Timberlake Regional School Board(PLAISTOW, N.H.) — Fighting back tears, a fifth-grader recently pleaded with her school board to help end bullying. At a June 7 Timberlane School Board meeting, Delanie Marcotte, who attends Pollard School in Plaistow, New Hampshire, read a letter detailing her experience, hoping district leaders would make […]
KOMO(BRINNON, Wash.) — An explosion that decimated a cabin in Washington state also killed a family of five, including three children, authorities said Monday. On Sunday, around 1 a.m., fire personnel and deputies with the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office responded to a report of a house fire in Brinnon, Washington. […]
Paradise Helicopters/ABC News(HONOLULU, HI.) — Two new steam explosions rocked the summit of the Kilauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island Monday morning, the latest measuring a preliminary magnitude of 5.4 and producing a minor ash fall affecting some commuters. These explosions have been happening frequently for weeks now, U.S. Geological […]
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — A “fearless” USA Today foreign affairs reporter who “thrived” in war zones, according to a friend, was hit and killed by a car while he was riding his motorcycle in Washington, D.C., police said. A USA Today foreign affairs reporter who was hit and killed by a car […]
iStock/Thinkstock(CLEVELAND, Ohio) — Authorities are offering a $5,000 reward to anyone who has information about a mysterious Ohio home explosion, which killed one and critically injured another. The East Cleveland house had recently been sold and was vacant at the time of the Sunday afternoon explosion, East Cleveland Police Chief […]
moodboard/Thinkstock(SAN BERNARDINO, Calif.) — The body of a missing Southern California woman was found wrapped in a blue tarp alongside a crude wooden box, authorities said. Marlene Santellan, 34, of San Bernardino, had been reported missing for 11 days when her body was discovered at around 8 a.m. on Sunday, […]
iStock/Thinkstock(MIAMI) — The apparent alligator attack that resulted in the death of a Florida woman who was walking her dogs near a lake is an extremely rare occurrence, authorities said. An estimated 5 million American gators live in the southeastern United States — about one-quarter of them in Florida alone […]
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — A man who allegedly deserted the U.S. Air Force and vanished without a trace 35 years ago was found at a California home living under a fake name, the Air Force Office of Special Investigations said in a news release. William Howard Hughes Jr. allegedly deserted the Air […]
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — A foreign affairs reporter with USA Today was hit and killed by a car while he was riding his motorcycle in Washington, D.C., according to local police. Journalist Oren Dorell was on a Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle heading east on H Street on Friday night when he collided with […]
iStock/Thinkstock(CHARLOTTE) — A sheriff’s deputy’s car nearly crushed a girl as she boarded a school bus in South Carolina, as seen on surveillance video obtained by ABC Charlotte affiliate WSOC-TV. Newly released video from the May incident shows the unnamed Anderson County Sheriff’s Office deputy driving past the parked bus […]
