Rachel Scott/ABC News(JESSUP, Maryland) — Inside this Maryland’s women’s prison, you’ll find about 800 inmates — and every other Saturday morning, a dozen or so girl scouts. Girl Scout Troop 7856 is special. All of the scouts’ mothers are incarcerated at the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women in Jessup, Maryland. […]
iStock/Thinkstock(OROVILLE, Calif.) — Students displaced by the Camp Fire in Paradise, California, are returning to school for the first time since the deadly fire leveled most of their town. Paradise Elementary students will be attending classes today in Oroville, about 20 miles south of Paradise, where nearly 30,000 residents were […]
KVUE(AUSTIN, Texas) — No one was around to save Clark Griswold as he dangled from a roof while hanging up Christmas lights in “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation,” but a dummy representing the fictional character wouldn’t have faced the same fate. A family in Austin, Texas, based their Christmas lights display […]
FBI Charlotte(NEW YORK) — A North Carolina community is rallying in support of the family of 13-year-old Hania Aguilar, whose body was found more than three weeks after she was kidnapped in front of her home. An online petition to the Guatemalan Embassy requesting that Hania’s father be allowed to […]
iStock/Getty(NEW YORK) — The international manhunt for a couple that got engaged in New York City — only to lose their diamond ring moments after the proposal when it fell down a sidewalk grate in Times Square — has come to an end. The New York Police Department announced on […]
Cynthia Johnson/Liaison(WASHINGTON) — The official schedule for ceremonies honoring the late George H.W. Bush was released on Saturday. The four-day tribute includes lying in state at the U.S. Capitol for parts of three days, a funeral at the Washington National Cathedral and eventual burial at the George Bush Presidential Library […]
Oklahoma Department of Corrections (STILLWATER, Okla.) — A massive manhunt in Oklahoma for a convicted murderer serving a life sentence continued Sunday, three days after he posed as his look-alike cellmate and was bailed out of a county jail, officials said. Escaped fugitive Patrick Walker, 34, was described as a […]
iStock(LINCOLN, Ill.) — A rash of tornadoes broke out Saturday afternoon and evening across central Illinois, injuring at least 30 people and turning homes into piles of splintered wood. There were 22 tornadoes reported to the National Weather Service on Saturday, all in central Illinois. The offices in Lincoln, Illinois, […]
ABC News(NEW YORK) — A major storm in the central U.S. is bringing severe weather, flash flooding and heavy snow to the eastern half of the nation. This same major storm was responsible for setting off a tornado outbreak in Illinois on Saturday evening. There were 22 reported tornadoes on […]
iStock/Getty(NEW YORK) — She said yes! Then, she probably screamed “noooo!” — as her engagement ring slipped out of his fingers and through one of New York City’s subway grates. Now, the New York Police Department is looking for the couple who dropped the ring through the grate. “Help us […]
