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(MINNEAPOLIS) -- Minnesota state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife are crediting their daughter Hope for "saving countless other lives" on the night the couple was shot and wounded at their home in what prosecutors called an assassination attempt."Without Hope, we wouldn’t be here right now," the Democratic state senator and his wife said in a statement on Wednesday, according to Minneapolis ABC affiliate KSTP. "Our daughter’s quick instincts and wherewithal to state […]

CREDIT: amphotora/Getty Images (SEATTLE) -- A fugitive who has been on the run for more than six weeks after escaping authorities at an airport while being transported across state lines has been captured, authorities said.The incident began almost seven weeks ago on May 4 when 29-year-old Sedric Stevenson was in the custody of contracted agents at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and was being transported to Kentucky so he could face outstanding […]

Kai Eiselein-Pool/Getty Images (MOSCOW, Idaho) -- Newly surfaced bodycam footage from last year shows an interview with a woman claiming to be a DoorDash driver, who says she saw murder suspect Bryan Kohberger while she was dropping off food just moments before police say four University of Idaho college students were slain in 2022.In the video, the woman, who is wrapped in a gray blanket, is being questioned in a […]

(BOSTON) -- A Massachusetts jury found Karen Read not guilty of murdering her Boston police officer boyfriend in 2022, nearly a year after her first prosecution ended in a mistrial.The jury began deliberating the afternoon of June 13 in Norfolk County before reaching a verdict Wednesday afternoon.Prosecutors allege Read hit her boyfriend, John O'Keefe, with her car outside the Canton home of fellow police officer Brian Albert in January 2022 […]

Visions of America/Joseph Sohm/Universal Images Group via Getty Images (TUCSON, Ariz.) -- A Texas man has been charged for allegedly purchasing explosives he intended to use to attack police during protests against the Trump administration's immigration enforcement actions in Los Angeles last week, according to the Justice Department .Grzegorz Vandenberg, 48, is alleged to have purchased fireworks from a travel center in New Mexico, where he reportedly told employees he […]

(BROOKLYN PARK, Minn.) -- A break-in has been reported at the home of slain Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman, authorities said.After the Saturday morning killings, the house was processed by crime scene investigators and then was boarded up early Sunday, Brooklyn Park police said. On Tuesday, Hortman family members took their valuables from the house, police said.At 8 a.m. Wednesday police said they were alerted to an overnight break-in. They […]

(NEW YORK) -- Heat is the No. 1 weather-related killer -- and it’s heading to the most densely populated part of America for a prolonged period.A heat wave forecast to envelop the Midwest and the Northeast with triple-digit weather is expected to arrive on the heels of the first official day of summer.But before the sizzle, the country's midsection and much of the East Coast will have to endure at […]

(GREEN ISLE, Minn.) -- Vance Boelter was preoccupied with societal problems and how he could fix them to serve the greater good, according to some of his previous writings and the man who worked with Boelter for more than a decade doing web design for a series of his projects.Before allegedly carrying out a "political assassination" on Saturday, Boelter was "clearly very religious, very passionate," and "devout, and sincere in […]