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Michael Hannegan Jr.(BOWIE, Md.) -- A plane’s pilot and passenger were seen standing in the median of a highway in Bowie, Maryland, on Thursday after surviving a crash shortly before…
Pattanaphong Khuankaew/iStock(EL PASO, Texas) -- Patrick Crusius, the alleged gunman in the El Paso shooting, has been indicted for capital murder by a grand jury in Texas.Crusius, 21, allegedly cased…
WoodysPhotos/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Purdue Pharma, the makers of the highly-addictive painkiller OxyContin that many blame for fueling the nationwide opioid epidemic, have reached a tentative settlement deal with thousands of…
Evgen_Prozhyrko/iStock(FORT WORTH, Texas) -- A possible mass shooting was thwarted in Texas after a concerned father called police on his son.Fort Worth officers were able to intercept a 27-year-old man…
U.S. Coast Guard(BRUNSWICK, Ga.) -- One of the rescuers who helped get four crew members out of the Golden Ray, the cargo ship that capsized and caught fire off the…
benstevens/iStock(NEW YORK) -- The number of people suing the Catholic dioceses in New York over abuse they allegedly suffered as children continues to grow.Ten new lawsuits were filed on Monday,…
Santa Barbara County Sheriffs Office(SANTA BARBARA, Calif.) -- Investigators executed search warrants Sunday on the headquarters of the company that operated the charter dive boat that caught fire on Labor…
kenlh/iStock(ODESSA, Texas) -- The suspect who allegedly gunned down seven people and injured more than 20 in a Labor Day weekend massacre in western Texas appeared to have exploited a…
Google Maps Street View(EAST CHICAGO, Ind.) -- An off-duty Indiana police officer is being praised for his "quick thinking and heroic actions" after he stopped a shooter inside a Walmart…
The Voiceless Dogs of Nassau, Bahamas(NEW YORK) -- Amid Hurricane Dorian, one of the most powerful storms to ever hit the Bahamas, Chella Phillips opened her Nassau home to 97…
The Voiceless Dogs of Nassau, Bahamas(NEW YORK) -- Amid Hurricane Dorian, one of the most powerful storms to ever hit the Bahamas, Chella Phillips opened her Nassau home to 97…
Pattanaphong Khuankaew/iStock(BOSTON) -- Actress Lori Loughlin and her husband walked into Boston federal court holding hands and put up a "united front" on Tuesday as they told a judge they…
felixmizioznikov/iStock(HOLLYWOOD, Fla.) -- Calling it "a terrible tragedy that should have never happened," the police chief of Hollywood, Florida, announced on Tuesday the arrests of four staff members of a…
David Bautista/iStock(NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J.) -- An Oklahoma judge ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay in excess of $572 million as part of a lawsuit about the spread of the opioid…
NYPD(NEW YORK) -- They took the baubles but left the bubbly.A manhunt for a threesome of armed robbers stretched into its second day on Monday after they brazenly held up…
KABC-TV(LOS ANGELES) -- A Southern California sheriff's deputy who set off a massive manhunt when he allegedly faked being shot by a sniper outside his station has left colleagues furious,…
KABC-TV(LOS ANGELES) -- A Southern California sheriff's deputy who set off a massive manhunt when he allegedly faked being shot by a sniper outside his station has left colleagues furious,…
Onnes/iStock(NEW YORK) -- An NYPD sergeant who supervised an officer fired this week for causing the death of Eric Garner will not face a departmental disciplinary trial and officials said…
Pattanaphong Khuankaew/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Jeffrey Epstein had sex with women who were trafficked to his Florida office and home while he was on work release from jail in 2009, two…
Marco Curaba/iStock(NEW YORK) -- New York Police Department Commissioner James O'Neill announced on Monday the decision to fire the police officer, Daniel Pantaleo, who was seen putting Eric Garner in…
Rattankun Thongbun/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, who sources say hanged himself in a New York City jail, sustained a broken hyoid bone, a city official with knowledge…
MJFelt/iStock(ELIZABETHTON, Tenn.) -- Former NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. and his wife and child escaped a plane crash in Tennessee without serious injuries on Thursday, said Carter County Sheriff Dexter…
MattGush/iStock(DAYTON, Ohio) -- The alleged shooter who killed nine in Dayton, Ohio, was found to have cocaine, alcohol and anti-anxiety drugs in his system, according to the Montgomery County Coroner.A…
WPVI-TV(PHILADELPHIA) -- A gunman unleashed a hail of bullets at Philadelphia police officers Wednesday afternoon, wounding six and sending cops diving for cover behind cars, before barricading himself in a…
Obtained by ABC News(NEW YORK) -- The family of a teenage boy is suing the charter school that he attended over a year after a bullying attack that left him…
Rattankun Thongbun/iStock(NEW YORK) -- A review of surveillance camera footage from inside the Metropolitan Correction Center (MCC) in New York showed that two guards who were supposed to check on…
Evgen_Prozhyrko/iStock(DAYTON, Ohio) -- New surveillance videos of the suspected gunman's movements ahead of the Dayton, Ohio, mass shooting were released by authorities on Tuesday.Police on Tuesday also updated the victim…
Rattankun Thongbun/iStock(NEW YORK) -- U.S. Attorney General William Barr has ordered immediate changes in leadership at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in New York following Jeffrey Epstein's death.Barr ordered the…
Erin Toberman/Facebook(GALVESTON, Texas) -- The family of the man who could be seen in a viral photo last week handcuffed and bound with rope as two white police officers in…
Vesnaandjic/iStock(NEW YORK) -- The death of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein is just the latest in a string of incidents that have plagued the Federal Bureau of Prisons in the…
Tennessee Department of Corrections(HENNING, Tenn.) -- Authorities are offering a $32,500 reward for information that leads to the capture of an escaped Tennessee inmate who is considered "extremely dangerous" and…
WPVI-TV(PHILADELPHIA) -- Three people aboard a small plane were killed when the aircraft crashed in a residential neighborhood outside Philadelphia, according to authorities.Police in Upper Moreland Township said that at…
Tennessee Department of Corrections(HENNING, Tenn.) -- Police in Tennessee have issued a Blue Alert for an escaped inmate who is a person of interest in the homicide of a prison…
@ricardorossello/Twitter(SAN JOSE) -- Pedro Pierluisi's term as governor of Puerto Rico has been ruled unconstitutional, clearing the way for Justice Secretary Wanda Vazquez to become the next governor of Puerto…
@ricardorossello/Twitter(SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico) -- Puerto Rico has a new governor -- again.Wanda Vazquez, the island's justice secretary, became governor Wednesday after she was sworn in by the Supreme Court.Vazquez…
Pattanaphong Khuankaew/iStock(NEW YORK) -- A millionaire fugitive who was caught in Mexico after disappearing four years ago while awaiting trial in his wife's murder has been denied bail in a…
MattGush/iStock(STERLING, Ohio) -- Authorities in Ohio said they are investigating the explosion of a home belonging to an interracial couple as an arson and possible hate crime after racial slurs…
Evgen_Prozhyrko/iStock(GILROY, Calif.) -- The FBI on Tuesday said they will open a domestic terrorism investigation into the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting that left three people dead, officials said.The suspect, Santino…
Connecticut State Police(NEW YORK) -- A bus driver was arrested in Connecticut over the weekend after being accused of deliberately locking a passenger inside of one of the vehicle's luggage…
Lubbock County Jail(LUBBOCK, Texas) -- A Texas grandmother was hailed as a hero by federal authorities after she foiled a potential mass shooting by taking her grandson to a hospital…
ABC News(EL PASO, Texas) -- As the El Paso, Texas, community grapples with the massacre at a Walmart that took the lives of at least 22 people and families mourn…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Cesar Sayoc, the Florida man who mailed more than a dozen pipe bombs to prominent Democrats and CNN, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.Earlier…
Pezz453/iStock(DAYTON, Ohio) -- The family and friends of the victims in the El Paso and Dayton shootings are grieving their loved ones who were among those shot to death over…
deebrowning/iStock (BARNSTABLE, Mass.) -- Saoirse Kennedy Hill, the granddaughter of the late Robert F. Kennedy, was found dead on Thursday afternoon at the Kennedy Compound, according to a law enforcement…
wingedwolf/iStock(DALLAS) -- An American citizen captured in Syria has been charged by federal prosecutors in Dallas, Texas, for allegedly joining the terrorist group ISIS.A criminal complaint unsealed in Texas' Northern…
vmargineanu/iStock(GILROY, Calif.) -- Citing "erroneous reporting," the FBI special agent in charge of the FBI San Francisco's office said there's been no determination yet on any ideology of the suspect…
Rawf8/iStock(NEW YORK) -- The pursuit of justice for women who have accused millionaire Jeffrey Epstein of sexually abusing them will have to wait at least another year.Attorneys for Epstein cast…
Jack Mullins/iStock(DEATH VALLEY, Calif.) -- A U.S. Navy single-seat F/A-18E fighter jet crashed on Wednesday in Death Valley, California, according to the Navy. On Friday, the pilot was identified as…
Santino William Legan/Instagram(GILROY, Calif.) -- The 19-year-old who police say opened fire at a food festival in a small Californian town hailed from a well-known family in the agricultural community.Authorities…
Mihajlo Maricic/iStock(INDIANAPOLIS) -- The body John Dillinger, who is accused of terrorizing the Midwest in the early 1930s and became a major figure of the U.S. "gangster era," will be…
Jeff Costello/ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Every summer the warm weather entices millions of people to flock to national parks in hopes of getting a glimpse of the country's natural treasures.That…
Pittcountync.gov(GREENVILLE, N.C.) -- The woman who authorities allege is the "Pink Lady Bandit" responsible for several bank robberies, as well as her alleged accomplice, have been arrested.Circe Baez, 35, is…
JodiJacobson/iStock(HOUSTON) -- At least eight construction workers working on an eight-story hotel in Houston were sent plummeting to the floor below after part of the roof collapsed, fire officials said.Three…
@bradpittshoe/Twitter (GILROY, Calif.) -- Authorities are investigating the social media posts made by the suspected gunman in a California festival shooting that killed three people and injured more than a…
KABC-TV(LOS ANGELES) -- Police have arrested a man who is suspected in at least three different shootings in which four people were killed and two were injured in the last…
txking/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- The first spate of federal executions announced by the attorney general would quickly more than double the number of such executions in modern U.S. history.There had only ever…
Bill_Dally/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- Sixteen U.S. Marines were arrested on Thursday morning for their alleged involvement in activities ranging from human smuggling to drug-related offenses, the Marine Corps said.The arrests were carried…
Ally Kostial/Facebook(OXFORD, Miss.) -- Shocked friends are mourning the beloved Ole Miss student who was allegedly killed by a college classmate.The body of Alexandria "Ally" Kostial was discovered in Harmontown,…
Nashville Noticias(NASHVILLE, Tenn.) -- Neighbors in the outskirts of Nashville prevented immigration officials from detaining a man in his driveway, and then formed a human chain to allow the man…
Evgen_Prozhyrko/iStock(NEW YORK) -- The man who is accused of fatally shooting a New York City mob boss in a brazen crime that shocked observers and the law enforcement community allegedly…
WABC-TV(NEW YORK) -- Two workers were injured and nearby residents were temporarily placed under a shelter-in-place order after a fire caused a chemical reaction at the Diamond Chemical Co., according…
Jose Jimenez/Getty Images(SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico) -- Police in Puerto Rico deployed tear gas near the governor's mansion in San Juan late Wednesday after someone on the protesters' side tossed…
Scott Eisen/Getty Images(NANTUCKET, Mass.) -- Prosecutors in Nantucket on Wednesday dropped a felony sexual assault charge against the actor Kevin Spacey, after watching their case against the actor slowly fall…
winstonwolf89/iStock(NEW YORK) -- With a massive heat wave forecast to hit huge swaths of the U.S. from New York City all the way to Nebraska and temperatures expected to swell…
U.S. Coast Guard(NEW YORK) -- Dramatic video shows a U.S. Coast Guard cutter, the Munro, pursuing a speeding semi-submersible suspected drug-smuggling vessel in the middle of international waters in the…
MattGush/iStock(SPRINGFIELD, Va.) -- Two people have died and 18 others have been hospitalized after a "respiratory outbreak" at a Virginia retirement community, according to officials.The Fairfax County Department of Health…
kodda/iStock(CARRIZO SPRINGS, Texas) -- Kevin Dinnin has made a living managing disaster response efforts around the world. But his most recent focus -- the crisis at the southern U.S. border…
PLU$XANZ/Twitter(WASHINGTON) -- A police officer in Maryland is facing criminal charges after being filmed slamming a suspect’s neck into the sidewalk with his knee during an arrest.Kevin Moris has been…
Fedorovekb/iStock(SEATTLE) -- A naked man was apprehended after he allegedly stabbed three people on a Seattle sidewalk on Tuesday morning, according to police.A 75-year-old man was stabbed in the neck…
Courtesy Williams Family(LOS ANGELES) -- The family of a 17-year-old girl who was shot to death by a police officer on a Southern California freeway is demanding answers, but officials…
WABC-TV(NEW YORK) -- New York Governor Andrew Cuomo asked state authorities to open a hate crime investigation on Monday after an arsonist set fire to a rainbow flag outside of…
ALEXIUZ/iStock (NEW YORK) -- The 1-year-old daughter of an Indiana police officer died on Sunday after falling from a Royal Caribbean cruise ship docked in Puerto Rico, officials said.The little…
Chris Francescani/ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Three years to the day since a boozy encounter in a summer resort bar, a young man who has accused actor Kevin Spacey of felony…
Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet (LOUISVILLE, Ky.) -- The Kentucky River was littered with dead fish on Sunday in the wake of a massive fire at a bourbon warehouse.Officials with…
Clermont Sherrif's Office(TATE TOWNSHIP, Ohio) -- A U.S. airman was arrested and charged over the weekend for allegedly helping an Ohio woman kill her husband, according to police.Tech Sgt. Michael…
Brad Greeff/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan said he did not accept reports of unsanitary conditions and limited food and water at U.S. Border Patrol stations,…
Jurkos/iStock(NEW YORK) -- The cold front responsible for the strong storms in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic on Saturday continues to move southeast.Showers and thunderstorms are in the forecast for most…
Fedorovekb/iStock(SAN BRUNO, Calif.) -- Police in California continued to search for two gunmen who opened fire in a crowded mall, injuring two teenagers, as they released surveillance video showing the…
Jurkos/iStock(ANDREWS, S.C.) -- One person was killed and two suffered minor injuries from a lightning strike in South Carolina on Thursday, officials said.The three people were under a tree at…
Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images(SAN DIEGO, Calif.) -- One day after former Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher was found not guilty on charges of killing an ISIS prisoner during an Iraq deployment,…
Karma Allen/ABC News(NEW YORK) -- At least 17 people were injured in a crash near New York City's Lincoln Tunnel on Wednesday when a sanitation truck lost control and veered…
Obtained by ABC News(PHOENIX) -- In response to a controversial viral video arrest that drew national attention and scrutiny on the use of force by Phoenix police, city leaders are…
West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation(NEW YORK) -- The following report was put together by reviewing trial testimony and court documents, and interviewing multiple plaintiffs who were involved in…
ABCNews.com(CLINT, Texas) -- The little face pressed against the glass window of the concrete cell belonged a toddler peering out at a group of journalists allowed access into a remote…
ABC News(LOS ANGELES) -- Former University of Southern California gynecologist George Tyndall was arrested on Wednesday in the wake of allegations levied by hundreds of former students who claimed he…
New Canaan Police Department(NEW YORK) -- The defense attorney for the estranged husband of a missing Connecticut mother of five is considering a "revenge suicide hypothesis as an explanation for…
MattGush/iStock(AINSWORTH, Wisc.) -- A fire at a multi-family building in Wisconsin has killed six people, including four children, according to officials.The children's ages ranged between 10 months and 7 years…
Santa Barbara County Sheriffs Office(SANTA BARBARA, Calif.) -- Around 350,000 plants and 20 tons of processed cannabis have been seized by a sheriff in California.The bust was so massive, it…
Chicago Police Department(CHICAGO) -- Portions of police video obtained in connection to the Jussie Smollett case have been released, giving a never-before-seen-look into the controversial case.Some 69 hours of police…
Evgen_Prozhyrko/iStock(NEW YORK) -- A 26-year-old woman on the job for six months.A father of two with 24 years of experience in law enforcement.These are just two of the four police…
Chalabala/iStock(NEW YORK) -- The driver of a pickup truck that plowed into a group of motorcyclists in New Hampshire has been charged with seven counts of murder.Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, 23, was…
New Canaan Police Department(NEW YORK) -- Connecticut mom of five Jennifer Dulos, who vanished last month amid a custody battle with her estranged husband, may have disappeared intentionally in a…
The Dallas Police Department(DALLAS) -- Police in Dallas have arrested a suspect in the murder of Chynal Lindsay, a 26-year-old transgender woman who was found dead in a lake earlier…
Evgen_Prozhyrko/iStock(RACINE, Wisc.) -- A reward to help catch the gunman who killed an off-duty Wisconsin police officer has climbed to $37,000 .Officer John Hetland, a 24-year veteran of the Racine…
vmargineanu/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- The Department of Justice announced the arrest of a Syrian refugee on Wednesday in connection with an Islamic State-inspired terrorist attack on a Christian church in Pittsburgh.Mustafa Mousab…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- NXIVM’s founder Keith Raniere was convicted on Wednesday on all seven counts against him, for creating what prosecutors described as a sex cult in which female…
Obtained by ABC News(PHOENIX) -- A Phoenix couple at the center of a viral-video confronted the city's mayor and police chief at a community meeting Tuesday night about why police…
Alessandro De Maddalena/iStock(NEW YORK) -- While others may have tried to escape in fear, a team of fishermen in New Jersey considered themselves lucky when a Great White Shark approached…
nensuria/iStock(PHILADELPHIA) -- Federal officials made a massive cocaine bust in Philadelphia Tuesday, seizing an estimated 16.5 tons of the drug from a ship there -- with a street value of…
WABC-TV(RIDGEFIELD, N.J.) -- An off-duty officer rushed to the scene after a Ridgefield, New Jersey, home exploded, rescuing an injured man from the collapsed home.Police, fire and PSE&G officials arrived…
Wild & Free/iStock(NEW YORK) -- More than 200 bottlenose dolphins have become stranded on beaches along the Gulf of Mexico from Louisiana to Florida since Feb. 1, according to the…
felixmizioznikov/iStock(NEW YORK) -- A team of hundreds of divers has beaten the Guinness World Record for the largest underwater cleanup worldwide off a South Florida beach over the weekend.Arilton Pavan,…
Obtained by ABC News(PHOENIX) -- An Arizona police chief said she has apologized to a black couple arrested on suspicion of shoplifting after cell phone videos surfaced showing one police…
vzwer/iStock(MEBANE, N.C.) -- An 11-year-old boy, who was home alone when three people broke into his family's North Carolina residence, turned the tables on the alleged criminals when he got…
Lansing Police Department(LANSING, Mich.) -- A Michigan police department has released body camera footage that appears to show an officer striking a 16-year-old runaway they were apprehending to return to…
Darwin Brandis/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Maine is now the latest state to allow medically assisted suicide, and advocates believe that there are many more states to come.Democratic Gov. Janet Mills signed…
The Dallas Police Department(DALLAS) -- Police in Dallas have arrested a suspect in connection with a string of murders targeting black transgender women.Kendrell Lavar Lyles, 34, was charged with murder…
jejim/iStock(BOSTON) -- The former Stanford University sailing coach charged in the massive "Varsity Blues" college entrance cheating scam avoided a prison term Wednesday when he became the first defendant in…
vichinterlang/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- The number of unauthorized immigrants living in the U.S. hit a new low in 2017, according to estimates released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center.About 10.5 million lived…
Kuzma/iStock(COLUMBUS, Ohio) -- An Ohio doctor has been charged with 25 counts of murder for allegedly ordering fatal doses of pain medication for patients while working as a critical-care physician.William…
Joe Raedle/Getty Images(PARKLAND, Fla.) -- A Broward County, Florida, sheriff's deputy has been fired and arrested on felony charges in connection to the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School…
mdurson/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- Federal authorities have confirmed two Salvadoran migrants died over the weekend after being apprehended along the U.S.-Mexico border. One of the migrants was a transgender woman, according to…
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(VIRGINIA BEACH, Va.) -- The public utilities engineer who allegedly gunned down 12 people, including 11 colleagues, at the Virginia Beach Municipal Center sent an email that he…
Michael B. Thomas/Getty Images(ST. LOUIS, Mo.) -- With the fate of Missouri's lone Planned Parenthood clinic, its last remaining abortion provider hanging in the balance, demonstrators marched at the St.…
Manjurul/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- The number of measles cases reported in the first five months of 2019 has now surpassed every year since 1994, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced…
Logan City Police Department(LOGAN CITY, Utah) -- Utah police "strongly" believe that they've found the body of a missing 5-year-old girl whose uncle had been charged with her murder just…
Evgeny555/iStock(NEW YORK) -- A tornado cut a swath of destruction through the outskirts of Lawrence, Kansas, on Tuesday evening, injuring 18 people and briefly shutting down Kansas City International Airport…
ABC News(HONOLULU) -- Amanda Eller, the yoga teacher who was rescued after being lost for 17 days in a dense Hawaii forest, called her journey of survival "extremely spiritual.""I never…
Office of Missouri Governor(NEW YORK) -- The realities of a recent string of abortion restrictions may become even clearer in Missouri on Friday as the state threatens to close its…
Dennis Holcomb Photography/iStock(SAN DIEGO) -- A 4-year-old boy is "extremely lucky" to have survived a suspected mountain lion attack in San Diego that left him with non-life-threatening head injuries, officials…
Dennis Holcomb Photography/iStock(SAN DIEGO) -- A 4-year-old boy is "extremely lucky" to have survived a suspected mountain lion attack in San Diego that left him with non-life-threatening head injuries, officials…
Logan City Police Department(NEW YORK) -- As the search for a missing 5-year-old Utah girl intensifies, police say there's "strong evidence" connecting her uncle to her disappearance.Elizabeth Jessica Shelley was…
Fedorovekb/iStock(PHILADELPHIA) -- A man has been arrested for allegedly gunning down a transgender activist in Philadelphia, though police say the killing is not being investigated as a hate crime.Michelle Washington,…
KABC-TV(LOS ANGELES) -- Two horses died at Southern California's prominent Santa Anita racetrack over the weekend, marking 25 thoroughbred fatalities there in the last six months.A pair of 3-year-old geldings…
Whitepointer/iStock(NEW YORK) -- A great white shark measuring nearly 10 feet long has been spotted in Long Island Sound off the Connecticut shore for the first time ever, researchers said…
Photos597/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- A 16-year-old Guatemalan boy died Monday at a U.S. Border Patrol station outside of McAllen, Texas, a week after he was apprehended for trying to cross illegally, according…
Obtained by ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A New Jersey man who sparked widespread outrage by allegedly urinating on a park memorial for a 9-year-old boy said Monday he's sorry for…
KABC-TV(RIVERSIDE, Calif.) -- An F-16 crashed at March Reserve Air Force Base in Southern California on Thursday afternoon, hitting a warehouse located right by the runway. Maj. Perry Covington, a…
VallarieE/iStock(EL PASO, Texas) -- A 2-year-old boy from Guatemala, apprehended with his family at the southern border, died in Texas on Tuesday after being released from U.S. custody at a…
Vanardo Merchant(BOULDER, Colo.) -- A white Colorado police officer caught on video pulling a gun on a black man who was picking up trash outside his home has resigned, officials…
Joel Carillet/iStock(MONTGOMERY, Ala.) -- When the Alabama state Senate passed a controversial bill that would ban most abortions, not one of the four female state senators voted for it.The fact…
Indiana State Police(INDIANAPOLIS) -- An overturned semi-truck caused what the Indiana State Police are calling a “sticky situation” Wednesday when it spilled 20 tons of honey on Interstate 80/94.The spill…
DJMcCoy/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- Alabama’s state Senate voted and approved one of the most controversial and restrictive abortion laws in the country.The ban prevents women from seeking abortions by making any abortions…
vzwer/iStock(PENDER, Neb.) -- A Nebraska farmer says he's fortunate to be alive after his leg got stuck in a grain auger dealing him a life or death decision: Cut off…
Pattanaphong Khuankaew/iStock(HOUSTON) -- Nearly 100 people in Texas have been indicted on federal marriage fraud charges, in a scheme allegedly aimed at securing U.S. Green Cards for Vietnamese nationals, according…
Fedorovekb/iStock(ALAMOGORDO, N.M.) -- A 12-year-old girl has been arrested in New Mexico for drunk driving and leading officers on a high-speed chase before losing control of the steering and smashing…
Retired_Tim/iStock(ANCHORAGE, Alaska) -- At least four people were killed and 10 others hospitalized after two aircraft collided in midair over Alaska on Monday, according to the U.S. Coast Guard."There are…
Jessica McGowan/Getty Images(ATLANTA) -- Former President Jimmy Carter has undergone surgery after he fell and broke his hip.Carter, 94, fell at his home in Plains, Georgia, Monday morning as he…
NYPD(NEW YORK) -- A woman was dragged across a Manhattan sidewalk by a man on a motor scooter attempting to steal her bag, surveillance video shows.It happened on the Upper…
Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Chelsea Manning, an anti-secrecy activist and former U.S. Army intelligence analyst, has been released from jail after a grand jury she refused…
Chet Strange for The Washington Post via Getty Images(HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo.) -- An armed security guard at a Colorado school may have mistakenly fired on sheriff's deputies and wounded a…
Nelvin C. Cepeda-Pool/Getty Images(SAN DIEGO) -- John Earnest, the 19-year-old accused of attacking worshipers at a Southern California synagogue on April 27, will face federal civil rights and hate crime…
Courtesy John Castillo(HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo.) -- A high school student who helped tackle an accused gunman at his Colorado high school this week said his feeling of "absolute and complete…
vmargineanu/iStock(DENVER) -- One student is dead and eight students were injured in a shooting at a Colorado school on Tuesday, according to authorities.The deceased male, who has not been identified,…
Google Maps Street View 2018(POMPANO BEACH, Fla.) -- A woman with mental illness gave birth in an isolated jail cell hours after she asked jail officials for help, in a…
Willbrasil21/iStock(NEW YORK) -- It has been ten years since Najibullah Zazi and two friends plotted to detonate homemade explosives on the New York City subway system.At the time, then-Attorney General…
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The heroes of Saturday's Chabad of Poway synagogue shooting in California, along with Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, attended an event marking the National Day of Prayer on…
wanderlust86/iStock(HONOLULU) -- A man has been injured after he fell into the caldera of the Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island, according to officials.The man fell from a 300-foot cliff…
billdoss/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Seven bald eagles and a great horned owl have been found dead along the eastern shore of Maryland in recent months, and officials say the deaths might…
razyph/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- A 16-year-old migrant boy from Guatemala traveling without his parents has died in Texas after being held in U.S. custody, a spokeswoman with the U.S. Department of Health…
The Howell Family(CHARLOTTE, N.C.) -- Riley Howell, one of the two students slain in a shooting at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, was a "hero" whose "sacrifice saved…
Vancouver Police(VANCOUVER, Wash.) -- Through the new investigative technique of genetic genealogy — and DNA left behind on a discarded cigarette butt — police have arrested a suspect in the…
Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department(CHARLOTTE, N.C.) -- Police are searching for a motive after a 22-year-old allegedly opened fire in a classroom on the campus at the University of North Carolina…
Mario Tama/Getty Images(SAN DIEGO) -- The 19-year-old man who allegedly unleashed a barrage of gunfire on members of a Southern California synagogue was arraigned Tuesday afternoon as prosecutors released new…
Google Street View(BETHESDA, Md.) -- Two students at Walt Whitman High School in Maryland posted photos of themselves on social media in blackface and used the "n-word" in describing the…
Fedorovekb/iStock(LOS ANGELES) -- The Department of Justice announced Monday the arrest of a former U.S. Army infantryman who is accused of plotting a "mass casualty" terrorist attack at a white…
Motortion/iStock(CINCINNATI) -- The horrific discovery of four adult members of a family shot dead inside an apartment in a suburb of Cincinnati prompted police on Monday to warn the public…
Motortion/iStock(CINCINNATI) -- The horrific discovery of four adult members of a family shot dead inside an apartment in a suburb of Cincinnati prompted police on Monday to warn the public…
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation(HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn.) -- A 25-year-old man is accused of killing seven people -- including his parents and uncle -- in slayings that unfolded at two separate crime…
Evgen_Prozhyrko/iStock(NEW YORK) -- In a little over a month, there have been at least five attacks on houses of worship of three different faiths across the U.S., capped off with…
mattjsosa/iStock(LOS ANGELES) -- Students and staff at two Los Angeles universities were under quarantine on Thursday amid fears that they may have been exposed to measles.More than 300 students, faculty…
Pattanaphong Khuankaew/iStock(BOSTON) -- A state judge in Massachusetts was indicted Thursday for refusing to allow ICE to take custody of an undocumented immigrant, according to court papers.Judge Shelley M. Richmond…
Rattankun Thongbun/iStock(JASPER, Texas) -- White supremacist John William King was executed on Wednesday, more than 20 years after he killed James Byrd Jr. in a horrifying hate crime.King was one…
Indiana State Police(DELPHI, Ind.) -- The Indiana State Police is now clarifying why the first sketch of the person of interest in the mysterious Delphi double murder looks so different…
Fedorovekb/iStock(CRYSTAL LAKE, Ill.) -- Missing 5-year-old Andrew "AJ" Freund is believed to be found dead, nearly one week after he vanished from his Crystal Lake, Illinois, home, police said Wednesday.Both…
Cincinnati Public Schools(CINCINNATI) -- A perfect score on a standardized test is an accomplishment worth celebrating.Walnut Hills High School in Ohio found 17 reasons to celebrate.Cincinnati Public Schools announced in…
Evgen_Prozhyrko/iStock(NEWARK, N.J.) -- Sixteen men were arrested on Wednesday in New Jersey where a statewide crackdown by multiple state law enforcement agencies on child sexual exploitation was called, "Operation Home…
Topeka Zoo(TOPEKA, Kan.) -- A Kansas zookeeper who was attacked and badly injured by a Sumatran tiger when she inexplicably entered the animal's enclosure was identified on Tuesday as a…
AmyKerk/iStock(NEW YORK) -- An expert who has been working with the Boy Scouts revealed that there may have been as many as 7,819 sexually abusive troop leaders and volunteers in…
Fedorovekb/iStock(SAN DIEGO) -- A woman allegedly wielding an unloaded gun in one hand and holding a baby in the other interrupted an Easter service at a Southern California church by…
Freda Bouskoutas/iStock(TOPEKA, Kan.) -- A Kansas zookeeper who was attacked by a Sumatran tiger at the Topeka Zoo over the weekend is on the mend, officials said Monday.The zookeeper, whose…
Courtesy of Ann McDonald (NEW YORK) -- The mother of a young woman who died on a New York City subway platform knew something was wrong when she pulled into…
Lindsey Jacobson/ABC News(DELPHI, Ind.) -- The unknown suspect in the mysterious murder of two Delphi eighth-graders may live in the small Indiana town, police said Monday, as new information about…
Fedorovekb/iStock(CRYSTAL LAKE, Ill.) -- JoAnn Cunningham, the mother of missing 5-year-old Andrew "AJ" Freund, is being "uncooperative" with investigators as the frantic search for the Illinois boy reaches a fifth…
KGO-TV(SAN FRANCISCO) -- Officials in San Francisco are promising a full investigation after a frightening video was released showing a woman getting her finger caught in a closing train door…
Google Maps Street View(NEW YORK) -- A New York City transit worker is recovering after he was stabbed on a subway platform on Easter Sunday following an altercation.The Metropolitan Transportation…
Sherry Smith/iStock(SUNLAND PARK, N.M.) -- The leader of a militia operating along the southern border has been arrested by the FBI days after the armed group detained over 200 migrants…
KABC-TV(LOS ANGELES) -- An LAPD officer was shot and injured while exchanging gunfire with a suspect in South Los Angeles Saturday night.The officer, a gang officer in the Newton area,…
Courtesy Map Pesqueira(AUSTIN, Texas) -- A transgender ROTC cadet says he lost his military scholarship at the University of Texas due to the Trump administration's new policy toward transgender service…
f11photo/iStock(NEW YORK) -- They say everything is bigger in Texas, and when it comes to the populations in some of their biggest cities, the Census Bureau seems to agree.New population…
Fedorovekb/iStock(NEW YORK) -- The shooting of an unarmed woman by two Connecticut police officers who opened fire on a car that she was riding in has prompted angry protests over…
TriggerPhoto/iStock(NEW YORK) -- A man was arrested in New York City on Wednesday night after he tried to enter a cathedral with gas cans, triggering worries about a possible arson…
Chmiel/iStock(COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.) -- A Fort Carson soldier, missing since Monday night, has been found alive and in good condition after a 24-hour search, the Army announced on Wednesday.The soldier,…
Moussa81/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Three New Jersey men have been arrested and charged with running a counterfeit drug storefront on the dark web that sold hundreds of thousands of narcotic pills…
Utah County Sheriff's Office(NEW YORK) -- Human remains found in a remote ravine in Utah's American Fork Canyon are believed to be those of a 24-year-old who went missing early…
KTRK-TV(LEAGUE CITY, Texas) -- Investigators in Texas have identified the remains of two women in a decades-long cold case by using genetic genealogy .The murders of the women, named Jane…
Chalabala/iStock(NEW YORK) -- The man who was arrested after a string of fires left historically black churches gravely burned is now facing hate crime charges.Holden Matthews was arrested Wednesday after…
Fedorovekb/iStock(ALPHARETTA, Ga.) -- A Georgia police officer was seen on his own dash camera video being dragged by a suspect he was about to arrest for drug possession and driving…
stedenmi/iStock(TAMPA) -- A zookeeper at a Florida zoo has been hospitalized after he was "nipped" by an orangutan Wednesday morning.The worker, a member of ZooTampa's animal care staff, was giving…
Evgen_Prozhyrko/iStock(NEW YORK) -- As federal agents teamed with local fire investigators to probe a series of suspicious blazes at historically black churches in Louisiana in a 10-day span, the president…
KTRK-TV(HOUSTON) -- Authorities in Houston are searching for the unknown driver who they say struck and killed a pedestrian before fleeing the scene.Just before 10 p.m. Monday, Laquria Williams was…
Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Actress Lori Loughlin, her husband and 14 other parents ensnared in a massive college entrance scam were hit with additional charges…
Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via Getty Images(BOSTON) -- Oscar-nominated actress Felicity Huffman is among 14 defendants who have agreed to plead guilty in the "Varsity Blues" college admissions scam that…
Evgen_Prozhyrko/iStock(MANDAN, N.D.) -- A 44-year-old man was charged on Friday in connection to a mass murder inside a North Dakota workplace, according to court documents. Four people were found dead…
Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images(BOSTON) -- A stranger is running this month's Boston Marathon to honor Jeremy Richman, the father of a Sandy Hook school shooting victim who…
Aurora Police Department via Center for Missing and Exploited Children(NEW YORK) -- The FBI have announced that DNA testing confirms the teen found in Kentucky on Wednesday who claimed to…
Evgen_Prozhyrko/iStock(NEW YORK) -- A 17-year-old Ohio boy was charged with 140 counts of delinquency — stemming from what authorities said is the latest in the dangerous trend of "swatting" in…
Courtesy DeKalb County State's Attorney's Office(BEAVER DAMN, Wisc.) -- A Wisconsin man, who allegedly shot his ex-wife multiple times just feet from their young daughter, had no history of violence,…
Fedorovekb/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- In 2011, when federal counterterrorism officials held meetings about foreign terrorism with various local police departments across the country, they received pushback from police on the ground who…
WABC-TV(NEW YORK) -- The 24-year-old suspect in the killing of reputed Gambino family mob boss Francesco "Franky Boy" Cali was arraigned on Monday on a murder charge in a New…
Broward County Sheriff's Office via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Cesar Sayoc, the man behind a campaign of letter bombs targeting prominent Democrats, including former President Barack Obama, pleaded guilty to…
poco_bw/iStock(HOUSTON) -- A massive chemical fire south of Houston, Texas, triggered an emergency order for locals to shelter in place even after a dangerous chemical was detected in the air.Local…
Onnes/iStock(NEW YORK) -- When a police officer dies in the line of duty it often prompts an outpouring of generosity from within the ranks to support the officer’s family.But Lorraine…
Nathan Hawkins/Big Country Snakes(ALBANY, Texas) -- A Texas resident's world was rattled after he learn he was sharing his home with several dozen deadly reptiles.Last week, the man crawled beneath…
travelview/iStock(MIAMI) -- The Miami Beach Police Department is beefing up the number of officers to patrol crowds for the remainder of spring break after several incidents involving alcohol-induced revelers have…
Obtained by ABC News(BOSTON) -- A hate crime investigation is underway after 59 headstones were defaced and two were knocked over at a Jewish cemetery in Massachusetts, according to local…
Evansville Fire Department(EVANSVILLE, Ind.) -- Police in Indiana have released a 911 call made by a woman who found her veteran firefighter husband gunned down outside their home -- two…
diego_cervo/iStock(NEW YORK) -- The Catholic diocese allowed priests to serve in the West Virginia community and work in their schools in spite of known histories of sexual abuse, according to…
Fedorovekb/iStock(COVINGTON, Wash.) -- Surveillance video captured a collision between a school bus and an SUV in Washington state.Two of the SUV passengers were critically injured and seven students from the…
WABC-TV(WOODBRIDGE, N.J.) -- A boy with autism who called 911 to report that his beloved teddy bear was missing was connected with just the right officer to conduct a search…
Milwaukee Police(MILWAUKEE) -- A Wisconsin father who allegedly abducted her 2-year-old daughter after fatally shooting her mother has been arrested, but the child has not been found, police say.An Amber…
ChrisBoswell/iStock(NEW YORK) -- There are 737 prisoners in California whose executions are now paused after the governor issued a moratorium on the state's death penalty policy, but that doesn't mean…
Joe Raedle/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that the FAA was ordering the immediate grounding of all Boeing 737 MAX 8 and MAX 9 aircraft in the U.S.,…
wellesenterprises/iStock(NEW YORK) -- The man at the center of the alleged $25 million college admissions cheating scandal seemed like a nice guy to some of his neighbors. But they say…
Evgen_Prozhyrko/iStock(MADEIRA, Ohio) -- A twin-engine Piper PA-31 plane crashed into a home near Madeira, Ohio, Tuesday afternoon, killing at least one person, according to a local fire official. It was…
Stephen Brashear/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Travelers asked airlines on Monday whether a new plane that's now been involved in two deadly crashes since October -- the Boeing 737 MAX 8 --…
Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images(CHICAGO) -- The two brothers who police said helped stage an attack on "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett in Chicago six weeks ago were "taken advantage of" and are…
Vanardo Merchant(BOULDER, Colo.) -- A viral cell phone video of multiple white police officers, some with guns drawn, confronting a black man who claimed he was just picking up trash…
Courtesy Keith Smith(BALTIMORE) -- While his sister's slaying in Baltimore left his brother-in-law, who blamed the killing on a panhandler, in custody on murder charges along with his daughter, Marcel…
makeupbymichael/Instagram(NEW YORK) -- At least eight passengers aboard the Norwegian Escape were taken to hospitals in Florida after the cruise line said its ship encountered an "unexpected," strong wind over…
Transportation Security Administration(NEW YORK) -- The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) confiscated a "military rocket propelled grenade launcher" at a Pennsylvania airport on Monday.The grenade launcher was found in pieces and…
ABC News(LOS ANGELES) -- Their rescue was described as a "miracle," but two girls who were lost in the Northern California forest over the weekend said Monday that they depended…
Evgen_Prozhyrko/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Investigators hope newly-surfaced video showing the final seconds of Saturday's Boeing 767 cargo jet crashing into Trinity Bay in Anahuac, Texas, will bring clues as to what…
Courtesy Attorney Jennifer Hansen(ST. LOUIS, Mo.) -- A Missouri day care center is under investigation by police after surveillance video showed a worker flinging a 3-year-old girl by the arm…
FBI(INDIANAPOLIS) -- A man in Indiana had something of a makeshift museum in his home, but now the FBI is working to determine the rightful owners of the artifacts.The FBI's…
Bucks County District Attorney's Office(MORRISVILLE, Pa.) -- A North Carolina man is speaking out after his son was killed, allegedly by his own daughter and estranged wife.Shana Decree, 45, and…
davelogan/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- Federal officials have documented thousands of allegations of sexual abuse and sexual misconduct against migrant children in U.S. custody over the past several years, according to documents presented…
Scott Olson/Getty Images(CHICAGO) -- The mystery woman who posted R. Kelly's bond, freeing the R&B star from jail on multiple charges of sexually assaulting young girls, has identified herself as…
AOosthuizen/iStock(JACKSONVILLE, Fla.) -- A zookeeper in Florida was struck by a rhinoceros during "routine rhino training" and taken to a hospital for evaluation, according to the zoo.The incident occurred shortly…
Barry Chin/The Boston Globe via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The recent reports of several high-profile men being among the lists of hundreds of massage parlor patrons set to face prostitution…
Sarasota K9 Search & Rescue, Inc./Facebook(SARASOTA, Fla.) -- A former firefighter in Florida was killed while trying to help two motorists involved in a crash, according to the Florida Highway…
Tamilisa Miner/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- A man allegedly caught researching acts of domestic terrorism and amassing more than a dozen firearms will spend at least two weeks in federal custody, a Maryland…
Ildo Frazao/iStock(OAKLAND, Calif.) -- A national wave of teachers' strikes rolled into Oakland, California, Thursday where more than 3,000 public school educators hit picket lines in a fight for higher…
Fedorovekb/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- Federal authorities have arrested a Marine veteran and U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant who they said was stockpiling weapons and "espoused extremist" and racist views for years as he…
Prathaan/iStock(NEW YORK) -- The number of hate groups in the U.S. has reached an all-time high, even as membership in the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi outfits have fallen, according…
Gabriel Olsen/Getty Images(CHICAGO) -- "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett has been charged with felony disorderly conduct for filing a false report after allegedly staging the attack against himself in Chicago, police…
Scott Olson/Getty Images(CHICAGO) -- Construction of the $500 million Barack Obama Presidential Center in a historic Chicago park was dealt a major setback on Tuesday when a federal judge ruled…
tupungato/iStock(CHICAGO) -- The FBI and the US Postal Inspection Service are currently investigating whether Jussie Smollett played a role in sending a threatening letter addressed to him at "Empire’s" Chicago…
Sarasota Police Department(SARASOTA, Fla.) -- A statue inspired by the iconic photograph of a World War II sailor kissing a woman in Times Square, New York City, was vandalized just…
Bettmann / Contributor via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- After a killing spree that left young women in fear for their safety and authorities baffled, Ted Bundy had finally been captured.During…
diego_cervo/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Multiple lists of Catholic priests that were said to be credibly accused of sexual abuse were released in New Jersey and Virginia on Wednesday.There were more than…
Google Maps Street View(PALMETTO, Fla.) -- A public school in Florida is arming its guards with rifles to protects students from potential school shooters, according to reports.The initiative is part…
Ryan Herron/iStock(CHAPEL HILL, N.C.) -- The controversy surrounding Virginia Governor Ralph Northam's alleged ties to a racist yearbook photo has been followed by the discovery of a similar image in…
Onnes/iStock(NEW YORK) -- A federal investigation has been launched into why inmates at a New York detention center were left to endure days of bone-chilling weather following a fire that…
Evgen_Prozhyrko/iStock(HOOVER, Ala.) -- The mayor of Hoover, Alabama, said Wednesday that the city will support and defend a police officer who killed a legally-armed African-American man in a shopping mall…
katifcam/iStock(PINE VALLEY, Calif.) -- A good Samaritan who was helping another driver after icy weather caused a string of car crashes on a California highway has died, according to reports.The…
Stockton Police Department(STOCKTON, Calif.) -- An 11-year-old girl vanished in Northern California after leaving for school and local police officers believe she may be a runaway.Elianah Nhem was last seen…
Fedorovekb/iStock(MILWAUKEE) -- A Milwaukee police officer was shot dead in the line of duty Wednesday morning while executing a search warrant, officials said.The slain officer is the third Milwaukee police…
gnagel/iStock(RICHMOND, Va.) -- The state of Virginia was mired in uncertainty Tuesday as its governor remained conflicted over his political future following the revelation that a racist photo appeared in…
Evgen_Prozhyrko/iStock(HOOVER, Ala.) -- An Alabama police officer was justified in killing a legally-armed 21-year-old African-American man while responding to a shooting allegedly committed by someone else at a mall on…
Evgen_Prozhyrko/iStock(GREENWICH, Conn.) -- A young woman's bound body was discovered in a suitcase along the side of a road in Greenwich, Connecticut, police said.The woman, whose identity was not released,…
WABC-TV(NEW YORK) -- A suburban New York firefighter and a retired police officer are among dozens of people arrested on Tuesday as part of a state police investigation of drug-dealing…
Fedorovekb/iStock(ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.) -- One person was found dead from a mysterious "large explosion" behind a strip mall in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Monday afternoon, police said.No one else was hurt, Albuquerque…
Drew Angerer/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A bomb threat was investigated Monday at the federal Metropolitan Detention Center in New York City where inmates have complained of having no heat in…
Jim_Pintar/iStock(MILWAUKEE) -- Seven people stranded in an ice shack -- or ice shanty -- were rescued without any apparent injuries or medical problems amid brutally cold, sub-zero temperatures in Wisconsin…
jetcityimage/iStock(MIAMI) -- Authorities in Florida have found a 50-yard tunnel leading from a wooded area straight to the drive-up teller of a bank, the FBI announced Wednesday.Investigators believe the tunnel…
KTRK-TV(HOUSTON) -- A 58-year-old woman was among of pair of suspects shot dead by undercover police during a raid on a suspected Houston drug house that left five officers injured,…
4nadia/iStock(MILWAUKEE) -- A 55-year-old man was "cold and frozen" when he was found dead in a Milwaukee, Wisconsin, garage on Tuesday, according to a local official.The man, whose identity was…
Evgen_Prozhyrko/iStock(HOUSTON) -- Five Houston police officers were injured in an ambush-style attack on Monday night while investigating a suspected drug case.The officers were met with gunfire "immediately upon reaching the…
Lance King/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A Duke University official says she regrets the uproar she sparked by sending an email to international students warning them to "use English 100% of…
traveler1116/iStock(TALLAHASSEE) -- The newly-appointed Florida secretary of state has resigned after photos showing him dressed in blackface more than a decade ago have emerged.Michael Ertel, who was appointed late last…
ChiccoDodiFC/iStock(NEW YORK) -- At least 50 people were killed at the hands of domestic extremists in 2018, an increase of 35 percent from the previous year, a new report from…
Fedorovekb/iStock(SEBRING, Fla.) -- At least five people were killed when a gunman opened fire in a SunTrust Bank in Sebring, Florida, on Wednesday, police said.The 21-year-old suspect, Zephen Xaver, barricaded…
Ridofranz/iStock(LOS ANGELES) -- Teachers and students in Los Angeles returned to their classrooms on Wednesday after a deal was reached, ending the city's landmark teacher strike.Though a deal was reached…
Evgen_Prozhyrko/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Four suspects are under arrest in upstate New York and charged with an alleged conspiracy to use improvised explosive devices and guns to attack an Islamic community…
Evgen_Prozhyrko/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Four suspects are under arrest in upstate New York and charged with an alleged conspiracy to use improvised explosive devices and guns to attack an Islamic community…
Central Division Air Operations(NEW YORK) -- Video has been released of two hikers being rescued by helicopter after getting trapped at Yosemite National Park.The rescue took place on the morning…
Jennifer Valdez(HOUSTON) -- Gabriel Fernandez went over to his friend’s house almost every day and walked home from school with that friend every day, his mother said.And on Saturday, that…
KABC-TV(LOS ANGELES) -- As marathon talks to end the Los Angeles teacher strike were reportedly "making progress" Monday, union representatives told educators to report to picket lines on Tuesday even…
robertcicchetti/iStock(ASPEN, Colo.) -- One person has died in an avalanche outside Aspen, Colorado, the Pitkin County Sheriff's Office said Monday.The victim was the only person caught in the snow slide,…
Clackamas County Sheriff's Office(PORTLAND, Ore.) -- An Oregon man who was shot to death by sheriff's deputies allegedly used an ax hammer on least one of four family members found…
400tmax/iStock(CHICAGO) -- Three Chicago police officers have been found not guilty of falsifying details to cover up the shooting death of Laquan Mcdonald in 2014.McDonald was shot 16 times by…
RoschetzkyIstockPhoto/iStock(TAOS, N.M.) -- A skier has died after getting trapped in an avalanche at Taos Ski Valley in New Mexico on Thursday, a ski resort official said Friday morning.A second…
krblokhin/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- While many families were enjoying Christmas, an undercover FBI agent was communicating with a man who was suspected of plotting an attack on the White House, court documents…
Evgen_Prozhyrko/iStock(ATLANTA) -- Federal authorities have arrested a man in Georgia who they are accusing of plotting to attack several prominent locations in Washington, D.C., including the White House.Hasher Jallal Taheb…
Birmingham Police Department(NEW YORK) -- A 44-year-old Alabama father and husband with 16 years of experience. A 22-year-old California woman just weeks into the job.Seven law enforcement officers were killed…
Imagno / Contributor via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- It's been 100 years since Prohibition threatened the future of the country's happy hours and margarita taco nights.In 1919, the United States…
gguy44/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Candice Nesbitt, a furloughed worker and Navy veteran, took a $20,000 pay cut for the security of a federal job and now doesn’t know when she’ll receive…
KABC-TV(LOS ANGELES) -- As scores of Los Angeles teachers formed picket lines for the second day of a massive strike, school district officials said student attendance plummeted and that the…
KABC-TV(LOS ANGELES) -- As scores of Los Angeles teachers formed picket lines for the second day of a massive strike, school district officials said student attendance plummeted and that the…
Barron County Sheriff(BARRON, Wisc.) -- The young man accused of abducting a 13-year-old Wisconsin girl, gunning down her parents and holding the child captive had been "a perfectly nice kid,"…
Sherry Smith/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- The Pentagon has extended the U.S. military's support mission along the southwestern border through the end of September.Acting Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan also approved a request from…
WPVI-TV(LOGAN TOWNSHIP, N.J.) -- The suspect who allegedly took two women hostage at a UPS facility in southern New Jersey Monday morning died on the scene, according to officials.A shooting…
vmargineanu/iStock(LIVE OAK, Fla.) -- Three young children have died after they became trapped in a freezer in Florida, the local sheriff said.The deadly incident unfolded Sunday as the children --…
Barron County Sheriff's Office(GORDON, Wis.) -- A missing 13-year-old Wisconsin girl kidnapped after her parents were found murdered in their home last October has been found alive, police say.Jayme Closs…
ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- Officials at Joshua Tree National Park say some of the iconic trees and landscape have been damaged by visitors and motorists during the government shutdown.Earlier in the…
Vacaville Police Department(VACAVILLE, Calif.) -- A California man who tried to scam his way into hitting the jackpot has been arrested instead.Adul Saosongyang, 35, allegedly stole a winning scratch-off ticket…
TheaDesign/iStock(LOS ANGELES) -- The death of a second man at the home of a prominent Democratic donor is raising questions about an earlier death at the same home that was…
ABC News(PHILADELPHIA) -- The homeless man at the center of a GoFundMe scandal that raised more than $400,000 in his name has been arrested in Philadelphia, according to reports.Johnny Bobbitt,…
Raleigh Police(RALEIGH, N.C.) -- Two women have been arrested and charged with second-degree kidnapping and sexual battery after allegedly harassing a transgender woman in the bathroom of a North Carolina…
Bumblee_Dee/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- As the partial government shutdown continues for a third week, veteransgroups are sounding the alarm because what they say is the disproportionate impact on America's veterans and a…
Evgen_Prozhyrko/iStock(LOS ANGELES) -- The death of a man at the home of a prominent Democratic political donor is raising questions and scrutiny about an earlier death at his home.Both deaths…
ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- Officials at Joshua Tree National Park say some of the iconic trees and landscape have been damaged by visitors and motorists during the government shutdown, prompting the…
Lancaster County DA(LANCASTER, Pa.) -- A Pennsylvania DJ has admitted to murdering a 25-year-old woman in 1992, prosecutors said, after DNA linked him to the cold case killing following the…
Brian Sevald/iStock(LOS ANGELES) -- Authorities have arrested a Los Angeles man in connection with the shooting that killed three people at a bowling alley in Southern California last week.Shots rang…
The City of Dearborn(LEXINGTON, Mich.) -- Residents of a small Michigan town are mourning the deaths of a beloved doctor and her family who were killed when a suspected drunken…
Brevard Zoo(MELBOURNE, Fla.) -- The toddler who was injured when she fell into a rhinoceros exhibit at a Florida zoo has been discharged, according to a hospital spokesperson.The 2-year-old girl…
Smith Family(ELIZABETHTOWN, N.C.) -- Inmates rushed to aid the North Carolina officer overseeing them pick up trash when he collapsed on a road. Despite their efforts to call 911 and…
MattGush/iStoc(GAINESVILLE, Fla.) -- A church van from Louisiana was en route to Disney World when it became involved in a fiery, multi-car crash near Gainesville, Florida, leaving five children in…
michaelquirk/iStock(NEW YORK) -- A Florida high school honors student is fighting back after she says her SAT score was held for review following a massive increase from a test earlier…
michaelquirk/iStock(NEW YORK) -- A Florida high school honors student is fighting back after she says her SAT score was held for review following a massive increase from a test earlier…
Woodland Park Police Department(DENVER) -- A woman being investigated for her role in the case of missing Colorado mother Kelsey Berreth has been identified as a 32-year-old nurse from Twin…
Chalabala/iStock(MILWAUKEE) -- Three people are dead, including a mother and her young daughter, after an SUV fleeing police plunged into an icy river in Wisconsin on New Year's Eve.Officers from…
Merced Police Department(MERCED, Calif.) -- The man accused of shooting and killing a Northern California police officer the day after Christmas has been charged with murder, according to court documents.The…
Conservators Center(BURLINGTON, N.C.) -- It took eight shotgun blasts by sheriff's deputies to kill a lion that got loose at a North Carolina wildlife center and killed a 22-year-old intern,…
Jobina Fortson/KGO(OAKLAND, Calif.) -- A 6-year-old girl is recovering from a gunshot wound to the head after she was struck by a stranger’s stray bullet as the clock struck midnight…
Spencer Platt/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- As part of the federal government remains closed this week, more people are feeling the impacts around the country.Federal employees and contractors say they are worried…
KTRK-TV(HOUSTON) -- Police in Harris County, Texas, are continuing their search for the man who opened fire on a car full of children, killing 7-year-old girl Jazmine Barnes and injuring…
avid_creative/Getty Images(ST. CHARLES, Mo.) -- A man whose daughter, two grandchildren and ex-wife were all fatally shot, allegedly by his daughter’s boyfriend, is now grappling with why this happened.“The whole…
Courtesy family of Alexandra Black(BURLINGTON, N.C.) -- The investigation into how a lion at a North Carolina wildlife center managed to get loose and kill a young intern is putting…
kali9/Getty Images(LAS VEGAS) -- Las Vegas police are searching for a woman who struck and killed a nail salon employee with her car.The suspect allegedly ran over the salon employee…
John Moore/Getty Images(PHOENIX) -- The Maricopa County Sheriff's Department is investigating footage of unaccompanied children allegedly being dragged and shoved inside a shelter in Arizona.The videos, first published by The…
Ben Gabbe/Getty Images for Tribeca TV Festival(NEW YORK) -- Embattled comedian Louis CK, who admitted last year to sexually harassing women in the past, appears to be going after survivors…
Kevork Djansezian/BAFTA LA/Getty Images for BAFTA LA(NEW YORK) -- Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey is facing a felony charge of indecent assault and battery on an 18-year-old busboy in Massachusetts stemming…
WABC-TV(NEW YORK) -- A 14-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy were among five suspects arrested in the killing of a man whose partially nude body was discovered in a New…
Eric Fehrenbacher/iStock(BUENA, N.J.) -- The parents of the high school wrestler who was forced to cut his dreadlocks or forfeit a match say they're overwhelmed by the support their son…
Fort Collins Police Department(DENVER) -- One Colorado police department is refusing to let a Grinch steal Christmas... or anything else, for that matter.Posting a surveillance video on its Facebook page,…
Gregory_DUBUS/iStock(NEW YORK) -- A new investigation by the Illinois attorney general's office has identified 500 priests and clergy members with credible claims of sexual abuse against them, all of whom…
Linn County Sheriff(CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa) -- On Dec. 19, 1979, Michelle Martinko, 18, left a school banquet and drove her family's car to the Westdale Mall in Cedar Rapids, Iowa,…
Greenwood Police(KANSAS CITY, Mo.) -- A 6-month-old girl who was allegedly left to drown in an icy pond by her father is "greatly improving," police announced Tuesday.On Monday morning just…
WABC-TV(NEW YORK) -- It was the best of the Christmas spirit, and it was the worst of the Christmas spirit.New Jersey officials said that more than $114,000 of about $510,000…
ABC News(PANAMA CITY, Fla.) -- A Florida community that was devastated by Hurricane Michael was surprised Tuesday with $50,000 worth of donated toys to distribute to local kids for Christmas."You…
giannimarchetti/iStock(ST. LOUIS, Mo.) -- A Missouri judge has found a creative way to possibly conjure remorse from a poacher he sentenced to jail.A man who was convicted of participating in…
Obtained by ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- The wife of a former Green Beret who is charged with murder in the death of a suspected Taliban bomb maker in Afghanistan in 2010…
AlexLinch/iStock(PHILADELPHIA) -- The 11-year-old boy who changed his last name from "Trump" after he was bullied at school was recognized over the weekend by an anti-bullying organization for his courage.Philadelphia-based…
DNY59/iStock(NEW YORK) -- The mother of Ayla Reynolds, a Maine toddler who vanished in 2011, is filing a wrongful death suit against the little girl's father in an effort to…
TinaFields/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Multiple bomb threats have been reported across the country, according to authorities.The New York Police Department said it was monitoring multiple bomb threats sent electronically to various…
WABC-TV(EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J.) -- Rush hour was particularly hectic on one New Jersey highway Thursday morning.Some drivers stopped their vehicles on Route 3 in East Rutherford during their morning commute…
andresr/iStock(CLEAR CREEK, W.V.) -- Three people who were trapped in an abandoned coal mine in West Virginia since Saturday have been found, according to the West Virginia Office of Miners’…
richardcalver/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Meteorologists may have discovered what caused a mysterious blip in the weather radar in Illinois and Kentucky earlier this week.On Monday afternoon, large blips that would usually…
FBI Charlotte(CHARLOTTE, N.C.) -- The man suspected of sexually assaulting and killing 13-year-old Hania Aguilar was connected through DNA to a rape from 2016 -- but investigators never followed up…
St. Joseph County Prosecutors Office(SOUTH BEND, Ind.) -- A 16-year-old Indiana high school football player arrested in the stabbing death of a classmate pregnant with his child pleaded not guilty…
KTRK-TV(HOUSTON) -- A sheriff's deputy and two officials from the Texas attorney general's office were shot while trying to serve a felony warrant at a home in Houston, authorities said.The…
ABC News(SACRAMENTO) -- A woman whose family home and property were destroyed by the deadly and devastating Camp Fire in Northern California has been reunited with both of her dogs,…
Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail(CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.) -- The mother of the woman who was killed when a protester rammed his car into a crowd of people at the Unite the Right rally…
Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail(CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.) -- The mother of the woman who was killed when a protester rammed his car into a crowd of people at the Unite the Right rally…
ABCNews.com(NEW YORK) -- An Ohio man who said he was inspired by the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect planned to attack a Toledo-area Jewish house of worship for a "mass casualty…
ABCNews.com(NEW YORK) -- An Ohio man who said he was inspired by the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect planned to attack a Toledo-area Jewish house of worship for a "mass casualty…
Courtesy Union Pacific(HOUSTON) -- Thousands of mourners stood by railroad tracks in Texas Thursday to honor President George H.W. Bush as his funeral train carried his casket to his final…
US Navy(WASHINGTON) -- Twenty-one U.S. Navy fighter jets will conduct a flyover in the "missing man formation" in honor of President George H.W. Bush Thursday.The flyover will take place over…
Oklahoma Department of Corrections(ST. LOUIS, Mo.) -- A convicted murderer who escaped from an Oklahoma jail on Thursday by assuming his cellmate's identity was captured Tuesday at a motel in…
Drew Angerer/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- As a military honor guard stood silent watch, thousands reverently filed through the U.S. Capitol Rotunda Tuesday to pay respects to former President George H.W. Bush…
Brian Emfinger/LSM(LITTLE ROCK, Ark.) -- Ty’Jier Terrell says he woke up to screams and the sight of his fellow youth-football teammates bleeding as their charter bus rolled down an embankment…
WABC-TV(NEW YORK) -- A Columbia University professor's office was painted with swastikas and anti-Semitic words, according to school officials.The professor, Elizabeth Midlarsky, told the Columbia Spectator that she was "in…
Google Map Street View(AKRON, Ohio) -- An 18-year-old Ohio woman who has been missing for three weeks has been found dead with a gunshot wound to her head, authorities said.Akron…
ABC News(LOS ANGELES) -- Two firefighter pilots who rescued three people and their dogs off a California peak told ABC News the fire roaring toward the ridge would likely have…
iStock/Thinkstock(ST. LOUIS, Mo.) -- A Missouri man was arrested in connection with a heinous crime spree at a Catholic Supply chain store in St. Louis in which a female customer…
ABC News(PANAMA CITY, Fla.) -- A little over a month after Hurricane Michael made landfall in the Florida Panhandle as one of the strongest storms in U.S. history, members of…
WABC-TV(COLTS NECK, N.J.) -- The bodies of two adults and two children were found in a New Jersey house fire that is being investigated as arson, officials said Tuesday.One body,…
iStock/Thinkstock(LOS ANGELES) -- The number of people who remain missing in the wake of a pair of ferocious wildfires that have been blazing across both ends of California remains close…
iStock/Thinkstock(CHICAGO) -- Tamara O'Neal was a church-going emergency room doctor who was greatly concerned about gun violence. Dayna Less had survived a neurological disease as a teenager and was planning…
KABC-TV(LOS ANGELES) -- One 7-year-old from California has chosen to do what she can by holding a toy drive for kids who were affected by the Woolsey Fire -- even…
iStock/Thinkstock(CHICAGO) -- Six people left the dining room on the 95th floor of Chicago’s famed Hancock building early Friday, stepped into an express elevator and fell 84 floors before they…
ABCNews.com(PHILADELPHIA) -- Four people were found "executed" in the basement of a Philadelphia home, authorities said Monday.The victims who were shot dead were two men and two women who appeared…
iStock/Thinkstock(LOS ANGELES) -- The port of entry in San Ysidro, California, was briefly closed early Monday after immigration authorities said they had received reports that members of a migrant "caravan"…
U.S. Department of State(WASHINGTON) -- Two SEALs from the Navy's elite Seal Team Six and two Marines have been charged with murder and involuntary manslaughter in the death of Army…
California National Guard (LOS ANGELES) -- As search crews found another body Wednesday in a house burned by a massive Southern California wildfire, officials fear many more deaths in the…
ABCNews.com(LOS ANGELES) -- Michael Avenatti, the attorney for adult film star Stormy Daniels, has been arrested for domestic violence, police said.The incident took place Tuesday and Avenatti was arrested Wednesday,…
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- Defense Secretary James Mattis defended the deployment of thousands of active duty troops to the border with Mexico Wednesday, calling it "a moral and ethical mission to support…
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- Defense Secretary James Mattis defended the deployment of thousands of active duty troops to the border with Mexico Wednesday, calling it "a moral and ethical mission to support…
Courtesy Jeff Hill (BUTTE COUNTY, Calif.) -- A Northern California man who lost his home to the Camp Fire helped rescue a mule he found stuck in a swimming pool,…
Myhealthguy/Instagram(LOS ANGELES) -- Fueled by blustery winds and parched vegetation, two massive fires burning in California both grew overnight, leaving thousands of exhausted firefighter battling to stretch containment lines around…
Quinn Owen/ABC News(BASE CAMP DONNA, Texas) -- On an unusually frigid morning, Army Warrant Officer Silvestre Arroyo was supervising his team on Veterans Day weekend as they prepared a hot…
KABC-TV(LOS ANGELES) -- A former U.S. Marine who survived both last night's Thousand Oaks massacre and last fall's mass shooting at a Las Vegas country music concert said he feels…
KRCR-TV(SACRAMENTO) -- Mandatory evacuations are underway in Northern California as the Camp Fire continues to blaze through at least 20,000 acres.The blaze is concentrated in the Feather River Canyon off…
@Jeremy_Childs/Twitter (LOS ANGELES) -- When a gunman opened fire inside a country western bar in California, patrons who had been dancing and having a festive time mustered the bravery to…
glenndevlin.com(HOUSTON) -- A Texas judge known for sending kids to juvenile detention released a group of juvenile defendants who appeared before him Wednesday, in an unusual move that came less…
WJXX-TV(ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla.) -- A Florida man broke into an animal farm, jumped into a pool with a trio of 12-foot crocodiles, suffered a bite, escaped, and was arrested after…
Janice McDonald/ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Despite concerns of voter suppression, election turnout in North Dakota's two most populous Native American counties spiked to its highest levels since at least 2010…
Courtesy Rev. Ray Bagnuolo(NEW YORK) -- A 21-year-old New York man was arrested on hate crime charges tied to the repeated theft of LGBT rainbow flags from in front of…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- As the polls have closed in many states, preliminary exit poll results show a deep divide along party lines:North Dakota Senate raceRepublican Kevin Cramer is on…
Weld County Sheriff(DENVER) -- A Colorado man arrested in the killing of his pregnant wife and two young daughters pleaded guilty Tuesday to all charges against him as his wife's…
Spc. Hosannah Vickery(WASHINGTON) -- By the end of Monday there will be 5,200 active duty service members serving along the border in what is officially a support mission to Customs…
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- The remains of a National Guard soldier and Utah mayor killed in Afghanistan over the weekend are expected to arrive in the United States on Tuesday, according to…
missingkids.org(LUMBERTON, N.C.) -- An Amber Alert has been issued after a 13-year-old North Carolina girl was kidnapped in front of her home before school, local police said.Eighth-grader Hania Noleia Aguilar…
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- In August 2017, white supremacists and alt-right protesters shouted "Jews will not replace us" as they marched on the campus of the University of Virginia.The school that Thomas…
Johnny Louis/Getty Images(MIAMI) -- The FBI has compiled a list of names and addresses found in the possession of suspected mail bomber Cesar Sayoc.The belief is these were people --…
Jeff Swensen/Getty Images(PITTSBURGH) -- Dr. Jeff Cohen, President of Allegheny General Hospital, lives down the street from Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue, and heard the gunshots and chaos that unfolded…
Google Maps Street View(JEFFERSONTOWN, Ky.) -- Two recent shootings in the U.S. -- one in Kentucky, one in Pennsylvania -- are both being investigated as possible hate crimes, authorities said.The…
Aaron Jackendoff/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images(PITTSBURGH) -- The man who allegedly opened fire on worshipers at a Pittsburgh synagogue "made statements regarding genocide and his desire to kill Jewish people"…
Metropolitan Police Department(WASHINGTON) -- The man accused in the 2015 quadruple murder of three family members and their housekeeper inside a Washington, D.C., mansion that was later set on fire…
FBI(NEW YORK) -- As investigators hunt for the culprit behind the explosive devices targeting top Democrats, CNN and actor Robert De Niro, the mystery evokes memories of America's "most prolific…
Robert Zepeda/ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- As a caravan of migrants makes its way through Mexico towards the United States, Defense Secretary James Mattis is expected to sign an order Thursday that…
Harvey Meston/Archive Photos/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A man and a woman were found dead after apparently falling from Taft Point in Yosemite National Park, the park said in a statement…
Obtained by ABC News (NEW YORK) -- Investigators are frantically looking for clues after a growing list of suspicious packages were intercepted across the country, either on their way or…
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- The urgent hunt for answers is on after explosive devices targeted CNN's New York headquarters as well as the homes of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Democratic…
Google(NEW YORK) -- The Alaska Department of Law will assist in an investigation of allegations of sexual misconduct by lay volunteers and employees reported to the Archdiocese of Anchorage, ABC…
WABC-TV(NEW YORK) -- The bodies of two women, bound together with duct tape, were discovered in the Hudson River off of Manhattan's Upper West Side on Wednesday afternoon, according to…
Obtained by ABC News(LOS ANGELES) -- A small, vintage plane crashed on a busy freeway in Southern California Tuesday, causing traffic to be backed up for miles.The fiery crash was…
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- The District of Columbia's attorney general announced on Tuesday that his office was investigating whether the Archdiocese of Washington covered up the alleged sexual abuse of minors by…
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- When many people think of how lottery winnings are spent, images of new mansions or lavish yachts and flashy cars zoom through the minds of jackpot hopefuls.Most…
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- A suspected intruder was shot while trying to gain entry to a news station in Washington D.C. Monday afternoon, according to the station.Fox 5 DC reports that the…
ABC News(MILWAUKEE) -- As Wisconsin authorities desperately search for missing 13-year-old Jayme Closs, they asked for volunteers Thursday to help look for more evidence.An Amber Alert was issued for Jayme…
Courtesy Angel Goss(CINCINNATI) -- A Cincinnati woman who thought her nearly 10-year wait for a donor kidney had finally come to an end received crushing news when Hurricane Michael made…
iStock/Thinkstock(UNION, N.J.) -- It wasn't a UFO -- or bird, or plane -- stalking the skies over northern New Jersey Tuesday night.The unidentified flying object was actually a police drone…
Alexandra Wyman/Getty Images For TWC(NEW YORK) -- The Manhattan District Attorney’s office this afternoon issued a pre-emptive notice to Harvey Weinstein’s defense team, alerting them to yet another potentially serious…
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- An outbreak of salmonella connected to raw chicken products and resistant to some antibiotics has infected 92 people in 29 states, according to the Centers for Disease…
Bucks County District Attorney's Office(PHILADELPHIA) -- Amid an ongoing investigation into a spate of mysterious explosions that shook northeastern Pennsylvania earlier this year, authorities warned residents there could still be…
iStock/Thinkstock(MARBLE FALLS, Texas) -- Massive floods swept through Central Texas on Tuesday, and rushing waters are expected to rise overnight and into Wednesday morning.But despite flood operations in several counties…
@DukeEnergy/Twitter (MEXICO BEACH) -- Hurricane Michael's death toll has climbed to 26, with 16 people dying in Florida, according to state officials. Twelve of those deaths were in Bay County,…
Columbus Police(COLUMBUS, Ohio) -- Newly released body cam footage from the Columbus Police Department shows the tense moment an officer realized he had pulled his weapon on a couple of…
Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images(MEXICO BEACH, Fla.) -- The seaside community of Mexico Beach, Florida, was demolished by Hurricane Michael -- but one family's newly-built concrete home survived…
Jason Littlejohn(NEW YORK) -- With tears streaming down his cheeks, a 9-year-old black child spoke out at a community meeting in New York about being wrongly accused of grabbing a…
Courtesy D'Arreion Toles(ST. LOUIS) -- A white woman in St. Louis was fired after videos went viral of her trying to block a black man from entering his own apartment…
NOAA/Twitter (MEXICO BEACH, Fla.) -- Five days after Hurricane Michael roared into the Florida Panhandle, decimating the seaside community of Mexico Beach, rescuers appear to have some good news --…
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- A Virginia man on horseback playing a Medieval knight in a reenactment performance in Kentucky died after he apparently dropped his lance and then became impaled upon…
Peter R. Barber/The Daily Gazette of Schenectady, N.Y.(SCHENECTADY, N.Y.) -- The limousine that crashed Saturday in upstate New York, killing 20 people, had been cited by the State Department of…
Brenda Griffies (MEXICO BEACH, Fla.) -- Hurricane Michael left a trail of destruction in its wake after making landfall on the Florida Panhandle Wednesday.The power of the fierce Category 4…
Nasa via ZUMA Wire(PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla.) -- As the destructive forces of Hurricane Michael were set to make landfall on the Florida Panhandle Wednesday, the astronauts aboard the International…
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Federal authorities have arrested a New York man on charges of unlawfully manufacturing an explosive device, after they say he constructed a 200-pound bomb which he intended…
iStock/Thinkstock(NASHVILLE, Tenn.) -- A woman who stabbed her friend in the arm said she thought she was playing along with a scene and given a prop knife, according to a…
Peter R. Barber/The Daily Gazette of Schenectady, N.Y.(ALBANY, N.Y.) -- A 34-year-old dad, a college professor and young newlyweds were among the 20 killed in a limo crash in upstate…
iStock/Thinkstock(PHOENIX) -- One hundred people have arrived at a church in Phoenix after being released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.Shadow Rock United Church of Christ is providing housing to…
iStock/Thinkstock(ALBANY, N.Y.) -- The family of the driver of the limousine that crashed in upstate New York, killing 20 people, said they believe the vehicle "was neither roadworthy or safe."The…
James Hill(MINNEAPOLIS) -- An outbreak of a mysterious disease in Minnesota that doctors say resembles polio has left children partially paralyzed and health experts baffled.Quinton Hill, 7, spent two weeks…
iStock/Thinkstock(SAN FRANCISCO) -- Commuters in the Bay Area should expect a delay this morning between 11 a.m. and 11:15 a.m. PT as San Francisco-area trains will slow to 27 miles…
iStock/Thinkstock(COLUMBUS, Ohio) -- For the first time in its history, Columbus, Ohio – which was named for explorer Christopher Columbus -- is not observing the federal holiday named in his…
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- The Trump administration is moving ahead with a plan to pay Mexico $20 million to deport migrants from that country and prevent them from reaching the U.S. –…
Jane Roper / Instagram (WASHINGTON) -- The debate over Brett Kavanaugh's nomination spilled into the streets of Washington, D.C., Thursday as hundreds of protesters rallied outside the Supreme Court. U.S.…
WPVI-TV(ALLENTOWN, Pa.) -- A Pennsylvania man who died on Saturday night in a car explosion with his 2-year-old son and his friend planned the explosion in a premeditated murder-suicide plot,…
Derek Lowe(FLORENCE, S.C.) -- A suspect has been detained after seven police officers were shot in a residential neighborhood in South Carolina, according local authorities.One officer died in the shooting,…
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- The FBI has taken a suspect into custody in connection to what was believed to be ricin letter threats that were mailed to the Pentagon and other locations…
Federal Emergency Management Agency(NEW YORK) -- It was loud and intrusive. And there’s no way around it.At 2:18 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, almost every cell phone in the U.S. sounded…
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation(NASHVILLE, Tenn.) -- A rural Tennessee community is on edge as the manhunt intensifies for a double murder suspect who is on the run after a string…
WLS-TV(CHICAGO) -- The Chicago Police officer who shot and killed 17-year-old Laquan McDonald in 2014 became emotional when he took the stand in his own defense Tuesday, wiping away tears…
iStock/Thinkstock(PORTLAND, ME) -- Authorities and dozens of volunteers are searching for a 47-year-old woman who disappeared overnight Sunday.The Cumberland County Sheriff's Office requested the public's help in locating Kristin Westra,…
Clements Family via National Parks Service(KNOXVILLE, Tenn.) -- The National Park Service continues an extensive search for a woman who went missing after she was separated from her daughter while…
Rich Rolen(ALLENTOWN, Pa.) -- A 2-year-old boy is among the three dead after a mysterious car explosion this weekend in Allentown, Pennsylvania, authorities said, and one of the adults is…
U.S. Army(WASHINGTON) -- President Trump awarded the Medal of Honor Monday to Ronald J. Shurer, an Army medic credited with saving the lives of his teammates during a 2008 battle…
Passaic County Prosecutor's Office(PASSAIC, N.J.) -- A New Jersey man and his wife have been arrested after prosecutors said the husband illegally acted as a dentist at the practice his…
iStock/Thinkstock(LOS ANGELES) -- A man just became the first person to be charged for driving under the influence while on a motorized scooter in Los Angeles. His blood alcohol level…
Nashville Police/Twitter(NASHVILLE, Tenn.) -- Prosecutors in Tennessee have filed homicide charges against a Nashville Police officer who shot and killed a 25-year-old man as he ran away.Nashville District Attorney Glenn…
Ronnie Polidoro/ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- There was only so much space for members of the public to attend Christine Blasey Ford's appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee but her words resonated…
Melissa Swailes(LOS ANGELES) -- It was a big day at David and Melissa Swailes’ home on Feb. 26, 2016. It was their youngest son’s second birthday.“We had planned, as a…
Volusia County Sheriff's Office(DELAND, Fla.) -- A would-be burglar who recently tried to rob a Florida convenience store got stuck on the roof instead, according to authorities.The Volusia County Sheriff's…
Georgetown Preparatory School(WASHINGTON) -- One was on the varsity basketball and football teams and wrote for the school newspaper.The other was two years younger and was elected as the student…
WCVB-TV(NANTUCKET, Mass.) -- A fishing boat captain told members of the U.S. Coast Guard that a crew member went "crazy" when he allegedly stabbed multiple people on board, a mayday…
Montgomery County Correctional Facility(PHILADELPHIA) -- He's been known on TV as Dr. Cliff Huxtable in "The Cosby Show," Alexander "Scotty" Scott in "I-Spy," and the title character in the cartoon…
WPVI-TV(NORRISTOWN, Pa.) -- Women's rights activist and attorney Gloria Allred lauded the sentencing of Bill Cosby, saying it "has been a long journey to justice for all of the accusers."Cosby…
iStock/Thinkstock(CHICAGO) -- A Chicago-area priest, who has sparked nationwide outrage after burning an LGBTQ banner that once hung in the church, has been removed from the parish, the Archdiocese of…
Simsbury Police Dept.(SIMSBURY, Conn.) -- Nearly four years ago, Melissa Millan, a mother of two, was brutally murdered in Connecticut while she was out on a jog.The crime went unsolved…
Gastonia Police Department(GASTONIA, N.C.) -- A massive search effort is underway in Gastonia, North Carolina, where a 6-year-old boy with autism vanished over the weekend after going to a local…
Cpl. Damon A. Mclean/Marine Corps.(WASHINGTON) -- A 74-year-old man has been found alive in an apartment building in Washington, D.C., five days after it was nearly gutted by fire, officials…
Bergen County Sheriffs Office(TRENTON, N.J.) -- New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy is calling for one of the state's sheriffs to step down after the sheriff was purportedly recorded making racist…
Georgetown Running Club(WASHINGTON) -- The viral hashtags #MilesforMollie and #dcrunners4wendy are reflecting an all-too-scary reality for women today.Runners in the Washington, D.C., area started #dcrunners4wendy after Wendy Martinez, 35 and…
iStock/Thinkstock(GOODRICH, Texas) -- A great-grandmother in Texas hit an alligator in the bullseye earlier this week, killing the massive reptile with one shot to its head, she told a local…
iStock/Thinkstock(MASONTOWN, Pa.) -- The gunman who opened fire at a Pennsylvania courthouse Wednesday afternoon was scheduled for a hearing on assault charges he received weeks ago, according to authorities.Four people…
Flagler County Sheriff(PALM COAST, Fla.) -- It might have seemed like his lucky day when packages of marijuana washed ashore on a Florida beach on Sept. 13, but a man…
KABC-TV(LOS ANGELES) -- Police said they are investigating whether hazing could have played a role in the sudden death of a 20-year-old University of California Riverside student this weekend.Tyler Hilliard…
Orange County District Attorney(LOS ANGELES) -- An orthopedic surgeon who has appeared on a reality-TV dating show and his purported girlfriend have been accused of drugging and raping at least…
WJXX-TV(JACKSONVILLE, Fla.) -- A 37-year-old Navy Chief Petty Officer in Florida was found dead on Monday -- the same day she was to appear at a court hearing for an…
ABC News(SALT LAKE CITY) -- Wanda Barzee, one of Elizabeth Smart's former captors, is scheduled to be released from prison on Wednesday -- much to Smart's surprise and disappointment.Her release…
iStock/Thinkstock(LELAND, N.C.) -- A video of the rescue of six North Carolina dogs that were locked in a cage rapidly filling up with Hurricane Florence flood water went viral on…
ABC News(WILMINGTON, N.C.) -- Many health care facilities have been evacuated along the southeastern U.S. coast, as Hurricane Florence threatens the region.But at the Davis Community assisted living facility in…
WFAA-TV(DALLAS) -- Hundreds of friends, loved ones and work colleagues of a 26-year-old man shot to death by a Dallas police officer in his own apartment filled a Texas church…
Chuck Liddy/Raleigh News & Observer/TNS via Getty Images(WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, N.C.) -- Don't be fooled by Hurricane Florence's weakening category -- the powerful storm still poses the same dangers at a…
iStock/Thinkstock(BOSTON) -- Firefighters in Massachusetts are battling dozens of fires believed to have been caused by gas explosions.The Massachusetts State Police Watch Center has responded to 39 different addresses spread…
NOAA via Getty Images(WILMINGTON, N.C.) -- Massive Hurricane Florence, with tropical storm-force winds hundreds of miles wide, was bearing down on the Carolinas Thursday, pounding the coast with driving rain…
ABC News(LUMBERTON, N.C.) -- A town in North Carolina that remained under floodwaters for days after Hurricane Matthew is again bracing for another powerful storm.Hurricane Matthew hammered the southeastern United…
iStock/Thinkstock(BAKERSFIELD, Calif.) -- The suspect in a string of shootings in Bakersfield, California, that left six people dead on Wednesday has been identified as a 54-year-old man who may have…
iStock/Thinkstock(DALLAS) -- The 26-year-old man who was allegedly killed by an off-duty Dallas police officer in his own apartment will be laid to rest Thursday.Botham Jean was fatally shot Sept.…
Joe Raedle/Getty Images(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) -- Residents of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina — a beach town devastated by Hurricane Hugo in 1989 and Hurricane Hazel in 1954 — are bracing…
Courtesy Abdiel Santana(SAN JUAN) -- At least a thousand pallets of water bottles, meant for Hurricane Maria survivors, were left to rot under the Puerto Rican sun.That is what Angelo…
Courtesy Abdiel Santana(SAN JUAN) -- At least a thousand pallets of water bottles, meant for Hurricane Maria survivors, were left to rot under the Puerto Rican sun.That is what Angelo…
Alexander Gerst/Twitter(NEWPORT, N.C.) -- Hurricane Florence, a dangerous Category 3 storm, is expected to bring catastrophic flooding to the Southeast and may dump as much as 40 inches of rain…
iStock/Thinkstock(NORFOLK, Va.) -- Officials are pleading with residents in parts of the Carolinas and Virginia to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Florence, but certain city dwellers aren't able to leaveNamely, the…
Kaufman County Jail(DALLAS) -- The arrest warrant affidavit for a Dallas police officer who shot a man after she says she mistakenly entered his apartment has prompted more questions than…
iStock/Thinkstock(DOWNEY, Calif.) -- Police are responding to reports of a shooter at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Downey, California, in Los Angeles County, authorities said.No injuries have been reported, authorities…
iStock/Thinkstock(LOS ANGELES) -- Police are investigating a Southern California woman who allegedly exploited last month's Holy Fire by posing as a fireman’s wife in a scheme to bilk $11,000 from…
iStock/Thinkstock(PORTLAND, Ore.) -- A couple drowned after being swept out to sea by a wave in front of their young daughter in Oregon on Sunday, just weeks after the family…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- When Secret Service agents Damian Schwartz and Don Vinci walked toward their offices at the World Trade Center on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, they…
Terry Zaperach/NASA(NEW YORK) -- Have you ever wanted to see auroras, the rippling lights that sometimes paint the heavens with unearthly blues or greens and make you feel like you're…
Kaufman County Jail(DALLAS) -- Charges against an off-duty Texas police officer who allegedly shot a man in his apartment could be changed from manslaughter to murder when the case is…
Obtained by ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- A federal judge denied Maria Butina’s motion for bond review at a hearing in federal court in Washington, D.C. on Monday, ruling that the alleged…
iStock/Thinkstock(MARIPOSA, Calif.) -- An 18-year-old hiker died Wednesday after falling off a cliff at Yosemite National Park, according to the National Park Service.Officials did not release details on what led…
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood has issued subpoenas to every catholic diocese in the state as part of an investigation into how the church reviewed and…
iStock/Thinkstock(DALLAS) -- A man has been arrested after he intentionally rammed a truck into Dallas FOX 4 news station's building multiple times Wednesday morning, according to the TV station. Police…
Reed Timmer / AccuWeather(BILOXI, Miss.) -- Gordon is tearing through the South with heavy rain and dangerous flooding after making landfall just west of the Alabama-Mississippi border Tuesday night.The storm…
ABC News(PHILADELPHIA) -- A judge Wednesday ordered a New Jersey couple who raised more than $400,000 in donations for a homeless veteran to appear in court to explain what happened…
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement(TAMPA BAY, Fla.) -- The 2-year-old Florida boy found dead after a five day-hunt was left to die by his own mother, according to authorities.Police…
Vincent Perez(CHICAGO) -- A Northwestern University doctoral student who beat cancer was one of six people shot to death over the weekend in Chicago, gunned down by a stray bullet…
ABC News(PHILADELPHIA) -- The attorney representing a homeless veteran at the center of a battle over a $400,000 fundraiser in his name says all of the money raised is now…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Ruby slippers worn in the classic 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz" and stolen 13 years ago in Minnesota were found this summer, authorities said, as…
Largo Police Department(LARGO, Fla.) -- A 2-year-old boy who went missing in Florida has been found dead, authorities said.The body of Jordan Belliveau was found in a wooded area, five…
Covington Police(COVINGTON, Ga.) -- A Georgia police officer is "fighting for his life" after he was shot while responding to a shoplifting report at a Walmart, according to local police.Covington…
Montgomery County Sheriff(HOUSTON) -- A worried ex-wife, a pair of broken bondage cuffs and a girlfriend's desperate search for help.The story of a mystery woman in Texas who rang a…
Ralph Freso/Getty Images(PHOENIX) -- The doors to the Arizona State Capitol building where Sen. John McCain’s casket is lying in state won’t be open to the public until 2:00 p.m.…
Yazmin Juarez(NEW YORK) -- Seventy days after Yazmin Juarez and her young daughter, Mariee, crossed the Rio Grande seeking asylum, the little girl was dead from a respiratory infection she…
Taos County Sheriff's Office(TAOS, N.M.) -- A judge has dismissed child neglect charges against three of the five people who were arrested after authorities discovered children living on a remote…
ABC News(JACKSONVILLE, Fla.) -- The suspect in a mass shooting that left two people dead and 12 with bullet wounds at a Madden 19 e-games tournament in Jacksonville, Florida, on…
First Coast News(JACKSONVILLE, Fla.) -- Asked to describe himself in an EA Sports interview earlier this year, Elijah Clayton flashed a smile that exemplified his laid-back California demeanor."I'm really easy…
Google(NEW YORK) -- New York City authorities have identified a man and women believed to be the snipers taking shots at a high-rise Upper East Side apartment building from across…
iStock/Thinkstock(GAINESVILLE, Fla.) -- While examining the invasive python population in Florida, researchers stumbled across the unexpected: a kind of hybrid super snake.A small number of the invasive pythons were found…
iStock/Thinkstock(CHICAGO) -- Two men were found guilty of the murder of Chicago teen Hadiya Pendleton, five years after her fatal shooting became a rallying cry for tougher gun controls both…
Facebook(BROOKLYN, Iowa) -- Slain Iowa jogger Mollie Tibbetts died from "multiple sharp force injuries" according to the preliminary results of her autopsy, officials said Thursday.Tibbetts, a 20-year-old rising sophomore at…
Sean Rayford/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- A former National Security contractor described by a federal prosecutor as "quintessential example of an insider threat," was sentenced to five years in prison Thursday for…
Sara D. Davis/Getty Images(CHAPEL HILL, N.C.) -- The students of the University of North Carolina may have torn down a Confederate statue from their campus, but a new vote by…
Poweshiek County Sheriffs Office(BROOKLYN, Iowa) -- Slain jogger Mollie Tibbetts and her alleged killer lived in the same rural Iowa town but it’s unclear whether they knew each other, investigators…
Fayetteville Police Department(FAYETTEVILLE, N.C.) -- A North Carolina man has been arrested for a string of rapes committed a decade ago, police said, after he was tracked down through the…
WLS-TV(CHICAGO) -- Two brothers -- just 2 and 4 years old -- are dead after they were found unresponsive in a river, authorities said.The incident unfolded when concerned witnesses called…
Sacramento Police Department(SACRAMENTO) -- The suspected "Golden State Killer," accused of murders across California, will be prosecuted in one combined trial in Sacramento, prosecutors announced Tuesday.Joseph DeAngelo, a 72-year-old former…
Weld County Sheriff(DENVER) -- A Colorado man accused of killing his pregnant wife and two young daughters allegedly claims he walked in on his wife strangling their two children, a…
iStock/Thinkstock(CHICAGO) -- Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson told reporters on Monday the city had “another unacceptable violent weekend” that led to several people shot and killed.There were 58 people shot…
iStock/Thinkstock(REDDING, Calif.) -- Instead of anger and hate, the couple who accidentally started the deadly Carr Fire in Redding, California, has been getting flooded with messages of love and support…
Weld County Sheriff(DENVER) -- After Chris Watts' pregnant wife and two young daughters were reported missing in their Colorado town Monday, his friends, Nick and Amanda Thayer, rushed to his…
Tech. Sgt.Gregory Solman/California National Guard(SAN BERNARDINO, Calif.) -- As wildfires rage across the state, about 1,000 California National Guard soldiers are supporting response efforts, providing unique military capabilities to contain…
WTNH-TV(NEW HAVEN, N.H.) -- Connecticut police have made multiple arrests in connection with 76 overdose cases at a New Haven park.First responders found numerous people who appeared to have overdosed…
iStock/Thinkstock(CAPE COD, Mass.) -- A beach on the coast of Cape Cod has been closed after a swimmer was bitten by a shark, officials said.The coastal town of Truro announced…
iStock/Thinkstock(CAPE COD, Mass.) -- A beach on the coast of Cape Cod has been closed after a swimmer was bitten by a shark, officials said.The coastal town of Truro announced…
KATU-TV(VANCOUVER, Wash.) -- Prosecutors in Washington will consider charging an 18-year-old woman who pushed her teenage friend off a bridge, sending her plummeting 60 feet to the river below and…
Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority(NEW YORK) -- Nearly 11 months after Hurricane Maria, 100 percent of the customers that lost power due to the storm have access to the grid…
Instagram/@otm.twinchin(BALTIMORE) -- Baltimore police officer Arthur Williams, seen on video repeatedly punching a civilian, has been charged with first and second-degree assault, as well as misconduct of an officer, for…
iStock/Thinkstock(PAYSON, Utah) -- Just hours after being arrested and released on bail for allegedly assaulting his wife, a Utah man stole a plane and crashed it into his own home…
Sacramento Police Department(SACRAMENTO) -- The suspected "Golden State Killer" is now facing charges for his 13th alleged murder, and the earliest one yet -- the killing of a college professor…
Taos County Sheriffs Office(AMALIA, N.M.) -- The man who was arrested on a filthy New Mexico compound with 11 abused children was training the children to commit school shootings, according…
WPVI-TV(CAMDEN, N.J.) -- Members of federal and local law enforcement agencies across different states have teamed up to hunt for two men after two New Jersey police officers were ambushed…
ABCNews.com(CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.) -- Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam and the city of Charlottesville have declared a state of emergency ahead of the one-year anniversary of the violent Unite the Right rally.Last…
South Whitehall Township Police Department(SOUTH WHITEHALL TOWNSHIP, Pa.) -- A Pennsylvania police officer has been charged with voluntary manslaughter after he shot and killed an unarmed man near an amusement…
Taos County Sheriff's Office(AMALIA, N.M.) -- The remains of a young boy have been found on a filthy New Mexico compound where authorities rescued 11 children last week, according to…
Obtained by ABC News(NEW YORK) -- It’s gotta be the shoes! Except these weren’t THE shoes.Five people have been charged in New York with trafficking in counterfeit Nike Air Jordans,…
iStock/Thinkstock(ATLANTA) -- Authorities in Georgia are searching for a 19-year-old man who went missing Monday night.The Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office, U.S. Park Service, Georgia State Patrol aviation unit and several…
ABCNews.com(LOS ANGELES) -- Not long after President Donald Trump approved a disaster declaration for California as it fights multiple large wildfires, he blamed California's Democratic governor for what he said…
iStock/Thinkstock(DAYTON, Ohio) -- A training exercise at an Air Force base in Ohio caused an emergency active shooter response Thursday, prompting a lockdown, the evacuation of a hospital and led…
Kat Wade/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- With Vice President Mike Pence looking on, the remains of missing American service members killed in the Korean War were returned to the U.S. Wednesday evening.55…
Poweshiek County Sheriff's Office(BROOKLYN, Iowa) -- There has been an unconfirmed sighting of missing Iowa jogger Molly Tibbetts in Kearney, Missouri.Kearny police responded on July 26 to a possible sighting…
HoustonPolice/Twitter(HOUSTON) -- Houston police believe that the suspect who allegedly killed the one-time doctor of former President George H.W. Bush held a 20-year grudge against the cardiologist because his mother…
Google Maps(HARRISBURG, Pa.) -- A bishop in Pennsylvania has released the names of 71 priests and church personnel who have been credibly accused of sexual abuse dating back to the…
Rob Anderson/Instagram (SACRAMENTO) -- Two major wildfires in California have burned more than 150,000 acres so far this year and almost 100 large fires are burning across the country.Is climate…
ABCNews.com(SAN ANTONIO) -- Floor-to-ceiling tanks filled with exotic marine animals greeted stunned police officers who stepped into the house of a man arrested for stealing a shark from a local…
Mark Wilson/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- A federal judge approved a jury of six men and six women selected to hear Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s case against former Trump campaign chairman Paul…
iStock/Thinkstock(SEATTLE) -- In a bizarre incident linked to dry ice, one woman died and another is in critical condition in Washington state, authorities said.An ice cream salesman kept four coolers…
iStock/Thinkstock(STATE COLLEGE, Pa.) -- The first member of a Penn State fraternity to be sentenced in connection to the death of a pledge will not face any jail time.Ryan Burke…
Rob Hess/ABC News(BROOKLYN, Iowa) -- Investigators in Iowa have zeroed in on missing jogger Mollie Tibbetts' digital footprint, including her Fitbit -- which can capture GPS data -- as they…
Alex Mallin/ABC News(ARLINGTON, Iowa) -- Pig prices are plunging – so, too, those of American soybeans.America’s heartland farmers, in states largely supportive of President Donald Trump, say they are starting…
iStock/Thinkstock(HOUSTON) -- The onetime doctor of former President George H.W. Bush was likely "targeted" when he was shot to death by a mystery gunman in Houston, police said on Thursday.Cardiologist…
Civilian Office of Police Accountability(CHICAGO) -- The Civilian Order of Police Accountability in Chicago has released body camera footage showing the shooting a 24-year-old man while he was running away…
Poweshiek County Sheriffs Office(BROOKLYN, Iowa) -- It's 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 18…
Dan Honda/Bay Area News Group/TNS via Getty Images(SAN JOSE, Calif.) -- An attorney for a former Stanford University swimmer found guilty of sexually assaulting an unconscious and intoxicated woman in…
Animal Adventure Park(NEW YORK) -- April the giraffe who gained prominence with millions through a live-stream of her pregnancy last year, is pregnant again.“Here we go again,” said Jordan Patch,…
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- Maria Butina was in court Wednesday, but her lawyer's comments to the press drew the judge's attention.The suspected covert Russian agent appeared on Wednesday, wearing a jail-issued orange…
Google(LOS ANGELES) -- A hazmat crew in Los Angeles investigated the office of California Rep. Maxine Waters due to a "suspicious package" left there that was labeled "anthrax," according to…
WABC-TV(NEW YORK) -- A federal judge has ordered the release of an Ecuadorian man who was arrested and held for deportation after delivering pizza to an army base in New…
Perth Amboy Police Departmen(PERTH AMBOY, N.J.) -- Body camera footage shows the harrowing moment when a New Jersey police officer saves a man who was on the train tracks just…
WLS-TV(CHICAGO) -- Crews are searching for a 24-year-old woman who went missing after swimming in Lake Michigan on Monday night, ABC Chicago station WLS-TV reported.The family of Tiara Hardy watched…
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- A recent report from the Brennan Center for Justice found that between 2014 and 2016 states purged almost 16 million voters from the rolls, four million more voters…
Obtained by ABC News(CLEARWATER, Fla.) -- Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law is coming under intense scrutiny again after a sheriff declined to file charges in the shooting death of an…
Houston Police Department(HOUSTON) -- Police have released images from the moment right before a onetime doctor for former President George H.W. Bush was gunned down as he rode his bicycle…
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- He is 12, and in a shelter in Maryland, nearly a thousand miles from his family.When Brayan Cáceres' grandmother in Florida was finally able to talk to the…
Poweshiek County Sheriff's Office(BROOKLYN, Iowa) -- As hundreds have rallied to search for 20-year-old Mollie Tibbetts -- who went for a jog Wednesday evening in the rural town of Brooklyn,…
Family handout via WRTV(BRANSON, Mo.) -- In the last photo they took together, 11 members of the Coleman family are shown smiling and posing with a life preserver just before…
hawkfromnorwalk/Twitter(DES MOINES, Iowa) -- Tornadoes have touched down in central Iowa, displacing families and causing destruction across multiple counties.At least 10 people were injured and sent to the hospital. They…
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- New York may have been the site of two suspected shark attacks on Wednesday, but attacks by the creatures in these waters are so rare that there…
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- When New York State Police trooper Nicholas Clark responded to a reported suicidal person barricaded in a home this month, the suspect gunned him down before taking…
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- Federal prosecutors believe that Maria Butina, the Russian gun-rights activist who was recently arrested and charged with acting as a foreign agent, maintained a “duplicitous relationship” with an…
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(ASPEN, Colo.) -- As President Donald Trump continues to "clarify" his views on whether Russia launched an assault on the 2016 presidential election, the FBI director made his…
Chief Terence Monahan/NYPDChiefofDept(NEW YORK) -- Twelve alleged Trinitarios gang members have been indicted on murder charges in the mistaken identity stabbing death of a 15-year-old Bronx teen that prosecutors blamed…
iStock/Thinkstock(ISLIP, N.Y.) -- Authorities are investigating whether a 13-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl who both suffered large fish bites in the waters off of Fire Island were victims of…
iStock/Thinkstock(BRIDGETON, N.J.) -- A 9-year-old girl died after she was hit by stray gunfire while inside her New Jersey home in the middle of the night, local police said.The shooter…
insert4coins/Instagram(SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J.) -- A British tourist’s beach outing ended on a painfully freakish note after the spike of a wind-blown umbrella impaled her in Seaside Heights, New Jersey, authorities…
WFTV(ORLANDO, Fla.) -- A 21-year-old pregnant woman was killed when she and two children were shot at a Florida intersection, in broad daylight. Police are now pleading with the public…
Harris County Sheriff's Office(HOUSTON) -- A parolee who authorities said cut off his ankle monitor and carried out a series of killings in the Houston area has been arrested and…
USGS(HONOLULU) -- A lava bomb punctured the roof of a tour boat in Hawaii Monday injuring 23 near where lava from the Kilauea volcano continues to spill into the ocean,…
The Mother Emanuel Nine Memorial/Handel Architects(CHARLESTON, S.C.) -- Plans for a new memorial honoring the nine victims of the 2015 church shooting tragedy in Charleston, South Carolina, have been unveiled…
ABC News(WEYMOUTH, Mass.) -- A Massachusetts police officer, Army veteran and father of two who died this weekend after being shot by his own weapon would have marked his six-year…
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- FBI counter-intelligence agents have arrested a 29-year-old Russian woman on charges she acted as a Kremlin agent while working over the past three years to build relationships in…
iStock/Thinkstock(SAN ANTONIO) -- An instrument used to calibrate nuclear material containing a small amount of plutonium and cesium in the possession of federal experts went missing last year, according to…
U.S. Coast Guard(ANCHORAGE) -- A woman who was among the 11 survivors of a plane that crashed in Alaska, described the "terrifying" experience and praised the first responders for their…
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- The Trump administration on Tuesday missed its first court-ordered deadline to reunify families separated at the border as it rushes to confirm the identities of parents and match…
WPVI-TV(DOVER, Del.) -- Friends are shocked and devastated after a Delaware family, including three young children, died in what police say was a murder-suicide at their home."I never thought this…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Chris strengthened to a Category 2 hurricane with winds of 105 mph, making it the first Category 2 hurricane of the 2018 Atlantic season.It might strengthen…
KABC-TV(LOS ANGELES) -- A 92-year-old man was brutally attacked by a woman with a brick while walking down a Los Angeles street on July 4, police said.The Los Angeles County…
Mia Irizarry/Facebook(CHICAGO) -- A 62-year-old man allegedly accosted a woman for wearing a T-shirt with an image of the Puerto Rican flag in an Illinois park."You should not be wearing…
WPVI-TV(PRICES CORNER, Del.) -- A Delaware family of five, including three children under the age of 7, died in a “murder-suicide by gunshot,” police said.Troopers responded to the home in…
Ingram Publishing/Thinkstock(ANCHORAGE) -- The U.S. Coast Guard is trying to rescue 11 people after their charter plane crashed into a mountain this afternoon near Ketchikan, Alaska.A Coast Guard spokesperson said…
iStock/Thinkstock(SWEETWATER, Tenn.) -- A 3-year-old boy has died after he was found locked in a hot car in Sweetwater, Tennessee, on Monday, authorities said.The boy's grandmother -- who is also…
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- The commander and the senior enlisted officer of a U.S. Navy SEAL team have been relieved of their duties after investigations into alleged sexual assault and sexual harassment…
iStock/Thinkstock(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) -- A 2-year-old boy has died after he was found in a scorching hot car outside his Sacramento home this weekend, authorities said.The boy was unresponsive and not…
iStock/Thinkstock(DALLAS) -- A man was transported to the hospital after he was shot by a woman as he allegedly tried to steal her SUV with her two children in tow,…
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said Thursday that the administration is working to meet a court-ordered deadline on ensuring that migrant children separated from their parents…
Alex Wroblewski/Getty Images(ANNAPOLIS, Md.) -- It's been an emotional week for the survivors of the shooting at a newspaper office in Maryland, marked with tributes to their slain colleagues.First there…
ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- The woman who scaled Lady Liberty on the Fourth of July was formally charged in federal court Thursday.Therese Okoumou, 44, of Staten Island, New York, was charged…
Maricopa County Sheriff's Office(FOUNTAIN HILLS, Ariz.) -- A 92-year-old woman was charged with murder for allegedly shooting her son after he threatened to move her into an assisted living facility,…
iStock/Thinkstock(FAIRPLAY, Colo.) -- Searing temperatures and drought conditions throughout much of the American West has caused many communities to ban traditional Fourth of July fireworks displays.The heatwave across much of…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A 44-year-old protester picked a patriotic location this Independence Day: the Statue of Liberty. Therese Patricia Okoumou, of Staten Island, was arrested after scaling the base…
KTRK-TV(ROCK ISLAND, Illinois) -- Two men are dead and five others were injured after a large tree branch fell on them during Fourth of July celebration fireworks, officials said.Residents were…
Juan Almestica (LANCASTER, Pa.) -- A Pennsylvania man who was videotaped being tasered by police while sitting on a curb is suing the department for use of excessive force.Attorneys for…
DigitalVision/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- A July 2 report from the National Partnership for New Americans found a “shocking” 88 percent increase in citizenship application processing backlog since 2015.The report, presented at a…
Joe Raedle/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Pentagon is looking at additional facilities that could accommodate migrants coming across the U.S.-Mexico border beyond housing at U.S. military bases in Texas, officials said…
Google Maps(BOISE, Idaho) -- A 3-year-old girl attacked at her birthday party by a knife-wielding man who stabbed five other children and three adults in Boise, Idaho, has died from…
iStock/Thinkstock(CLEVELAND) -- An Ohio man has been accused of plotting an attack on Wednesday's Independence Day parade and fireworks in downtown Cleveland, the FBI announced Monday.Agents said they had charged…
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(ANNAPOLIS, Md.) -- Just a few days after five staff members were gunned down in the newsroom of the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland, the local paper released…
WJLA-TV(ANNAPOLIS, Md.) -- A reporter described the scene from inside the building of a Maryland newsroom where an active shooting opened fire on employees as a "war zone."Phil Davis, a…
WJLA-TV(ANNAPOLIS, Md.) -- The shooting at a Maryland newsroom that killed five people was a targeted attack, according to local police.Anne Arundel Police Department Bill Krampf said that the assailant,…
iStock/Thinkstock(KINGSLAND, Ga.) -- A Georgia police officer was arrested and charged with voluntary manslaughter after he allegedly shot and killed an unarmed man who ran from him following a traffic…
ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- The nation’s top border official expressed confidence Wednesday that more than 2,000 migrant children currently separated from their parents after crossing the border illegally could be reunited…
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- On the heels of alleged abuse and mismanagement at several Health and Human Services shelters housing migrant children separated from their parents, the agency's inspector general has launched…
Beaudette Family(LOS ANGELES) -- A scientist mysteriously killed while camping with his two young daughters died from being shot in the head, according to the coroner's office.Tristan Beaudette, 35, was…
Beaudette Family(LOS ANGELES) -- A scientist mysteriously killed while camping with his two young daughters died from being shot in the head, according to the coroner's office.Tristan Beaudette, 35, was…
iStock/Thinkstock(PARKLAND, Fla.) -- Two Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School campus monitors were let go Tuesday from their positions in the wake of the Feb. 14 mass shooting that left 17…
Pauline Conner(WASHINGTON) -- President Donald Trump posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor on Tuesday to 1st Lt. Garlin Conner for his heroic actions during World War II, saying that "he…
ABCNews.com(ATLANTA) -- Atlanta's Capital Square became a crime scene Tuesday when a man described by authorities as a "disgruntled" Air Force veteran stormed from his parked car strapped with incendiary…
ABCNews.com(MCALLEN, Texas) -- Border Patrol agents have faced a “huge challenge” over the past two weeks as the Trump administration vowed to separate families who crossed the southwest border illegally…
ABC News(LOS ANGELES) -- A man was mysteriously shot dead while at a Southern California campsite with his two young daughters, leaving homicide detectives searching for answers.No arrests have been…
Bobbie DeHerrera/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has requested the Pentagon house migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border at two Texas military bases: Fort Bliss in El Paso…
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Three-quarters of Americans say immigration is a good thing, according to a Gallup poll released Thursday.The number -- 75 percent -- is a "record-high" and includes majorities…
The Gorilla Foundation/Koko.org(NEW YORK) -- Koko, the western lowland gorilla who learned sign language and became a pop-culture phenomenon, has died at the age of 46, the group that cared…
KOMO-TV(OAKVILLE, Wash.) -- The pistol-packing pastor who gunned down a man allegedly on a carjacking rampage that left three people shot in Tumwater, Washington, on Father's Day, says he acted…
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- The Trump administration is considering housing up to 20,000 unaccompanied migrant children on U.S. military bases, according to a U.S. official.The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)…
iStock/Thinkstock(BROWNSVILLE, Texas) -- Texas state inspectors identified nearly 250 violations at facilities run by Southwest Key, the non-profit organization now housing migrant children separated from their parents in a converted…
Google(NEW YORK) -- The room being used at one of the so-called "tender age" facilities designated to house immigrant children looked "home-y" but something seemed wrong.Colleen Kraft, the president of…
John Moore/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Their names are a mystery and in some cases, their faces are too.But the stories of the children caught in the crosshairs of the "zero…
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- One thing Attorney General Jeff Sessions and immigration activists can agree on is that there is a huge backlog of immigration court cases at the southern border.And they’ve…
Orlando Police Department(ORLANDO, Fla.) -- The wife of an Orlando, Florida, police officer shot and critically wounded allegedly by a paroled felon who killed himself and four child hostages, broke…
ABC News(DENVER) -- The back-flipping FBI agent who accidentally shot a Colorado nightclub patron has been ordered to stay away from the man after being charged with second-degree assault.Chase Bishop,…
Los Angeles County Sheriff(LOS ANGELES) -- A taco helped saved a family of six and put a man behind bars on Sunday in Industry, California, authorities said.The family was heading…
Courtesy of Piazza Family(STATE COLLEGE, Pa.) -- A former Penn State fraternity brother has entered the first guilty plea in connection with the death of pledge Tim Piazza, who died…
Pottawatomie County Sheriff's Office via KOCO-TV(OKLAHOMA CITY) -- An Oklahoma sheriff's deputy helped save a 3-year-old boy who was choking on a quarter he swallowed, an ABC affiliate reported.Pottawatomie County…
Monroe County Sheriff's Office(MARATHON, Fla.) -- Six people were rescued Monday morning after the family's pontoon boat got caught in a storm and began sinking off the coast of Florida.They…
Volusia County Jail(ORLANDO, Fla.) -- During the 21-hour hostage standoff at an Orlando apartment that left four young children shot dead, there was never any indication of an imminent threat…
KMGH-TV(DENVER) -- The FBI agent who accidentally shot a nightclub-goer when he did a backflip on a dance floor in Denver turned himself in Tuesday to face charges in connection…
WLS-TV(CHICAGO) -- One suspect is dead and another is in custody after a federal agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was shot multiple times when he…
iStock/Thinkstock(EL PASO, Texas) -- Leslie Silva had yet to reach her teens when her father, Milo Silva, was deported for the third time.Since that deportation in 2012, Leslie, who now…
Released by US Attorneys Office, Middle District of Florida(ORLANDO, Fla.) -- A city police officer acting as a security guard didn't do his job and more than two dozen of…
iStock/Thinkstock(LAS VEGAS) -- Las Vegas authorities have released dozens of 911 calls from the Oct. 1 shooting, shedding light on the panic and chaos that ensued at the Route 91…
WABC-TV(NEW YORK) -- Lawmakers in Brooklyn are demanding answers after a pizza delivery man was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement when he tried to deliver an order to…
Handout / USGS/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images(PAHOA, Hawaii) -- Aerial footage of Hawaii's Big Island shows the extent of the damage from the Kilauea volcano's latest explosion.Before and after photos reveal a…
ABC News(EL PASO, Texas) -- A mother and son separated more than eight months ago by immigration officials at the U.S.-Mexico border were reunited at an El Paso, Texas, airport…
USGS via Zuma Press(PAHOA, Hawaii) -- A river of lava fed by the erupting Kilauea volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii and its many fissures was moving faster and…
WISN-TV(MILWAUKEE) -- Newly-released video of the arrest of Milwaukee Bucks player Sterling Brown shows law enforcement officers stepping on Brown’s ankle while he’s on ground, talking about getting overtime and…
iStock/Thinkstock(INDIANAPOLIS) -- A 13-year-old girl was shot seven times in the face, neck, chest and hand at her Indiana middle school last month, her family said Monday.Ella Whistler was in…
Wildwood Police(WILDWOOD, N.J.) -- The attorney for a 20-year-old woman who was punched multiple times by police on a New Jersey beach insisted on Thursday that officers reacted excessively."What they…
McDonough County Jail(MACOMB, Ill.) -- An Illinois pet store owner was arrested and charged with felony animal cruelty this week after 41 dead rabbits, hamsters, snakes and mice were discovered…
KTRK-TV(HOUSTON) -- The man accused of killing a teenage girl in a car accident in Houston had previously been deported from the United States three times, federal records show.Edy Lopez-Hernandez,…
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation(DICKSON, Tenn.) -- A Tennessee sheriff made an emotional appeal for the public's help in finding a person of interest believed to be connected to the shooting…
iStock/Thinkstock(SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico) -- San Juan mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz called Tuesday’s announcement of new death toll estimates in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria “a day of collective mourning”…
WPVI-TV(PHILADELPHIA) -- Authorities have discovered the source of the mysterious booms heard rocking a Pennsylvania neighborhood last week, ABC Philadelphia station WPVI-TV reported.The loud sounds -- which have been heard…
Craig Barritt/Getty Images for The Robin Hood Foundation(ST. LOUIS, Mo.) -- A day after Eric Greitens resigned as governor of Missouri, a prosecutor blasted his "dangerous and false rhetoric against…
iStock/Thinkstock(SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico) -- A new report suggests that the death toll in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria may be more than 70 times the official estimate.Researchers at the…
Craig Barritt/Getty Images for The Robin Hood Foundation(ST. LOUIS, Mo.) -- Embattled Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens announced in a press conference Tuesday that he is resigning.Politicians and lawmakers in the…
Chris Kleponis - Pool/Getty Images(SALT LAKE CITY) -- An American jailed for two years without a trial in Venezuela returned home to Utah on Monday with the Venezuelan wife he…
WYFF-TV(GREENVILLE, S.C.) -- A South Carolina TV news station is in mourning after two journalists covering subtropical storm Alberto were killed when a tree fell on their car.The large tree…
ABC News(SEATTLE) -- This Memorial Day weekend, Americans across the country have been finding their own unique way to remember and honor the fallen.For weeks now, Jordan Houghton and others…
U.S. Geological Survey via Getty Images(PAHOA, Hawaii) -- Ten more homes in the path of Hawaii's Kileaua volcano eruption have been destroyed overnight by fast-moving lava, a spokesperson for the…
iStock/Thinkstock(GREENVILLE, S.C.) -- Two people in North Carolina have been killed after a tree fell on the car they were riding in, according to local officials.The victims were employees of…
Courtesy Ross County Humane Society, Brittany May(CHILLICOTHE, Ohio) -- A dog with writing on her was rescued by a shelter and is now looking for her forever home.According to Ross…
ABC News(OKLAHOMA CITY) -- Not one, but two men ran to their respective cars to grab their guns when a shooter opened fire at an Oklahoma City restaurant Thursday.Police Capt.…
Denise Truscello/Getty Images(LAS VEGAS) -- Among the thousands of documents just released by police about the Las Vegas mass shooting, a statement from one woman said a client named Stephen…
Eduardo MunozAlvarez/VIEWpress/Corbis via Getty Images(MORRISTOWN, N.J.) -- New Jersey prosecutors have charged a school bus driver with two counts of death by auto in connection with the double-fatal crash that…
WPVI-TV(PHILADELPHIA) -- Investigators are trying to get to the bottom of puzzling reports from residents in northeastern Pennsylvania, who say they heard loud booms and felt the ground shake in…
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(HOUSTON) -- The hard-charging publicity arm of the National Rifle Association is engaged in an increasingly vicious Twitter battle with Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo, as the firearms…
Google Maps(SYRACUSE, N.Y.) -- A New York judge on Tuesday ordered a 30-year-old man to vacate his parents’ home after they took him to court when he refused to leave."I…
Scott Olson/Getty Images(SANTA FE, Texas) -- Speaking to ABC News, 15-year-old Courtney Marshall clutched her cellphone, watching videos of her art classmates just a few weeks ago laughing and joking…
Scott Olson/Getty Images(SANTA FE, Texas) -- Two teachers and eight students, including an exchange student, were killed when a gunman stormed into Santa Fe High School in Texas on Friday…
Mario Tama/Getty Images(HILO, Hawaii) -- Lava from the Kilauea volcano is pouring into the Pacific Ocean off Hawaii's Big Island, creating a new, dangerous hazard known as "laze."When the lava…
iStock/Thinkstock(BALTIMORE) -- A police officer in Baltimore County, Maryland, was shot and killed Monday afternoon after responding to a suspicious vehicle report, according to the state's governor, Larry Hogan.The suspected…
iStock/Thinkstock(EL PASO, Texas) -- Two U.S. citizens were stopped and questioned last week by a Border Patrol agent in Havre, Montana, for speaking Spanish at a gas station, one of…
ABCNews.com(SANTA FE, Texas) -- The attorney for the teenage boy who allegedly opened fire at Santa Fe High School in Texas is looking into reports that the suspected gunman was…
Galveston County Sheriff's Office(SANTA FE, Texas) -- The teenager who allegedly opened fire in a Texas high school and killed 10 people studied previous mass shootings before carrying out the…
Scott Olson/Getty Images(SANTA FE, Texas) -- Prayers were said at churches across Texas and the nation on Sunday for those killed and wounded in the nation's latest school shooting as…
Mario Tama/Getty Images(PAHOA, Hawaii) -- A powerful but short-lived explosion occurred at the summit of the Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island, producing a massive volcanic cloud, officials said.The cloud…
Handout via WFTV(OCALA, Fla.) -- A teacher in Central Florida is being investigated after students recorded video purporting to show raccoons being drowned in front of an agricultural science class.The…
iStock/Thinkstock(LOS ANGELES) -- A gynecologist at the University of Southern California was allowed to continue seeing student patients for years after the school first received complaints of him repeatedly making…
iStock/Thinkstock(CHARLOTTE, N.C.) -- A wave of teacher revolts sweeping the nation is set to hit North Carolina on Wednesday as thousands of educators are expected to swarm the state's capital…
iStock/Thinkstock(LOS ANGELES) -- At least one person is dead and three more were injured after a mysterious explosion rocked a Southern California building Tuesday.Officials are unclear what led to the…
iStock/Thinkstock(PITTSBURGH) -- Rachael DelTondo, a young teacher from the Pittsburgh area, was shot dead in her parent’s driveway after returning from an ice cream shop late on Mother's Day.DelTondo, 32,…
USGS Volcanoes(HONOLULU) -- A new burst of volcanic ash has been released from the Kileaua volcano in what U.S. Geological Survey officials warn is “a phase of more continuous explosive…
iStock/Thinkstock(DALLAS) -- Ten airline employees at a Texas airport have been indicted for their role in allegedly trafficking nearly 150 pounds of what federal officials believe was methamphetamine.Nine of the…
KGO-TV(FAIRFIELD, Calif.) -- After 10 children were found "living in squalor," their mother and her husband were arrested and the children were taken into protective custody, police said Monday.The children…
U.S. Geological Survey via Getty Images(HONOLULU) -- Another fissure has opened up on Hawaii's Big Island, ripping through the ground in the wake of the dangerous eruption of the Kilauea…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Severe weather this weekend brought more than 100 damaging storm reports from western Texas to the mid-Atlantic. Storms are expected to continue in the eastern U.S.…
ABC News(DENVER) -- 911 calls capture a mother's desperation as she phoned police for help after her 5-year-old daughter was attacked by a bear on Sunday."My daughter was just attacked…
iStock/Thinkstock(JEFFERSON PARISH, La.) -- The death of a 22-year-old black man who died in police custody in Louisiana has been ruled a homicide.Keevan Robinson died last week after he was…
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) -- The "Golden State Killer" suspect has been charged with four more counts of murder in Santa Barbara County, California.Joseph James DeAngelo, a 72-year-old former police…
Courtesy Kerrie Harter(ST. LOUIS, Mo.) -- Missouri police have made an arrest in the killing of a 24-year-old Air Force veteran and Missouri Air National Guard reservist who was stabbed…
WFTV(ORLANDO, Fla.) -- Crews are searching a Florida retention pond after a man reported witnessing a teenager flailing in the water and go under.Orlando Fire and Rescue crews with the…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- The pilots behind the controls of a Southwest flight that turned deadly in April when an engine failed midair, talked to ABC News recently about the…
Google(HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn.) -- A science experiment at a magnet school in the Nashville suburbs turned into a dangerous chemical fire, injuring 17 high school students and their teacher.The fumes were…
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Twenty-one states around the country, from California to Maryland, saw active shooter incidents in the two-year period from 2016 to 2017, ten more than in the previous…
iStock/Thinkstock(JACKSONVILLE, Fla.) -- The Florida woman who pleaded guilty to kidnapping a baby hours after birth apologized to the child's biological family for the first time at a sentencing hearing…
iStock/Thinkstock(CHICAGO) -- More than 100 local and federal officials are combing parts of Chicago as authorities try to track down the people responsible for shooting at undercover agents, injuring one,…
WPLG-TV(MIAMI) -- It was a day Gigi Bolt and her 22-year-old daughter will remember forever.On May 2 Gigi Bolt received her master’s degree in public administration from Florida International University,…
Courtesy Piazza Family(NEW YORK) -- Pennsylvania's Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced Tuesday that he wants a judge to restore involuntary manslaughter charges against five fraternity brothers he claims had a…
FBI(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) -- The combination of two key ideas helped break open the decades-old "Golden State Killer" case.One of which was a forensic pathologist's insistence on making duplicate rape kits…
J.B. Forbes/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/TNS via Getty Images(ST. LOUIS, Mo.) -- A bipartisan committee investigating Republican Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens released a document knocking down his attempt to discredit a hair…
iStock/Thinkstock(BOSTON) -- Hackers infiltrated a small Massachusetts city's school computers, then swiped the data only to return it for $10,000 in bitcoin.The Leominster Public Schools were broadsided when they learned…
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- Immigrants from that caravan that crossed Mexico and drew the attention of President Donald Trump have arrived at a U.S. border post – and are trying to seek…
iStock/Thinkstock(PHOENIX) -- "Now it comes down to the hard work of being a citizen, an active, engaged citizen," Joe Thomas, president of the Arizona Education Association, told the striking teachers…
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- The number of sexual assaults in the military reported by victims increased to 6,769 in 2017, a 10 percent increase over the numbers for 2016 and the largest…
Sacramento Police Department(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) -- "Going to kill you ... going to kill you ... going to kill you."Those are the words heard on a chilling 1977 phone call that…
iStock/Thinkstock(SEDONA, Ariz.) -- As the massive Tinder Fire continues to grow, burning more than 8,600 acres in Coconino County, Arizona, thousands have been evacuated.The wildfire started on Friday and has…
Jason Davis/Getty Images(NASHVILLE, Tenn.) -- James Shaw Jr., the hero of the April 22 Waffle House shooting, has launched a campaign on a crowdfunding site to raise money for the…
Sacramento Police Department(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) -- The characteristics of the suspected serial rapist and killer known as the "Golden State Killer" -- arrested this week decades after the California crime spree…
ABC(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) -- The suspected "Golden State Killer" appeared in a Sacramento County, California, court for the first time since he was arrested.Former police officer Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, donned…
Marion County Sheriffâ??s Office(OCALA, Fla.) -- The FBI had the suspect in a Florida school shooting last week on its radar since 2013, new documents show.Sky Bouche, 19, shot a…
iStock/Thinkstock(MADISON, Wisc.) -- Three people have died after the medical helicopter they were on crashed in Wisconsin, according to officials.The medical chopper was returning from dropping a patient off in…
Largo Police(LARGO, Fla.) -- After Linus Phillip Jr., 30, was killed by a police officer after he was stopped at a gas station in Largo, Florida, for heavily tinted car…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Michael Riordan met his wife Jennifer in a shopping mall 29 years ago. He was 17 years old. She was just 15.Last week, Michael's world changed…
Jason Davis/Getty Images(NASHVILLE, Tenn.) -- In an emotional ceremony Tuesday at the Tennessee Capitol, lawmakers gave James Shaw Jr., the man who stopped the deadly attack a Waffle House in…
iStock/Thinkstock(DALLAS) -- Authorities have arrested the man accused of shooting three people, including two police officers, in North Dallas on Tuesday.Armando Juarez, 29, earlier identified as a person of interest,…
WCVB-TV(BOSTON) -- Dozens of endangered North Atlantic Right whales were seen feeding off the coast of Massachusetts over the past few days.The massive ocean mammals were seen swimming at the…
Michael Bryant-Pool/Getty Images(NORRISTOWN, Pa.) -- The defense team in Bill Cosby’s sexual assault retrial in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, rested its case on Monday, paving the way for key closing arguments…
Metro Nashville Police Department(NASHVILLE, Tenn.) -- The suspected gunman in the Waffle House shooting near Nashville, Tennessee, that left four people dead was captured Monday afternoon in a wooded area…
Elyce Gray(BARSTOW, Calif.) -- The family of an unarmed black man who died in a hail of police bullets at a Walmart parking lot is still looking for answers --…
iStock/Thinkstock(ATLANTA) -- At least seven bus drivers in DeKalb County, Georgia, were fired from their jobs for organizing a three-day "sick out" after they felt their voices were not heard…
Courtesy Kim Merryman(OKLAHOMA CITY) -- A grieving mother on screen in the movie "Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri" inspired a grieving mother off-screen.Kim Merryman took cues from Frances McDormand's…
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- NXIVM’s founder and an actress who was a member of his self-help group were indicted Friday on sex trafficking and forced labor conspiracy charges related to…