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(NEW YORK) — After a search of more than 80 days, authorities have recovered a body believed to be that of missing Grand Valley State University student Brendan Santo. The body was recovered from the Red Cedar River at 12:30 p.m. Friday, approximately 1 1/2 miles downriver from where Santo was last seen. Identification is […]

iStock/Motortion (NEW YORK) — A New York City officer is dead and another suffered life-threatening injuries after they were shot responding to a domestic call in Harlem, police said. The officers responded to the scene where the unidentified suspect was in a back room, the police said. The officers engaged with the suspect and all […]

iStock/ijoe84 (DALLAS) — Dallas police said an 11-year-old boy who was missing for two nights and last seen wearing only shorts and socks during frigid temperatures has been found safe. Traveon Michael Allen Griffin left his home in southwest Dallas early Thursday, around midnight, according to police. “He may be confused and in need of […]

(NEW YORK) — The FBI on Friday released new details in the investigation of Gabby Petito’s death, saying that that Brian Laundrie wrote in a notebook that he killed her. The FBI’s Denver office had sent out a timeline of the investigation, saying that before discovering Laundrie’s remains in a Florida wetland in October, agents […]

(NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5.5 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 860,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering. About 63.2% of the population in the United States is fully vaccinated against COVID-19, […]

(NEW YORK) — At the beginning of 2020, as the nation celebrated the start of a new year, many Americans were still unaware of the “mysterious pneumonia” that had sickened dozens of workers at a live animal market in Wuhan, China. The illness, later identified as the “novel coronavirus”, began spreading rapidly across the globe. […]

(NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5.5 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 860,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering. About 63.2% of the population in the United States is fully vaccinated against COVID-19, […]

amphotora/Getty Images (AURORA, Ill.) — Two officers with the Aurora Police Department in Illinois — both 51 years old — have died of COVID-19 within days of each other. Aurora police officer Brian Shields died of COVID-19 on Jan. 11. “Officer Shields served with dedication, loyalty, and honorable police service to the City of Aurora […]

(COBB COUNTY, Ga.) — The family of a Georgia teenager who was fatally shot by police in July 2020 has filed a lawsuit against Cobb County for $150 million over the teen’s death. “I am the proud mother of Vincent Demario Truitt,” his mother, Venethia Cook, said in a press conference on Thursday. She said […]

(MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.) — Opening statements in the joint federal trial of three former police officers accused of civil rights violations in the death of George Floyd are expected to begin next week after a jury was seated on Thursday. Fired Minneapolis police officers J. Alexander Kueng, 28, Thomas Lane, 38, and Tou Thao, 35, are […]