Mark Makela/Getty Images(NORRISTOWN, Pa.) — A Bill Cosby accuser who’d traveled from California to attend the weeks-long trial in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, told ABC News today that she was “elated” after hearing the guilty verdict. “We [accusers] are finally believing in the system. The system is now working for us,” […]
Mark Makela/Getty Images(NORRISTOWN, Pa.) — After years of innuendo, allegations and ultimately two criminal trials — the second of which ended with a guilty verdict Thursday — Bill Cosby has been convicted on felony sexual assault charges. The actor and entertainer — known as “America’s Dad” during the 1980s and […]
iStock/Thinkstock(PARKLAND, Fla.) — More than 500 deputies in Florida have voted that they no longer have confidence in the sheriff who presided over the Valentine’s Day shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that killed 17 students and staff. Jeff Bell, president of the Broward Sheriff’s Office Deputies Association, said […]
ABC News (LOS ANGELES) — The suspected “Golden State Killer,” believed to have committed 12 murders, at least 50 rapes and multiple home burglaries in the 1970s and 1980s, is now behind bars. The sudden arrest of 72-year-old Joseph James DeAngelo this week has shocked some of his victims and […]
Bill Pugliano/Getty Images(NEW YORK)– The parents of Otto Warmbier, the American college student who was imprisoned in North Korea for 17 months, have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against North Korea, charging that the regime tortured and killed their son. The complaint filed Thursday in U.S. District Court states that […]
KOMO(GIG HARBOR, Wash.) — A Washington state woman said she was determined to catch the “creeps” who recently burglarized her home and made off with electronics, jewelry, credit cards and even her family letters. Instead of panicking after the robbery, Mavi McFarlane, 70, said she chose to investigate the crime […]
Sacramento Police Department(LOS ANGELES) — The suspected “Golden State Killer” who was arrested this week for killing and raping dozens of California residents decades ago, seemed shocked to find police outside his home, according to Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department official Paul Belli. Joseph James DeAngelo, a 72-year-old former police officer, […]
ABCNews.com(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C) — Surveillance video from the Avista Resort in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, captured the near drowning of a 12-year-old boy who was playing in a lazy river. Hotel security footage from the March 19 incident shows two boys fidgeting with an underwater grate in an attempt to […]
J Pat Carter/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — More than 1.4 million public school students were missing classes today as tens of thousands teachers in Arizona and Colorado walked out in a powerful display of frustration over a decade of education funding cuts they say have piled up to billions of dollars. […]
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — The suspected “Golden State Killer” behind serial rapes and murders across California in the 1970s and 1980s has finally been identified. Joseph James DeAngelo, a 72-year-old former police officer, was arrested this week in the decades-old case. His alleged “reign of terror” spanned from the […]
