WTHI-TV(TERRE HAUTE, Ind.) — It was always going to be a tough first day back to school for 5-year-old Dakota Pitts, who lost his dad last week. But thanks to his father’s brothers in blue, he didn’t go back alone. Seventy officers from the Terre Haute Police Department and the […]
Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Famed American author Tom Wolfe — who chronicled American power and greed in “Bonfire of the Vanities” and its reach for the stars in “The Right Stuff” — died Monday in a Manhattan hospital. He was 88. Wolfe’s longtime agent Lynn Nesbit confirmed the writer’s […]
Mark Wilson/Getty Images(PARKLAND, Fla.) — Two parents whose teenage daughters were gunned down in the Parkland, Florida, high school massacre are running for seats on Broward County’s school board, they announced this morning. Lori Alhadeff and Ryan Petty’s daughters, Alyssa Alhadeff and Alaina Petty, both 14 years old, were among […]
iStock/Thinkstock(ALTAMONTE, Fla.) — A Florida woman says she “went blank” when she decided to fight off a pair of home intruders who were armed with an assault rifle. The woman, who asked not to be identified by her real name, said she was thinking of her family’s safety when two […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — A frontal boundary will move into the Northeast on Tuesday bringing a chance of severe storms from Massachusetts to Virginia. The biggest threat will be damaging winds of more than 60 mph, large hail and even a chance for tornadoes. The biggest threat for these […]
iStock/Thinkstock(TUSLA, Okla.)– Police in Oklahoma are searching for a woman who allegedly torched her home and stabbed her 11-year-old daughter on Monday before taking off with her 7-year-old daughter. Authorities responded to the home of Taheerah Ahmad, 39, in north Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Monday night after witnesses reported the stabbing. […]
KGO-TV(FAIRFIELD, Calif.) — After 10 children were found “living in squalor,” their mother and her husband were arrested and the children were taken into protective custody, police said Monday. The children were first found inside the Fairfield, California, home on March 31, after police responded to a missing persons report, […]
U.S. Geological Survey via Getty Images(HONOLULU) — Another fissure has opened up on Hawaii’s Big Island, ripping through the ground in the wake of the dangerous eruption of the Kilauea volcano, the Hawaiian Civil Defense said on Monday. This marks the 19th fissure since May 3, when the volcano first […]
ABC News(NEW YORK) — Severe weather this weekend brought more than 100 damaging storm reports from western Texas to the mid-Atlantic. Storms are expected to continue in the eastern U.S. for the next few days. Winds of more than 60 mph produced damage in Pennsylvania Sunday, uprooting trees and destroying […]
ABC News(DENVER) — 911 calls capture a mother’s desperation as she phoned police for help after her 5-year-old daughter was attacked by a bear on Sunday. “My daughter was just attacked by a small brown bear,” the mother says in the call. “I had to chase it through the yard.” […]
