ABC News Illustration (NEW YORK) — A strengthening storm system will move across the country this week, bringing blizzard conditions to the Heartland and tornadoes and damaging winds to the South. On Monday, the storm is focused on the Rockies and the Southwest, bringing mountain snow from Southern California to […]
Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — Late at night on Jan. 6, Los Angeles Emergency Management Department General Manager Carol Parks sent a text message wishing Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley a happy new year. “It’s my first opportunity to send this Public […]
Sean Rayford/Getty Images (THE CAROLINAS) — Firefighters were battling 175 wildfires that erupted across South and North Carolina overnight amid windy and dry conditions, threatening homes and prompting evacuations, authorities said. There are ongoing response operations to the sprawling wildfires that had burned a combined 4,200 acres across the state […]
Carsten Rehder/picture alliance via Getty Images (BATON ROUGE, LA.) — Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, went into lockdown after a shooting took place on campus Sunday evening. The incident, which took place in the Ulysses S. Jones Hall dormitory, left at least one person injured and taken to the […]
Lance King/Getty Images (ANCHORAGE, Alaska) — Ashley Keith used to always dream about joining the world of professional sled dog racing. She got her first sled dog when she was 13 years old and fantasized about one day participating in the renowned 1,000-mile race in Alaska, the Iditarod. In 2003, […]
Reagan Cotten/Courtesy of LSU Athletics (BATON ROUGE, La.) — Two people, including a Louisiana State University women’s pole vaulter, died in a car crash on the school’s Baton Rouge campus Wednesday night, according to college officials. At approximately 9:07 p.m. on Wednesday, the driver of a Honda Accord was traveling southbound on […]
ABC News (ILLINOIS) — An Illinois man has been convicted of murder and hate crime charges in the 2023 fatal stabbing of a 6-year-old Palestinian-American boy. Wadee Alfayoumi was stabbed 26 times and his mother more than a dozen in the Oct. 14, 2023, attack inside their home in the Chicago suburb […]
Obtained by ABC News (NEW YORK) — More than 100 Drug Enforcement Administration agents packed a New York City federal courtroom Friday for the arraignment of the alleged mastermind behind the 1985 murder of Enrique “Kiki” Camarena, the first DEA agent killed on Mexican soil. Rafael Caro Quintero, 72, was […]
Actor Gene Hackman and wife Betsy Arakawa pose for a portrait in 1986 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Donaldson Collection/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) (LOS ANGELES) — Actor Gene Hackman, 95, and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, 65, both tested negative for carbon monoxide, authorities revealed Friday, amid an investigation after […]
Luigi Mangione appears at a hearing for the murder of UHC CEO Brian Thompson at Manhattan Criminal Court on February 21, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Curtis Means – Pool/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — A defense attorney for Luigi Mangione, the man charged with killing the CEO of […]
