Danelo Cavalcante, the convicted killer who eluded Pennsylvania authorities for nearly two weeks following a brazen jail escape, formed a plan to carjack someone and try to flee to Canada or Puerto Rico as law enforcement began to close in.  None of that came to fruition as Calvalcante, 34, was […]

An Indiana man faces felony charges after he was shot in the back by a 2-year-old boy who found the weapon on a bed, according to authorities. Justin T. Wiley, 32, of Fort Wayne was charged this week with neglect of a dependent resulting in serious bodily injury and unlawful […]

An Iowa police officer died after being shot while trying to arrest a man who was later captured in Minnesota, officials said Thursday. Algona Police Officer Kevin Cram was shot just before 8 p.m. Wednesday as he tried to arrest 43-year-old Kyle Ricke, said Mitch Mortvedt, assistant director of the […]

An explosion inside a shipping container at the world’s largest railyard prompted evacuations in western Nebraska Thursday because of the toxic smoke generated when one of the chemicals aboard caught fire. Around noon, an explosion occurred inside an intermodal container on a railcar at Union Pacific’s Bailey Yard in North […]

Saturday’s matchup between No. 18 Colorado and Colorado State just got a lot spicier.  Colorado State head coach Jay Norvell appeared to take a jab at Sanders Wednesday for wearing a hat and sunglasses during sessions with the media.  “We had to do a bunch of ESPN videos. And it’s […]

A tent collapse in suburban Chicago injured at least 26 people, police said. Five of those hurt had serious injuries, Bedford Park Police Chief Tom Hansen said. The tent collapsed around 10:45 a.m. in the parking lot of a business, Hansen told local news outlets. The tent was being used […]

Iran summoned Australia’s envoy to the Mideast country to protest the latest round of sanctions imposed on Tehran over what Canberra decries as violations of human rights, Iranian state media reported on Thursday. The report said Australia’s chargé d’affaires was called in to Iran’s foreign ministry over “interventionist remarks” by […]

GOP lawmakers sent a letter this week to CIA Director William Burns after a whistleblower claimed that analysts probing COVID-19 origins were offered money to alter their stance that the virus likely came from a Wuhan lab leak. Sens. Rand Paul, R-Ky., Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Rick Scott, R-Fla., and Ron […]

Russia’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday declared two U.S. diplomats “persona non grata” and ordered them to leave the country within seven days as they were allegedly involved in “illegal activity.” The ministry charged in a statement that the first secretary at the U.S. Embassy in Russia, Jeffrey Sillin, and the […]

Former President Donald Trump is taking aim at the Justice Department over its indictment of President Biden’s son Hunter Biden on federal firearms charges. The former president claimed in a Truth Social post that the gun charge was “the only crime that Hunter Biden committed that does not implicate Crooked […]