Scott Olson/Getty Images (EAST LANSING, Mich.) — Three Michigan State University students were killed and five more wounded in a mass shooting on the East Lansing campus Monday night. For several hours, terrified students sheltered in place following warnings of an active shooter at the university, before a suspect was […]
FILE photo – Manuel ROMARIS/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — When he first escaped from his vandalized enclosure at New York City’s Central Park Zoo, handlers of Flaco, a Eurasian eagle owl, doubted he could survive on his own after spending most of his life in captivity. But 12 days after […]
ABC News (EAST LANSING, Mich.) — Michigan State University student Dominik Molotky was in class on Monday evening when he heard a gunshot in the hallway, just outside the door. “I was sitting next to the nearest door and thank god that my fight-or-flight response kicked in because, right when […]
Udo Henneböle/EyeEm/Getty Images (BURLINGTON, Vt.) — Authorities in Vermont are warning ice fishers to stay off the ice of a lake after three people died in the last week. The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department told people on Tuesday not to go on the ice at Lake Champlain while the […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Two storm systems moving across the U.S. have placed 26 states, from California to Kentucky, under snow and wind alerts. Winter storm watches and advisories are in effect for parts of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Kansas, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. Additionally, winter storm watches […]
WABC-TV (NEW YORK) — A U-Haul driver is in custody after allegedly striking eight people in a “violent rampage” in multiple locations in Brooklyn, New York, on Monday, according to NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell. Four people have been hospitalized, two in critical condition and two in serious condition, the commissioner said […]
Caroline Brehman-Pool/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — With the recent shootdowns of “high-altitude objects,” there’s heightened awareness about what’s flying in U.S. airspace, especially weather balloons. As it turns out, the skies are crowded. How many weather balloons are there? On any given day, nearly 1800 weather balloons are launched across […]
Bengtsson, Hasse/Getty Images (EAST PALESTINE, Ohio) — There were more toxic chemicals aboard the train that derailed in Ohio than originally reported, new data shows. State health officials were initially concerned about the presence of vinyl chloride, a highly volatile colorless gas produced for commercial uses, which spilled after about […]
Yalonda M. James/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images (JACKSONVILLE, Fla.) — Thousands of books in Duval County schools in Florida are subject to review due to three state laws impacting certain subjects in education, including race, gender and sexual orientation, according to county officials. The books are under review based […]
Peter Zay/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A crane ship on the scene where a Chinese surveillance balloon went down in waters off South Carolina has picked up a significant portion of the balloon’s payload that measured as much as 30-feet-long and had all of craft’s tech gear and […]
