Driver arrested for striking Indiana trooper with vehicle, remains in critical condition: police A driver is in custody after striking an Indiana State Trooper with his vehicle in downtown Indianapolis. On Sunday, the trooper remains in critical condition. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - Update (Sunday, Jan. 21):  A driver is in custody after striking an Indiana State Trooper with his vehicle in downtown Indianapolis. On Sunday, the trooper remains in critical condition.

article The large and brightly colored Joro spider is easily noticeable. Native to Southeast Asia and Japan, the eight-legged spawn of the golden orb-weavers was first found about 2013 in Georgia and has since spread across the state and into the Southeast. NEW YORK - Giant venomous flying spiders may soon start moving northward across the Northeast. The large and vividly colored Joro spider, with its 4-inch-long legs enabling it to glide through the air, might reach as far north as New Jersey this summer, New Jersey Pest Control warned earlier this year.

article Victor Ayllon | Kane County State's Attorney's Office ELGIN, Ill. - A suburban man pleaded guilty to murdering his wife and leaving her body with their two young children in 2021 in Elgin. Victor Ayllon, 38, entered a guilty plea for first-degree murder Thursday in Kane County court. Ayllon allegedly strangled his wife to death on July 12, 2021, at their home in the 300 block of Heine Avenue.

EVANSTON, Ill. - Schenita Stewart was sworn in as the Evanston police chief at a city council meeting on Monday. Stewart grew up in Evanston and graduated from Evanston Township High School. She most recently served as the deputy chief of police for the East Dundee Police Department. She brings 23 years of law enforcement experience to Evanston, including 15 years in police leadership roles. Evanston City Manager Luke Stowe appointed Stewart to the role late last month.

article (FOX News) - At age 28, a professional cheerleader and dancer’s life took an unexpected turn when she suffered a stroke that left her paralyzed on her right side. “Everything went dizzy on me,” Tessa David told Fox59 of the incident, which happened Monday, Dec. 1, 2014. “My arm, I couldn’t feel it.” Sixty percent of David’s brain was injured, and she is no longer able to read and understand numbers.

Though many spies have been named as the inspiration for James Bond, Dusko Popov actually knew Sir Ian Flemming and gambled with him in between his international espionage escapades. Stringer/Getty ImagesSecret Agent Dusko Popov, who also went by the codenames “Ivan,” and “Tricycle.” “The name is Bond, James Bond.” Those words are some of the most recognizable in the world of fictional super spies. It’s how the martini-swilling, playboy agent created by Ian Fleming introduces himself to friend and foe alike.

In September 1978, 15-year-old Mary Vincent accepted a ride from a man named Lawrence Singleton — who then kidnapped, raped, and maimed her.Bettmann/Getty ImagesMary Vincent leaving the Los Angeles Press Club after a news conference where she warned other children her age not to hitchhike. Mary Vincent was a 15-year-old runaway heading to visit her grandfather in California when she accepted a ride from a man named Lawrence Singleton in September 1978 — and it changed her life forever.

article Ricky Biggs LAKE COUNTY, Ind. - A northwest Indiana man was arrested this week after police allegedly confiscated drugs and guns from his home. On Wednesday, the Lake County Drug Task Force and Lake County Sheriff's Department SWAT team executed a narcotics search warrant at a home in St. John, Indiana for an investigation into the sale of cocaine, authorities said. At the home, Ricky Biggs, 48, was allegedly found in the basement bathroom flushing suspected evidence down the toilet.

After four white police officers were acquitted for the beating of Rodney King in April 1992, protests turned violent as the LA riots left 53 dead, 2,000 injured, and thousands incarcerated.On April 29, 1992, the streets of South Central Los Angeles erupted into chaos. Four white officers of the LAPD had just been acquitted by a nearly all-white jury in the violent, videotaped beating of a black man named Rodney King — and the city’s black community was now incensed.

The Notorious B.I.G. was at the height of his fame when he was murdered in Los Angeles in 1997. And to this day, no one knows who shot Biggie Smalls.A quarter-century ago, Biggie Smalls’ death in Los Angeles shocked the hip hop world. The rapper, born Christopher Wallace and also known as The Notorious B.I.G., was 24 years old when unidentified shooters fired four bullets into his body and peeled off into the night.