Year: 2018

GiorgioMorara/iStock(NEW YORK) — A splinter pilots’ union is threatening to strike against Virgin Atlantic right before Christmas, demanding the airline recognize it at the negotiating table. The Professional Pilots Union is threatening to walk out [Read More…]

omersukrugoksu/iStock(ROME) — Six people are dead and at least 120 people are injured after being trampled by a panicked crowd running out of an Italian disco. The stampede occurred at the Lanterna Azzurra in Madonna [Read More…]

DONGSEON_KIM/iStock(EL DORADO HILLS, Calif.) — A 13-year-old boy with autism died in Northern California last week after becoming unresponsive at school while staff physically restrained him, authorities said. The boy became violent and needed to [Read More…]

ChiccoDodiFC/iStock(NEW YORK) — The second-largest, second-deadliest Ebola outbreak in history has spread to a major city. Butembo, a bustling city of almost a million people in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, is reporting an [Read More…]

Scott Olson/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — The nation saw multiple, unprecedented natural disasters this year, from the deadliest wildfire in California’s history to the worst hurricane to hit the East Coast since 1969. Reports from the [Read More…]

FOTOKITA/iStock(NEW YORK) — A suspect has been arrested in the kidnapping and killing of 13-year-old Hania Noelia Aguilar, who was snatched from her front yard in North Carolina last month, authorities announced Saturday. The FBI [Read More…]

NASA/Bill Ingalls/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Almost two months after NASA astronaut Nick Hague and his Russian counterpart Alexei Ovchinin survived a failed launch from Kazakhstan to the International Space Station, Hague told ABC News’ David [Read More…]

WAPT-TV(NEW YORK) — An inmate in Mississippi managed to hop out of a prison van while handcuffed and shackled and drive away from police — all while pausing to honk at his dumbstruck fiancee looking [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — Heavy rain was already falling in the South on Saturday morning as western North Carolina prepares for the potential for as much as a foot of snow this weekend. A major [Read More…]

South_agency/iStock(NEW YORK) — The mother and brother of a double murder suspect are now under arrest themselves after allegedly conspiring to kill witnesses to their family member’s slayings. Joseph Federico and Wendy Federico, both of [Read More…]

VCG/VCG via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer and heir apparent to Chinese tech giant Huawei, will at least be spending the weekend in a Vancouver jail after a bail hearing on [Read More…]

KFSN-TV(VISALIA, Calif.) — A California high school teacher was released from jail Friday two days after video surfaced showing her forcibly cutting off a student’s hair while singing the national anthem. A video obtained by [Read More…]