Michael Hart, a police officer from Skokie Illinois, was charged with aggravated battery and official misconduct for shoving a woman who had been charged with a DUI in a police station lock-up, news reports said. The deliberate shove caused serious injuries to her face,
Central Connecticut State University (CCSU) declared a campus emergency shortly before noon on Monday, telling students and faculty to take shelter "after an unidentified, possibly armed man was spotted."
Two men were killed as heavy rains triggered flash flooding in Central Texas, prompting dozens of rescues across a region that has been dealing with a drought, The AP reported on Thursday. The storm system "stretched across much of the nation, from the Great Lakes to the Gulf Coast'
Michael Moore, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, said Thursday that federal authorities will investigate the circumstances behind the death of Kendrick Johnson, a teenager whose bloody body was found inside a rolled-up gym mat at Lowndes High School in Valdosta, Georgia on January 11
