1 Police Officer Dead, 1 Hurt in Offshore Helicopter Crash

Officer Nicholas Vella. (Huntington Beach Police Department via AP) NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.—Authorities were investigating Sunday the cause of a police helicopter crash along the Southern California coast that killed one officer and sent another to the hospital with critical injuries. The Huntington Beach officers were responding to a disturbance in the neighboring city of Newport Beach around 6:30 p.m. Saturday when the helic...