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Authorities in Florida have arrested a 14-year- old boy in connection with a shoot ing that left one victim dead and another in critical condition. Authorities in Florida have arrested a 14-year- old boy in connection with a shoot ing that left one victim dead and another in critical condition. Reports for the shooting at the 11000 block of Lynmoor Drive in Riverview, Florida, came in on Saturday afternoon at the same time that emergency dispatchers received calls detailing a young male suspect running through the neighborhood with a handgun, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. MORE: Philadelphia teen arrested, charged in FBI terrorism investigation When deputies arrived at the scene, they contacted the suspect, who repeatedly pointed the gun to his head and threatened to shoot himself, authorities said. The deputies then began de-escalation tactics and negotiated with the suspect for 16 minutes, ultimately convincing him to lower his weapon, Hillsborough Coun...

Some of Donald Trump’s top rivals for the Republican presidential nomination are addressing a gathering of influential evangelical Christians in Iowa DES MOINES, Iowa -- Some of Donald Trump 's top rivals for the Republican presidential nomination addressed a large gathering of influential Iowa evangelical Christians on Saturday night, hoping to woo them away from the former president at an event he is skipping. Former Vice President Mike Pence was attending the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition's annual banquet and town hall in Des Moines along with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy. Also speaking were Nikki Haley, a former South Carolina governor who served as Trump's ambassador to the United Nations, as well as Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson and former Texas Rep. Will Hurd. “Once again it starts in Iowa and it depends on you,” Republican Iowa Gov. Reynolds told the crowd. “Are you ready to take our country ...

The state of California has filed a lawsuit against some of the world's largest oil and gas companies, claiming they deceived the public about the risks of fossil fuels blamed for climate change-related storms and wildfires that caused billions of doll... LOS ANGELES -- The state of California filed a lawsuit against some of the world’s largest oil and gas companies, claiming they deceived the public about the risks of fossil fuels now faulted for climate change-related storms and wildfires that caused billions of dollars in damage, officials said Saturday. The civil lawsuit filed in state Superior Court in San Francisco also seeks creation of a fund — financed by the companies — to pay for recovery efforts following devastating storms and fires. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a statement the companies named in the lawsuit — Exxon Mobil, Shell, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and BP — should be held accountable. “For more than 50 years, Big Oil has been lying to us — covering up t...

Prisoners at the Louisiana State Penitentiary have filed a class-action lawsuit over conditions at the prison's farm BATON ROUGE, La. -- Men incarcerated at Louisiana State Penitentiary filed a class-action lawsuit Saturday, contending they have been forced to work in the prison’s fields for little or no pay, even when temperatures soar past 100 degrees. They described the conditions as cruel, degrading and often dangerous. The men, most of whom are Black, work on the farm of the 18,000-acre maximum-security prison known as Angola -- the site of a former slave plantation -- hoeing, weeding and picking crops by hand, often surrounded by armed guards, the suit said. If they refuse to work or fail to meet quotas, they can be sent to solitary confinement or otherwise punished, according to disciplinary guidelines. “This labor serves no legitimate penological or institutional purpose,” the suit said. “It’s purely punitive, designed to ‘break’ incarcerated men and ensure their submission...

Jaahnavi Kandula died after she was struck by a Seattle police officer in January. On Monday, SPD released body cam video of an officer seemingly joking about her death The family of 23-year-old Northeastern University graduate student Jaahnavi Kandula, who died after being struck by a Seattle police officer in January, is speaking out just days after body camera video appears to show a different officer joking about the incident. Jaahnavi Kandula died after being struck by a Seattle police officer who was responding to a call earlier this year. Courtesy The Kandula Family “Jaahnavi was a brilliant student with a promising future. Her radiant smile and bubbly personality warmed the hearts of everyone she met, and she had a natural ability to connect with people from all walks of life. Jaahnavi's untimely and tragic accident has left her family with an unfillable void in their lives,” the student’s family told ABC News in a statement. “It is truly disturbing and saddening to hear in...

Alissa Turney was believed to be another teen runaway. A killer's false confession led authorities to take a closer look. When Michael Turney reported his 17-year-old stepdaughter Alissa Turney missing in May 2001, Phoenix police believed she was a rebellious runaway. There was a note in her room saying she was headed to California, and her friends and siblings said she was weary of her stepfather’s overly strict rules and couldn’t wait to turn 18 and be on her own. Then, in 2006, the case went from a presumed runaway to a possible homicide. A convicted murderer in Florida, Thomas Hymer, claimed to be a serial killer and seemingly confessed to killing Alissa. Investigators found his claims of being a serial killer and the confession to be false, but it resulted in two Phoenix detectives taking a closer look at the teen’s disappearance. It wasn’t long before they began to suspect something wasn’t adding up, and they turned their attention to Michael Turney as a possible suspect. Tur...

A judge has issued an interim stay of the New York AG's civil fraud lawsuit against former President Trump that is scheduled to go on trial Oct. 2, sources tell ABC News. A New York appellate judge on Thursday issued an interim stay of the state attorney general's $250 million civil fraud lawsuit against former President Donald Trump that is scheduled to go on trial Oct. 2, sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News. The judge's order was issued during a previously unscheduled virtual hearing that was not open to the public. The Appellate Division's First Department will now hear Trump's request to delay the trial. MORE: New York AG seeks legal sanctions against Trump as part of $250M lawsuit Responding to the ruling, Attorney General Letitia James said, "We are confident in our case and will be ready for trial." Whether the trial starts as scheduled next month will depend on how quickly the panel hears the arguments and renders a decision. Befor...

One of the latest topics at the center of the culture wars is "parental rights" and fights over how much say parents have in school curriculum. In Chester County, Pennsylvania -- a suburb of Philadelphia -- Ronna Dewey, a mother with a recently graduated son, was alarmed when calls for the removal of certain books started occurring in her district in 2021. "Two of the books in particular that they were targeting were written by and about people who identify as part of [the LGBTQ] community," Dewey, whose son is gay, told ABC News. "And so, it felt really personal to me. It felt like a direct attack on my son and my family." Shannon Grady, another parent from the district, sees things differently. She said she and some fellow parents are not advocating for the banning of books but for age appropriateness of reading material and of the curriculum. Grady is chair of the local chapter of the national Moms for Liberty -- a conservative organization -- and said ...