ABC News(NEW YORK) — Most of the eastern U.S. is in the grip of wintry weather with cold temperatures and snowfall. Anywhere from 3 to 7.5 inches of snow fell Wednesday from the Carolinas to New Jersey and western New York — producing numerous accidents and spinouts. Now, a new […]
KABC-TV(LOS ANGELES) — A random passerby in downtown Los Angeles is lucky to be alive after he was pushed in front of a truck by a random person on the street Wednesday. In the surveillance video, acquired by Los Angeles ABC station KABC-TV, a man is seen sitting on a […]
Yazmin Juarez(NEW YORK) — A Guatemalan toddler who died weeks after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border with her mother is at the center of a wrongful death claim that’s seeking $60 million from the federal government. Mariee Juarez and mother Yazmin, who told ABC News she was fleeing an abusive situation […]
stellalevi/iStock(LAREDO, Texas) — The Texas border patrol supervisor who confessed to killing four women in September may receive the death penalty, authorities said. U.S. Border Patrol agent Juan David Ortiz, 35, was indicted Wednesday on charges of capital murder, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, unlawful restraint and evading arrest […]
georgejurasek/iStock(NEW YORK) — One school district in South Carolina has gotten rid of snow days. In fact, they’ve done away with all inclement weather days altogether. The change is part of a pilot program for the 21 schools in Anderson School District Five as well as four other South Carolina […]
US Navy(WASHINGTON) — Twenty-one U.S. Navy fighter jets will conduct a flyover in the “missing man formation” in honor of President George H.W. Bush Thursday. The flyover will take place over the Bush Presidential Library in College Station, Texas, where the late president will be buried in a private ceremony, […]
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — President George H.W. Bush once said about his funeral and lying in state, “Do you think anyone will come?” On Wednesday, after thousands of teary-eyed visitors waited hours in the December cold to pay their respects to the late president in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda as […]
jetcityimage/iStock(ARGOS, Ind.) — A teenage boy died after a packed school bus headed to a Christmas musical crashed in Indiana on Wednesday morning, according to state police. There were 38 children and three chaperones on the bus when it collided with a straight truck around 9 a.m., the Indiana State […]
TheaDesign/iStock(BIRMINGHAM, Ala.) — Protesters on Tuesday evening once again swarmed a suburb near Birmingham, Ala., and blocked traffic on a major highway while demanding justice for a 21-year-old black man who was shot to death by police inside a shopping mall on Thanksgiving night. More than 100 demonstrators marched through […]
GM Stock Films/iStock(NEW YORK) — Far-right terrorism increased in the U.S., Canada, and Western Europe in 2017, even as overall terrorism deaths fell for the third consecutive year, according to a new report. While they comprise a tiny fraction of total terrorism deaths and the overall threat picture is “encouraging,” […]
