Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority(NEW YORK) — Nearly 11 months after Hurricane Maria, 100 percent of the customers that lost power due to the storm have access to the grid as they now have electricity. The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) confirmed to ABC News that two families in […]
Instagram/@otm.twinchin(BALTIMORE) — Baltimore police officer Arthur Williams, seen on video repeatedly punching a civilian, has been charged with first and second-degree assault, as well as misconduct of an officer, for the Aug. 11 incident, Baltimore State Attorney Marilyn Mosby announced at a press conference Tuesday. “It is important that the […]
iStock/Thinkstock(EL PASO, Texas) — When a car careened toward a woman and students outside a Texas elementary school, she put herself in front of the children before being struck and killed, according to the school district. The woman and three students were struck by a driver who had apparently hit […]
At least 22 people are dead after a huge section of a bridge collapsed in the northern Italian city of Genoa. The section of the motorway bridge fell 300-feet during a strong storm onto buildings and railroad tracks below. The bridge is part of a toll road that runs into […]
Joe Raedle/Getty Images(TAMPA, Fla.) — The Governor of Florida issued a state of emergency in response to this year’s excessive red tide, the toxic algae bloom spreading across the West Coast of the Sunshine State and leaving beaches covered with piles of dead marine wildlife. “I am issuing an emergency […]
ABC(NEW YORK) — It has been a rainy summer in the Northeast and the entire East Coast with more flash flooding possible Tuesday. There was more flash flooding Monday as Jonestown, Pennsylvania, received 7.7 inches of rain , while the area around Brick, New Jersey, received 7.83 inches. The same […]
Spencer Police(PAXTON, Mass.) — A former Worcester County, Massachusetts, prosecutor died suddenly after a crowbar crashed through his windshield Monday. John Madaio was driving his SUV in the town of Spencer when a crowbar that was kicked-up or fell from another car crashed through the windshield, the Spencer Police Department […]
WJRT(MILLINGTON), Mich.) — Police in Michigan say four girls managed to fight off a man who assaulted them over the weekend by throwing hot coffee on him. The girls, ages 11 to 14, were leaving a gas station convenience store in Millington, Michigan, last week when a man grabbed one […]
Taos County Sheriffs Office(AMALIA, N.M.) — A New Mexico judge agreed on Monday to release on bond five suspects who were arrested on child abuse charges and were alleged to have been training the children to carry out school shootings. The decision to release the suspects came against the wishes […]
Mario Tama/Getty Images(Ukiah, Calif) — The largest fire in California history turned deadly on Monday as a firefighter tending the blaze was killed. There were few details on how the firefighter died in the Mendocino Complex Fire, northeast of Ukiah, California. The fire is burning near the Mendocino National Forest, […]
