Month: May 2019

narvikk/iStock(NEW YORK) — The Dow dropped over 450 points on opening Monday morning following an ongoing back-and-forth on tariffs between President Donald Trump and China. Story developing… Copyright © 2019, ABC Radio. All rights reserved.

GummyBone/iStock(NEW YORK) — A car found burning on a street in New York City Monday morning led to the discovery of an unconscious and unresponsive man inside, police said. A 911 caller reported the 2018 [Read More…]

tillsonburg/iStock(NEW YORK) — A week-long departmental trial for Daniel Pantaleo, the New York police officer who put Eric Garner in the unauthorized choke hold that led to his death nearly five years ago on Staten [Read More…]

Toyota(NEW YORK) — After being absent from the U.S. car market for two decades, the Toyota Supra is coming back. The sports car will go on sale in July and will be available in two [Read More…]

Courtesy Kelly Walton(AUSTIN, Texas) — A 14-year-old has pledged to eliminate the sizable lunch debt for a district of 129 schools in Texas. Ben Hofer, an eighth-grade student at St. Andrews Episcopal School, recently raised [Read More…]

Indiana State Police(NEW YORK) — A man was recovering Sunday after his vehicle became trapped underneath a moving semi-truck and was dragged along a highway in Indiana. The crash — involving a 1989 Ford Mustang [Read More…]

ABC News(PARIS) — It’s been nearly a month since the flames leaping from Notre Dame cathedral in Paris left the world aghast. The cathedral’s 19th century spire collapsed into the church’s nave, irreparably piercing through [Read More…]

Jack Taylor/Getty Images(LONDON) — Swedish prosecutors announced Monday that they will be reopening an inquiry into a sexual assault allegation against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and will be seeking his extradition once he has served [Read More…]

Southwest Regional Jail(NEW YORK) —  A Massachusetts man is facing a federal murder charge after authorities alleged he attacked a pair of hikers with a machete on the Appalachian Trail in Virginia, killing one and [Read More…]

WTOC (SAVANNAH, Ga.) — A veteran police sergeant in Savannah, Georgia, died after he and another officer were shot during a gunfight Saturday night while investigating a robbery, officials said. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation [Read More…]

iStock/bizoo_n(OREGON CITY, Ore.) —  A man suspected in multiple cases of child sex abuse has turned himself in to Oregon authorities after spending more than 23 years on the run. Wayne Arthur Silsbee, 62, has [Read More…]

iStock/Pattanaphong Khuankaew(NEW YORK) — In a stunning twist to a cold-case triple homicide in Kentucky, a commercial pilot was arrested on an airplane full of passengers and charged with the brutal 2015 killings of three [Read More…]

Columbia Police Department(COLUMBIA, S.C.) — Slain University of South Carolina student Samantha Josephson, who died after getting into the wrong car, was awarded with a posthumous degree at what would have been her graduation ceremony. [Read More…]

ABC News(MANDALAY, Myanmar) — Passengers on a Myanmar National Airlines flight have a brilliant flight crew to thank for miraculously landing safely after the plane’s front landing gear failed to deploy. Flight UB103 touched down [Read More…]

iStock/MNStudio(HONOLULU, Hawaii) — Friends, family and rescue crews spent a third day searching for a missing Maui woman on Saturday after she mysteriously disappeared during a routine hike. Amanda Eller, 35, who is a physical [Read More…]

iStock/kali9(HOUSTON) — The stepfather of missing 4-year-old Maleah Davis was arrested and charged in connection to her disappearance, one week after he told Texas police that she was kidnapped by three men who assaulted and [Read More…]

iStock/travelview(BOSTON) — In response to an uproar on campus, Harvard University decided this weekend to remove law professor Ron Sullivan from a dean’s post after Sullivan had signed on as a member of the team [Read More…]

iStock/CGinspiration(NEW YORK) — A federal judge on Friday struck down a Kentucky law that would have effectively ended abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. U.S. District Judge Joseph H. McKinley Jr. ruled that the 2018 [Read More…]