Month: April 2019

WFTS(TAMPA, Fla.) — A pair of 14-year-old Florida middle school girls are facing felony charges for conspiracy to commit kidnapping and murder after being arrested this week in what authorities described as a plot to [Read More…]

iStock/xijian(NEW YORK) —  A social media influencer from Iowa is facing 20 years in prison for planning a violent home invasion to hijack an internet domain name for his company. Rossi Lorathio Adams II, 26, [Read More…]

Orgis Energy via Walt Disney World(ORLANDO) — Disney just got a whole lot greener! Walt Disney World has unveiled its newest and largest solar farm. At 270 acres, the site is almost twice the size [Read More…]

iStock/Fedorovekb(CAMDEN, N.J.) —  Police in Camden, New Jersey, have released new body camera video from a dramatic rescue of passengers inside two burning cars on the interstate. Just moments after the 2:30 a.m. April 7 [Read More…]

iStock/aijohn784(WOODVILLE, Fla.) — An 8-year-old girl in Florida was killed after a morning storm caused a tree to crash through her house, fatally injuring her and another child in the home, police said. Officers responded [Read More…]

Courtesy Patty Keneally(NANTUCKET, Mass.) — Mary Walsh has been working on Nantucket for 40 years, so she’s used to the seasonal nature of the Massachusetts island’s business patterns. But it’s different now. The island that [Read More…]

(NEW YORK) —  DNA testing service Ancestry is pulling an ad after an online backlash accusing it of whitewashing history and rape. The ad, which is called, “Inseparable,” shows an enslaved woman named Abigail running [Read More…]

BanksPhotos/iStock(MINNEAPOLIS) — The family of a 5-year-old boy who was thrown from the third-floor balcony at the Mall of America released a hopeful update on Friday, saying that despite “a long road ahead,” the boy [Read More…]

Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — In a fittingly showbiz finale to the country’s surprising election, Ukraine’s two presidential candidates, incumbent president Petro Poroshenko and Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the comedian who currently leads him the polls, faced [Read More…]

Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images(PITTSBURGH) — As the Jewish holiday of Passover begins Friday night, families and friends will gather at Seder — an orderly, annual dinner where they eat, drink, sing and [Read More…]

iStock/Tunatura(NEW YORK) — The origins of the so-called pot holiday “420” are — fittingly — fuzzy. Some people will say that the holiday’s name traces back to a police code. Others, meanwhile, believe that something [Read More…]

WPLG-TV(DORAL, Fla.) —  One Florida contractor might be in need of a little more E-D-U-C-A-T-I-O-N. A motorist in Doral spotted a spelling error at a crosswalk Thursday and took a photo. The word “SCHOOL” was [Read More…]

Gofundme(WALTERBORO, S.C.) — A pathologist’s review of fifth grader Raniya Wright’s death revealed that she had a rare birth defect that caused her death, rather than the fight that she was involved in minutes before [Read More…]

KABC-TV(RIVERSIDE, Calif.) —  A son and daughter of David and Louise Turpin spoke out in court for the first time Friday as their parents were sentenced for torturing and imprisoning them for years. “Now I’m [Read More…]