Atlanta Police(ATLANTA) -- A suspect is in custody in Atlanta after a gunman was caught on camera in what police call the "targeted" killing of an attorney in broad daylight.The shooting happened around 7:40 a.m. Monday, during rush hour in Midtown Atlanta, when a man ran up to a woman shooting her multiple times at an intersection, Atlanta Police homicide Lt. Ricardo Vazquez said at a news conference Monday. The […]

Harris County Constable Precinct 3(BAYTOWN, Texas) -- A manhunt is intensifying in Texas for the gunman who allegedly shot and killed a veteran deputy constable in an ambush at a courthouse, a federal source told ABC News.Asst. Chief Deputy Clint Greenwood of the Harris County Precinct 3 Constable’s Office, a 30-year veteran, was shot Monday around 7 a.m. local time as he was arriving for work at the courthouse in […]

WABC-TV(DENVILLE, N.J.) -- A New Jersey teen has been granted admission to the most prestigious colleges in the United States.Ifeoma White-Thorpe, 17, a senior at Morris Hills High School in Rockaway, received acceptance letters from all eight Ivy League schools -- Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, Yale, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania and Harvard. She was also accepted to Stanford University."I was shaking, I was like, 'Oh my gosh, oh my gosh,' like […]

Courtesy: Parker Van Degraas(WASHINGTON) — A man on his way to work Saturday night took on a job he wasn’t expecting: lifesaver.According to ABC station WABC-TV, Jonathan Kulig, an engineer for utility company ConEdison, was in the middle of his commute at a New York City subway station when he heard a commotion and soon realized that a man fell onto the subway tracks.Jumping from the platform at the L […]

Courtesy: Parker Van Degraas(WASHINGTON) — A man on his way to work Saturday night took on a job he wasn’t expecting: lifesaver.According to ABC station WABC-TV, Jonathan Kulig, an engineer for utility company ConEdison, was in the middle of his commute at a New York City subway station when he heard a commotion and soon realized that a man fell onto the subway tracks.Jumping from the platform at the L […]