Gregory King, Alan Buford’s partner, testified Wednesday that he didn’t fear for his life when his fellow police officer shot 18-year-old Brandon Jones in March of 2015. Buford is charged with negligent homicide, a first-degree misdemeanor.. ...Read Full Story
A deadly heat wave that is currently plaguing the southwest United States is apparently going to be the status quo in the upcoming decades and occurring over a greater portion of Earth as well. Even with cutting back on emissions, the temperature on this planet will continue to increase irregardless. . ...Read Full Story
The parents of Michael Brown sued the city of Ferguson, former Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson and former police Officer Darren Wilson for wrongful death civil lawsuit. The 2015 civil suit has been settled, and Michael Brown, Sr. and Lesley McSpadden will be splitting the compensation.. ...Read Full Story
Over 40 flights have been cancelled in Phoenix, Arizona because it is too hot for the planes to fly. Most of the cancelled flights were in the middle of the day when the heat was at it’s highest and for smaller aircrafts with lower operating temperatures. . ...Read Full Story
The Commerce Department said the deficit in the U.S. current account rose 2.4 percent. . A deficit in means the U.S. is not selling more abroad than it is consuming from overseas.. ...Read Full Story
In a race for the juniors division of the Robert Spurr Memorial Hill Climb Sunday, a teenage boy was mauled by a black bear. The 16 year old was running between Anchorage and Girdwood and was at the halfway point when he texted family members saying he was being chased by a bear. . ...Read Full Story
The 10,000-ton USS Fitzgerald and the ACX Crystal, a 29,000-ton container ship collided early Saturday local time off Japan’s Izu Peninsula. Seven missing sailors were found dead in flooded compartments after the warship’s collision with a merchant vessel.. ...Read Full Story
The pair of inmates that escaped from a Georgia prison and suspected of killing two corrections officers have been captured in Tennessee after a chase that involved gunfire. Police were called when two Tennessee residents held the pair of fugitives at gunpoint when they discovered the men were trying to steal a car. . ...Read Full Story
Amazon is set to buy Whole Foods, the high end food retailer, in a deal worth $13.7 billion. Amazon will pay out shareholders the maximum amount of $42 a share. Whole Foods CEO and co-founder John Mackey will remain in his position and continue to operate out of home base in Austin, Texas. . ...Read Full Story
Former NBA star, Dennis Rodamn goes to North Korea to have some “basketball talk” with Kim Jong Un. Rodamn gifted the totalitarian leader with some light reading as well, “Trump: The Art of the Deal.”. ...Read Full Story
A San Francisco UPS driver who had killed 3 people, had previously complained about getting too much overtime, and asked to get less. He even filed a formal complaint about it. Jimmy Lam, 38, also shot 2 other co-workers, who survived, before he turned the gun on himself.. ...Read Full Story
A fire erupted at the 24-story Grenfell Tower in London around 1 a.m. local time on Wednesday morning. While help responded within 6 minutes of the fire, there has already been six confirmed fatalities, and that number is expected to rise as most of the 50 injuried will have complex recoveries. . ...Read Full Story
Top US Republican, Steve Scalise, and aides have been shot during baseball practice in Virginia. They were practicing for the annual congressional ballgame between the Democrats and Republicans scheduled for Thursday at Nationals Park. The suspect in the shooting is currently in custody. . ...Read Full Story
Two prison guards were shot and killed during an inmate escape at Baldwin State Prison. Inmates Donnie Russell Row and Ricky Dubose were both serving a life sentence for armed robbery, allegedly overpowered the guards while being transported by bus to a work assignment. . ...Read Full Story
The American university student who has been held captive in North Korea since January 2016 has been released. Otto Warmbier, a University of Virginia, is on his way back to the United States, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Tuesday.. ...Read Full Story
More than 97% of voters have favored attempting to join America as the 51st state instead of staying a self governing territory. The final decision is up to U.S. Congress, which has. ...Read Full Story
First Lady Melania Trump and son Barron finally move into the White House five months after President Trump took office. Mrs Trump wanted to stay in New York for Barron, 11, to finish the school year. She’s the first First Lady to delay the move to Washington in recent years, with Michelle Obama actually moving early to get her children settled.. ...Read Full Story
After 26 years on the lam, Gustavo Falcon is charged in a 1991 indictment claiming he was part of a major cocaine smuggling operation during the 1980s. He’s dubbed as Miami’s last “cocaine cowboys” and face charges that could land him in prison for life.. ...Read Full Story
It’s a he said, she said debate between President Donald Trump and then-FBI head James Comey. Thursday, Mr. Comey went on record to discuss discrepancies over his meetings with President Trump. . ...Read Full Story
A couple who worked for Boeing for more than 30 years asked to pay the entire lunch debt of their neighborhood elementary school. When Tom and his wife, Christy, found out it was only $259, they asked what it would cost them to erase the lunch debt at all 10 elementary schools in the Marysville School District, which totaled $5,495.. ...Read Full Story
Hawaii is the first state in the country to implement laws than mirror portions of the Paris climate deal. Gov. David Ige signed two laws that will aim to reduce greenhouse emissions on Tuesday.. ...Read Full Story
Roy Larner, 47, a fan of the London football club Millwall, has been dubbed the “Lion of London Bridge” after he single handedly fought three knife wielding jihadis with his bare hands during the London Bridge terror attack. The football fan was stabbed eight times while distracting the terrorist and buying time for people in the pub to evacuate. A petition online is asking to award him the George Cross, an award for bravery that is the second highest honor in the UK. . ...Read Full Story
A Las Vegas police officer has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of a man put in a chokehold. The chokehold was an unapproved method of subduing. . ...Read Full Story
A year ago, a Maryland judge overturned Adnan Syed’s conviction and ordered a new trial but it is still in the appeal process. Adnan was introduced to the public in the podcast “Serial” which centered around the murder of his ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee, and has since been the most downloaded podcast ever. Adnan was convicted of her murder and has been sentenced to life in prison.. ...Read Full Story
The trial of a Massachusetts woman charged with manslaughter is underway. Michelle Carter, 17 years old at the time, allegedly sent text messages in 2014 encouraging her 18-year-old boyfriend, Conrad Roy III, to kill himself. One text allegedly said, “The time is right and you’re ready, you just need to do it!”. ...Read Full Story
See the most important parts of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference 2017 keynote. Over three hours of announcements, updates, and new products including the HomePod have been condensed into fifteen minutes. . ...Read Full Story
Apple’s big developer lovefest, WWDC, kicks off Monday with a keynote that’ll set the stage for software updates, developer platforms and possibly some hardware reveals like a Siri Speaker to do battle with Amazon’s Echo and Google’s Home.. ...Read Full Story
President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he will pull out of the Paris climate agreement, delivering the news in a Rose Garden speech.. ...Read Full Story
The six-engine, dual-hulled Stratolaunch aircraft is designed to launch satellites into orbit has been launched by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.. ...Read Full Story
NASA plans to launch a probe to ‘touch the Sun’. Scientists will investigate how the corona reaches blistering temperatures, how the solar wind gets its speed and how space weather affects Earth.. ...Read Full Story
President Trump tweeted Wednesday night that he’ll announce his decision on the Paris climate change accord at 3 p.m. Thursday in the White House Rose Garden.. ...Read Full Story
The site of the infamous partial nuclear meltdown will close nearly 40 years later, the Pennsylvania plant announced it will shut down the Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant in September of 2019. . ...Read Full Story
The United States successfully shot down an intercontinental ballistic missile target using its upgraded long-range interceptor missile in a missile test on Tuesday.. ...Read Full Story
The Navy said Monday the weekend death of a member of its skydiving team was because of “an equipment malfunction, though the specific nature and cause is currently unknown.”. ...Read Full Story
Woods, the 14-time major champion who had back surgery five weeks ago, was arrested on suspicion of DUI at about 3 a.m. Monday and taken to Palm Beach County jail. He was released on his own recognizance.. ...Read Full Story
General Motors is facing a lawsuit over alleged programming of some of its heavy-duty pickup trucks to cheat on diesel emission tests.. ...Read Full Story
Maddi Runkles, 18, has been banned from attending her graduation from Heritage Academy in Hagerstown, Maryland, because she is pregnant. . ...Read Full Story
A massive landslide dropped a mountainside of dirt and rocks on the Pacific Coast Highway 1 in rural southern Monterey County, California this past weekend. The highway is buried under 40 feet of debris for 1/4 to 1/2 mile and will likely be closed for more than one year for repairs.. ...Read Full Story
The special election to choose who takes over the seat formerly held by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is thrown sideways after Republican Greg Gianforte is charged with assaulting a journalist a day before polls open.. ...Read Full Story
Volunteers are planting 10,000 flags at the University of Phoenix as a Memorial Day tribute to honor the men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice while serving our country.. ...Read Full Story
President Trump has asked the Congress to cut $3.6 trillion in government spending over the next ten years as he pushes ahead with planned tax cuts and trimming the deficit.. ...Read Full Story
President Trump’s first foreign trip takes him Wednesday to Vatican City, where he and Pope Francis met for the first time. The two had previously had disagreements over Trump’s directive to build a wall between the United States and Mexico.. ...Read Full Story
Authorities in Mancheste,r England said Tuesday that an attacker detonated an improvised explosive device at the Ariana Grande concert on Monday night, as the explosion’s death toll raised to 22. Police believe suspected attacker was killed in explosion. ...Read Full Story
Several dozen students left their seats as Vice President Pence gave a commencement address at the University of Notre Dame on May 21 in South Bend, Indiana.. ...Read Full Story
A young girl was dragged into the water in Richmond, British Columbia, by a sea lion in a frightening video posted on YouTube on Saturday, May 20.. ...Read Full Story
Roger Ailes, former Fox News chairman and CEO, died Thursday at the age of 77. Ailes’ death comes months after he resigned from the news network amid claims of sexual harassment.. ...Read Full Story
Brandon Vezmar, 37, took a first date to see Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2. According to his lawsuit his date started texting about 15 minutes into the movie.. ...Read Full Story
The Department of Justice announced that former FBI Director Robert Mueller would be acting as special counsel, taking over the investigation into possible collusion between Russian intelligence and the Trump campaign during the 2016 election. . ...Read Full Story
Tragic news from the world of rock. Chris Cornell, lead singer of Soundgarden died suddenly last night (May 17) at the age of 52 following a performance at the Fox Theatre in Detroit.. ...Read Full Story
Donald Trump directly asked the former FBI director, James Comey, to drop an investigation into his former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, according to notes kept at the time by Comey.. ...Read Full Story
Chelsea Manning was freed from the walls of Fort Leavenworth military prison in Kansas this morning. Manning will remain enlisted in the military because she filed an appeal after her trial.. ...Read Full Story
Walt Disney Chief Executive Officer Bob Iger says the company is refusing to pay a ransom demanded by hackers. The hackers claim they have stolen an unreleased film and will post it online.. ...Read Full Story
President Trump defended conversations he had with Russian officials following a report claiming he discussed classified information in those talks. The President went on to state he shared “facts” about terrorism and had “the absolute right to do” so. . ...Read Full Story
U.S. lawmakers on Sunday called on President Donald Trump to turn over any tapes of conversations with fired FBI chief James Comey. Trump had alluded to taped conversations in a tweet earlier last week.. ...Read Full Story
Microsoft on Sunday said a software vulnerability stolen from the U.S. National Security Agency has affected customers around the world, as the spread of the WannaCry/WannaCrypt ransomware has hit most every country.. ...Read Full Story
Shark sightings have risen close to Southern California shores, which have put lifeguards on higher alert.. ...Read Full Story
Talk about a happy birthday! Richard Overton the nation’s oldest living World War II veteran, turned 111 years old on Thursday. He’s lived in the same home for 72 years, My Statesman reports, and the GoFundMe was set up to help him stay there.. ...Read Full Story
Graduating students at Bethune-Cookman University booed turned their backs towards US Education Secretary Betsy DeVos during her speech at their commencement ceremony on May 10.. ...Read Full Story
An emergency was declared at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, a nuclear storage facility in Washington state. Part of a tunnel used to transport radioactive waste collapsed. No radiation was released, but Washington’s governor called the incident serious.. ...Read Full Story
FBI director James Comey has been fired by Donald Trump, who said in a letter that he was being “terminated and removed” because he was “not able to effectively lead the bureau”.. ...Read Full Story
