Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — North Carolina’s Fort Bragg, named after Confederate Army Gen. Braxton Bragg, was officially redesignated to Fort Liberty on Friday. The renaming ceremony Friday was part of a national campaign to change the names of nine U.S. Army installations, as recommended by the Department […]
RapidEye/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A settlement has been approved in the wrongful death suit filed by Matthew Hutchins and his son following the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the film set of Rust. The cinematographer died in October 2021 after allegedly being shot by a prop gun that […]
KGO-TV (NEW YORK) — Three people have been killed and three others injured in a Northern California crime spree, the motive for which authorities say remains under investigation. The suspect, whose name was not released, was taken into custody following the Thursday afternoon attacks. The spree began at about 3:11 […]
Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images (OXON HILL, Md.) — Dev Shah hoisted the coveted Scripps Cup after correctly spelling the word psammophile — an organism that prefers or thrives in sandy areas — to win the 2023 Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday. “It felt good knowing that I accomplished something […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Payton Washington, one of two Texas cheerleaders shot in April after her friend accidentally opened the door of the wrong car, is speaking out for the first time since the attack that left her in critical condition. “My spleen was shattered. My stomach had two […]
The Great Plains Zoo (SIOUX FALLS, S.D.) — A zoo in South Dakota has welcomed a litter of critically endangered red wolf pups — a litter vital to the existence of the species with only an estimated two dozen left existing in the wild. The Great Plains Zoo in Sioux […]
georgeclerk/Getty Images (DAVENPORT, Iowa) — An elite task force with dogs trained to smell death is combing through a partially collapsed building in eastern Iowa as three people remain missing. Iowa Task Force 1, a Cedar Rapids-based urban search and rescue team trained and equipped by the Federal Emergency Management […]
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (KANSAS CITY, Mo.) — A judge on Thursday set preliminary hearing dates for Aug. 31 and Sept. 1, 2023 in Lester’s case, according to ABC affiliate in Kansas City, KMBC. The hearing came one day after a Clay County judge agreed to partially seal the case in […]
Courtesy Rutherford Law (COLUMBIA, S.C.) — A South Carolina teenager who police say was fatally shot by a gas station owner who they say had falsely accused him of shoplifting was remembered by his middle school as a well-liked student who was “intelligent” and “humorous.” Cyrus Carmack-Belton, 14, died after being […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — As debate grows over how gender identity is handled in schools, many employees at educational institutions have said that they feel caught in the middle, and some also say that they’ve been disciplined because of it. That includes Shua Wilmot, a former residence hall director, who […]
