Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (CYRIL, Okla.) — Oklahoma police have arrested the caretaker of a 4-year-old girl who was reported missing after a postal carrier found her sister wandering alone outside on Tuesday, authorities said. Local authorities began searching for Athena Brownfield Tuesday afternoon, when the postal worker discovered her 5-year-old […]
Jay Paul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Teachers are speaking out days after a 6-year-old allegedly shot a teacher at a Newport News, Virginia, elementary school. Trayvon Thompson teaches kindergarten at a public school in Los Angeles County. The 22-year-old is in his first year of teaching and he said when […]
KARIM SAHIB/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — The appointment of an oil executive as head of the United Nations’ COP28 climate conference on Thursday sparked backlash from environmental organizations. The Office of the United Arab Emirates’ Special Envoy for Climate Change announced Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, the head of the […]
ABCNews.com (LUCK, Wis.) — A town in Wisconsin is bringing new meaning to the phrase “as luck would have it,” after a multi-million dollar winning lottery ticket was sold there last week. The $15.1 million Megabucks prize ticket was sold to Mark Cunningham at a grocery store in a town […]
Colorado Avalanche Information Center (NEW YORK) — Dangerous avalanche conditions are expected through the weekend in Colorado, experts warned, as the state has reported several deadly avalanches so far this season. “We have seen more avalanches this year than we do during a typical year, and recently they’ve gotten much […]
Catherine McQueen/Getty Images (SELMA, Ala.) — A tornado delivered “significant damage” to the city of Selma, Alabama, as strong storms moved through the region on Thursday, according to the mayor’s office. The “large and extremely dangerous” tornado struck Selma at 12:20 p.m. local time, according to the National Weather Service. […]
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon has asked a judge to let him change lawyers as he defends himself against charges that he defrauded donors to the “We Build the Wall” campaign that was supposed to raise money for former President Donald Trump’s signature domestic project. […]
Greg Bajor/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — With the Federal Aviation Administration’s Notice To all Air Missions, or NOTAM, system back up and running, staffing remains high and systems monitoring is at an urgently high level this morning, a senior official told ABC News Thursday. Computer traffic on the NOTAM system […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Extreme drought, the second-highest level of drought, has been nearly eliminated in the state of California in the wake of storms caused by atmospheric rivers slamming the state over the last several weeks. However, the extreme influx of moisture was contained to west of the […]
Heather Roberts/ABC News (MOSCOW, Idaho) — University of Idaho quadruple murder suspect Bryan Kohberger made a brief appearance in court on Thursday, and, at the request of his defense, had his preliminary hearing delayed until June 26. Kohberger’s attorneys said the 28-year-old was willing to waive his right to a […]
