FILE photo — Tim Kitchen/Getty Images (BIRMINGHAM, Ala.) — Two firefighters have been shot inside a Birmingham, Alabama, fire station in what police say may be a targeted attack. Both firefighters were hospitalized in serious condition after the shooting, which took place at about 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, Birmingham police told […]
Photography by Keith Getter (all rights reserved)/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Flood-ravaged areas in the northeastern United States could see even more rainfall on Thursday as communities try to recover from a historic deluge. A severe weather system moving through the Plains and the Midwest is forecast to reach the […]
Joseph Sohm/Getty Images (ANNAPOLIS, Md.) — The Caucus of African American Leaders (CAAL) voted unanimously Tuesday evening to present a reparations resolution to Maryland officials, seeking programs to address the damage of slavery among Black Maryland residents. “I’m inspired,” said Carl Snowden, the convenor of the caucus, which is composed […]
Lightvision, LLC/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A 26-year-old Boulder, Colorado, woman died after falling 500 feet while climbing a ridge at the Rocky Mountain National Park, park officials said Monday. The woman was doing a free-solo climb at the site on Ypsilon Mountain when she fell on Sunday, according to […]
Miami Dade County – Corrections and Rehabilitation (MIAMI) — A 6-year-old girl in Miami thwarted her own kidnapping outside her home after she bit the attacker, according to the Miami Police Department. Police arrested Leonardo Venegas on Saturday in connection to the alleged abduction, an arrest affidavit shows. He was […]
Darrin Klimek/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten was released from prison on Tuesday after serving 53 years behind bars, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. According to her attorney, Van Houten is now in a “transitional living facility.” She was released […]
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (NORTH CAROLINA) — A family of four were assaulted after an early-morning robbery in the small North Carolina city of Morganton, according to police. Officers initially responded to the incident at approximately 4 a.m. Saturday, finding two adults and two children who reported that they had been […]
Mike Korostelev/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — An orca started a fad in the summer of 1987 when it killed a salmon and returned to the surface with the dead fish draped on top of its head. For a few pods of killer whales in the Puget Sound area of Washington […]
Mats Silvan/Getty Images (FLORIDA) — Susan Lorincz, the woman charged with manslaughter in the fatal shooting her neighbor Ajike “AJ” Owens on June 2 in Ocala, Florida, pleaded not guilty on Monday, her attorney Amanda Sizemore confirmed to ABC News. Lorincz waived her right to an arraignment, which was scheduled […]
Newark firefighters Augusto Acabou, left, and Wayne Brooks, Jr., died battling a blaze aboard a cargo ship at Port Newark, July 5, 2023. — Newark Department of Public Safety (NEWARK, N.J.) — The massive fire aboard a cargo ship filled with cars that took the lives of two Newark firefighters […]
