Montgomery County Correctional Facility(PHILADELPHIA) — He’s been known on TV as Dr. Cliff Huxtable in “The Cosby Show,” Alexander “Scotty” Scott in “I-Spy,” and the title character in the cartoon series “Fat Albert,” but on Wednesday morning Bill Cosby started his first full day as inmate No. NN7687. Cosby woke […]
iStock/Thinkstock(TARRANT, Ala.) — An Alabama father who was arrested after his baby son drowned in the bathtub claims he left the room to play video games and forgot the baby was there, authorities said. The 5-month-old was not breathing when deputies from the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office responded to a […]
ABC News(CINCINNATI, Ohio) — A Kentucky mother of two is recovering after being wounded in a deadly bank shooting earlier this month, but she says the situation still feels unreal. “I feel detached from it,” Whitney Austin told Good Morning America on Wednesday. “If I think about the victims … […]
Gastonia Police Department(GASTONIA, N.C.) — Ian Ritch says he and his son often go for walks in North Carolina’s Rankin Lake Park like they did Saturday. Maddox, 6, will regularly run ahead of his father, then slow down and wait for him to catch up. But on Saturday, the boy, […]
WPVI-TV(NORRISTOWN, Pa.) — Women’s rights activist and attorney Gloria Allred lauded the sentencing of Bill Cosby, saying it “has been a long journey to justice for all of the accusers.” Cosby was sentenced on Tuesday to three to 10 years in a state prison by a judge who described him […]
Mark Makela/Getty Images(NORRISTOWN, Pa.) — Bill Cosby was sentenced Tuesday to three to 10 years in state prison by a Pennsylvania judge who had designated the comedian a “sexually violent predator.” Judge Steven O’Neill sentenced Cosby in a Norristown, Pennsylvania, courtroom, and then denied bail during pending appeals, capping a […]
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — A young girl in Virginia was killed while swinging on a hammock after a tree the hammock was tied to fell on her, authorities said. “It was a tragic accident,” Kraig Troxell of the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office told ABC News. The tree that collapsed on 7-year-old […]
Metropolitan Police Department(WASHINGTON) — Friends and family are set to gather at a funeral service in Florida Tuesday for Wendy Martinez, one week after she was brutally stabbed to death while jogging in Washington, D.C. in an apparent “random” attack. Martinez, 35, had just gotten engaged and her grieving mother, […]
Google Maps (EASTON, Mass.) — A mother has been arrested for allegedly leaving her 1-year-old son in a shopping cart at a Target parking lot this weekend, police said. A customer at an Easton, Massachusetts, Target reported that a baby was in the parking lot alone around 1 p.m. on […]
FBI Charlotte(GASTONIA, N.C.) — As the FBI and local authorities desperately search for a 6-year-old boy who went missing in a North Carolina park, investigators are using divers, helicopters, drones and the boy’s parents’ voices to try to find him. Maddox Ritch, 6, who has autism and does not talk, […]
