Month: June 2018

ABC News(NEW YORK) — There were nearly 150 damaging storm reports Tuesday from Washington, D.C., to Denver, including five reported tornadoes, with many of the areas looking at more rain and possible flooding on Wednesday. [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(PITTSBURGH) — Pennsylvania police shot and killed a 17-year-old boy near Pittsburgh Tuesday night after pulling over a vehicle believed to have been connected to an earlier shooting incident, authorities said Wednesday. Officials have not [Read More…]

David Howells/Corbis/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Kate Spade New York will donate $1 million to suicide prevention groups after its founder’s death by suicide earlier this month. “Kate Spade was a true fashion icon who brought [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(BRIDGEWATER, Mass.) — A Massachusetts woman is opening up about how she managed to fight off a convicted rapist who attacked her over the weekend and tried to force her into his car. The woman, [Read More…]

Family Photo(ROCKAWAY, N.J.) — The family of a 12-year-old who committed suicide has filed a lawsuit against the young girl’s school district, claiming it failed to protect her from months of intense bullying. Mallory Grossman, [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — A report published by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has found that nearly 311,000 coastal homes — worth $117.5 billion — are at risk of chronic flooding due to sea level [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(MINNEAPOLIS) — In a joint statement on Monday, Minneapolis’ mayor and police chief sought an independent investigation into claims that city police asked emergency medical responders to sedate dozens of criminal suspects and others over [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(SILICON VALLEY) — In a little over three days, a fundraising campaign on Facebook has topped $6 million to help reunite undocumented families split up by the U.S. government at the Mexico border. The fundraiser [Read More…]

ABC News(BOSSIER PARISH, LA.) — An elderly neighbor with a boat became a hero in Louisiana on Monday when he and two sheriff’s deputies saved a man and two dogs stuck in a tree after [Read More…]

IStock/Thinkstock(CHARLOTTE, N.C.) — A computer glitch that grounded 2,500 American Airlines flights and left passengers stranded for days at a major U.S. airport has now been “stabilized” but it could still take days to sort [Read More…]

Drew Angerer/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo intends to file a lawsuit against the Trump administration over its controversial immigration policies, including the “callous and inhumane” practice of separating children from their [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — The Trump administration is expecting North Korea to return up to 200 sets of remains believed to be American service members who died during the Korean War, three U.S. officials confirmed. Planning is [Read More…]