ASAP towing owner arrested and accused of defrauding nearly $200k, police say

Gun rights advocacy groups filed a lawsuit claiming that Maine's new 72-hour waiting period for firearms purchases is unconstitutional and seeking an injunction stopping its enforcement pending the outcome of the case. The lawsuit filed on behalf of five individuals contends that it’s illegal to require someone who passed a background check to wait three days before completing a gun purchase, and that this argument is bolstered by a 2022 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that changed the standard for gun restrictions. “Nothing in our nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation supports that kind of ‘cooling-off period’ measure, which is a 20th century regulatory innovation that is flatly inconsistent with the Second Amendment’s original meaning,” the plaintiffs' attorneys wrote in the federal lawsuit filed Tuesday.

The city of St. Petersburg held a "Hurricane Resource and Recovery" meeting to update and inform the public on their efforts.

SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — One woman has worked to turn a source of pain into a source of community. Donovan Holt, 33, was arrested in San Antonio, Texas in connection to his wife’s death more than a year after the 2023 incident. His wife, April Holt, was found unresponsive in the bathroom of the couple’s […]

A California man is in custody and faces charges of enticing a minor and dealing in materials harmful to minors.

CHARLESTON, WV (WVNS) — WASHINGTON – A former corrections officer from the Southern Regional Jail in Beaver, West Virginia, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Charleston on Wednesday, November 13, 2024, for his role in an assault that resulted in the death of 37-year-old Quantez Burks of Beckley, who died at the jail on […]

Fox News host Sean Hannity discusses President-elect Trump's big appointments for key positions as he hits the ground running.

The pursuit started around 8:30 p.m. after the driver took off from a traffic stop.

House Speaker Mike Johnson said Gaetz's resignation allows a special election to replace him to move quickly, shoring up the GOP's majority in the House.

Crew-8 commander Matthew Dominick says NASA is carefully making decisions for astronaut safety while the ISS deals with a leak, and spacesuit issues, related to aging hardware.

Joe Biden offered a bizarre response to an Israeli journalist who asked him if he thought he could make a deal to free the hostages held by Palestinian militant group Hamas before he leaves office in January. “Do you think you can keep from getting hit in the head by that camera behind you?” the president told Neria Kraus, a correspondent for Israel’s Channel 13 News, apparently referring to the equipment of the crew recording the meeting. He immediately launched into a different topic after the

More than a week after Election Day, all Travis County ballots have been unofficially tallied and they're still not enough for KXAN to call the Austin mayoral race. It's down to Williamson County voters.

The Kansas City woman's possible solution not only helps the environment, but also improves local roadways.

Earl Albert, a widower from West Stockbridge, Massachusetts, who donated the 2024 Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, suffered a stroke before the tree lighting.

JONESBOROUGH, Tenn. (WJHL) — A motorcyclist was injured, and charges are pending following a crash on West Jackson Boulevard in Washington County, Tennessee, on Wednesday evening. A report from the Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) said the crash occurred at 5:56 p.m. Wednesday near 1541 W Jackson Blvd. According to the THP, a Volkswagen sedan was […]

Tiffie Jackson operates a childcare center in the Hyde Park neighborhood of St. Louis with security cameras surrounding her building on Farrar Street. Doorbell cameras are also visible on many nearby homes.

Authorities are investigating the discovery of human remains, including parts of skulls, in Jal, New Mexico, that could be linked to a missing persons case from 2019.

A police force has been accused of an “appalling” attack on free speech after launching an investigation into a Telegraph journalist.

Avery Poznanski was excited for a new chapter. The nonbinary transgender senior at UCLA had decided last month, after years of personal discovery and long discussions with their family and doctors, to start testosterone therapy. The first few weeks felt exciting, fulfilling. Then Donald Trump, after running a virulently anti-transgender campaign, won the presidential election — which felt "really frightening" and "disheartening," Poznanski said. "I'm sort of still stunned about how big of an iss

Sources tell Action News Jax’s Ben Becker that an executive with CSX is the leading candidate to fill the open board seat at JEA.

Citizens Property Insurance, a major downtown employer is still exploring all options to leave its current location at the EverBank Center, as safety concerns Action News Jax first reported have become public.

DIXON, Mo. — A teacher for the Dixon School District was arrested by law enforcement on Tuesday, Nov. 12 on 19 charges, including statutory rape and sexual contact with a juvenile, according to the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Department (PCSD). Online court documents state that Carissa Smith is charged with the following: Online court records say […]

A free-range parent was shocked when she was charged with "reckless conduct." She's been asked to put a tracker on her son's phone, which she refused.

WARNING: This story contains graphic details of an alleged murder in a sexual context.Nikolas Ibey — on trial for first-degree murder in the death of a woman who had just moved to Ottawa from Nunavut to attend college in 2022 — was drinking, taking drugs, and had been frustrated in his efforts to find an escort "for eight hours straight" before he finally took what he wanted from his new housemate and left her dead in her room, the Crown alleged in its opening remarks to a 14-member jury on Wedn

The suspects provided video footage to the insurance company, which showed "the alleged bear" in the vehicle, a news release says.

We covered before how a father and high-profile CEO along with his teenage daughter were killed in a freak bulldozer accident in a Utah canyon during the summer. Now, new information in that case indicates the driver who was towing that bulldozer lied to police and is now facing felony charges as a result. Someone crashed their Rolls-Royce allegedly in a street race. It was July 6 when Richard Hendrickson, CEO of Lifetime Products, along with his 16-year-old daughter Sally were hit by a bulldoze

Iranian women who resist wearing the hijab are to be given treatment at a specialist mental health clinic in Tehran.

Democratic elected official Samantha Steele repeatedly asked an officer about his genitals during her DUI arrest on Sunday, Chicago Police said.

“I find, if these allegations are accurate, that you pose an extreme risk to the public — in particular this victim.”

A loyal dog that refused to leave his dead owner's side helped solve her murder by allowing detectives to identify her body, prosecutors said.

Actress Chanel Banks has been found safe, the Los Angeles Police Department tells KTLA 5. Banks, best known for her roles in “Blue Bloods” and “Gossip Girl,” was reported missing on Nov. 8 and was located on Nov. 11 in Texas, according to LAPD. The Department has closed its case saying there is no foul […]

Former New Orleans police officer and body guard for Mayor LaToya Cantrell, Jeffrey Vappie, is now the center of another investigation involving the mayor. Two new reports by the Public Integrity Bureau unveil Vappie drank alcohol with the mayor while on the job.

A teen is dead, another is in the hospital and a third has been arrested after a physical altercation escalated into a shooting inside a Ralphs grocery store in Los Angeles. According to the Los Angeles Police Department, the fight involving multiple men broke out around 11:40 p.m. Tuesday at the Ralphs store in L.A.’s […]

Maegan Wentz was driving a stolen car with at least three other people when the wreck occurred March 6 in Pierce County.

Dane Brown, who survived an overdose after being injected with methamphetamine at political donor Ed Buck's home in 2019, was found dead last week.

A judge recused himself Tuesday from presiding over Arizona’s fake electors case after an email surfaced in which he told fellow judges to speak out against attacks on Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign for the presidency. In the Aug. 29 email, Maricopa County Judge Bruce Cohen lamented that he didn’t speak out when Harris was called a “DEI hire,” believes that white men must speak out against unfair treatment of women, and raised a historical lesson from the Holocaust about the need to speak up when people are attacked. Cohen didn’t specify who made the comment regarding Harris.

Multiple Arkansas agencies completed a search warrant on Monday that led to the arrest of a Level-3 sex offender.

Only millionaires typically have time and money to cosplay as Batman, but the police already have all the heavy equipment and qualified immunity to indulge their superhero fantasies. A sheriff’s office in Olympia, Washington used a grappler to end a pursuit last week by crashing a stolen car at 100 miles per hour. The deputies are extremely lucky that they didn’t kill anyone trying out their new toy.

Parents of the University of Idaho victims are speaking out on the two-year mark of the gruesome quadruple homicide as they await the trial for their children's suspected killer. For victim Kaylee Goncalves' parents, one of the devastating milestones this year is Kaylee's younger sister, Autumn, turning 21 -- the age Kaylee was when she was killed. "Early on, [Autumn] just said, 'What am I going to do when I'm older than Kaylee?'" Kristi Goncalves recalled.

Impersonating a cop is a big no no. One man in Florida found this out the hard way after he flashed the fake police lights in his unmarked Dodge Charger at an intersection in order to run a light.

On Tuesday, the Wichita Police Department released the names of the five men who were found shot to death in south Wichita on Sunday. Police also named the man who they believe was responsible.

A judge denied bail for Kouri Richins a second time on Tuesday, ordering the Utah mom to remain in jail until she goes on trial for allegedly fatally poisoning her husband in 2022.

Gaetz is a Trump defender who has faced investigations over his own personal conduct.

"More stories like this. Less stories of boys screaming: 'Your body my choice,'" one woman said in response to the tweet.

In a New York City courtroom, Eric Gonzalez recalled encountering the chaotic struggle in progress, after Daniel Penny had already pinned the man, Jordan Neely, to the train's floor and placed him in a firm chokehold. “I made my presence known to Daniel Penny,” Gonzalez told jurors. Penny is facing manslaughter charges in the May 2023 death of Neely, a 30-year-old man who was homeless.

MOUNT CARROLL, Ill. (WTVO) — Two Mount Carroll Sheriff’s Department employees who allegedly discovered the body of 18-year-old Jackson Kradle along a roadside have resigned as investigators probe the circumstances surrounding the teen’s death. According to authorities, Carroll County Sheriff’s employees found Kradle’s body around 3:30 a.m. on July 28th, on Illinois Route 78 and […]

Two people have been charged after troopers allegedly found drugs, including presumed fentanyl, in a vehicle that had two juveniles inside in Marion County.

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) – The Lancaster County Coroner’s office has ruled the officer-involved shooting death of an Elizabethtown man as a homicide. On November 3 around 1:43 a.m., the Lancaster County District Attorney’s office says Andrew Ward arrived at the Northwest Regional Police Station after he was arrested for DUI about four hours prior. […]

The father of Sara Sharif has told jurors he “takes full responsibility” for the death of his 10-year-old daughter.

It's shocking video of an elderly man being throw to the ground and handcuffed during a traffic stop. Video of the exchange between the officer and driver involved in the traffic sop was released by police. The Oklahoma City Police Department has since put the officer on administrative leave pending an internal investigation into what happened saying in a statement "there was a use of force." Inside Edition Digital has more.

The tech consultant charged in Cash App founder Bob Lee 's stabbing death testified in his own defense Wednesday that he made a “bad joke” to try to put an end to a late night of drinking and doing drugs, and the famous entrepreneur suddenly attacked him. In his first public statements about the events leading to Lee's death, Nima Momeni said that he joked to Lee that he might want to spend his final night in San Francisco with family rather than trying to find a strip club. Momeni said Lee pulled out a knife and attacked him, forcing him to defend himself.