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Gun lobby has funneled millions of dollars into schools to promote shooting sports

Gun lobby has funneled millions of dollars into schools to promote shooting sports

iStock/Thinkstock(PARKLAND, Fla.) — On the eve of the landmark march by thousands of high school students and their supporters speaking out about gun control, an ABC News analysis of tax return records shows that the National Rifle Association Foundation has funneled millions of dollars into schools to promote shooting sports. […]

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Heavy snow likely for Midwest, while Northeast warms up next week

Heavy snow likely for Midwest, while Northeast warms up next week

ABC(NEW YORK) — A new storm is moving through the central United States on Saturday morning, bringing heavy snow to parts of the Northern Plains and Midwest. Heavy snow is currently falling throughout parts of southern Minnesota, northern Iowa and western Illinois. On the warmer side of the storm, locally […]

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Driver behind deadly vehicle crash at Travis Air Force Base identified

Driver behind deadly vehicle crash at Travis Air Force Base identified

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — The man who drove into Travis Air Force Base in California on Wednesday night has been identified as Hafiz Kazi, 51, according to the FBI special agent in charge, Sean Ragan. Kazi was from India, a legal permanent resident since 1993 with no connection to the base, […]

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Fight between elite Army soldiers leaves one person dead

Fight between elite Army soldiers leaves one person dead

Logan Mock-Bunting/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — A fight between two elite Army special operations soldiers on Wednesday left one person dead, the Army confirmed to ABC News. Shortly after 5:30 pm on Wednesday, the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office was dispatched to a private residence outside of Fort Bragg in Fayetteville, North […]

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Schlitterbahn water park, ex-employee charged in 10-year-old’s 2016 death on ride

Schlitterbahn water park, ex-employee charged in 10-year-old’s 2016 death on ride

John Sleezer/Kansas City Star/TNS via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — The former operations director for Schlitterbahn Waterpark in Kansas City, Kansas, and the water park itself have been charged with manslaughter in the 2016 death of a 10-year-old boy on a water slide. Tyler Austin Miles, 29, was booked into the […]

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Atlanta cyberattack a ‘massive inconvenience’ to city, mayor says

Atlanta cyberattack a ‘massive inconvenience’ to city, mayor says

iStock/Thinkstock(ATLANTA) — Atlanta officials are reassuring the public that operations will continue as normal as they deal with a cyberattack on the city’s systems. While most of the city’s websites are working normally, a number of web pages that customers use to pay bills began to be affected Thursday morning. […]

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American family of 4 ‘went to sleep and never woke up,’ cousin says

American family of 4 ‘went to sleep and never woke up,’ cousin says

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Four members of an Iowa family were found dead in Mexico after they were reported missing just after midnight Friday. The bodies of Kevin Wayne Sharp, 41; his wife, Amy Marie Sharp, 38; Sterling Wayne Sharp, 12; and Adrianna Marie Sharp, 7, were found at the condominium […]

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Driver, aide hailed as heroes after bus carrying special needs students hit by tractor-trailer

Driver, aide hailed as heroes after bus carrying special needs students hit by tractor-trailer

ABCNews.com(NEW YORK) — A South Carolina school bus driver and aide are being hailed as heroes following a crash involving a tractor-trailer and a school bus carrying children with special needs. Dramatic dashcam video of the incident was released by the Greenville County School District. The two vehicles were traveling […]

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Dash cam video shows allegedly drunken driver talking to police minutes before deadly crash

Dash cam video shows allegedly drunken driver talking to police minutes before deadly crash

ABCNews.com(NEW YORK) — Newly released video from a Michigan police department shows an allegedly drunken driver speaking to police officers minutes before he crashed head-on with another vehicle — killing both him and the other motorist. Pittsfield Police released the dash cam video of the December 30 accident earlier this […]

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Sacramento officers involved in shooting of unarmed black man getting death threats, police say

Sacramento officers involved in shooting of unarmed black man getting death threats, police say

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — The two officers involved in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man in Sacramento, California, have been receiving death threats, officials said. Hundreds of outraged demonstrators rallied Thursday to protest the shooting 22-year-old Stephon Clark, who was killed in his grandmother’s backyard. Police fired 20 shots […]

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