Harrowing body camera video showed the moment a high-speed locomotive plowed into a cop car parked on the tracks with a handcuffed woman inside.
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Carlee Russell facing criminal charges after faking abduction, causing ‘panic and alarm’
Officials at a Hoover Police press conference said Carlee Russell is charged for lying about seeing a toddler on a highway and being abducted.
‘Dangerous’ heat threatens millions of Americans; Arizona county brings in coolers to store bodies: Updates
A ‘dangerous’ heat wave is settling over cities in the Midwest and Northeast through the rest of the week, forecasters warned. Live updates.
Woman says she set fire to abortion clinic after having nightmares caused by its opening
The woman, 22-year-old Lorna Roxanne Green, told police she set the fire because she opposed abortion and had nightmares caused by the clinic opening.
‘Help Me!’: Handwritten sign leads rescuers to kidnapped 13-year-old girl
Passersby in a California laundromat parking lot saw a girl in a car with a sign that said “Help Me!” She had been kidnapped from Texas, police said.
What happened to Carlee Russell? Police say many details of her story can’t be verified
Police in Alabama, where a woman went missing and reappeared after two days, said there was no reason to believe there was a threat to the public.
4 killed in shooting in Atlanta suburb; suspect at large, officials say
Four people were killed in a shooting Saturday morning in a small Georgia city, and officials said the shooter was still at large.
Dozens of heat records could be broken as oppressive US heat wave forecast to move east
At least 45 places across the country are set to break heat records over the weekend. Officials warned about heat-related illness and death.
Man on scooter shoots randomly in NYC, killing 87-year-old and injuring others: NYPD
Police said an man was killed and at least three other people were injured when a man on a scooter opened fire at random in multiple locations.
California man accused in Mexico of serial killings has been arrested in US
A man who Mexican authorities claim has killed three women in Tijuana was arrested in California this week as a fugitive.