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NPS (ALPINE, TEXAS) — A hiker has been found dead at a national park in Texas after authorities discovered a car had been parked for several days and launched a search and rescue operation, officials said. The body of the unnamed 24-year-old hiker was discovered in Big Bend National Park in Texas on Monday after […]

Alex Perez/ABC News (DELPHI, Ind.) — No DNA was found at the site of the Delphi, Indiana, double murders to tie the suspect, Richard Allen, or anyone else to the crime scene, a forensic scientist testified Monday during Allen’s trial. Best friends Libby German, 14, and Abby Williams, 13, were walking along a hiking trail […]

(PORTLAND, Ore.) — Ballot boxes in Oregon and Washington were set on fire with incendiary devices early Monday in what authorities believe are connected incidents, police said. The two arson incidents, which occurred near the Oregon-Washington border, are also believed to be connected to a third ballot box incident that occurred earlier this month in […]

(MINNEAPOLIS, Mn)  Police in Minneapolis arrested a man early Monday morning on charges of second-degree attempted murder for allegedly shooting his neighbor following a year-long dispute. The arrest came after an intense standoff between a SWAT team and the suspect, 54-year-old John Herbert Sawchak, who surrendered peacefully on Monday, according to police. Hennepin County Attorney […]

(NEW YORK CITY) — Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe came under fire for comments made about Latinos and Puerto Rico at former President Donald Trump’s Sunday campaign rally in New York City’s Madison Square Garden. After making a vulgar joke about how Latinos “love making babies,” Hinchcliffe later turned to the Caribbean island. “I don’t know if […]

(PORTLAND, Ore.) — Ballot boxes in Oregon and Washington were set on fire early Monday, police in both states said. It is unclear if the two arson incidents, which occurred near the Oregon-Washington border, are connected. In the first reported incident, a ballot box in Portland, Oregon, was set on fire with an incendiary device, […]

(FRESNO, Calif.) — A Central California police sergeant was in a hospital recovering from bullet wounds Monday after he was “ambushed” over the weekend by a gunman who was killed in a subsequent shoot-out and later linked to a homicide victim found inside a residence, authorities said. The shooting unfolded on Saturday in Fresno after the sergeant […]

Portland Police Bureau (PORTLAND, Ore.) — A ballot box in Portland, Oregon, was set on fire with an incendiary device Monday, police said. Portland police responded to reports of a fire at a ballot box around 3:30 a.m. local time on Monday. Security personnel who worked in the area were able to extinguish the fire, […]

(PITTSBURG,, P.A.) — Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday commemorated six years since the deadly shooting at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue. “This unspeakable act – fueled by antisemitic hate – was the deadliest attack on the American Jewish community in our Nation’s history,” Harris said in a statement, in part. On Oct. 27, 2018, […]

Joe Raedle/Getty Images (PENSACOLA, Fla.) — A NASA astronaut who experienced a “medical issue” following the successful Space X Crew-8 mission has been released from the hospital, NASA officials said Saturday. “After an overnight stay at Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola in Florida, the NASA astronaut was released and returned to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in […]