Month: September 2018

LETCHER, S.D. (AP) — A 9-year-old boy with autism who went missing in rural Davison County was found safe after a nightlong search. Eastin Dorr was last seen about 5 p.m. Wednesday. Sheriff’s Deputy Josh [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(BOSTON) — Firefighters in Massachusetts are battling dozens of fires believed to have been caused by gas explosions. The Massachusetts State Police Watch Center has responded to 39 different addresses spread across dozens of block [Read More…]

ABC News(WILMINGTON, N.C.) — Many health care facilities have been evacuated along the southeastern U.S. coast, as Hurricane Florence threatens the region. But at the Davis Community assisted living facility in Wilmington, North Carolina, they’re [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW BERN, N.C.) — Hurricane Florence is pummeling the North Carolina coastline, making landfall with life-threatening storm surges and hurricane-force winds. “I see a biblical proportion flood event that’s going to occur,” Wilmington, North [Read More…]

Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call(WASHINGTON) — Retired Adm. William “Bill” McRaven, who led the mission to kill Osama bin Laden, resigned from his post on the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Board last month, just days after he [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(CHARLESTON, S.C.) — Many South Carolina residents were working to secure a safe shelter for themselves as Hurricane Florence made its way inland, but some also took time to think about the homeless animals in [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Ten years ago this week, as the nation’s subprime mortgage crisis deepened, Lehman Brothers submitted the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history — a flashpoint in the country’s worst financial downturn since [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW BERN, N.C.) — Hurricane Florence is pummeling the North Carolina coastline, nearing landfall with life-threatening storm surges and hurricane-force winds. As North Carolina residents brace for the impact of the Category 1 storm, [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW BERN, N.C.) — First responders in North Carolina are scrambling to rescue residents stranded due to raging floodwaters caused by Hurricane Florence. Officials in New Bern, a coastal town in Craven County, North Carolina, [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW BERN, N.C.) — First responders in North Carolina are scrambling to rescue residents stranded due to raging floodwaters caused by Hurricane Florence. Officials in New Bern, a coastal town in Craven County, North Carolina, [Read More…]

NOAA via Getty Images(WILMINGTON, N.C.) — Massive Hurricane Florence, with tropical storm-force winds hundreds of miles wide, was bearing down on the Carolinas Thursday, pounding the coast with driving rain and powerful waves. Officials on [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(BOSTON) — Firefighters in Massachusetts are battling dozens of fires believed to have been caused by gas explosions. The Massachusetts State Police Watch Center has responded to 39 different addresses spread across dozens of block [Read More…]

American Cajun Navy(NEW YORK) — If people stranded in the middle of Hurricane Florence are unable to contact official first responders, there’s an app that might be able to help them. CrowdSource Rescue, a free [Read More…]

WFAA-TV(DALLAS) — Hundreds of friends, loved ones and work colleagues of a 26-year-old man shot to death by a Dallas police officer in his own apartment filled a Texas church Thursday to celebrate his life [Read More…]

Satellite image (c)2018 DigitalGlobe, a Maxar company(TSUGOL, Russia) — Russian President Vladimir Putin Thursday watched a huge simulated battle put on by Russian and Chinese troops, as he attended the largest so-called war games in [Read More…]

Chuck Liddy/Raleigh News & Observer/TNS via Getty Images(WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, N.C.) — Don’t be fooled by Hurricane Florence’s weakening category — the powerful storm still poses the same dangers at a Category 2 as it did [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(BOSTON) — Firefighters in Massachusetts are battling dozens of fires believed to have been caused by gas explosions. The Massachusetts State Police Watch Center has responded to 39 different addresses spread across dozens of block [Read More…]