Dodge County Sheriff’s Office(BLOOMING PRAIRIE, Minn.) — A 56-year-old Minnesota woman wanted for allegedly shooting her husband to death, then killing and stealing the identity of Florida woman, is on the run after the alleged multistate crime spree that spans 1,500 miles. Now, authorities in Florida are releasing new details […]
Scott Olson/Getty Images(HOUSTON) — As more than 1,500 people, including first lady Melania Trump, fill St. Martin’s Episcopal Church in Houston on Saturday morning for the funeral of Barbara Bush, the Rev. Russell Levenson Jr. said that while others will extol the former first lady’s role on the world stage, […]
ABC News (SAN FRANCISCO) — A new report details the potential effects that could be produced by a hypothetical major earthquake on a California fault running underneath the Bay Area. The simulation predicts what could happen if a magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit directly under the city of Oakland on the […]
Tom Pennington/Getty Images(HOUSTON) — The first time I had a formal interview with Barbara Bush she was the “second lady” and her husband was running for president. I had accepted an assignment from Seventeen Magazine to query the wives of the two major candidates and it had all been arranged […]
WABC(NEW YORK) — A New York City nanny has been found guilty of the murders of two young children who were stabbed to death in their idyllic Upper West Side apartment. Yoselyn Ortega had worked for Marina and Kevin Krim for two years when she killed 6-year-old Lulu Krim and […]
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — New York City will no longer allow doors-off tourist helicopter flights to take off from the Downtown Manhattan Heliport, a consequence of a deadly crash last month. No doors-off flights currently depart the heliport in lower Manhattan, which is the only pad in the city where tourist […]
ABCNews.com(WASHINGTON) — The alleged “face” of unwanted robocalls testified Wednesday that the technology to start a large autodial campaign is easy to use and can be set up by “anyone” from a home office. “There is available open source software that can be misused by someone to make thousands of […]
Obtained by ABC News(PHILADELPHIA) — Jennifer Riordan, a bank executive, community leader and mother of two, died Tuesday when her Southwest Airlines flight blew an engine in midair and its debris smashed a cabin window. Riordan of Albuquerque, New Mexico, was among 144 passengers and five crew members on board […]
WPVI-TV(PHILADELPHIA) — Tammie Jo Shults, the hero pilot who safely landed a Southwest Airlines plane Tuesday after one of its engines failed, was among the Navy’s first women pilots trained to fly fighter aircraft. “She was commissioned in the Navy on June 21, 1985, and completed flight training in Pensacola,” […]
WLS-TV(MERRILLVILLE, Ind.) — A 3-year-old girl accidentally shot her pregnant mother from the backseat of a car Tuesday after the woman’s boyfriend allegedly left the loaded gun there, according to police in northwest Indiana. The shooting happened Tuesday afternoon in Merrillville when the boyfriend walked into a store and left […]
