Month: January 2019

sihuo0860371/iStock(MOSCOW) —  An Instagram model and self-described “sex trainer” from Belarus, who last year drew international attention with unsubstantiated claims to have recordings relevant to the Russian election interference investigation, has been arrested at a [Read More…]

Donna Davis(PHILADELPHIA) —  A quick-thinking 9-year-old girl may have saved her grandmother’s life when she discovered the elderly woman alone in the throes of a brain aneurysm, and stayed with her until help arrived. Cayla [Read More…]

RyanJLane/iStock(NEW YORK) — A Minnesota mother has been charged after her child was seen on dashcam video falling out of her vehicle and onto a busy roadway while still in the car seat. Maimuna Hassan, [Read More…]

Jessica Berrellez(NEW YORK) —  An 11-year-old girl whose mom has spent almost a month out of work as a furloughed federal employee created her own business to help her family and others. Bella Berrellez, a [Read More…]

KMBC-TV(KANSAS CITY) — It’s been six weeks since Teresa Meitl was shot 21 times within close range and, although she’s still recovering in the hospital, she feels grateful to be alive. “It’s like a miracle,” [Read More…]

Obtained by ABC News(NEW YORK) — A Colombian described by federal drug agents as the country’s most significant drug trafficker in Africa has been arrested and brought to the United States to face charges of [Read More…]

lucagavagna/iStock(ROME) — Four-time prime minister and octogenarian Silvio Berlusconi, announced his comeback — once again — to Italian politics Thursday. Speaking at a rally in Sardinia, he said his aim “at the beautiful age that [Read More…]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — A national board member with the Women’s March defended the organization’s co-president amid a growing controversy over the latter’s relationship with Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam leader who has [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — The East Coast is bracing for an intense winter storm moving from the Midwest into the Northeast. A smaller storm moved through the Northeast Friday morning. Snow accumulations along the Interstate [Read More…]

D-Keine/iStock(LUMBERTON, N.C.) — The sheriff’s office in North Carolina’s Robeson County fired an investigator following an internal probe into overlooked evidence that might have saved the life of 13-year-old Hania Noelia Aguilar, who was abducted, [Read More…]

Kuzma/iStock(CHICAGO) — Former Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke is set to be sentenced Friday for the shooting death of African-American teen Laquan McDonald. Van Dyke’s attorneys have asked for probation. Van Dyke, who is [Read More…]