Chesterfield County Police Department(MIDLOTHIAN, Va.) — An alleged abduction in a Walmart parking lot was a hoax, Virginia police said. Chesterfield County police began investigating the apparent abduction around 9 p.m. Sunday. Several witnesses saw a sedan pull up to the entrance of the Walmart, police said in a statement. […]
ABC News(MIAMI) — A man with stage 4 cancer who was detained after disembarking from a cruise and sent back to China will soon be traveling back to the U.S. due to special permission granted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the family’s immigration attorney told ABC News. Yuanjun Cui […]
iStock/Thinkstock(TAMPA, Fla.) — Police in Tampa say a mother pushing a stroller was killed Wednesday due to street racing. The Tampa Police Department have arrested Cameron Coyle Herrin, 18, Tristan Christopher Herrin, 20, and John Alexander Barrineau, 17, in connection with the death of 24-year-old Jessica Reisinger, it announced today. […]
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(HOUSTON) — The hard-charging publicity arm of the National Rifle Association is engaged in an increasingly vicious Twitter battle with Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo, as the firearms organization struggles to contain fallout from yet another mass shooting. The result has been a multi-day social media battle between […]
George Rose/Getty Images(MARIPOSA, Calif.) — A hiker slipped and fell to his death Monday while climbing Yosemite National Park’s famous Half Dome trail, officials said. The man was ascending the Half Dome cables with another hiker during a thunderstorm when he slipped and fell off the rock formation Monday afternoon, […]
ABC News(COLUMBUS, Miss.) — An Air Force training jet crashed near Columbus, Mississippi Wednesday, but both pilots aboard were able to safely eject from the aircraft. The crash occurred just days after the Air Force completed a one-day safety review that grounded aircraft so units could focus on safety procedures […]
Oli Scarff/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Six families of victims killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting, as well as an FBI agent who responded to the scene, filed a defamation lawsuit today against radio personality Alex Jones, who has repeatedly called the shooting fake. The lawsuit accuses Jones, […]
Rochester Police Department(ROCHESTER, N.Y.) — Police bodycam footage from upstate New York appears to show an officer instructing a man to break into his ex-girlfriend’s home, according to the woman’s lawyer. On Nov. 13, the man had requested assistance from the Rochester Police Department to aid in retrieving some of […]
Darrah Bull Bully Rescue(PHOENIX) — One lucky dog who wound up on the other side of the country was returned to his rightful home thanks to a group of 20 volunteers. Jake, a 7-year-old Coonhound, first went missing from his home in Phoenix, Arizona, last year. In April Jake was […]
Jeffrey Greenberg/UIG via Getty Images, FILE(LOS ANGELES) — Hundreds of faculty members at the University of Southern California have backed a motion for the school’s president to resign over how he handled sexual-abuse allegations levied against a former campus doctor. The letter, obtained by ABC Los Angeles station KABC on […]
