Handout via WFTV(OCALA, Fla.) — A teacher in Central Florida is being investigated after students recorded video purporting to show raccoons being drowned in front of an agricultural science class. The raccoons were drowned because they had killed several of the school’s chickens, a freshman student of Forest High School […]
iStock/Thinkstock(LOS ANGELES) — A gynecologist at the University of Southern California was allowed to continue seeing student patients for years after the school first received complaints of him repeatedly making “sexually inappropriate” and “racially discriminatory” comments to young women while examining them, officials said. Dr. George Tyndall, 71, who had […]
ABC News(ARLINGTON, Texas) — A 911 call on April 20 sent cops racing to an Arlington, Texas, home. Officers were expecting to find an active criminal situation. Instead, with their guns drawn, they met the Ameen family, victims of a prank “swatting” call. The Ameens’ personal home security camera captured […]
ABC News(ALISO VIEJO, Calif) — One woman is dead and three other people are injured after a mysterious explosion rocked a medical building in Southern California. Here is what we know about the Tuesday blast and the investigation: What happened? The powerful explosion took place just after 1 p.m. at […]
Google Maps(DIXON, Ill.) — A police officer confronted and injured an armed man at an Illinois high school Wednesday morning, a city official said, adding that no students or staff were injured in the incident. The armed man first shot at the Dixon police officer at about 8 a.m. at […]
Google Maps(DIXON, Ill.) — An Illinois school resource officer stopped an armed teenager at a high school this morning, according to the local police chief, who applauded the officer for saving “countless” lives. When the 19-year-old suspect fired several shots this morning near a gym at Dixon High School, the […]
iStock/Thinkstock(ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. ) — An exploding electronic cigarette caused the death of a Florida man earlier this month, an autopsy determined. Tallmadge D’Elia, 38, died on May 5 from parts of an electronic cigarette that penetrated his head, according to the autopsy report. His body was found inside a […]
WABC(NEW YORK) — At least five people, including an 11-year-old girl, were killed by falling trees resulting from severe weather on Tuesday. As of 8 p.m. ET, 496,777 customers in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut had lost electricity. That had declined to 359,534 by 5:45 a.m. today. There […]
Tulsa Police Department(TULSA, Okla.) — Oklahoma police arrested a mother on Tuesday who allegedly set her home on fire, stabbed her 11-year-old daughter and fled the scene with her 7-year-old daughter in tow. Police said they located 39-year-old Taheerah Ahmad in downtown Tulsa in her vehicle Tuesday after a witness […]
ABCNews.com(HOUSTON) — A 13-year-old found shoeless and with torn clothing fled potential kidnappers who were motivated by racial animus, the boy’s mother said. Zavion Parker was abducted from a bus stop and later found without his jacket, phone or keys, police told ABC Houston station KTRK. Michelle Lee, Zavion’s mother, […]
