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(NEW YORK) -- One of the key witnesses in the Karen Read murder retrial continued to testify for a third day Friday on the events surrounding the death of Read's boyfriend, Boston police officer John O'Keefe, who was found unresponsive in the snow outside a Massachusetts home in 2022.Prosecutors allege, following a night of drinking in Canton, that Read struck O'Keefe with her Lexus SUV outside of a get-together at […]

(HENRY'S LAKE, Idaho) --Seven people were killed in a fiery crash between a van and a pickup truck on an eastern Idaho highway near Yellowstone National Park, officials said.The Mercedes passenger van -- which was operating as a tour vehicle -- collided with the Dodge Ram pickup around 7:15 p.m. Thursday on U.S. Highway 20 near Henry's Lake, the Idaho State Police said. The van was traveling eastbound, toward Yellowstone […]

(WASHINGTON) -- Three months after President Donald Trump returned to office and began issuing a series of executive orders against organizations and law firms whose actions have opposed him, a longtime Washington, D.C., attorney is launching a new firm that aims in part to represent those who he says have been "unlawfully and inappropriately targeted" by the Trump administration.Attorney Abbe Lowell, who has represented high-profile clients including Hunter Biden and Jared Kushner, says the […]

(HOUSTON) -- Police in Houston are searching for a man who was been charged with allegedly impersonating a nurse and treating disabled people while working for two nursing agencies.Dazael Gloria, 33, is charged with practicing nursing with a fraudulent license, according to court records.Houston Police allege Gloria practiced nursing without a license at least three separate times in October 2024, according to a criminal complaint.He is also accused of presenting […]

(CHICAGO) -- An Illinois man has been sentenced to 53 years in prison for the 2023 fatal stabbing of a 6-year-old Palestinian-American boy.Wadee Alfayoumi was stabbed 26 times and his mother more than a dozen in the Oct. 14, 2023, attack inside their home in the Chicago suburb of Plainfield.Their landlord, 73-year-old Joseph Czuba, was convicted in February on multiple murder charges, as well as attempted murder, aggravated battery and […]

Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (HENRY's LAKE, Idaho) -- Seven people were killed in a crash between a van and a pickup truck on an eastern Idaho highway near Yellowstone National Park, officials said.The Mercedes passenger van -- which was operating as a tour vehicle -- collided with the Dodge Ram pickup around 7:15 p.m. Thursday on U.S. Highway 20 near Henry's Lake, the Idaho State Police said.Fourteen people were in the […]

(CHARLESTON, S.C.) -- A man is accused of intentionally plowing into a 10-year-old, a 12-year-old and a teacher in a hit-and-run outside a school at a church on Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, officials said.Justin Collin Adams, who was taken into custody on Thursday following an hourslong manhunt, is charged with three counts of attempted murder and first-degree assault and battery, according to online records. He was held without bond at a Friday […]

(NEW YORK) -- Newly released video shows the moments when Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man wrongfully deported from the United States to a prison in El Salvador, was pulled over by state troopers in Tennessee in 2022.The video, which was obtained by ABC News through a public records request, shows members of the Tennessee Highway Patrol questioning Abrego Garcia on the side of Interstate 40 after nightfall.Abrego Garcia was not charged or arrested […]

Adam Gray/Getty Images (OCEAN COUNTY, N.J.) -- A second teenager has been arrested for arson in connection with a massive New Jersey wildfire that destroyed a commercial building, shut down a major highway and forced thousands of people to flee, prosecutors said.The second suspect -- an unidentified 17-year-old boy -- was taken into custody on Thursday and charged with arson and aggravated arson for allegedly helping set wooden pallets on fire and […]