Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Tonight may be the night one lucky person wins one of the largest jackpots in the history of the Mega Millions lottery. The lottery game’s jackpot grew to a whopping $512 million after Friday’s drawing yielded no winners of the top prize. One lucky ticket […]
iStock/Thinkstock(OAKLAND, Calif.) — A vigil for a black woman stabbed to death by a white felon on parole turned into more of a protest Monday night, as many among the crowd chanted, “Stop killing our kids!” Friends, family and supporters of Nia Wilson, 18, gathered at the Bay Area Rapid […]
Obtained by ABC News(CLEARWATER, Fla.) — Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law is coming under intense scrutiny again after a sheriff declined to file charges in the shooting death of an unarmed man who was apparently trying to protect his girlfriend from being hassled over a handicapped parking space by a […]
Houston Police Department(HOUSTON) — Police have released images from the moment right before a onetime doctor for former President George H.W. Bush was gunned down as he rode his bicycle in Houston. Cardiologist Mark Hausknecht, 65, was shot and killed as he rode his bike Friday, according to Houston Methodist […]
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — He is 12, and in a shelter in Maryland, nearly a thousand miles from his family. When Brayan Cáceres’ grandmother in Florida was finally able to talk to the boy after he had been detained with family at the border and sent to Maryland, “He was crying. He […]
Poweshiek County Sheriff’s Office(BROOKLYN, Iowa) — As hundreds have rallied to search for 20-year-old Mollie Tibbetts — who went for a jog Wednesday evening in the rural town of Brooklyn, Iowa, and never returned — her mother said she was on the cusp of new, exciting activities in her life. […]
Courtesy Trent Behr(BRANSON, Mo.) — The search for answers in the tragic capsizing of a Missouri duck boat that left 17 tourists dead was poised to take a big leap forward Monday after crews raised the doomed vessel from the bottom of a lake. A salvage operation at Table Rock […]
Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images(BOSTON) — For the first time a person of color is leading the Boston Police Department. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh on Monday appointed Chief William Gross to be the new commissioner. He replaces William Evans, who retired from the department after nearly 40 years […]
Pinellas County Sheriff/ABC News(PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla.) — Britany Jacobs, the girlfriend of the man shot and killed in a Florida parking lot last week, says her boyfriend was just coming to her defense and the gunman “wanted someone to be angry at.” Now she wants “justice,” she says. Jacobs, who […]
ABC News(BALTIMORE) — A woman enjoying a day at the beach in Maryland was impaled in the chest by a flying beach umbrella on Sunday. The umbrella had to be cut in half in order for her to be flown to a nearby hospital, according to Baltimore ABC affiliate WMAR. […]
