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, […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Thousands of people continue to be forced to evacuate in the Carolinas due to rising rivers after Hurricane Florence — and more rain is on the way Tuesday. A tropical wave off the Carolina coast could become a tropical depression late Tuesday and brush the […]
iStock/Thinkstock(TAMPA, Fla.) — The white man who invoked Florida’s “stand your ground” self-defense law in the fatal shooting of Markeis McGlockton, an African-American father of three, during a confrontation over a handicap parking space has been released on bond. Michael Drejka was released from jail on Monday after posting $100,000 […]
ABC News (HOUSTON) — Officer assist. Suspects on the ground,” said the call from dispatch that came into Wendy Caldwell’s police car. The car’s sirens went on, and Caldwell was off racing through the streets of Houston, Texas. “He needs assistance,” Caldwell explained in an interview for the ABC News […]
Gilbert Carrasquillo/Getty Images(NORRISTOWN,Pa.) — Bill Cosby — one of the most iconic figures in modern U.S. history, a multiplatform entertainer who revolutionized comedy in the 1960s and the television sitcom in the 1980s — will learn his fate Tuesday for drugging and molesting a woman who once saw him as […]
iStock/Thinkstock (RICH COUNTY, Utah) — A 14-year-old boy was struck and killed by a stray bullet in what was apparently a freak accident while riding in the back seat of a car with his family Sunday. Zackary Kempke and his family were driving near the Monte Cristo mountain range in […]
