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ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Hot and dry conditions are helping fuel fast-moving wildfires blazing throughout the West.As of Wednesday afternoon there were 43 large fires burning in 12 states throughout the country: Alaska, Washington, California, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Florida.In Utah and Colorado, winds could reach 40 mph Wednesday afternoon and evening, and coupled with the dry fuel and low humidity, the danger for […]

ABC News(DENVER) -- The back-flipping FBI agent who accidentally shot a Colorado nightclub patron has been ordered to stay away from the man after being charged with second-degree assault.Chase Bishop, 29, Wednesday made his first appearance in a Denver courtroom, where a judge issued a standard protection order stating that he must have zero contact and stay at least 100 yards away from Tom Reddington, 24, who was shot in […]

iStock/Thinkstock(MIAMI) -- A former south Florida police chief and two of his officers are accused of framing a teenage boy for four burglaries in order to look like they had perfect burglary arrest statistics, according to federal prosecutors.The 16-year-old boy -- who is not named in the indictment filed Thursday but is referred to by the initials "T.D." -- was arrested in June 2013 on felony charges connected to four […]

Joe Raedle/Getty Images(ORLANDO, Fla.) -- People in Orlando and across the country observed a moment of silence two years after 49 people were gunned down at Pulse nightclub. At noon, 149 churches in all 50 states rang bells 49 times to honor those killed, according to the One Orlando Alliance.A crowd also gathered at a temporary memorial outside the nightclub at 2:02 a.m, the time the shooting started, ABC Orlando […]

KMGH-TV(DENVER) -- The FBI agent who accidentally shot a nightclub-goer when he did a backflip on a dance floor in Denver turned himself in Tuesday to face charges in connection with the incident, according to the district attorney's office and jail records.The agent, 29-year-old Chase Bishop, who is stationed in Washington, D.C., surrendered on a warrant in connection with the June 2 incident at the Mile High Spirits Tasting Room […]

Monroe County Sheriff's Office(MARATHON, Fla.) -- Six people were rescued Monday morning after the family's pontoon boat got caught in a storm and began sinking off the coast of Florida.They were approximately three miles south of the Seven Mile Bridge in Marathon, Florida, when waves from a strong storm began slamming the boat.One of the passengers called the Monroe County Sheriff's Office at 11:08 a.m., saying the boat had lost […]

Volusia County Jail(ORLANDO, Fla.) -- During the 21-hour hostage standoff at an Orlando apartment that left four young children shot dead, there was never any indication of an imminent threat to the kids, police said Tuesday.It's not clear when the children died during the standoff, which lasted from Sunday night to Monday night, City of Orlando Police Chief John Mina said at a news conference Tuesday.The standoff began after the […]

ABC News (SENTOSA ISLAND, Singapore) -- The U.S.-North Korea summit gives Dennis Rodman, one of few Americas to meet with Kim Jong Un, "a little more shine of a light" for his efforts to "bring peace between the two countries," the former NBA star and somewhat informal ambassador to the North told “Good Morning America” Tuesday.“I just feel like that it [the meeting] almost didn’t happen you know, but I’m […]

Naperville Police Department/Facebook(CHICAGO) -- An officer is seen rescuing a toddler running along a busy road in a Chicago suburb in a heart-stopping video.The young boy "escaped his mother's watchful eye, left his house and was found by Sgt. Anthony Mannino running on Route 59," last month, the Naperville Police Department said in a Facebook post Monday.The boy was teetering in and out of a lane of traffic as cars […]