Month: August 2019

ABC News(NEW YORK) — Dangerous Hurricane Dorian is strengthening and forecast to make landfall on Florida’s east coast overnight into Tuesday as a Category 4 storm. Now forecast to approach Florida with winds of 140 [Read More…]

danielfela/iStock(DETROIT) — The body of a 41-year old man who was deported to Iraq and died was returned to the U.S. on Friday, according to his family and a local congressman. Jimmy Aldaoud had lived [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — This group of pilots made history as Hurricane Dorian strengthens and takes aim at Florida. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Aircraft Operations Center tweeted a photo Thursday of its [Read More…]

Courtesy Brandow Family(NEW YORK) — Brian and Lynn Brandow of Ronkonkoma, New York, admit they “never really had a plan” for their personal finances. It was this lack of planning that landed them in $109,000 [Read More…]

Planet Labs Inc.(NEW YORK) — Commercial satellite images have captured the smoky aftermath of an Iranian rocket exploding on a launch pad in northern Iran. Satellite pictures taken earlier this week indicated that Iran was [Read More…]

somchaij/iStock(LAS VEGAS) — After a number of fits and starts, plans for a high-speed train connecting California and Las Vegas are back on track. The announcement was made at the Nevada Economic Development Conference on [Read More…]

Mohammed Haneefa Nizamudeen/iStock(NEW YORK) — The second-largest, second-deadliest Ebola outbreak in history has exceeded 3,000 cases and 2,000 deaths as the yearlong epidemic continues despite access to an experimental vaccine and developmental treatments. A total [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — Now forecast to approach Florida with winds of 140 mph, Dorian, should it make landfall at those wind speeds, would become just the ninth hurricane to do so, dating back to [Read More…]

amphotora/iStock(NEW YORK) — A 19-year-old man from New York City has been arrested as part of a national security investigation into a planned ISIS-inspired attack, sources told ABC News. According to law enforcement sources, the [Read More…]

tillsonburg/iStock(NEW YORK) — Two former New York City police officers pleaded guilty Thursday to charges of misconduct and receiving a bribe after the pair said they had sex with an 18-year-old drug suspect in the [Read More…]

College of Southern Nevada(LAS VEGAS) — A Nevada college student was arrested on campus after police found a rifle and 2,000 rounds of ammunition in his vehicle. Shayn Striegel, a 27-year-old student at the College [Read More…]

Placer County Sheriffs Office(KINGS BEACH, Calif.) — Sheriff’s deputies near Lake Tahoe arrived ready to help on Tuesday morning after receiving a call from a motel that a bear cub was trapped in a nearby [Read More…]

Courtesy Josephine Kirk-Taylor(HOUSTON) — With children returning to classes and stopped school buses once again tasked with taking students safely to and from school, one Houston woman is sharing a video of her daughter nearly [Read More…]

Mohammed Haneefa Nizamudeen/iStock(NEW YORK) — The second-largest, second-deadliest Ebola outbreak in history has exceeded 3,000 cases, as the yearlong epidemic continues to grow despite access to an experimental vaccine and developmental treatments. A total of [Read More…]

Darwin Brandis/iStock(NEW YORK) — Hurricane Dorian is taking aim at Florida where it may hit as a powerful Category 3 storm over Labor Day weekend. The storm is forecast to make landfall on Florida’s East [Read More…]

iStock(NEWBURGH, N.Y.) — When a passerby called the cops on a group of kids with a lemonade stand, the responding officers had the perfect reaction. “So the kids where I live decided to have a [Read More…]

iStock(WASHINGTON D.C.) — A 27-year-old woman was walking a dog when she was stabbed to death — apparently at random — in Washington, D.C., according to police. A man approached Margery Magill, who was working [Read More…]