Barron County Sheriff(BARRON, Wisc.) — The young man accused of abducting a 13-year-old Wisconsin girl, gunning down her parents and holding the child captive had been “a perfectly nice kid,” according to his grandfather. “Nobody had any clues up until this thing happened,” Jim Moyer told ABC News Tuesday, days […]
ABC News(NEW YORK) — It spanned the Hudson River for 64 years, but on Tuesday, one of the last remnants of the Tappan Zee Bridge came down in just five seconds. At 10:52 a.m., dynamite charges went off, destroying steel support pillars at each end of the 672-foot section of […]
Drew Angerer/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a slew of new safety reforms for limos and large passenger vehicles, outright banning stretch limos and adding a number of regulatory reforms. These reforms come three months after a limo crash in upstate New York led to the […]
Courtesy: Noah Domingo Family(IRVINE, Calif.) — A fraternity at the University of California – Irvine is on interim suspension after one of its youngest members died, officials said. Noah Domingo, an initiated member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, died at an off-campus home on Saturday, the fraternity’s national headquarters said. The […]
liveslow/iStock(NEW YORK) — The Trump administration cannot ask a question about citizenship status in the 2020 census, a federal judge in New York ruled Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman concluded that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross had violated the public trust in his decision to include a citizenship question on […]
ABC News(NEW YORK) — When a US Airways jet suddenly plunged from the sky and toward the icy Hudson River 10 years ago, Eric Stevenson thought about his mother, his sister, his friends and he wrote them a goodbye note. Stevenson was one of 153 passengers and crew members aboard […]
DNY59/iStock(CHAPEL HILL, N.C.) — The chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is slated to step down later this year, but she plans to settle a controversial debate before she leaves. Carol Folt said she’ll resign at the end of the school year, according to a statement […]
KTRK-TV(HOUSTON) — A grand jury on Monday indicted a Houston man accused of chasing a teen and causing a fatal car crash on New Year’s Day. Christopher Lopez, 48, was charged with three felonies after allegedly chasing a 14-year-old driver who egged his car, leading to a deadly collision in […]
ABC News(NEW YORK) — Several storms this week are forecast to hit the West Coast and then move across the country. Seven states from California to Colorado are under snow, flood or high-wind alerts Tuesday morning as areas burned by wildfires in Santa Barbara County are being evacuated Tuesday because […]
Kuzma/iStock(CHICAGO) — One of the two men convicted in the 2013 murder of 15-year-old Chicago honor student Hadiya Pendleton has been sentenced to 84 years in prison. Pendleton was killed on Jan. 29, 2013, when Micheail Ward and Kenneth Williams — who were both convicted of first-degree murder and aggravated […]
