iStock/Thinkstock(STOCKTON, Calif.) — A week after a 16-year-old girl went missing with her former high school wrestling coach, the two were found together at a home in Stockton, California, the same town where the teen lives, according to the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office. Alexus Arther, a junior at Franklin […]
iStock/Thinkstock(BALCH SPRINGS, Texas) — A former Texas police officer on Wednesday was sentenced to 15 years in prison for the 2017 shooting death of an unarmed black teenager — and the victim’s family said the punishment was too light. Ex-Balch Springs Police Officer Roy Oliver, who is white, also was […]
ABC News(NEW YORK) — Record highs were reported in several cities on Wednesday, including Boston and Providence at 98 and 95 degrees, respectively. Thursday should be the last hot and humid day in the Northeast as the heat wave should let up beginning Friday. A heat advisory is in effect […]
iStock/Thinkstock(SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico) — Using a study from a team of independent researchers, officials in Puerto Rico said they’re raising the official death toll from Hurricane Maria to 2,975 from 64. Researchers have determined that an estimated 2,975 people died from September 2017 through the end of February 2018. […]
Ralph Freso/Getty Images(PHOENIX) — The doors to the Arizona State Capitol building where Sen. John McCain’s casket is lying in state won’t be open to the public until 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, but that didn’t stop Frank Xavier Marcial and his wife from getting in line at 7:15 a.m. That’s the […]
Yazmin Juarez(NEW YORK) — Seventy days after Yazmin Juarez and her young daughter, Mariee, crossed the Rio Grande seeking asylum, the little girl was dead from a respiratory infection she had contracted in an immigration detention facility, according to a claim filed Tuesday by her mother against one of the […]
Taos County Sheriff’s Office(TAOS, N.M.) — A judge has dismissed child neglect charges against three of the five people who were arrested after authorities discovered children living on a remote compound in New Mexico. The judge made the ruling that Lucas Morton, Subhannah Wahhaj and Hujrah Wahha could not remain […]
William Thomas Cain/Getty Images(PHOENIX) — The first of five days of memorials honoring the late Sen. John McCain started in his adopted home state of Arizona Wednesday, with his becoming the third person in 40 years to lie in state at the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix. Some heavy-hitters of Arizona […]
Spencer Platt/Getty Images(TOMAH, Wis.) — Two Amtrak trains carrying 485 passengers that were stalled in Wisconsin for nearly 24 hours because of track flooding are finally on their way, the railroad said Wednesday. The Empire Builder trains operating daily between Chicago, Portland, Oregon, and Seattle — one with 218 passengers […]
Spencer Platt/Getty Images(TOMAH, Wis.) — Track flooding has stalled two trains carrying 485 Amtrak passengers through Wisconsin, the railroad said Wednesday. The Empire Builder trains operating daily between Chicago, Portland, Oregon, and Seattle — one with 218 passengers and the other with 267 – are still stuck because freight railroad […]
