Month: May 2018

Kevin Moloney/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — The injured middle school teacher who tackled a gunman in his Indiana classroom said, “my actions on that day, in my mind, were the only acceptable actions I could have [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — A historic expedition is scheduled for next week when long-distance swimmer Ben Lecomte begins a roughly 5,500-mile swim across the Pacific Ocean. Lecomte will start in Japan Tuesday and swim to San [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — The season’s first named subtropical storm, Alberto, is nearing landfall by Pensacola, Florida, as it brings heavy rain from Florida to Georgia to the Carolinas. As of 5 a.m., the storm was [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(PARIS) — A West African migrant is being praised in France for scaling a building to save a boy hanging from a fourth-floor balcony in Paris. The man, Mamoudou Gassama, will be made a French [Read More…]

KSTP(MINNEAPOLIS) — An 11-year-old boy in Minnesota is being hailed for helping to rescue a 3-year-old girl who nearly drowned at a beach over the Memorial Day weekend. Revelers enjoying unseasonably hot temperatures in Arden [Read More…]

Holly Hill Police Department(NEW YORK) — An employee closing up shop at a Little Caesars restaurant in Florida on Saturday night shot and killed a man in a clown mask after he was attacked with [Read More…]

ABC News(HONOLULU) — Allen Bertram heard the calls to evacuate, but decided to stay put unless lava came near his Hawaiian home. A week ago his home was surrounded by a hellish pool of fire. [Read More…]

Andrew Burton/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — As Starbucks prepares to shut down 8,000 company-owned stores on Tuesday for a mass employee teaching session on combating racial bias, the president of one of the nation’s oldest and [Read More…]

John Greim/LightRocket via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — A New Jersey police officer was recorded repeatedly punching a Philadelphia woman as they wrestled on the ground at a New Jersey beach over the Memorial Day weekend. [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(Ellicott City, Md.) — A small Maryland town’s Main Street metamorphosed into a raging muddy river on Saturday. Flash floods caused storefronts in Ellicott City, located just outside of Baltimore, to become engulfed by brown, [Read More…]

Christian Bales(COVINGTON, Ky.) — A high school valedictorian in Kentucky praised the fight for stronger gun laws by school-shooting survivors in Florida, and applauded his classmates for participating in an anti-abortion march, saying students should [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Thomas Bailey and Karen Bushell have never met, but their families have eerily similar stories to tell. On August 16, 2017, Thomas was informed that his daughter 1st Lt. Kathryn Bailey, 26, [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — Former CIA Director Michael Hayden said he is unsure President Trump has “done the homework needed” for negotiations with North Korea over its nuclear program. “Kim Jong Un knows his program [Read More…]

ABC News(WASHINGTON) — Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he is convinced that North Korea will not give up its nuclear program and that its release of U.S. [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — Subtropical storm Alberto is delivering heavy rain and gusty winds to Florida on Sunday morning with current projections showing the storm making landfall in the Panhandle as a tropical storm on [Read More…]

European Space Agency(HONOLULU) — The spread of lava in the Puna district of Hawaii’s Big Island has gotten so large that it can be seen from space. The European Space Agency (ESA) tweeted unbelievable photos [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NOBLESVILLE, Ind.) — A middle school boy allegedly opened fire at an Indiana school Friday morning, police said, leaving a teacher and another student injured, the latest in a string of school shootings this year. [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — South Korean President Moon Jae In says he delivered President Trump’s firm willingness to end hostile relations with North Korea and to offer economic assistance to the country if leader Kim Jong Un [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NOBLESVILLE, Ind.) — A middle school boy allegedly opened fire at an Indiana school Friday morning, police said, leaving a teacher and another student injured, the latest in a string of school shootings this year. [Read More…]

ABC News(ORLANDO) — Subtropical Storm Alberto could put a damper on Memorial Day activities on the Gulf Coast this weekend, prompting the governors of Mississippi, Alabama and Florida to preemptively declare a state of emergency. [Read More…]