@MartinFLSheriff/Twitter(STUART, Fla.) — A large fire ripped through a senior-citizen condominium community in South Florida late Monday, injuring two people and destroying at least 10 units at the property. Emergency officials responded to Cedar Pointe Villages in Stuart, Florida, around 8 p.m. after getting calls that one of the complex’s […]
WLS(CHIGAGO) — One Chicago firefighter has died and two others were hospitalized Monday night while searching for a missing boater. The Chicago Fire Department confirmed via a Twitter post early Tuesday that Juan Bucio, who’d been critically injured, had died. The two other injured firefighters were transported to Northwestern Medical […]
iStock/Thinkstock(GREENVILLE, S.C.) — Two people in North Carolina have been killed after a tree fell on the car they were riding in, according to local officials. The victims were employees of NBC affiliate WYFF-TV in Greenville, South Carolina, the station confirmed on its website. The accident occurred Monday afternoon on […]
ABC News(SEATTLE) — This Memorial Day weekend, Americans across the country have been finding their own unique way to remember and honor the fallen. For weeks now, Jordan Houghton and others from the American Legion Post 206 in Seattle have spent their free time cleaning the headstones of veterans at […]
U.S. Geological Survey via Getty Images(PAHOA, Hawaii) — Ten more homes in the path of Hawaii’s Kileaua volcano eruption have been destroyed overnight by fast-moving lava, a spokesperson for the Hawaii County Civil Defense told ABC News. The most recently destroyed homes were in the Big Island’s Leilani Estates subdivision, […]
@michaelscig72/Instagram(NEW YORK) — Alberto, the first named subtropical storm of the 2018 season, has made landfall on the Florida panhandle, bringing heavy rain, gusty winds and flash flooding to the area. The storm, which began to weaken as it approached the Gulf Coast, was about 15 miles west-northwest of Panama […]
iStock/Thinkstock(SALUDA, N.C.) — Two people in North Carolina have been killed after a tree fell on the car they were riding in, according to local officials. The accident occurred Monday afternoon on U.S. Highway 176 in Polk County, according to a post on the Facebook page for the Polk County […]
Courtesy Ross County Humane Society, Brittany May(CHILLICOTHE, Ohio) — A dog with writing on her was rescued by a shelter and is now looking for her forever home. According to Ross County Humane Society in Chillicothe, Ohio, the dog was abandoned in a nearby park and was covered in phrases […]
Katherine Frey/The Washington Post via Getty Images(ELLICOT, CITY, Md.) — A National Guardsman is missing after devastating flash flooding swept through Ellicott City, Maryland, turning streets into rivers and carrying away cars. The missing man, 39-year-old Eddison Hermond of Severn, Maryland, was last seen at about 5:20 p.m. Sunday, Howard […]
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — A Chinese student who was attending flight school in California was allegedly kidnapped by an instructor and his assistant who told the student that he had to go back to China, police said. Cops were informed that Tianshu “Chris” Shi, 21, was being threatened after his brother […]
