Jessica Kourkounis/Getty Images(CHICAGO) — Gabby Giffords is set to join the Stoneman Douglas survivors at a rally and march in Chicago on Friday — the first event in the young activists’ new push to take their voter turnout initiative on the road. Friday night’s event kicks off the teenagers’ tour […]
iStock/Thinkstock(PHILADELPHIA) — Authorities are investigating a string of suspicious explosions in Pennsylvania, according to ABC Philadelphia station WPVI-TV. The most recent explosion occurred Thursday afternoon, when a worker cutting grass hit the suspicious device with a lawnmower, WPVI-TV reported. It left a 2-foot crater in the ground, and both FBI […]
ABC News(NEW YORK) — Monsoon season begins Friday in the Southwest, which could see flash flooding. Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona, which haven’t seen rain in more than three months, could see 1 to 2 inches of precipitation, courtesy of Hurricane Bud. Monsoon season runs from June to September. It is […]
Gilbert Carrasquillo/Getty Images(PHILADELPHIA) — Comedian Bill Cosby has fired all seven attorneys on his legal team just months ahead of his September sentencing, replacing them with a single Pennsylvania criminal-defense lawyer. The move, confirmed by Cosby spokesman Andrew Wyatt, comes on the heels of the entertainer’s April conviction on three […]
iStock/Thinkstock(WESTMINSTER, Colo.) — One male who was among the four people shot Thursday afternoon in a Colorado business complex has died, while his mother and brother were in critical condition, police said. Another male victim was shot in the complex’s parking lot and is expected to survive, authorities said. Police […]
ABC News(ROMA, Texas) — A 22-year-old Guatemalan woman alleges that she and other mothers were treated inhumanely by immigration officers after she crossed the U.S.-Mexico border into Texas and was separated from her 5-year-old daughter for days. The woman, named Jessica, crossed the Rio Grande near Roma, Texas, on May […]
iStock/Thinkstock(LAS VEGAS) — A teen in Nevada may have been shot and killed last week during a game of Russian roulette with several juveniles present, according to local police. Evidence of the shooting was found on one of the suspect’s cell phones, where he brags in text messages and self-made […]
ABC News(MESA, Arizona) — An Arizona police department has come under renewed scrutiny after the release of video appearing to show its officers beating a suspect and mocking him as he lay covered in blood on the floor of a hospital. Mesa Police Department officers initially encountered suspect Jose Luis […]
ABC News(FORT WORTH, Texas) — Who would think that notes attached to a balloon and released into the sky would bring back so much love and joy? In May, two heartbroken Texas sisters – Gypsy and Story Retting – wrote moving notes to their late father and attached to a […]
ABC News(SAN ANTONIO, Texas) — A U.S. citizen is facing human smuggling charges after dozens of suspected undocumented immigrants were found traveling inside his tractor-trailer in Texas on Tuesday night, according to federal authorities. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said it received a call from a law enforcement agency on […]
