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Merced Police Department(MERCED, Calif.) -- The man accused of shooting and killing a Northern California police officer the day after Christmas has been charged with murder, according to court documents.The criminal complaint filed in Stanislaus County for suspect Gustavo Perez Arriaga, 32, a Mexican national, alleges that Arriaga "should have known" that Police Cpl. Ronil Singh was a "sworn police officer acting in the performance of his duties" and therefore […]

Chalabala/iStock(MILWAUKEE) -- Three people are dead, including a mother and her young daughter, after an SUV fleeing police plunged into an icy river in Wisconsin on New Year's Eve.Officers from the Milwaukee Police Department began chasing a black Chevrolet Trailblazer Monday after it matched the description of two armed burglaries that occurred earlier that evening, authorities said.Around 7 p.m., a victim reported that three suspects -- two men and a […]

Woodland Park Police Department(DENVER) -- A woman being investigated for her role in the case of missing Colorado mother Kelsey Berreth has been identified as a 32-year-old nurse from Twin Falls, Idaho, two of the woman's family members and a law enforcement source told ABC News.ABC News is withholding reporting the woman's name because she has not been publicly identified by law enforcement investigators.Berreth’s fiancé, Patrick Frazee, was formally charged […]

BlakeDavidTaylor/iStock(TAMPA, Fla.) -- Four Floridians were set for one heck of a New Year's Eve party.Police arrested four men in Hillsborough County on Dec. 31 after they allegedly tried to steal more than $500,000 worth of premium tequila.The men -- identified as Vidal Estrada, 66, Lemuel Escobar, 35, Humberto Ramirez, 37, and Alberto Obaya, 46 -- were arrested near Tampa, Florida, after officers caught them with nearly 1,000 cases of […]

KTRK-TV(HOUSTON) -- A Houston teenager was allegedly fleeing from an armed driver on Tuesday when he ran a red light and slammed into the driver's side of a truck at an intersection, killing a 30-year-old woman.The 14-year-old driver said he was fleeing from a motorist who flashed a semi-automatic weapon at him before he sped through the intersection and smashed into the woman's Ford F-150 truck, according to police. She […]

ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A developing storm in the Southwest brought another round of snow to the Four Corners on New Year’s Day, including almost 3 feet of snow in the mountains north of Albuquerque, New Mexico.The storm will interact with a low in the Gulf of Mexico and bring snow, freezing rain, sleet and flooding in the southern U.S. through Friday. Winter storm warnings, winter weather advisories, flash flood […]

Brevard Zoo in Florida.(MELBOURNE, Fla.) -- The rhinoceros who touched a child after she entered its enclosure on Tuesday will not be "punished," according to zookeepers.The incident occurred on New Year's Day at the Brevard Zoo in Melbourne, Florida, when a 2-year-old girl was visiting the zoo's "Rhino Encounter."Zoo officials have released new information about the incident, which they said started when the girl managed to get into the animal's […]

WSB(ATLANTA) -- A Georgia teenager who killed himself after shooting his 17-year-old friend to death while showing off a loaded handgun on New Year's Eve has been identified by police.Devin Hodges, 15, died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound on Monday after a gun he was handling in front of a group of boys accidentally went off inside what police described as a "makeshift shed" behind a home in the […]

Mark Wilson/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Marine who was shot and killed in what appeared to be a negligent discharge at the barracks in Washington D.C. has been identified, in an incident his commander called a "terrible loss."Lance Cpl. Riley S. Kuznia, 20, was named by the Marine Corps as the individual who died at the barracks early Tuesday morning."We are truly saddened by this terrible loss. Riley was a highly […]