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Jill Hunkler (NEW YORK) — When Jill Antares Hunkler purchased land in Belmont County, Ohio, in 2007, she never envisioned her home would be surrounded by 78 oil and gas fracking wells a decade later, she said. “I wanted to build my home where I had roots,” Hunkler, a seventh-generation Ohio Valley resident, told ABC […]

Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — D.C. police officer Wayne David died on Wednesday evening after he suffered an accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound while trying to recover a weapon from a storm drain, police have announced. Officers were responding to reports of a suspicious vehicle when a man jumped out of a car, ran onto the […]

Chaffee County Search and Rescue (SALIDA, Colo.) — A worker on an office hiking retreat to a national forest in Colorado had to be rescued after 14 of his colleagues allegedly left him stranded on a 14,230-foot mountain, authorities said. “In what might cause some awkward encounters at the office in the coming days and […]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The FBI has been able to gain extensive analysis on the mindset of the suspected shooter who carried out the July 13 assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, officials said Wednesday, but it has so far been unable to establish a clear motive. […]

Ryan Garza/Detroit Free Press via USAToday Network (GROSSE POINT, Mich.) — The parents of a teenage passenger killed in a high-speed car crash in Michigan are pushing for authorities to charge the mother of the driver. In November 2023, Flynn MacKrell was riding in a car with his then-16-year-old friend who was driving over 100 […]

Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images (BOSTON) — A former Massachusetts police officer is accused of killing a pregnant 23-year-old woman who he began sleeping with when she was a teenager and staging her death to look like a suicide, a federal indictment unsealed in Boston on Wednesday alleges. Former Stoughton police officer Matthew Farwell allegedly strangled […]

Courtesy of Redlands Police Department/Facebook (REDLANDS, Calf.) — Police are searching for a couple and their dog who went missing from a California nudist community on Saturday. Stephanie Menard and Daniel Menard were reported missing on Sunday, according to the Redlands Police Department. The couple was last seen at their residence on Olive Dell Ranch […]

K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Pool/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (LAS VEGAS) — A former Nevada politician was found guilty Wednesday of killing journalist Jeff German in September 2022. As the jury’s foreperson read out the verdict, Telles looked down and shook his head. In a press conference after the verdict was announced, Clark County District […]

The water buffalo is seen in this still from a Ring camera video in Pleasant Hill, Iowa, on Aug. 26, 2024. (Courtesy Jessica Eshelman) (NEW YORK) — Police in Iowa said they have captured a “dangerous,” injured water buffalo that had been on the loose since Saturday. The Pleasant Hill Police Department said the animal […]