Mario Tama/Getty Images(HONOLULU) — As Hurricane Lane lurches north, the Category 3 storm has already dumped more than 31 inches of rain on Hawaii’s Big Island, bringing catastrophic flooding. The life-threatening flooding could even lead to landslides or mudslides. RainfallRainfall rates in the outer bands of the hurricane may reach […]
GMA/ABC News(WILMETTE, Ill.) — A mother in Illinois said she felt “shock, anger and fear” after being investigated by state child services when a neighbor called authorities to report her 8-year-old daughter walking the family dog around the block alone. “When I found out what the call was about, I […]
Janet Weinstein/ABC News(CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas) — On the same South Texas beach pummeled by Hurricane Harvey this time last year, the Weeks family stretched out in the sand. Daughter Annabella, now 6, built sand castles while chattering away to her family. Alizabeth, now 2, collected seashells in the rolling tide. […]
iStock/Thinkstock(OLYMPIA, Wash.) — When witnesses told authorities they saw several men in white plastic jumpsuits grab and restrain three children in an Olympia park and put them in the back of a red truck, they thought they were witnessing a kidnapping. But what they actually saw was an “elaborate hoax,” […]
ABC News(HONOLULU) — Parts of Hawaii’s Big Island have already reported receiving more than 2 feet of rain as Hurricane Lane lurches northward at about 6 mph. The biggest threat from the Category 3 hurricane remains life-threatening flash flooding that could lead to landslides or mudslides. The storm’s wind speeds […]
Google(NEW YORK) — A 22-year-old man accused of firing a handgun at a high-rise building on Manhattan’s Upper East Side has turned himself in to police. Farris Koroma has been charged with two counts each of criminal possession of a weapon, reckless endangerment and criminal mischief following two separate incidents, […]
Mark Wilson/Getty Images(CHICAGO) — With “at least seven priests with connections to Illinois” identified in the recent grand jury report in Pennsylvania that revealed more than 300 priests allegedly assaulted more than 1,000 children, the Illinois attorney general said she plans to reach out to the Chicago Archdiocese for further […]
Google(NEW YORK) — New York City authorities have identified a man and women believed to be the snipers taking shots at a high-rise Upper East Side apartment building from across the East River, an NYPD source told ABC News. Police are close to arresting the pair seen in surveillance video […]
iStock/Thinkstock(GAINESVILLE, Fla.) — While examining the invasive python population in Florida, researchers stumbled across the unexpected: a kind of hybrid super snake. A small number of the invasive pythons were found to be a crossbreed between two separate species, the Burmese and Indian pythons, and what’s more is that this […]
iStock/Thinkstock(CHICAGO) — Two men were found guilty of the murder of Chicago teen Hadiya Pendleton, five years after her fatal shooting became a rallying cry for tougher gun controls both by then-president Barack Obama and by activists across the country. A jury convicted Micheail Ward on Thursday evening of first-degree […]
