Month: February 2019

imaginima/iStock(NEW YORK) — A convicted child sex offender who has allegedly been tied by DNA evidence to the scene of a brutal 2002 murder of a young West Virginia woman got away with the crime [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — Snow, ice and rain are wreaking havoc on roadways throughout the middle of the country. Some roads are blanketed with up to 1 foot of snow and some drivers are crippled [Read More…]

Pattanaphong Khuankaew/iStock(SEBRING, Fla.) — A Florida state attorney general will seek the death penalty against the suspect in a mass shooting at a bank that left five women dead last month. Zephen Xaver, 21, accused [Read More…]

aijohn784/iStock(BALTIMORE) — A staff member was shot at a Baltimore high school on Friday, triggering a shutdown of the building, officials said. The victim, a 56-year-old hall monitor, was hospitalized and listed in “serious but [Read More…]

Oleksii Spesyvtsev/iStock(NEW YORK) — Pesky calls from telemarketers may be easier to combat than ever. With new apps like Robokiller, spam calls are automatically intercepted so that your phone may never even ring. ABC News’ [Read More…]

Emma McIntyre/Getty Images(NEW YORK) —  Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are reviewing the accusations of extortion and blackmail made by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos against the parent company of the National Enquirer, a source familiar with [Read More…]

Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call(WASHINGTON) —  White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said in an interview that aired Friday on CNN that a woman assaulted her while she was at a Maryland restaurant celebrating her middle school-aged [Read More…]

sshepard/iStock(CHICAGO) — (CHICAGO) —  A 1-year-old boy was shot in the head and critically injured in Chicago Thursday night, according to police. In California, a 10-year-old boy was also shot in the head and hospitalized, [Read More…]

Luca Reina Mafaraci/iStock(ROME) — Nearly six months after the deadly collapse of the Morandi Bridge in Genoa, the demolition of the remainder of the span began in earnest Friday. Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, Danilo [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y.) — Tears, embraces and prayers filled a candlelight vigil Thursday for a 24-year-old woman whose body was found in a suitcase along a Greenwich, Connecticut, road. Valerie Reyes, 24, of New [Read More…]

Emma McIntyre/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — The parent company of the National Enquirer said Friday it will “promptly and thoroughly” investigate claims against the tabloid, made by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, of a blackmail and extortion [Read More…]