WABC(NEW YORK) — A Harvard University student has made history as the first-ever recipient of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to be awarded the coveted Rhodes Scholarship. Jin Kyu Park, 22, was born in South Korea and moved to the United States with his parents when he […]
ABC News(PARADISE, Calif.) — Hundreds of people remain missing in the wake of a pair of deadly wildfires that have been burning across both ends of California. The two monstrous blazes, which both ignited earlier this month, have claimed at least 87 lives while laying waste to a total area […]
Uintah County Sheriffs Office(SALT LAKE CITY) — Two teenage boys allegedly stole, flew and landed a small plane in Utah, local authorities said, before they were taken into custody on Thanksgiving Day. The boys, ages 14 and 15, were believed to have left a group home in north central Utah […]
iStock/Thinkstock(HOOVER, Alabama) — A shooting Thursday night at a mall in Alabama left one person dead and two teens hospitalized with bullet wounds, police said. The shooting happened around 9:52 p.m. local time after a 21-year-old man and an 18-year-old man got into a physical altercation near the Footaction store […]
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Record lows were set on Thanksgiving in several cities throughout the Northeast, including Buffalo, Burlington, Hartford, Newark, Rochester and Syracuse. At 19 degrees on Thursday morning, it was the second-coldest Thanksgiving ever in New York City — where it’s still extremely cold this morning. More records could […]
ABC News(NEW YORK) — If you’re celebrating Thanksgiving in the Northeast, make sure to bundle up before you trek outside — the region is seeing record-low temperatures that feel more like the dead of winter than the fall. As residents and visitors gathered to watch the Thanksgiving Day Parade, New […]
KTRK(HOUSTON) — Newly released video footage shows a gunman shooting two men in front of a Metro bus stop in Houston, Texas, ABC News’ Houston affiliate KTRK-TV reported. The attack took place on Nov. 4 on Imperial Valley Drive at 11:40 a.m. Video shows three people walking when a gunman […]
WRKN(NASHVILLE, Tenn.) — Loved ones of a Tennessee man killed when a slab of concrete tossed from an overpass crashed through his car windshield pleaded for any witnesses to contact police, saying they want justice. As police in Nashville worked to identify the person responsible, Joe “Jody” Shelton Jr.’s family […]
ABC News(NEW YORK) — Thursday will be the coldest Thanksgiving in decades for most of the Northeast, the result of an Arctic blast of air that’s pushing temperatures 15 to 25 degrees colder than a year ago. Even with a sunny sky forecast on Thursday, little warming is expected throughout […]
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Amtrak passengers were left in the cold on Wednesday night when a mechanical issue caused two train cars to detach, stranding riders on a dark railway ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday. Amtrak Train 68 was traveling from Montreal to New York City on Wednesday evening when two […]
