A Massachusetts police department accused one of its own officers on Thursday of lying about an assailant shooting his patrol car, causing him to spin into a tree and catch fire.

The bizarre incident took place on Wednesday when the 24-year-old part-time officer from Millis, Massachusetts reported that a man in a pickup truck fired at him, according to CNN.

By Friday, he was identified as Bryan Johnson and his story had unraveled, the Boston Globe reported.

President Barack Obama capped off a three-day visit to Alaska this week by performing a traditional Yup’ik dance on Wednesday at a middle school in Dillingham, Alaska.

Republican presidential candidate former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said on Friday during an appearance on Fox News that serial killers got better treatment by the American justice system than the Kentucky county clerk who was jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

Huckabee has been one of the most vocal presidential candidates to defend Rowan County, Kentucky clerk Kim Davis after she was jailed Thursday on contempt of federal court.

The ex-governor brought up the comparison to serial killers during an interview on Fox's "America's Newsroom."

"Jeffery Dahmer got bail, the Boston Stranger got bail, John Wayne Gacy got bail," Huckabee said. "Kim Davis, because of her convictions, was not given bail."

Vice President Joe Biden gave his most striking and somber answer yet on Thursday about whether he plans to run for President, saying during an appearance at an Atlanta synagogue that he's unsure if he "has the emotional energy to run."

The lockdown of Kansas State University's campus in Manhattan, Kansas was lifted just after 9:30 a.m. EST after reports of a "possible armed suspect" last seen on the south side of campus early Friday morning.

The university said the campus was scheduled to reopen and classes to resume at 9:30 a.m. CST.

Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt stumped Republican presidential candidate and former reality television star Donald Trump on Thursday with a question about the special Quds Force within Iran's Revolutionary Guard, and its leader, Gen. Qasem Soleimani.

Trump, appearing on Hewitt's radio show, confused the force with the Kurdish ethnic group in the Middle East.

Celebrity tycoon and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump accused conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt of asking "gotcha questions" concerning world terror organizations and their leaders during an appearance on Hewitt's show on Thursday.

When Hewitt asked the same questions later in the day (before the Trump interview circulated) of fellow Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, she said these questions "are at the heart of the threat that we face."

Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry had a weird message on Thursday for fellow Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who said Perry's campaign is crashing: "A broken clock is right once a day."

Sen. Rand Paul's (R-KY) said on Thursday it was "absurd" that Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis had been jailed for contempt after refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

Celebrity tycoon and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has solidified his plurality among national Republican voters with 30 percent of support in a Monmouth University Poll released Thursday.