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(NEW YORK) -- Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old Ivy League graduate accused of gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in front of a New York City hotel last week, has retained a private defense attorney in his Pennsylvania gun charges case.Mangione was apprehended in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on Monday following a dayslong manhunt. Police said he was found with multiple fake IDs, including a fake New Jersey ID matching the one that […]

PBNJ Productions/Getty Images (VICTORIA, Texas) -- A small plane crashed into three vehicles Wednesday afternoon on a roadway in Victoria, Texas.According to the Federal Aviation Administration, the twin-engine Piper PA-31 crashed around 3:00 p.m. local time.Only the pilot was on board the plane at the time of the crash.In a video posted on Facebook, which showed the wreckage, the Victoria Police Department said there had been three vehicles and one […]

(ROME, Ga.) -- The death of a woman this week in a car crash involving a police officer who was responding to a bomb threat against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's Georgia home demonstrates the growing danger of swatting, police and experts said.Swatting refers to when a false threat is made to draw police and first responders to a location.The woman, identified by police as Tammie Pickelsimer, was killed after crashing […]

Bill Clark/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) -- A California man who pleaded guilty to a felony for his participation in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol filed a letter Wednesday showing he was personally invited by a retired Republican congressman to attend President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration.Russell Taylor, whom prosecutors described as a "leader" who organized a "group of fighters" to travel to Washington on Jan. 6, 2021, to obstruct Congress' […]

(NEW YORK) -- Luigi Mangione, who is accused of second-degree murder for allegedly gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City, could face additional charges, according to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.Asked why Mangione was charged with second-degree murder, Bragg told ABC News that prosecutors wanted to bring charges quickly and first-degree murder "has a number of delineated circumstances.""Murder 2 is the intentional killing of a person, punishable […]

(GREEN LAKE, Wis.) -- Ryan Borgwardt, the husband and father who authorities said faked his own death at a lake and fled the country, has returned to the U.S. willingly and is now in custody in Wisconsin, the Green Lake County Sheriff's Office announced on Wednesday.Borgwardt -- who is accused of intentionally misleading authorities to believe he drowned this summer -- notified officials he was returning and he landed in […]

(NEW YORK) -- The ghost gun allegedly in Luigi Mangione's possession when he was arrested in Pennsylvania has been matched to three shell casings recovered at the scene of Brian Thompson's murder in New York City, NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said Wednesday.Fingerprints recovered from a water bottle and a Kind bar near the crime scene have also been matched to Mangione, she said.Mangione, a 26-year-old Ivy League graduate, is […]

Hyoung Chang/Denver Post via Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- Millions of Americans should prepare for an Arctic blast that will blanket much of the country in below-freezing temperatures over the next several days.Frigid conditions are expected over a large swath of the contiguous U.S. in the aftermath of a powerful cold front moving through the East Coast on Wednesday, forecasts show.Once the rain and wind has subsided, the icy conditions […]

(MALIBU, Calif.) -- A raging wildfire fanned by strong Santa Ana winds has spread to nearly 4,000 acres in Malibu, California, destroying homes and leaving more than 20,000 people under evacuation orders, including 98-year-old actor Dick Van Dyke and other celebrities in the oceanfront community.The Franklin Fire, which erupted Monday night near the campus of Pepperdine University, was 7% contained on Wednesday morning as more than 1,500 firefighters were deployed to battle […]