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A suspect police say was trying to hit people with his truck in a Boulder, Colorado, park Tuesday morning has been charged with attempted murder. A suspect police say was trying to hit people with his truck in a Boulder, Colorado, park Tuesday morning has been charged with attempted murder. Boulder 911 received its first emergency call at around 6:26 a.m. CT, with the caller reporting that someone was driving through Boulder’s Central Park trying to run people over, police said at a news conference on Tuesday afternoon. Officers arrived on the scene in about a minute, but the truck was gone. In this handout photo, provided by Boulder Police Department, a suspect is seen allegedly trying to run people down in Boulder's Central Park in Colo. on Sept. 19, 2023. Boulder Police/Twitter MORE: New details in F-35 'mishap' as mystery remains about how jet was lost Following a search involving officers and the police department’s drone team, the vehicle was eventually located in a ...

Exposure to anhydrous ammonia apparently caused the deaths of five people when a tanker truck loaded with the hazardous material overturned Friday night in Illinois. Exposure to anhydrous ammonia apparently caused the deaths of five people, including two children, when a tanker truck loaded with the hazardous material overturned on a highway Friday night in a rural Illinois community, according to preliminary findings from the local coroner's office. At least seven other people from six different states were also treated at hospitals after being overcome by what authorities described as a "large plume cloud" that was released when the tanker truck spilled its load on a highway east of Teutopolis, Illinois, Effingham County Coroner Kim Rhodes said in a statement Sunday evening. Autopsies are scheduled to be performed Monday morning on the victims to confirm the preliminary findings, Rhodes said. Emergency responders set up a staging area near Teutopolis High School, Sept. ...

Lawyer: amount will likely be reduced to $300K because of statute. A deaf man who says a truck driving company told him that they would not hire him because he couldn't hear won over $36 million in damages by a jury a month ago. Victor Robinson, who is in his 40s and has lived his whole life deaf, told ABC News that Werner Enterprises trucking company passed him in their commercial driver's license (CDL) training program, but when he applied for a job in 2016, the company's Vice President of Safety and Compliance Jamie Hamm, who was Jamie Maus at the time, told him he wouldn't get the job. "It was really intense," Robinson told ABC News through an interpreter. "The person said, 'We can't hire you because you can't hear,' and hung up [the video call]. And there it was. The end. And I got to the point where I didn't know what else to do." Robinson eventually reached out to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EE...

Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to sentence a convicted terrorist to multiple life sentences "to provide just punishment" for killing eight people. Sayfullo Saipov, the Uzbekistan native who planned and carried out a 2017 ISIS-inspired terror attack on the west side of Manhattan, deserves multiple life sentences "to provide just punishment" for killing eight people, federal prosecutors said Monday in a sentencing memorandum to the judge. Judge Vernon Broderick is scheduled to impose a sentence on Wednesday after more than two dozen relatives of victims deliver statements to the court. Most of them will be traveling from Argentina or Belgium, the native countries of the tourist victims. Saipov was convicted in January of all 28 counts he faced in connection to carrying out the deadly attack along a Hudson River bike path with a truck he had rented, but escaped the death penalty after jurors deadlocked on sentencing for the nine charges Saipov faced that were...

Thirteen bison were killed or had to be euthanized after they were struck by a semi-truck involved in an accident with two other vehicles on a dark Montana highway just outside Yellowstone National Park WEST YELLOWSTONE, Mont. -- Thirteen bison were killed or had to be euthanized after their herd was s truck by a semi- truck involved in an accident with two other vehicles on a dark Montana highway just outside Yellowstone National Park, authorities said Friday. The semi- truck s truck the bison after dark on Wednesday night. Some bison were killed in the crash, and others were put down due to the severity of their injuries, the West Yellowstone Police Department said in a statement. No one in the truck or in the two other vehicles was hurt, said Police Chief Mike Gavagan. Authorities said they were investigating the cause of the accident, which occurred at about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday on U.S. Highway 191, just north of the town of West Yellowstone. The town serves as a wes...