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Prosecutors won’t seek to restore the death penalty against Scott Peterson, convicted of killing his wife and unborn child nearly two decades ago, a Northern California district attorney said Friday in a court filing. Stanislaus County District Attorney Birgit Fladager says she won’t retry the penalty phase of the trial after consulting with the family

Click here for updates on this story     ATLANTA (WGCL) — Memorial Day Weekend, an Atlanta man reunited with the man who saved his life. Wesley Wozgen, a math teacher at Centennial High School, says he is feeling great after receiving a kidney transplant on Memorial Day Weekend 2020. Now, he’s spending some quality time with

Click here for updates on this story     ALOHA, Oregon (KPTV) — The Washington County Sheriff’s Office said four juveniles stole a car, crashed it and were later arrested on Friday afternoon. One of the suspects also had an altered BB gun, with a magazine containing actual bullets. The sheriff’s office said it responded to a

Click here for updates on this story     PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — A Portland family believes it was a TikTok fire challenge video that is behind why their 13-year-old is now in the intensive care unit with severe burns on her neck and arm. Kimberly Crane is Destini Crane’s mother and said her daughter was filming

Click here for updates on this story     VANCOUVER, Washington (KPTV) — A Salem man is accused of recording at least one woman with a hidden camera inside an employee restroom in a locked unit at PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center in Vancouver. Investigators identified the man as Jason Schultz. Court records state he photographed or filmed

Click here for updates on this story     MILLS RIVER, North Carolina (WLOS) — At Mills River Park, Layla Hildenbrand is prepared to go the extra mile for a cause close to her heart. More than 20 extra miles, in fact. “I’ve put my pedometer on, and just throughout the day, I’ve gotten miles,” explained 11-year-old

Click here for updates on this story     ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — An Asheville group is pressing police and the district attorney to make an arrest in a road rage incident in which a pickup truck hit a homeless man’s cart with a cat inside. The video of the driver circling and then striking the

Click here for updates on this story     ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — Dramatic dash camera video captures the scary moments a driver plows into an Illinois State Police squad car. The sergeant pulled off to the side of the highway after a traffic stop in Moline earlier this week. The emergency lights were still on when

Click here for updates on this story     CEDAR HILL, Missouri (KMOV) — A man was killed and a deputy was wounded during an shootout with police who were executing a search warrant in Jefferson County late Friday night. Deputies with the Jefferson County SWAT team arrived to the 8000 block of Lake Drive near Cedar

Click here for updates on this story     ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — St. Louis police have released surveillance pictures of suspects who they say danced on top of a police car and damaged it on Washington Avenue early Sunday morning. Videos of the incident have circulated on social media. Officers told News 4 there was a

Try to imagine for a moment, if you will, what it must be like to walk in space. After suiting up, you step outside the airlock. The International Space Station, nearly the length of an American football field, dwarfs you. Its exterior will be your workspace for the next six-and-a-half hours. Planet Earth appears before

At least seven people were wounded during a shooting late Friday in Miami, police said. Officers responding to gunshot detection system alerts in Wynwood shortly before midnight found several people with what appeared to be gunshot wounds, Miami Police Department spokeswoman Kiara Delva said. Some shooting victims arrived at the hospital on their own, Delva

Seismologists in the Democratic Republic of Congo reported 61 earthquakes in a 24-hour period on Saturday around the Mount Nyiragongo volcano, which erupted a week ago, warning residents to keep well away from lava flows. The details were outlined in a daily report prepared for the government by the Goma Volcanic Observatory (GVO), and seen

Las Vegas police are asking for the public’s help in identifying the body of a child found by hikers Friday morning. The boy is believed to be Hispanic and about 10 years old, Lt. Ray Spencer of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said. He was 4 feet, 11 inches tall and weighed 123 pounds.

As more schools reconsider the role of legacy status in college admissions, Colorado has taken a significant step toward leveling the playing field. Gov. Jared Polis signed a law earlier this week banning officials at state-supported higher education institutions from considering family relationships to alumni — otherwise known as legacy preference — as a criteria

A team of Australian scientists has discovered a curious “chocolate frog” tree frog in the lowland rainforests of New Guinea. Tree frogs are known for their green skin — but due to its brown coloring, researchers named it “chocolate frog” — and the name stuck. “The closest known relative of Litoria mira is the Australian