Year: 2018

iStock/Thinkstock(PARADISE, Calif.) — When the deadly Camp Fire started to close in on Feather River Hospital in the Northern California town of Paradise, nurses were forced to evacuate their critically sick patients without warning. “We [Read More…]

ABC News(LOS ANGELES) — A prolonged drought followed by a welcomed spike in rain and another dry spell has created a “recipe for destruction” that’s manifesting itself in wildfires of historic proportions raging in California, [Read More…]

ABC News/Chuck Kennedy(CHICAGO) — Former first lady Michelle Obama was greeted with squeals and shocked faces when she surprised girls in a dance class at her high school alma mater. Obama, 54, visited Whitney Young [Read More…]

FBI(LUMBERTON, N.C.) — It’s been one week since a 13-year-old girl was kidnapped in front of her North Carolina home before school. Now, investigators’ pleas for more information grow “more and more urgent by the [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — “Sixty seconds, name as many pastas as you possibly can.” If you ever have an interview with Outdoor Voices founder and CEO Tyler Haney, there’s a good chance she might quiz your [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(BOSTON) — The gas company that serves thousands of Massachusetts residents who were displaced from their homes as a result of a string of gas explosions is making sure those customers have a hot meal [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(MALIBU, Calif.) — Two fast-moving wildfires that exploded in the hills of Southern California have forced thousands of evacuations, including the entire city of Malibu and a sprawling naval base, as extremely critical fire conditions [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(PARADISE, Calif.) — At least 31 people have been killed as massive wildfires raging in Northern and Southern California have engulfed thousands of homes and were threatening to destroy more as blustery winds were dealing [Read More…]

Aurelien Meunier/Getty Images(PARIS) — As Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron stood hand in hand at Compiegne just outside Paris, it was the first time German and French leaders had publicly gathered at the spot where [Read More…]

WEWS(NEW YORK) — The first lake effect snow event of the season delivered over a foot of snow Saturday in parts of southwest New York. Perrysburg, New York, reported 13.8 inches of snow on Saturday [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(LONDON) — An installation commemorating the 100-year anniversary of the end of World War I has opened in London. Called “Beyond the Deepening Shadow: The Tower Remembers” and featuring approximately 10,000 torches, each illuminated every [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(MALIBU, Calif.) — Two fast-moving wildfires that exploded in the hills of Southern California have forced thousands of evacuations, including the entire city of Malibu and a sprawling naval base, as extremely critical fire conditions [Read More…]

ABC News(THOUSAND OAKS, Calif.) — The veteran suspected of opening fire at a Thousand Oaks, California, bar, killing 12, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, an official from the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office told ABC [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(PARADISE, Calif.) — At least 23 people have been killed this week as flames from a raging wildfire engulfed their vehicles, homes and neighborhoods in Northern California, authorities said. Fourteen additional bodies were discovered on [Read More…]

Beimeng Fu/ABC News(NEW YORK) — Nov. 11 marks Singles’ Day in China, a day when sales have nearly doubled those from Black Friday and Cyber Monday in the U.S. — combined! So what’s next for [Read More…]

Courtesy Paul Heroux(NEW YORK) — Mayor Paul Heroux of Attleboro, Massachusetts held his dog Mura for the first time when she was just 8 weeks old. “We looked at each other when she was in [Read More…]

Courtesy Karen Spring(NEW YORK) — The bride wore red, the color of the resistance movement. The groom wore the gray pants and white T-shirt required of inmates at La Tolva, the maximum-security prison where he [Read More…]

Lumberton Police Department(NEW YORK) — The state of North Carolina is offering up to a $5,000 reward in the desperate search for kidnapped 13-year-old Hania Noelia Aguilar. North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper announced the additional [Read More…]