ABC News (NEW YORK) — Tropical storm Elsa is slamming the Sunshine State with gusty winds and heavy rain as it barrels north near Florida’s west coast. Elsa is expected to make landfall later Wednesday morning by Florida’s Big Bend. A hurricane warning is in effect for Florida’s west coast […]
Sarah Köster/iStock (NEW YORK) — Wednesday is a day of celebration as New York City gears up for a ticker tape parade honoring the heroes of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Hometown Heroes Parade starts at 11 a.m. along the Canyon of Heroes in lower Manhattan, about 16 months after New […]
ABC News/WPVI-TV (PHILADELPHIA) — A construction worker has died after a drilling rig that was being used to move heavy equipment fell on top of him while he was working. The deadly incident happened on Tuesday at approximately 8:30 p.m. local time in downtown Philadelphia near a train station. Heavy […]
vmargineanu/iStock (WORCESTER, Mass.) — A police chase of a woman in a stolen truck ended at a McDonald’s drive-thru as she attempted to order some food amid the pursuit. The incident occurred at approximately 8:45 a.m. local time on Tuesday, July 6, in Worcester, Massachusetts — about 42 miles west […]
Eva Marie Uzcategui Trinkl/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (SURFSIDE, Fla.) — At least 36 people, including three children, have been confirmed dead and 109 others remain unaccounted for after a 12-story residential building partially collapsed in South Florida’s Miami-Dade County last month. The disaster occurred on June 24 around 1:15 […]
zorazhuang/iStock (MEMPHIS, Tenn.) — They were called the “path of least resistance” by energy giants proposing a new crude oil pipeline. Now, after months of activism and resistance, a Black community in Memphis, Tennessee is celebrating the announcement that construction of the pipeline has been called off. “This is a […]
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Tuesday’s sports events: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL INTERLEAGUE Kansas City 7, Cincinnati 6 AMERICAN LEAGUE Baltimore 7, Toronto 5 Texas 10, Detroit 5 Chi White Sox 4, Minnesota 1 Houston 9, Oakland 6 LA Angels 5, Boston 3 NY Yankees 12, Seattle […]
Courtesy Kale and Courtney Buchholtz (NEW YORK) — Courtney and Kale Buchholtz had just put their 5-month-old son Cannon to bed and sat down on the couch the night of July 2 when a loud bang shook the walls of their Prairieville, Louisiana, home. The couple said they thought lightning […]
Patrick Smith/Getty Images (INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.) — Sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson will officially not be running at the Tokyo Olympics. On Tuesday, the U.S. Olympic track and field team released its roster for the games, which featured a handful of veterans and 81 first-time Olympians — but not Richardson. In June, Richardson […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Elsa has strengthened to a Category 1 hurricane Tuesday night just southwest of Tampa Bay with sustained winds of 75 mph. Landfall is expected around 8 or 9 a.m. Wednesday near the Big Bend region along Florida’s west coast. Storms with winds of 74 mph […]
