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(MILWAUKEE) Two Milwaukee police officers were shot after responding to a call for a person with a weapon late Thursday, police said.A suspect has been arrested in connection with the shooting on Friday morning, police said.In what is being described as an "ambush," officers were fired upon as they approached an alley, according to police.A 32-year-old officer has been hospitalized in critical condition while a 29 year-old officer hospitalized with […]

(MOSCOW, Idaho) --  In a series of final rulings ahead of Bryan Kohberger's capital murder trial, Judge Steven Hippler said lawyers for the man who could be executed, if convicted, won't be permitted to present to the jury the theory that some unknown person is the real killer.The trial in the Idaho college killings case will begin Aug. 18, a week later than originally planned, a judge ruled Thursday.With jury […]

(CHELAN COUNTY, Wash.) -- It's been nearly a month since Travis Decker went on the run after allegedly killing his three young daughters near a Washington state campground, and at least one expert told ABC News he believes the fugitive father is likely still alive and will "eventually surface."Paityn Decker, 9; Evenlyn Decker, 8; and Olivia Decker, 5, were killed after they left home for a "planned visitation" with Decker […]

(FORT WORTH, Texas) -- A man was sentenced to 60 years in prison on Thursday for murdering a Texas college student in a random shooting in 2023.Wes Smith, a 21-year-old junior at Texas Christian University, was shot multiple times outside a Fort Worth bar in September 2023, prosecutors said.Matthew Purdy, 23, pleaded guilty to his murder during a hearing in Tarrant County on Thursday. A judge then sentenced him to […]

(HENNEPIN COUNTY, Minn.) -- The wife of accused Minnesota lawmaker gunman Vance Boelter said she's "completely blindsided" by the shootings allegedly carried out by her husband."On behalf of my children and myself, I want to express our deepest sympathies to the Hortman and Hoffman families," Jenny Boelter said in a statement released by her attorneys on Thursday. "We are absolutely shocked, heartbroken and completely blindsided.""It is a betrayal of everything we hold […]

(NEW YORK) -- Relief from the extreme heat is moving in for some cities on Thursday, but more than 60 million people in the East are still on alert for dangerously high temperatures.Meanwhile, severe storms with reported tornadoes are targeting the Southeast and the Midwest.Here's the latest:Severe stormsIn the Midwest and the Southeast, tornadoes were reported as severe storms struck Wednesday evening -- and more storms are on the way.Ten tornadoes were […]

Florian Roden / EyeEm/Getty Images (GARY, Ind.) -- Five people have been killed after a train hit their vehicle when the driver allegedly went around the crossing gate, authorities said.The incident occurred near Highway 20 and Utah Street in Gary, Indiana, when a witness told Gary Police that the crossing gate for the oncoming South Shore train was down when the driver of the vehicle went around it to beat […]

(LOS ANGELES) -- When Los Angeles Police Department officers went racing toward a potential kidnapping call downtown this week, callers indicated a true kidnapping was underway, according to police.Police say the caller stated that several individuals were involved, but did not identify themselves.Officers and an LAPD supervisor say they arrived on scene to find an agitated crowd as federal agents were taking part in an immigration enforcement arrest, which have […]

(WASHINGTON) -- With the Fourth of July just days away, law enforcement and federal officials are on guard about Iranian retaliation in the United States, despite officials saying there are no specific, credible threats at this time.This comes after the U.S. military's strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities by B-2 stealth bombers and Tomahawk cruise missiles."We would be foolish to assume that they're not plotting revenge even if we can't […]