Alexander Gerst/Twitter(NEWPORT, N.C.) — Hurricane Florence, a dangerous Category 3 storm, is expected to bring catastrophic flooding to the Southeast and may dump as much as 40 inches of rain in North Carolina alone. The rainfall could be historic and the flooding unprecedented, the National Weather Service office in Newport, […]
iStock/Thinkstock(DALLAS) — The 26-year-old man who was allegedly killed by an off-duty Dallas police officer in his own apartment will be laid to rest Thursday. Botham Jean was fatally shot Sept. 6 when a patrol officer who lived in the same apartment complex south of downtown Dallas, returned home from […]
Joe Raedle/Getty Images(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) — Residents of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina — a beach town devastated by Hurricane Hugo in 1989 and Hurricane Hazel in 1954 — are bracing for what could possibly be the first direct hit by a major hurricane that they’ve had in decades. Hurricane Florence, […]
Courtesy Abdiel Santana(SAN JUAN) — At least a thousand pallets of water bottles, meant for Hurricane Maria survivors, were left to rot under the Puerto Rican sun. That is what Angelo Cruz Ramos, the mayor of Ceiba, told ABC News about what happened to thousands and thousands of water bottles […]
Museum of Jewish Heritage(NEW YORK) — Federal authorities returned a Renoir looted by the Nazis during World War II to the heir of its rightful owner on Wednesday. Pierre-August Renoir painted “Deux Femmes Dans Un Jardin” in 1919, the last year of his life as he suffered the painful effects […]
ABCNews.com(PITTSBURGH) — The archbishop of Washington plans to meet with the pope in Rome to discuss the possibility of resigning as he confronts accusations that he mismanaged and concealed alleged sex abuse within the church, he wrote to local priests. Cardinal Donald Wuerl said in a letter Tuesday that Pope […]
ABCNews.com(NEW YORK) — Hurricane Florence, dubbed the “storm of a lifetime” by the National Weather Service, has slowed dramatically overnight Wednesday and may not officially make landfall until the weekend. While this may lessen wind speeds by landfall, it could increase rainfall totals to as much as 40 inches in […]
ABC News(NEW YORK) — Hurricane Florence, a powerful Category 4 storm, is closing in on the Southeast, bringing threatening winds, a high storm surge and tons of rain. Here’s the latest timeline: — The storm is moving west-northwest toward the Carolinas at about 17 mph. — Florence slowed overnight and […]
MountainWaveSAR/Twitter(PORTLAND, Oregan) — The hiker who went missing on Mount Hood in late August and was found dead at the bottom of a ravine Monday was likely killed by a cougar, authorities said — a shocking twist in the missing persons case. The body of Diana Bober, 55, was found […]
Kiersten Bragg(PHOENIX) — An Arizona man is facing murder charges over his teenage ex-girlfriend’s death after police found her body in a rural desert area last week. Investigators in Phoenix recommended on Tuesday that Jon Christopher Clark, 23, be charged in the death of his ex-girlfriend, 19-year-old Kiera Bergman, whose […]
