Florian Roden / EyeEm/Getty Images (SANFORD, Fla.) — Passengers traveling on an Amtrak Auto Train from a Washington, D.C., suburb Monday evening expected to arrive in the Orlando area by Tuesday morning. But their planned 17-hour journey experienced significant delays caused by a freight derailment. The train rolled into the […]
Joseph Sohm; Visions of America/Getty Images (SPRINGFIELD, Ill.) — Illinois on Tuesday became the latest U.S. state to ban the sale or possession of semiautomatic weapons. Just hours after the legislation’s passage in both chambers of the Illinois General Assembly, Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed the “Protect Illinois Communities Act” into […]
amphotora/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A man has been arrested after multiple dogs were found dead in a dumpster during a period of several weeks at the end of last year. The series of deaths began on Nov. 15 when animal control officers in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, were alerted […]
Handout (NEW YORK) — The teenager accused of attacking New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers with a knife on New Year’s Eve now faces federal charges, the Department of Justice said. Trevor Bickford was charged with four counts of attempted murder of officers and employees of the U.S. government […]
Hawaii Pacific University (NEW YORK) — Those who make their living out on the open ocean now have the opportunity to partake in a side hustle that simultaneously tidies up the environment. Commercial fishermen have been offered a “bounty” to collect derelict fishing gear, often the culprit of the death […]
Géza Bálint Ujvárosi/EyeEm/Getty IMages (WASHINGTON) — Federal safety regulators said Tuesday that they plan later this year to begin gathering “data and perspectives” on the “potential hazards associated with gas stoves.” In a statement, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) clarified that it has not proposed any regulatory action on […]
Photography by Keith Getter (all rights reserved)/Getty Images California storms live updates: 224,000 without power as severe weather pounds state Morgan Winsor and Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News (NEW YORK) — Dangerously stormy weather continues to wallop California, drenching the drought-stricken state with a sudden and near constant onslaught of rain […]
Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office (LIMERICK TOWNSHIP, Pa.) — Police have had no credible sightings a week after a Pennsylvania woman who failed to pick up her son from the bus stop went missing, authorities said. Jennifer Brown, 43, of Limerick Township, was last seen at 2 p.m. on Jan. […]
Tangipahoa Paris Sheriff’s Office (A Louisiana mom shot and killed a home invader to protect her two young children, authorities said. The suspect, 51-year-old Robert Rheams, was armed with a shovel and a lug wrench when he allegedly forced his way into a woman’s home in Hammond around 5 a.m. […]
Joe Raedle/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Judges from the D.C. Court of Appeals expressed reluctance Tuesday to find that then-President Donald Trump acted within the scope of his employment in 2019 when he, in the course of denying a rape claim by E. Jean Carroll, allegedly defamed her by calling […]
