Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As investigators dig into the “double life” of suspect Rex A. Heuermann, the Manhattan architect charged in the murders of three women in Long Island, they’re also checking to see if they can tie him to unsolved murders or missing persons cases throughout New […]
SimpleImages/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The most populous city in Texas has confirmed its first heat-related death of the year as record high temperatures scorch a swath of the United States. The Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences told ABC News on Sunday that there has been one heat-related death […]
Kevin Schafer/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The annual great beluga migration is underway, but the whales are facing increasing dangers as the climate warms and human activity decimates their habitat. Every July, about 57,000 beluga whales make their way from the Arctic to warmer waters further south. In these safe […]
IronHeart/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Powerball jackpot is expected to grow to an estimated $900 million for Monday night’s drawing, a sum that would be the third-largest Powerball jackpot in history, the lottery said. The estimated cash payout would be about $465.1 million. The was no Powerball jackpot winner […]
Darrin Klimek/Getty Images (HOUSTON) — A man dressed as a woman walked into three Texas banks this month and handed tellers sticky notes with “threatening” messages demanding cash, earning him the nickname “Sticky Note Bandit,” the FBI said. The man, who hasn’t been arrested or publicly identified, left two of […]
Sevier School District saw improved proficiency rates from students despite the pandemic. A report by the University of Utah Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute showed that 35 school districts in Utah experienced declines in English language arts proficiency rates in grades three through ten as a direct effect of the […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Potentially deadly weather conditions are affecting millions of Americans from coast to coast. Extreme heat, poor air quality and severe storms bringing flash flooding threats will be plaguing regions all over the country on Sunday. More than 80 million Americans across 14 states from Washington […]
Hoover Police Department (HOOVER, Ala.) — An Alabama woman who went missing on Wednesday after reporting a child walking on the highway returned home late Saturday and was transported to a hospital for evaluation, police said. The Hoover Police Department said 25-year-old Carlethia “Carlee” Nichole Russell made a 911 call […]
Catherine McQueen/Getty Images (UPPER MAKEFIELD TOWNSHIP, Penn.) — Four people have died and as many as three people remain unaccounted for after torrential rain caused flash flooding in Upper Makefield Township in Pennsylvania Saturday, officials in Bucks County said Sunday. Authorities are still searching for three people: Two siblings – […]
Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A powerful 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck near the Alaska Peninsula late Saturday. Preliminary data placed the quake about 55 miles southwest of Sand Point, Alaska, the National Weather Service said. It had initially been measured at a magnitude of 7.4, the United States Geological Survey […]
