Month: March 2019

Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images(BOSTON) — The first batch of defendants ensnared in a nationwide college entrance scam are expected to appear in a Boston courtroom on Monday to face [Read More…]

Joe Raedle/Getty Images(PARKLAND, Fla.) —  A second teen from Parkland, Florida, where 17 people were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last year, has died from an apparent suicide in less than a week, [Read More…]

ABC News(CHICAGO) —  Detectives with the Chicago Police Department are working “around the clock” to find the shooter who gunned down an off-duty police officer, an official tweeted Sunday. Officer John Rivera, 23, was shot [Read More…]

Dr. John R. Watret/Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University(ATLANTA) —  A photo of a mother-daughter duo after they flew a cross-country flight together has gone viral, and sparked a conversation about the need for more women pilots. On [Read More…]

iStock(ATHENS, Ga.) — A fraternity at the University of Georgia has been suspended after video allegedly showing members whipping someone and referring to them picking cotton surfaced on social media. Georgia’s chapter of Tau Kappa [Read More…]

iStock(NEW YORK) — Despite having their name on the museum’s education center, the Guggenheim said it will no longer be accepting gifts from the Sackler family, according to a statement given to ABC News on [Read More…]

iStock(MOLDE, Norway) — After an engine failure and major evacuation efforts, the Viking Sky cruise ship safely docked in the port of Molde, Norway, on Sunday, bringing a high-seas nightmare to an end. A mayday [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — A storm over the central Plains is expected to move eastward through the day Sunday, bringing the next round of severe weather to parts of the Deep South. The storm currently [Read More…]

iStock(NEW YORK) — The Powerball jackpot continues inching toward $1 billion as no one took home the jackpot Saturday night. The drawing on Wednesday will be worth an estimated $750 million. The latest numbers drawn [Read More…]

Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department(INDIANAPOLIS) — A week after an 8-month-old baby was reported missing in Indianapolis, her mother’s boyfriend was named as a suspect in the newly classified “homicide investigation,” police announced on Saturday. Robert [Read More…]

iStock/LPETTET(NEW YORK) —  This weekend’s Powerball jackpot is inching toward $1 billion. There was no winner in Wednesday’s drawing so the prize is now $625 million or, for those who want the one-time cash payment, [Read More…]

Eva Frisnes(MOLDE, Norway) — Rescue helicopters were battling severe winds on Saturday to airlift more than 1,300 people off a Norwegian cruise ship that issued a distressed call after an engine failure. Of the 1,300 [Read More…]