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iStock(EL PASO, Texas) -- In the wake of a shooting in El Paso, Texas, that left 20 dead and dozens more injured, people wasted no time heading to blood donation…
iStock(EL PASO, Texas) -- Two mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, took the lives of 29 people collectively, injuring over 50 others, within 15 hours of each…
iStock(EL PASO, Texas) -- A 2-year-old victim survived a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, according to Rep. Veronica Escobar, because the child's mother used her body as a shield.Escobar…
WKEF-TV(DAYTON, Ohio) -- Investigators are working through evidence as they grapple with the aftermath of the deadly shooting in downtown Dayton, Ohio, and what it means to have citizens armed…
iStock(NEW YORK) -- A stalled system in the central and southern Plains led to more thunderstorms early Friday after parts of Kansas on Thursday saw more than 9 inches of…
iStock(ARLINGTON, Texas) -- A woman in Texas died on Thursday after a police officer shot her while firing his weapon at an unrestrained dog.Police officers, the fire department and emergency…
iStock(MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich.) -- A Michigan man was sentenced on Thursday to 60 weekend days in jail for poisoning his ex-wife's coffee, outraging prosecutors who called for a harsher penalty.Brian…
iStock(NEW YORK) -- More than 100 severe weather reports came in on Wednesday, mostly in the Northeast.A 73 mph gust was reported at Logan Airport in Boston, and an apparent…
Franklin County Sheriff's Office(COLUMBUS, Ohio) -- Five Ohio police officers -- including a commander, a lieutenant, a sergeant and two arresting officers -- have been departmentally charged in connection with…
iStock(HUSTONVILLE, Ky.) -- At least one person was killed in a massive explosion in Kentucky's Lincoln County on Thursday in the early morning hours, authorities said.A 30-inch gas pipeline exploded…
iStock(BOSTON) -- Police in Massachusetts asked a simple favor of residents who may be planning a crime over the weekend: Please wait until the heat wave is over to conduct…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Ninety-four million people in parts of 23 states remain under excessive heat warnings and heat advisories on Sunday as one last day of scorching temperatures hits…
WTAE-TV(FARMINGTON, Penn.) -- An employee at a wildlife resort in Pennsylvania was attacked by a bear on Saturday.The guide at Nemacolin Woodlands Resort in Farmington, Pennsylvania, about 60 miles south…
iStock(OXNARD, Calif.) -- The mother of a newborn and her boyfriend have been arrested after the disturbing murder of the baby soon after she gave birth at a California hospital.Andrea…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Several heat index readings came close to setting records across the eastern half of the U.S. on Friday, with the hottest temperatures still yet to come…
ABC News(BATON ROUGE, La.) -- Residents of Louisiana felt the full brunt of Tropical Storm Barry's rainfall overnight as they woke to find localized flooding and tens of thousands without…
iStock(BATON ROUGE, La.) -- Homicide investigators are probing a "heinous act" after the body of a 75-year-old woman who co-founded an African American museum in Louisiana was discovered dead in…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- With landfall hours away, Tropical Storm Barry was already lashing the southern coast of Louisiana with wind and heavy rain.Barry is forecast to be a low-end…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- It was another hot day across much of the U.S. on Friday, including the parts of the Northeast, where the region's first official heat wave of…
iStock(HAMPTON, Va.) -- Police in Virginia now believe a 2-year-old boy missing for almost a week is dead, and they charged his mother with three counts of felony child neglect…
NASA(WASHINGTON) -- With the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing on July 20, Charles Fishman, the author of One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission that Flew Us to…
Long Beach Police Department(LOS ANGELES) -- Just a week before the Fourth of July, police in Southern California busted an illegal dealer with 2 1/2 tons of fireworks.The Long Beach…
Salt Lake City Police(SALT LAKE CITY) -- Authorities are searching the home of a person of interest in the mysterious case of missing University of Utah student Mackenzie Lueck, police…
Scott Olson/Getty Images(FAIRFAX, Va.) -- A high-ranking leader of the NRA has resigned amid growing turmoil in the gun group.Chris Cox has stepped down from his post as the NRA’s…
Forsyth County Sheriff's Office(ATLANTA) -- A Georgia family and local sheriff's deputy are opening up about the "emotional" moment they rescued an unidentified baby girl who was abandoned in a…
iStock(DENVER) -- A shortcut to the Denver International Airport turned into a "muddy mess" on Sunday for dozens of drivers who were following directions from Google Maps.Connie Monsees of Highlands…
iStock(NEW YORK) -- A mother and her two young children have been found dead inside their New York City home just hours after the children's father was picked up by…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A complex storm system is bringing the next round of severe weather and flash flooding in the Plains Sunday morning and it will bring more severe…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- The wife of a former Navy SEAL, now on trial for the murder of a teenage member of ISIS while he served in Iraq in 2017,…
iStock(NEWPORT NEWS, Va.) -- A suspect has been arrested in the fatal shooting of a beloved dentist in Virginia, police said early Saturday.Newport News dentist William Trolenberg, 65, was found…
iStock(VIRGINIA BEACH, Va.) -- A longtime city employee entered a packed building of the Virginia Beach Municipal Center using his own security pass and wielding two .45-caliber guns as he…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- River flooding remains a concern through the weekend in parts of the central U.S. after weeks of relentless severe weather.May was the wettest it has been…
iStock(VIRGINIA BEACH, Va.) -- A city worker opened fire "indiscriminately" at the Municipal Center in Virginia Beach Friday afternoon, killing at least 12 people before he was shot dead by…
iStock(NEW YORK) -- A NYPD officer allegedly paid her boyfriend $7,000 to help her hire a hit man to murder her estranged husband and the boyfriend's teen daughter, according to…
iStock(CANAAN, N.H.) -- On a Thursday in March, when a New Hampshire high school student wanted lunch but had forgotten to bring money to school, a lunch lady named Bonnie…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A major severe weather outbreak got underway on Friday across parts of the Plains with 31 reported tornadoes in four states (Nebraska, Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas).…
iStock(PORTLAND, Maine) -- A teacher in Maine has filed a lawsuit against her former school district, saying she was terminated over taking breaks to pump breast milk and breastfeed her…
ABC News(SALT LAKE CITY) -- A Utah woman poisoned her boyfriend with Drano because she wanted him to go into "eternal sleep," according to police.Elle Weissman, 43, was charged with…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A third straight day of severe storms is about to become a fourth.There have been 60 reported tornadoes over the last three days, including 12 reported…
iStock(WASHINGTON) -- In a setback for the U.S. military's efforts to reduce sexual assault in the military, a new Pentagon survey released Thursday shows the number of sexual assaults increased…
Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department(CHARLOTTE, N.C.) -- Shocked survivors of the shooting at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte came together in grief as the suspected gunman's next court date…
KABC-TV(LOS ANGELES) -- The mayor of Inglewood, California, and a member of the Los Angeles Police Department are counting their blessings after a horrifying car crash on Tuesday sent his…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A slow-moving complex of storms continue to produce tornadoes, damaging winds, hail and flooding on Thursday, one day after two people were killed and at least…
iStock(YAKIMA, Wash.) -- Several students were injured at a Washington state high school on Wednesday when strong wind gusts caused a bounce house to flip over.Officials at Zillah High School,…
iStock(ORLANDO) -- Police in Florida issued arrest warrants for more than 100 members of a suspected drug gang on Wednesday and seized enough fentanyl to wipe out a large county.…
iStock(INDIANAPOLIS) -- Two Indianapolis circuit court judges were shot while in the parking lot of a White Castle early Wednesday morning, according to police.Clark County Judges Bradley Jacobs and Andrew…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A very slow-moving set of storm systems continues to pummel the central U.S. with severe storms and flooding rain on Wednesday morning.A tornado outbreak triggered 25…
iStock(DANIA BEACH, Fla.) -- A man told police that he fled the scene of a deadly South Florida crash because he went home to stash his drugs.Police arrested 37-year-old Terrance…
Alex Wong/Getty Images(INDIANAPOLIS) -- Retired Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North announced on Saturday that he will not serve a second term as president of the National Rifle Association, after he…
Xinhua/ via Getty Images(SAN DIEGO) -- A woman was fatally shot and three others were injured in a shooting during a Passover celebration at a San Diego synagogue Saturday, officials…
iStock(BETHLEHEM, Pa.) -- Police in Pennsylvania have arrested a suspect in connection to two separate arson fires at the same church earlier this week.Wilmer J. Ortiz Torres, 43, was arrested…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- The storm system that brought severe thunderstorms in the Mid-Atlantic and large hail in New England on Friday has moved out of the picture for the…
Apple Valley Police Department(APPLE VALLEY, Calif.) -- The mother of a missing 6-year-old from Southern California has been arrested on child cruelty charges while authorities continue to search for her…
Hugo Police Department(HUGO, Okla.) -- Three children were injured as police in Oklahoma opened fire on a robbery suspect Friday evening. The suspect was also shot in the incident.William Devaughn…
iStock(LOS ANGELES) -- California has joined other states in ending racial discrimination against people with natural hairstyles such as braids, twists and afros.On Monday, the Senate passed the CROWN Act…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A slow-moving storm system drenched Texas overnight with some areas getting as much as a half a foot of rain and causing flooding, stranded cars and…
iStock(SUNNYVALE, Calif.) -- A driver in California sped through an intersection and plowed into a group of pedestrians on Tuesday night, injuring at least eight people, including a 13-year-old.The crash…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A storm system that brought damaging winds and large hail from Texas to Mississippi on Saturday will interact with a developing storm to bring the next…
Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune/TNS via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- When it was revealed that a man claiming to be a missing teen was neither him nor a teen, it was shocking…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A new storm is beginning to organize along the Texas-New Mexico border, and it's expected to deliver a first round of severe weather Saturday from Texas…
iStock(HOLLY SPRINGS, N.C.) -- Though the school bus is the safest vehicle on the road -- students are 70 times more likely to get to school safely compared with traveling…
iStock(DALLAS) -- Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested more than 280 workers at a Texas technology company in what the agency described as the largest workplace raid in a decade.Agents with…
iStock(MONTGOMERY, Ala.) -- The Department of Justice blasted Alabama's men's prisons on Wednesday, saying in a report that the system fails to protect inmates from violence and sexual assault, and…
WABC-TV(JERSEY CITY, N.J.) -- A man was arrested early Sunday and charged with murder in the strangulation killing of a 45-year-old nanny, whose body was discovered a week ago floating…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- The East Coast is in for a rude awakening as temperatures drop as much as 40 degrees in some areas after a beautiful spring day on…
iStock(COLUMBIA, Calif.) -- A 21-year-old student at the University of South Carolina who went missing early Saturday morning has died.Samantha Josephson was last seen by friends between 1:30 a.m. and…
Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images(CHICAGO) -- The municipal war of words in Chicago over the dismissal of felony charges against actor Jussie Smollett for faking a racially charged attack on himself heated…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A strong frontal system on Friday brought a round of severe weather to parts of Colorado and the High Plains, including thunderstorms and a reported tornado…
ABC News(PONCHATOULA, La.) -- School administrators in Louisiana say they are investigating the aggressive takedown of a female middle school student caught on video this week.The video, shot at Ponchatoula…
iStock(SPRINGFIELD, S.C.) -- Seven law enforcement officers, including one department's police chief, were indicted Friday on charges they took bribes to falsify immigration statuses and obtain visas, according to the…
Jim Dyson/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The Rolling Stones is pushing back the next leg of its North American tour because frontman Mick Jagger needs medical treatment, according to a statement.…
iStock(ATHENS, Ga.) -- A fraternity at the University of Georgia has been suspended after video allegedly showing members whipping someone and referring to them picking cotton surfaced on social media.Georgia's…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A storm over the central Plains is expected to move eastward through the day Sunday, bringing the next round of severe weather to parts of the…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Major, even historic, river flooding is occurring in parts of the Plains and Upper Midwest and will persist through the weekend and into early next week.There…
MGM Resorts International(LAS VEGAS) -- An attempted robbery at the Bellagio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas ended in a gunfight between police and the suspect late Friday. An armed…
Nick Cammett/Diamond Images/Getty Images(OVERLAND PARK, Kan.) -- A police investigation into the abuse of a child is underway at the home of Kansas City Chiefs star Tyreek Hill, according to…
iStock(NEW YORK) -- Here are the scores from Friday’s sports events:INTERLEAGUEPhiladelphia 3 Toronto 2L.A. Angels 5, San Francisco 5Chicago Cubs 11, Chicago White Sox 9L.A. Angels 2, Arizona 1Colorado 2,…
ABC News(HONOLULU) -- An intensifying Pacific storm about 500 miles north of Kauai is rapidly moving south toward the Hawaiian Islands.The storm will come very near Hawaii on Sunday. The…
iStock(CINCINNATI) -- A veteran sheriff's detective was shot to death and his partner was injured in a gun battle with a 23-year-old suspect in an attempted burglary, who was allegedly…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A large storm brought heavy rain, high winds and very heavy mountain snow to California on Saturday. A series of storms is set to bring further…
iStock(CHICAGO) -- A violent and "disturbing" confrontation between a female high school student and two Chicago police officers caught on cellphone video at a city school has resulted in felony…
iStock(CHARLESTON, W.Va.) -- Fourteen people were injured Saturday in West Virginia in a charter bus accident, officials said.One of the victims, a student, had to be airlifted to a trauma…
Maricopa County Sheriff's Office(GILA BEND, Ariz.) -- Authorities in Arizona announced on Friday the seizure of two massive truckloads of marijuana and methamphetamine worth $2 million and the arrests of…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A major Pacific storm moving onshore in California on Saturday morning will bring numerous hazards, including a high risk for flash flooding along the Southern California…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A powerful storm continues to move through the Northeast on Sunday, after it brought up to 15 inches of snow in the Midwest and three reported…
KOCO-TV(NORMAN, Okla.) -- A racist video that swept across the campus of the University of Oklahoma (OU) this week received widespread condemnation and resulted in one student being kicked out…
David Cliff/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Outrage was growing across the political spectrum over the weekend after dozens of teens from an all-male Catholic school in Kentucky -- some wearing bright-red…
David Cliff/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Outrage was growing across the political spectrum over the weekend after dozens of teens from an all-male Catholic school in Kentucky -- some wearing bright-red…
iStock(TEMPE, Ariz.) -- Police released body cam footage on Friday of a shooting from earlier in the week in which a 14-year-old was shot and killed while running away from…
Carsten Koall/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) -- For the third year in a row, women across the world came out in the thousands Saturday to protest the Trump administration and to fight…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A major winter storm is set to bring heavy snow from the Midwest to the Northeast this weekend -- with widespread totals of 10 to 20…
Joe Raedle/Getty Images(PARKLAND, Fla.) -- In an investigative report on the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, earlier this year, a state commission pointed to several security failures at Marjory Stoneman…
iStock(PLANTATION, Fla.) -- A Florida man claiming to be homeless scammed shoppers outside a Target department store into giving him money -- and then rewarded their generosity with $100 bills.The…
iStock(WOODLAND PARK, Colo.) -- A Colorado man accused of murdering his fiancee appeared in court on Thursday, where a judge ordered that the couple's baby daughter be temporarily placed in…
WPVI-TV(BETHLEHEM, Penn.) -- A Chinese national accused of poisoning his college roommate in Pennsylvania is now charged with trying to get himself deported to avoid prosecution, according to police.Former Lehigh…
Simin Liu/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A transformer explosion lit up the night sky in New York City on Thursday, turning the skyline bright blue for a moment and frightening…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A storm system playing havoc with holiday travelers returning home from vacation is moving into the Southeast on Thursday with severe storms and snow to the…
iStock(ORLANDO) -- A Florida fire department released audio of a frightening 911 call on Tuesday, capturing a dispatcher as she coached a caller through how to save a 1-year-old boy's…
Mokena Police Department(MOKENA, Ill.) -- Police officer Peter Staglewicz narrowly avoided tragedy last month when he swerved off the road just a few feet from being slammed into by a…
WLS-TV(CHICAGO) -- Police are searching for an 18-year-old University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) student who vanished two weeks ago.Shalyha Ahmad's family said they dropped her off at a Chicago…
Mizpah Volunteer Fire Company 18-2(MIZPAH, N.J.) -- A young volunteer firefighter from New Jersey was killed Christmas morning when her car crashed into a guardrail as she responded to an…
WABC-TV(BERKELEY TOWNSHIP, N.J.) -- Four people are dead after a sedan plowed into the back of a tanker truck in New Jersey overnight on Wednesday.The accident took place just before…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A major storm system is moving out of the west and will redevelop in the Plains, bringing severe storms to the south and heavy snow to…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- As the Northeast gets a break from unsettled weather -- at least for the time being -- attention turns to the Pacific Northwest.Radar and satellite imagery…
Emma McIntyre/Getty Images(PARKLAND, Fla.) -- David Hogg may have been mocked for not being accepted into the universities he originally applied for, but the Parkland shooting survivor will be attending…
Woodland Park Police Department(MOSES LAKE, Wash.) -- Churchgoers in Washington state gathered Friday night to remember Colorado mother Kelsey Berreth, hours after her fiancé was arrested and accused of killing…
Broward Sheriff's Office(SUNRISE, Fla.) -- A Florida man allegedly stabbed his wife to death after she refused to let him move back in, and then threw her body out in…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- The storm that plagued the Northeast on Friday is still working its way up the New England coast on Saturday morning.Rain showers stretch from Virginia to…
iStock(DENVER) -- Chase Bishop was already guilty of poor judgment on the dance floor, but on Friday the FBI agent pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge in order to…
iStock(NEW YORK) -- The New York City subway system is badly in need of an infusion of cash. Police would prefer not dropping off $10,000 at your local station, though.Richard…
Brendan Mullin/U.S. Marine Corps (WASHINGTON) -- Days before the midterm elections, President Donald Trump announced the deployment of active duty troops to the southern border to stop caravans of migrants…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A storm in the eastern U.S. is bringing mainly heavy rain to half of the nation this weekend. On Friday, over 2 inches of rain fell…
Woodland Park Police Department(WOODLAND PARK, Colo.) -- The search for a young Colorado mother who vanished on Thanksgiving Day is intensifying with local police enlisting help from law enforcement nationwide…
Kanawha County Sheriff's Office(CROSS LANES, W.Va.) -- She impressed beauty pageant judges with her fiddle playing and tugged at hearts with her personal battle with multiple sclerosis, but now former…
WCVB-TV(WORCESTER, Mass.) -- A Worcester, Massachusetts, firefighter died early Sunday while battling a massive fire in a three-story building -- the latest in a sad history of firefighter deaths in…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A major storm that dumped over 10 inches of snow on Lubbock, Texas, on Saturday is moving into the Southeast on Sunday with heavy rain on…
iStock(LACEY, Wash.) -- Federal authorities in Washington state are investigating the latest in a troubling series of arson cases at worship halls for Jehovah's Witnesses.The latest fire broke out Friday…
Cynthia Johnson/Liaison(WASHINGTON) -- After "Hail to Chief" and a 21-gun salute rang out, the casket of President George H.W. Bush was carried up the steps of the U.S. Capitol as…
Oklahoma Department of Corrections (STILLWATER, Okla.) -- A massive manhunt in Oklahoma for a convicted murderer serving a life sentence continued Sunday, three days after he posed as his look-alike…
iStock(LINCOLN, Ill.) -- A rash of tornadoes broke out Saturday afternoon and evening across central Illinois, injuring at least 30 people and turning homes into piles of splintered wood.There were…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A major storm in the central U.S. is bringing severe weather, flash flooding and heavy snow to the eastern half of the nation. This same major…
Bettmann/Getty Images(SAN FRANCISCO) -- Nearly three decades ago, then-President George H.W. Bush was touring the San Francisco Bay Area and was "deeply moved" by what he saw.A magnitude 6.9 earthquake…
Patrick Smith/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The death of former President George H.W. Bush drew an immediate outpouring of condolences from around the country and the world.His son, the 43rd president, sent…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A major storm developing in the central U.S. is bringing ongoing severe weather across the south, a flash flood threat to parts of the Gulf Coast…
iStock/Thinkstock(ELIZABETH, N.J.) -- A man was injured in a shooting at a mall in New Jersey on Black Friday -- at least the second shooting to take place at a…
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) -- More than 13,000 families were left without homes this Thanksgiving in the wake of the devastating Camp Fire that ripped through Butte County in Northern…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Two different storms are set to create hazardous travel conditions for those heading home after the holiday weekend in the central and eastern parts of the…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Thursday will be the coldest Thanksgiving in decades for most of the Northeast, the result of an Arctic blast of air that's pushing temperatures 15 to…
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Amtrak passengers were left in the cold on Wednesday night when a mechanical issue caused two train cars to detach, stranding riders on a dark railway ahead…
iStock/Thinkstock(SAN FRANCISCO) -- Flames from the deadly Camp Fire won't reach California's Bay Area, but that doesn't mean it's not still wreaking havoc on the region. Smoke from the Northern…
iStock/Thinkstock(MORGANTOWN, W.Va.) -- A student at West Virginia University is in critical condition after a fall at the school's Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house -- leading to the suspension of…
iStock/Thinkstock(MORGANTOWN, W.Va.) -- A student at West Virginia University is in critical condition after a fall at the school's Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house -- leading to the suspension of…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Winter weather alerts are in place across nine states on Saturday as a clipper system will deliver snow from the Rockies through the Central Plains into…
Courtesy Elgin Ingle(NEW YORK) -- A grief-stricken community in northern Indiana held a vigil Friday night for the three young siblings who were struck and killed while crossing the street…
WTXL-TV(TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) -- A man who took on a rampaging gunman who killed two people and wounded four others at a Florida yoga studio says he grabbed the first makeshift…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A strong storm brought torrential rain, gusty winds and severe weather to parts of the East Coast on Friday.There were six reported tornadoes -- five in…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A major coastal storm is taking shape in the South -- and it's heading to the Northeast soon as the first nor'easter of the season. Areas…
Florida State Attorney's Office (LAKELAND, Fla.) -- The former city commissioner charged with shooting an alleged shoplifter at his Army surplus store was released from prison on Thursday -- and…
Clayton County Police Department(RIVERDALE, Ga.) -- Police in Georgia released video on Thursday showing a person of interest in the case of an aspiring model who died after being struck…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Texas continued to get hit by heavy rain early Thursday even as flooding continued in the state from downpours last week.The remnants of Tropical Storm Willa…
Obtained by ABC News (NEW YORK) -- A suspect was taken into arrested in Florida for an apparent mass mail bombing spree that targeted top Democrats and other prominent figures…
KABC-TV(STANTON, Calif.) -- The lawyer for a man shown being repeatedly punched by an Orange County sheriff’s deputy in dash-cam footage is fighting back against the department, which called the…
Twitter/@StevieW21(CLEMSON, S.C.) -- Dozens of people were injured early Sunday when a floor collapsed during a party at an apartment building near Clemson University in South Carolina.Thirty people were taken…
Lakeland Police Department(LAKELAND, Fla.) -- The Florida city commissioner who confronted and shot an alleged shoplifter at a military surplus store earlier this month was charged with murder on Friday.Michael…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Another blast of cold air is in the forecast for the eastern half of the nation -- and this blast is a little stronger than the…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- An active weather pattern across the U.S. will bring several weather events over the coming days, including a multiday heavy rainfall event, possible severe weather in…
Clarke County Sheriff Todd Kemp(MERIDIAN, Miss.) -- Highway 45 in Mississippi became a landing strip for one pilot on Friday afternoon as he set down his vintage plane right on…
Prince George's County Fire Department(NEW CARROLLTON, Md.) -- A woman who allegedly started a massive fire in a Maryland apartment building because she was upset with her ex-boyfriend has been…
iStock/Thinkstock(BROOKHAVEN, Miss.) -- Two police officers were killed in a shootout early Saturday morning in Mississippi, according to police.Officers James White, 35, and Zack Moak, 31, were killed while responding…
U.S. Navy(CHUUK, Micronesia) -- Authorities say one person is unaccounted for after initially saying all 47 people onboard a flight to Micronesia that crash-landed in the ocean were safe.No serious…
iStock/Thinkstock(LAKEWOOD, N.J.) -- A week after a passerby's photo of a toddler crawling in the street went viral, a New Jersey man has been arrested and charged with neglect.Evgeniy Dorman,…
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- Friends and family gathered on Saturday to remember Wendy Martinez, the woman who was stabbed to death in Washington, D.C., while out for a jog in an apparently…
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Heavy rain stretches from eastern Texas all the way to New Jersey early Sunday as moisture interacts with a stationary front lingering in the southern U.S.Heavy rain…
iStock/Thinkstock(VALPARAISO, Ind.) -- A school bus driver in Indiana is under arrest after students filmed her allowing kids to drive the bus.Joandrea Dehaven McAtee, 27, was arrested on Friday and…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A cold front brought severe storms from Ohio to upstate New York on Friday as the Northeast and Midwest brace for cooler temperatures on the first…
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW BERN, N.C.) -- Florence weakened to a tropical depression Sunday, but that is cold comfort to residents in North Carolina who have seen over 2 feet of rain and…
iStock/Thinkstock(WILMINGTON, N.C.) -- Five people were arrested for looting after a group broke into a Dollar General store in Wilmington, North Carolina, following Hurricane Florence.The arrests came after police shared…
iStock/Thinkstock(LAREDO, Texas) -- A longtime U.S. Border Patrol agent is being called a "serial killer" after he was arrested and charged with the murder of four women in southern Texas…
Scott Eisen/Getty Images(BOSTON) -- Residents of three neighborhoods north of Boston racked by fires and explosions caused by overpressurized gas lines last week will be allowed to return home Sunday…
NOAA/Getty Images (WILMINGTON, N.C.) -- The total extent of devastation from Florence, which has turned from a hurricane into a tropical storm, remains unknown as rain and flooding continue to…
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW BERN, N.C.) -- As North Carolina residents navigated rising floodwaters that in some places could double the 20 inches that have fallen so far, neighboring South Carolina was bracing…
iStock/Thinkstock(FORT WORTH, Texas) -- An undercover Fort Worth, Texas, police officer shot in the head in a firefight with a group of armed robbers died late Friday evening, officials said…
KTRK-TV(NEW BERN, N.C.) -- The Cajun Navy came to the aid of nearly 160 people in North Carolina Friday morning, many of whom had to be rescued from the roofs…
ABC News(NEW BERN, N.C.) -- Hurricane Florence pummeled North Carolina, making landfall Friday morning with storm surges and wind gusts before contributing to at least five deaths. Authorities have confirmed…
iStock/Thinkstock(CHARLESTON, S.C.) -- Many South Carolina residents were working to secure a safe shelter for themselves as Hurricane Florence made its way inland, but some also took time to think…
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW BERN, N.C.) -- As Hurricane Florence hammers North Carolina's coastline with relentless rain and wind, first responders are scrambling to rescue residents who didn't heed evacuation orders and are…
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Hurricane Florence weakened to a Category 2 on Wednesday, but it's still expected to bring "life-threatening" surges and rainfall to the Southeast, meteorologists warned.Forecasters downgraded Florence, once…
ABC News (NEW YORK) -- Hurricane Florence, packing winds of 140 mph, has quickly strengthened to a dangerous and powerful Category 4 storm as it takes aim at the East…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Slow-moving storms brought very heavy rainfall to parts of the Midwest and South on Saturday with over 9 inches of total rainfall reported in parts of…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- The peak of hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean is Sept. 10, and right on schedule, the Atlantic Basin has come to life with numerous areas…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- There are three major fires burning in Northern California on Saturday -- part of 34 uncontained wildfires currently burning in 13 states.The Delta, Kerlin and Hirz…
iStock/Thinkstock(MARTELL, Calif.) -- A California Highway Patrol officer allegedly shot his wife dead with his department-issued handgun before killing himself during a struggle in a parking lot, authorities said.The deadly…
iStock/Thinkstock(MT. HOLLY, N.J.) -- New Jersey authorities have searched the home of a couple who is accused of squandering much of the more than $400,000 in donations they raised for…
iStock/Thinkstock(DAMASCUS, Md.) -- A Maryland man accused of killing his pregnant girlfriend was found dead in his jail cell Thursday hours before his murder trial was set to begin, corrections…
iStock/Thinkstock(CINCINNATI) -- Authorities have identified the gunman who allegedly killed three people and wounded two others at a bank in downtown Cincinnati as a 29-year-old Ohio resident.Omar Perez, 29, acted…
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Many public school teachers across the country are looking to go above and beyond to educate the next generation, and they're turning to Donors Choose to raise…
ABC News(PENSACOLA, Fla.) -- Hurricane Florence dropped to a Category 2 storm on Thursday with winds of 105 mph as it moved toward Bermuda and potentially the East Coast.The storm…
J.B. Forbes/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/TNS/Getty Images(JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.) -- The attorney general of Missouri has filed a lawsuit in the wake of the duck boat accident that killed 17 people."This tragedy…
Town of Frederick, Colorado(FREDERICK, Colo.) -- Shanann Watts and her two young daughters, Celeste and Bella -- allegedly killed by Watts' husband, who was also the girls' father -- will…
iStock/Thinkstock(TAOS, N.M.) -- The FBI charged five former residents of a dilapidated compound in New Mexico with weapons offenses after three of them were released earlier in the week.Lucas Morton,…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Almost the entire country will be seeing rain at some point this holiday weekend with the exception being the West Coast and the northern Rockies.Monsoonal moisture…
iStock/Thinkstock(LAS VEGAS) -- Police have arrested a woman in Las Vegas who had said her daughter wandered off before officers found the girl’s body in a duffel bag in a…
iStock/Thinkstock(PHOENIX) -- More than 40 pipe bombs containing shrapnel were found in the home of an Arizona man after police discovered suspicious materials in his vehicle.A traffic stop by the…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Much of the country is expecting a wet Labor Day weekend, with severe storms in the Midwest and more flash flooding possible.A large storm system is…
Harvard University(WASHINGTON) -- The Justice Department on Thursday sided with a group of students rejected for admission by Harvard University who allege the school discriminates against Asian-American applicants.Filing a “statement…
iStock/Thinkstock(ENCINO, Calif.) -- A California man was arrested Thursday and charged with making violent threats to employees of the Boston Globe in retaliation for the newspaper's editorial campaign against political…
San Joaquin County Sheriffs Office(STOCKTON, Calif.) -- (STOCKTON, Calif.) -- A week after a 16-year-old girl went missing with her former high school wrestling coach, the two were found together…
iStock/Thinkstock(BALCH SPRINGS, Texas) -- A former Texas police officer on Wednesday was sentenced to 15 years in prison for the 2017 shooting death of an unarmed black teenager -- and…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Record highs were reported in several cities on Wednesday, including Boston and Providence at 98 and 95 degrees, respectively.Thursday should be the last hot and humid…
iStock/Thinkstock(SACRAMENTO) -- A teenager who was stopped by Sacramento police for not having a light on his bicycle ended up being hit by a cop car going 27 mph in…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Strong summer storms caused 14 people to be injured at a Backstreet Boys concert in Oklahoma on Saturday night, and now another system developing in the…
iStock/Thinkstock(NASHVILLE) -- An all-out manhunt is underway for two "cold-blooded killers" in a rash of deadly shootings this month in Nashville -- and police are investigating whether all of the…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Severe storms brought rain, lightning and damaging winds to the Northeast on Friday evening, with wind gusts up to 65 mph in parts of central and…
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- The first half of the weekend was a washout for much of the Northeast, thanks to heavy showers and thunderstorms that continued throughout the day.Many areas received…
iStock/Thinkstock(OAKLAND, Calif.) -- What was planned to be a sentencing for the two men charged in the December 2016 Ghost Ship fire that killed 36 people in an Oakland warehouse…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Overcast skies and strong showers are expected across the Northeast this weekend.Winds will be off of the Atlantic Ocean, allowing for the formation of scattered thunderstorms.Heavy…
iStock/Thinkstock(SEATTLE) -- An empty Horizon Airlines plane has crashed after it was stolen by a ground employee from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Friday around 8 p.m., according to local authorities…
The Sobel Group Inc.(SANTA FE, Texas) -- As some school districts get ready to head back to school, officials continue to keep campus safety a priority in the wake of…
Kainoa Little/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images(PORTLAND) -- Four people were arrested Saturday as a conservative Patriot Prayer rally broke out into violence with opposing anti-fascist protesters and police in Portland,…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- After several days of rain, the Northeast will finally be dry and sunny on Sunday. Warmer and more humid air will move into the region from…
Taos County Sheriff's Office(Amalia, N.M.) -- Police swarmed a filthy compound in rural New Mexico on Friday and rescued 11 children, ages 1-15, after an armed standoff with one of…
WCVB-TV(NORTHAMPTON, Mass.) -- The Smith College employee who called police on a black student who she believed looked "out of place" has been placed on leave amid an ongoing investigation…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Strong thunderstorms rolled through the Northeast on Friday, bringing heavy rains, gusty winds and even some hail. Over 2 inches of rain was reported in parts…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- More than 35 million people from Georgia to Vermont remain at risk of flash flooding Friday morning, as the heaviest rainfall is expected to shift northeast…
Jefferson Siegel/Pool/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Harvey Weinstein’s attorneys plan to ask a Manhattan judge this week to dismiss the most serious sex assault charge filed against him, according to a…
KCRG-TV(IOWA CITY, Iowa) -- The family of a missing University of Iowa student now believes she is being held captive and has increased the reward for her return.An earlier lead…
Justin Merriman/Getty Images(PITTSBURGH) -- The family of Antwon Rose, an unarmed black teenager fatally shot by a white East Pittsburgh police officer, filed a lawsuit against the borough on Wednesday,…
iStock/Thinkstock(AURORA, Colo.) -- As a young man, Richard "Gary" Black Jr. received the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star for his courageous service during the Vietnam War, during which he…
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- A civilian employee of the New York Police Department was killed in an accident on a local freeway Wednesday morning when a spare tire fell off a…
Vaughn Ridley/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- As the viral #InMyFeelings challenge has taken over the internet, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has issued a plea to drivers: "Don't jump out…
Vaughn Ridley/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- As the viral #InMyFeelings challenge has taken over the internet, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has issued a plea to drivers: "Don't jump out…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A wet pattern is taking shape across the eastern U.S. again. Numerous to widespread thunderstorms are expected as a frontal system from the west approaches and…
iStock/Thinkstock(LOS ANGELES) -- Police released graphic body-cam footage on Tuesday in connection with a shooting in Los Angeles that left an armed suspect and a hostage dead last month.The video,…
iStock/Thinkstock(LOS ANGELES) -- Police released graphic body-cam footage on Tuesday in connection with a shooting in Los Angeles that left an armed suspect and a hostage dead last month.The video,…
iStock/Thinkstock(BENTON HARBOR, Mich.) -- A 26-year-old woman and five of her young relatives, ages 2-10, were killed early Saturday in a motel fire in Michigan, authorities said.Kiarre Samuel died when…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- There are more than 60 large, uncontained wildfires burning in 13 western states on Saturday as the region deals with bone-dry humidity levels and temperatures in…
iStock/Thinkstock(ROBSTOWN, Texas) -- Three people were found dead at a nursing home in south Texas after police responded to calls of an active shooter at the location. Further investigation found…
ABC News(BRANSON, Mo.) -- The captain of the ill-fated duck boat that sank in Missouri earlier this month had checked the weather reports and discussed safety procedures, including the location…
iStock/Thinkstock(CLEARWATER, Fla.) -- A lawyer for the family of a man gunned down over a parking space in Florida called on lawmakers Thursday to change the state's "Stand Your Ground"…
KNXV-TV(GOODYEAR, Ariz.) -- An Arizona trooper who just graduated the academy in May was shot dead when a suspect stole a police officer's gun during a struggle, authorities said."The family…
Virginia State Police(BRISTOL, Va.) -- The man who allegedly abducted a teenage girl in Tennessee was arrested Thursday morning, shortly after authorities issued an Amber Alert.The FBI's field office in…
KABC-TV(LOS ANGELES) -- Police in California on Wednesday arrested a 32-year-old man accused of setting multiple wildfires in Riverside County that have scorched thousands of acres and forced mass evacuations.Brandon…
Poweshiek County Sheriff's Office(BROOKLYN, Iowa) -- It has been one week since 20-year-old Mollie Tibbetts mysteriously vanished in her rural Iowa town.Tibbetts went for a jog the evening of July…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Excessive rain and major flooding are expected to hit central Pennsylvania on Wednesday, potentially sparking evacuations.Flash flood watches and warnings are stretching from South Carolina to…
Tamir Kalifa/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Facing a court-ordered deadline of Thursday to reunite more than 2,500 migrant children separated from their parents at the southern border, the U.S. on Tuesday said…
iStock/Thinkstock(CAMBRIDGE, Mass.) -- A 15-year-old girl has died after she was shoved to the ground in a mysterious assault in Cambridge, Massachusetts, prosecutors said.Now investigators are looking for answers.The 15-year-old…
Poweshiek County Sheriff's Office(BROOKLYN, Iowa) -- Authorities have very few answers after a college student from Iowa went missing on Wednesday night while going out for an evening jog.Mollie Tibbetts,…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A coastal storm that developed late Saturday brought an onslaught of rain and wind to the mid-Atlantic and Northeast overnight. Unfortunately, the rain shows little sign…
TongRo Images(RALEIGH, N.C.) -- Dangerous rip currents proved deadly on Saturday as three people drowned at beaches in North Carolina.Two of the deaths happened at different beaches in Brunswick County,…
iStock/Thinkstock(BRANSON, Mo.) -- Authorities released the names on Friday night of those who died in the duck boat tragedy at Table Rock Lake near Branson, Missouri.Nine of the victims came…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Several clusters of thunderstorms are threatening the eastern U.S. on Saturday, with rain expected much of the day and the possibility for severe weather.One cluster is…
Brian Blanco/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- After a grand jury acquitted George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin in July 2013, Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi created…
ABC News(DES MOINES, Iowa) -- Iowa, which usually averages about seven tornadoes in the month of July, saw 27 reported twisters rip through the state Thursday night, damaging buildings, overturning…
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- The bites that a 13-year-old boy sustained in the waters around the barrier island off Long Island's South Shore resulted from a shark attack, New York state…
iStock/Thinkstock(BRANSON, Mo.) -- A tourist duck boat capsized in a lake near Branson, Missouri, killing at least 17 people, including children, as severe thunderstorms struck the area Thursday night, the…
Tamir Kalifa/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. government said late Thursday that it has reunited about 14 percent of the migrant children aged 5-17 separated from their families at the border,…
iStock/Thinkstock(HOUSTON) -- A 3-year-old boy left unattended in a blistering-hot daycare bus for more than three hours has died.The child was unresponsive when discovered inside the vehicle by police, who…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Some of the hottest weather so far this summer is hitting parts of the West.In the last two days, temperatures have been near 100 degrees in…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin spoke out about being "duped" into a spoof interview with British actor Sacha Baron Cohen."It was proposed to me…
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- No tarps, no cots, and fewer than 200 blue roofs.That is what the Federal Emergency Management Administration’s warehouse in Puerto Rico looked like as Hurricane Maria made…
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Temperatures will linger at or near triple digits across much of the bone-dry West for a few more days before much-needed rain arrives.Red flag warnings are in…
WPVI-TV(NEWFIELD, N.J.) -- Two people have died in a house explosion in New Jersey on Saturday morning, officials said.The house at 329 Oakwood Drive in Newfield exploded just before 6:30…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Hurricane Beryl is churning in the Atlantic on Saturday morning and taking aim at the small islands that make up the eastern Caribbean. It appears, based…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Three dozen large fires continue to burn in 11 states across the West on Saturday as dry air and hot temperatures have settled in.Gusty northern winds…
iStock/Thinkstock(DALLAS) -- After a midflight love connection went viral, a mystery couple gave everyone a glimmer of hope for a happy ending."I walked on a plane just ready to get…
ABC News(LANCASTER, Penn.) -- The 27-year-old Lancaster, Pennsylvania, man shot in the back with a Taser as he sat on the curb said the incident wasn't racially motivated -- it…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Severe storms on Wednesday that stretched from Colorado to New Jersey dumped a record rainfall on Houston, with some areas seeing up to 8 inches.On America's…
Y2Y(CAMBRIDGE, Mass.) -- Experimenting with recreational drugs at 11, in and out of juvenile detention facilities at 15, homeless at 20.From a young age, Ryan has struggled to find stability…
Cherokee County Sheriff's Office(CANTON, Ga.) -- Police in Georgia showed up at an upscale house in Cherokee County looking for a suspected criminal on Friday only to find a completely…
iStock/Thinkstock(COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.) -- A 52-year-old man has been arrested in Colorado for starting the Spring wildfire, which grew to over 40,000 acres in size on Saturday.The Costilla County Sheriff’s…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A multiday heat wave that brought a heat index reading of 112 degrees to Chicago on Saturday will reach its peak in the Northeast on Sunday.Temperatures…
iStock/Thinkstock(BOISE) -- Nine people are hospitalized -- some seriously -- after a man went on a stabbing spree at an apartment complex in Boise, Idaho, that is home to many…
Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call(WASHINGTON) -- The Trump administration last year “lost” nearly 1,500 migrant children whom a government agency placed with U.S. sponsors.Shocking news -- but it wasn’t true.But it…
WNEP-TV(MINERSVILLE, Penn.) -- A driver who felt guilty for decades has finally unburdened himself to police. His crime? Not paying a Pennsylvania parking ticket from 1974.Police Chief Michael Combs in…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Many of the major cities in the Midwest and Northeast -- from Chicago to Washington, D.C. -- began a heat wave on Friday. New York City,…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Many of the major cities in the Midwest and Northeast -- from Chicago to Washington, D.C. -- began a heat wave on Friday. New York City,…
KOIN-TV(PORTLAND) -- A tent encampment erected by protesters that prompted the closure of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters in Portland, Oregon, was being dismantled by federal law enforcement…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Strong thunderstorms are moving into the Northeast Thursday morning before some of the hottest temperatures this year, beginning Friday.Some of Thursday's thunderstorms could produce very heavy…
Abermarle Charlottesville Regional Jail(CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.) -- A federal jury in Washington, D.C., indicted an Ohio man on hate crime charges stemming from a deadly car attack last year in Charlottesville,…
Antwon Rose/Facebook(PITTSBURGH) -- The family of an unarmed teenager shot and killed by police while he was fleeing a traffic stop doesn't "want him to have died in vain," a…
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Thursday marks the first day of summer and the longest day of the year across much of the Northern Hemisphere.New York City will experience 15 hours and…
U.S. Geological Survey(HONOLULU) -- Lava from the Kilauea volcano eruption on the Big Island in Hawaii makes for very photogenic selfies and social media posts, but authorities are cracking down…
iStock/Thinkstock(CHICAGO) -- After the University of Chicago announced late last week it's scrapping a requirement for applicants to submit SAT or ACT test scores, some experts predict other colleges may…
Drew Angerer/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Amid the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration, thousands of children were separated from their families, while parents were prosecuted under a "zero-tolerance" policy.On Wednesday afternoon,…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- There were nearly 150 damaging storm reports Tuesday from Washington, D.C., to Denver, including five reported tornadoes, with many of the areas looking at more rain…
Jackson County Sheriff’s Office(VANCLEAVE, Miss.) -- A mother in southern Mississippi has been charged with second-degree murder after her 10-month-old son was left in a hot car and died, authorities…
iStock/Thinkstock(PITTSBURGH) -- Pennsylvania police shot and killed a 17-year-old boy near Pittsburgh Tuesday night after pulling over a vehicle believed to have been connected to an earlier shooting incident, authorities…
iStock/Thinkstock(BRIDGEWATER, Mass.) -- A Massachusetts woman is opening up about how she managed to fight off a convicted rapist who attacked her over the weekend and tried to force her…
Family Photo(ROCKAWAY, N.J.) -- The family of a 12-year-old who committed suicide has filed a lawsuit against the young girl's school district, claiming it failed to protect her from months…
Google Maps(TRENTON, N.J.) -- At least one person is dead and 20 injured after a wild shootout at a 24-hour art event in southern New Jersey early Sunday.The shooting broke…
iStock/Thinkstock(CARMI, Ill.) -- Three inmates, including one charged with murder, busted through the wall of an Illinois jail on Saturday morning and led authorities on a manhunt.Justin Bray, Zachery Shock…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Much of the central U.S. will be dealing with widespread heat on Sunday as heat index values are close to or exceeding 100 degrees in parts…
iStock/Thinkstock(KANSAS CITY, Kan.) -- A candlelight vigil will be held Sunday night in Kansas to memorialize the two sheriff's deputies who were shot and killed when an inmate overpowered them…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A strong ridge of high pressure is bringing increasing heat and humidity to a majority of the eastern half of the country through the weekend. Heat…
Michael Bonfigli /The Christian Science Monitor/Getty Images(EAST LANSING, Mich.) -- Michigan State University Interim President John Engler was brought on to clean up the mess left in the wake of…
Jessica Kourkounis/Getty Images(CHICAGO) -- Gabby Giffords is set to join the Stoneman Douglas survivors at a rally and march in Chicago on Friday -- the first event in the young…
iStock/Thinkstock(PHILADELPHIA) -- Authorities are investigating a string of suspicious explosions in Pennsylvania, according to ABC Philadelphia station WPVI-TV.The most recent explosion occurred Thursday afternoon, when a worker cutting grass hit…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Monsoon season begins Friday in the Southwest, which could see flash flooding.Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona, which haven't seen rain in more than three months, could see…
Gilbert Carrasquillo/Getty Images(PHILADELPHIA) -- Comedian Bill Cosby has fired all seven attorneys on his legal team just months ahead of his September sentencing, replacing them with a single Pennsylvania criminal-defense…
iStock/Thinkstock(WESTMINSTER, Colo.) -- One male who was among the four people shot Thursday afternoon in a Colorado business complex has died, while his mother and brother were in critical condition,…
iStock/Thinkstock(SEATTLE) -- Authorities are searching for at least one person who opened fire on four cars traveling down Highway 509 near Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.The highway near the airport was shut…
iStock/Thinkstock(BOWIE, Md.) -- A teenage boy was hospitalized in critical condition after a "near-drowning incident" at Six Flags America in Maryland on Wednesday, Prince George’s County Fire officials said.The 14-year-old…
iStock/Thinkstock(LAS VEGAS) -- Police have released intense bodycam footage from the deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas last October that shows first responders struggling to dodge bullets and shield victims…
U.S. Government(BROWNSVILLE, Texas) -- For the first time since the Trump administration announced its "zero-tolerance" policy on illegal immigration, a small group of journalists was allowed into the country's largest…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Hot and dry conditions are helping fuel fast-moving wildfires blazing throughout the West.As of Wednesday afternoon there were 43 large fires burning in 12 states throughout…
iStock/Thinkstock(LOS ANGELES) -- California residents will get a chance to vote on a measure to divide the Golden State into three separate states, election officials said Tuesday.Proponents of the CAL…
iStock/Thinkstock(ST. PAUL, Minn.) -- A furry, masked critter that scaled a skyscraper in St. Paul, Minnesota, has become a social media sensation overnight.The raccoon was spotted climbing the ledges along…
iStock/Thinkstock(LAS VEGAS) -- A couple visiting Las Vegas from Vietnam was stabbed to death at Circus Circus hotel and casino on Friday, according to authorities.The man and woman were part…
iStock/Thinkstock(NASHVILLE) -- The fugitive who allegedly killed a sheriff's sergeant has been captured and charged with premeditated murder after a days-long manhunt in Tennessee, authorities said. Steven Wiggins, who had…
iStock/Thinkstock(ST. PAUL, Minn.) -- The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis has reached a $210 million settlement to be dispersed among 450 survivors of alleged clergy abuse as part of…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- More than 300 damaging storm reports were made Thursday from the Rockies into the Midwest, including 11 reported tornadoes. Lots of damage was reported in the…
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.) -- Karthik Nemmani won the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday night, after correctly spelling the word "koinonia."Koinonia means a Christian fellowship or body of…
iStock/Thinkstock(SPRINGFIELD, Mass.) -- Three bodies have been found at a Massachusetts home associated with a kidnapping suspect.The investigation is active and ongoing, according to Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni. The…
Dickson County Sheriff's Office(DICKSON, Tenn.) -- As an intense manhunt continues for a suspected cop killer in Tennessee, a community is left mourning the Dickson County sergeant who was shot…
WCAV-TV(CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.) -- Three people are missing after heavy rain hit Virginia overnight, causing dangerous and overwhelming flash flooding near Charlottesville and nearby Madison County.By 2 a.m., 7 to 9…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Both Chicago, at more than 8.2 inches, and Asheville, North Carolina, at more than 14.4 inches, already have posted their wettest Mays ever as storms drag…
Boone Fire Department(BOONE, N.C.) -- The bodies of two people were found among the rubble of a home following a landslide in North Carolina.The names of the victims are being…
Christian Bales(COVINGTON, Ky.) -- A high school valedictorian in Kentucky praised the fight for stronger gun laws by school-shooting survivors in Florida, and applauded his classmates for participating in an…
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Thomas Bailey and Karen Bushell have never met, but their families have eerily similar stories to tell.On August 16, 2017, Thomas was informed that his daughter 1st…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Subtropical storm Alberto is delivering heavy rain and gusty winds to Florida on Sunday morning with current projections showing the storm making landfall in the Panhandle…
European Space Agency(HONOLULU) -- The spread of lava in the Puna district of Hawaii's Big Island has gotten so large that it can be seen from space.The European Space Agency…
ABC News(ORLANDO) -- Subtropical Storm Alberto could put a damper on Memorial Day activities on the Gulf Coast this weekend, prompting the governors of Mississippi, Alabama and Florida to preemptively…
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- A school district in upstate New York was found negligent in the death of a student who committed suicide after he said he was bullied. However, the…
Michael Kovac/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) -- University of Southern California President C. L. Max Nikias is stepping down over a scandal involving a former campus gynecologist, the school's board of trustees…
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on Thursday released their forecast for this year's Atlantic hurricane season, predicting a near-normal or above-normal season.The forecasters…
iStock/Thinkstock(CAMBRIDGE, Mass.) -- Authorities in Cambridge are investigating an alleged sexual assault on the campus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.The MIT Police Department said in a statement that they were…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Nearly a foot of rain has fallen in parts of west-central Georgia in the past three days, causing significant flooding.Further west, 2 to 3 inches of…
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- President Donald Trump in a letter directly to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un announced that he is canceling the much-anticipated nuclear summit."Sadly, based on the tremendous anger…
Chesterfield County Police Department(MIDLOTHIAN, Va.) -- An alleged abduction in a Walmart parking lot was a hoax, Virginia police said.Chesterfield County police began investigating the apparent abduction around 9 p.m.…
U.S. Geological Survey(PUNA, Hawaii) -- New evacuations were underway in Hawaii as active lava flows Saturday evening caused brush fires to spread in Puna, the easternmost district on the Big…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- After a week of rainy weather, the East Coast is finally digging out of a wet and cool pattern.A stubborn stationary front that has been sitting…
Scott Olson/Getty Images(SANTA FE, Texas) -- At least five vigils will be held in the coming days to mourn the 10 people killed when a 17-year-old student allegedly opened fire…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Heavy rain fell across much of the country on Friday, but relief will not come this weekend.More than 7 inches of rain fell in just a…
moodboard/Thinkstock(GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.) -- The 5-year-old girl who was attacked and dragged by a bear in Colorado on Mother’s Day is in "good health and good spirits" after getting released…
James Shaw Jr.(PARKLAND, Fla.) -- The man who pried the burning-hot gun barrel from the mass shooter at a Nashville-area Waffle House last month met with a number of survivors…
U.S. Geological Survey(HONOLULU) -- An 18th fissure began spewing magma on Sunday as officials in Hawaii warned of the possibility for an "explosive eruption" as lava continues to withdraw from…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Several rounds of strong and severe storms will play havoc with Mother's Day in the Plains, Midwest and Mid-Atlantic with effects lasting into the work week.A…
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Mother's Day weekend is off to a stormy start across the Midwest and Northeast.A disturbance will spark a round of severe weather on Saturday from Illinois to…
iStock/Thinkstock(SALT LAKE CITY) -- Utah has yet to officially add a ballot initiative allowing residents to vote for allowing medical marijuana, but one of the state's biggest institutions is coming…
ABC News (PALMDALE, Calif.) -- A teenager who's accused of shooting a fellow student at a high school in Palmdale, California, is in custody, after law enforcement authorities acting on…
iStock/Thinkstock(DEARBORN, Mich.) -- A heart-pounding car chase in Michigan involving a love triangle and gunfire from a moving car ended with the alleged shooter’s suicide, according to ABC Detroit affiliate…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Threats of severe weather remain Friday -- especially in Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska -- as more than 160 reports of damaging storms were filed on Thursday…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Threats of severe weather remain Friday -- especially in Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska -- as more than 160 reports of damaging storms were filed on Thursday…
iStock/Thinkstock(HAMPTON, Wis.) -- A driver in Wisconsin was led away in handcuffs Thursday after the truck he was driving skipped up a highway median and uprooted two light poles.No one…
U.S. Geological Survey(HONOLULU) -- The threat of dangerous volcanic activity in Hawaii could continue for weeks and violent explosions could occur with "very little warning," the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory cautioned…
iStock/Thinkstock(ANNAPOLIS, Md.) -- The state of Maryland has stumbled across a novel way to satisfy gun-control opponents: create a licensing process that cannot be put into practice.Maryland lawmakers had sought…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Allegations of sexual misconduct against television news icon Tom Brokaw, a figure whom so many families welcomed into their living rooms on a nightly basis for…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A risk of severe storms on Thursday stretches from Wyoming all the way to New Jersey.In Wisconsin on Wednesday, two tornadoes were reported. More than 40…
WVEC-TV(NEWPORT NEWS, Va.) -- A white hotel clerk in Southern Virginia was fired this week after video surfaced showing that he called a black customer a "f--king monkey."Country Inn &…
WVEC-TV(NEWPORT NEWS, Va.) -- A white hotel clerk in Southern Virginia was fired this week after video surfaced showing that he called a black customer a "f--king monkey."Country Inn &…
Michael Marsland/Yale University(NEW HAVEN, Conn.) -- A Yale dean said the Ivy League university needs to work at becoming "truly inclusive" after a white student called police on a black…
Michael Marsland/Yale University(NEW HAVEN, Conn.) -- Yale University needs more work to become "truly inclusive," a dean at the Ivy League school said after a white student there called police…
ABC News(MISSOULA, Mont.) -- Heavy rain combining with snow melt has forced rivers and streams above their banks in Montana and parts of the Pacific Northwest.The Missoula County Sheriff's Office…
U.S. Geological Survey(HONOLULU) -- After a day of relative calm, Kilauea roared back in full force on Sunday, spewing lava 300 feet in the air, encroaching on a half mile…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A weak disturbance is bringing areas of rain to parts of the mid-Atlantic and Northeast on Sunday morning. The disturbance is tapping into moisture in the…
iStock/Thinkstock(INDIANAPOLIS) -- Authorities are investigating after a 7-year-old boy drowned in a pool at a water park in Indianapolis on Saturday afternoon.Local ABC affiliate WRTV reported the accident happened at…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A five-day spate of severe weather that brought 38 reported tornadoes in six states wrapped up on Friday with more than 100 reports of severe winds…
Giles Clarke/Getty Images(PARKLAND, Fla.) -- A group of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students released a music video for their song Shine on Friday.The video was filmed entirely at the…
iStock/Thinkstock(TERRE HAUTE, Ind.) -- A police officer was shot and killed in a shootout with a homicide suspect in Indiana Friday evening. The suspect was also killed in the exchange,…
Orange County Register(LOS ANGELES) -- An off-duty California police officer pulled a gun on a man whom he accused of stealing Mentos candy at a gas station, according to ABC…
iStock/Thinkstock(LOS ANGELES) -- Authorities are searching for a "person of interest" after a woman was found stabbed to death outside an upscale shopping mall in Southern California.Deputies from the Los…
iStock/Thinkstock(KANSAS CITY, Kan.) -- Faith-based agencies in Kansas will likely be allowed to provide adoption or foster care services for the state even if they refuse to place children in…
iStock/Thinkstock(PHOENIX) -- Students are headed back to the classroom after teachers ended their six-day walkout in Arizona, the latest state to join a nationwide wave calling for better pay and…
WABC-TV(FREEHOLD, N.J.) -- A man has been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of a woman as she was driving on a rural stretch of highway in Freehold, New…
Holmdel Township Police Department(HOLMDEL, N.J.) -- The superintendent of a New Jersey school district has been arrested for repeatedly defecating on a neighboring school's property, police said.Thomas Tramaglini, the superintendent…
Courtesy of Margaret Wardlow(SACRAMENTO) -- When Margaret Wardlow recalls her childhood in Sacramento, California, she divides it into two distinct time frames.There's the Sacramento before 1977, which she described as…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Thursday was the fourth straight day of severe weather throughout much of the U.S., a period during which 38 tornadoes were reported across six states --…
iStock/Thinkstock(GORHAM, N.H.) --The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department said it may charge a hiker for search-and-rescue efforts after he was found staying at an upscale hotel.The man, 70-year-old Christophe…
iStock/Thinkstock(SAVANNAH, Ga.) -- The C-130 cargo plane that crashed outside the Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport, killing all nine service members on board, was the latest in a string of deadly…
Ron Galella/WireImage(NEW YORK) -- Bill Cosby's wife spoke out for the first time since the comedian was found guilty of sexual assault -- taking shots at the media and her…
iStock/Thinkstock(SAVANNAH, Ga.) -- An Air National Guard C-130 cargo plane that crashed on a Georgia highway and killed nine crew members had just undergone maintenance and was headed to Arizona…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- At least 26 tornadoes have been reported across four states since Monday, as a period of severe weather now enters its fourth straight day.Sixteen tornadoes have…
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Much of the country is seeing a rather quiet weather weekend. In the wake of a frontal system, much of the Midwest and parts of the Northeast…
iStock/Thinkstock(NORRIDGEWOCK, Maine) -- The 29-year-old man accused of gunning down a sheriff’s office corporal in Maine and who evaded authorities for four days has been captured, authorities said on Saturday.John…
Sacramento Police Department(SACRAMENTO) -- It was a long process to connect the DNA of the unknown "Golden State Killer" to the suspected serial killer and rapist, identified this week as…
Halifax County Sheriff's Office(ROCKY MOUNT, N.C.) -- An 18-year-old Marine who allegedly went AWOL is accused of killing his grandmother, according to North Carolina officials.Sally Copeland Evans, 74, was reported…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Most of the nation has a quiet weekend ahead with no significant weather impacts in the forecast. A new system will bring some rain and cool…
iStock/Thinkstock(MILWAUKEE) -- The Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office said it will not press charges against two police officers who used their stun guns as many as 18 times in the…
iStock/Thinkstock(LOS ANGELES) -- A 72-year-old man has been arrested in the decades-old "Golden State Killer" case in California, according to officials in Sacramento.The "Golden State Killer" is believed to have…
iStock/Thinkstock(DALLAS) -- Dallas Police Officer Rogelio Santander died Wednesday morning after he was shot in the line of duty Tuesday afternoon, the Dallas police chief said on Wednesday.A second Dallas…
Jason Davis/Getty Images(NASHVILLE) -- The alleged gunman in the massacre of four people at a Waffle House near Nashville, Tennessee, is facing five new charges, including an attempted murder count…
Photodisc/Thinkstock(HOUSTON) -- The National Weather Service's radar detected an unlikely pattern in Texas on Tuesday: widespread bird migration.The service tweeted a real-time animation of the ongoing migration, capturing spring birds…
Forest High School(OCALA, Fla.) -- A suspect was taken into custody Friday following a shooting at a high school in central Florida, authorities said. Gunshots broke out Friday morning at…
iStock/Thinkstock(BARSTOW, Calif.) -- A lawyer representing the family of a 26-year-old black man shot and killed in a Walmart parking lot two weeks ago in California is demanding authorities release…
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Support for new gun laws has risen sharply, a new ABC News/Washington Post poll shows, including anti-gun violence legislation in general and a ban on assault weapons…
Richard E. Aaron/Redferns(ST. PAUL, Minn.) -- No criminal charges will be brought in the accidental drug overdose death of Prince, federal prosecutors said on Thursday.Prosecutors also announced that Michael T.…
DuPage County State’s Attorney's Office(WOODRIDGE, Ill.) -- An Illinois woman is suspected of moving through the shadows of the dark web to carry out a sinister murder-for-hire plot, even using…
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- After a jury found a New York City nanny guilty of murdering two young children in her care, the slain kids' father said he hugged as many…
ABC News(LITTLETON, Colo.) -- "No one ever believed it would happen at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. But hopefully people across the nation, across the state will realize that…
Google Maps(SYRACUSE, N.Y.) -- Syracuse University suspended one of its professional fraternity chapters after video surfaced showing members of Theta Tau acting in an "extremely racist" and "homophobic" manner, the…
Gilbert Carrasquillo/Getty Images(NORRISTOWN, Pa.) -- The star witness for Bill Cosby's legal team was undermined during cross-examination on Wednesday when she conceded that her testimony differed from previous statements she…