Month: September 2019

RiverNorthPhotography/iStock(LOS ANGELES) — The fast-fashion chain Forever 21 filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy, joining a rising number of brick-and-mortar retailers shuttering or downsizing in an increasingly e-commerce world. The company announced the bankruptcy filing Sunday [Read More…]

DNY59/iStock(DALLAS) — When Amber Guyger placed her key in the door of apartment No. 1478 at the South Side Flats apartment complex in Dallas, she set off a chain of events that cost an innocent [Read More…]

pawel.gaul/iStock(WASHINGTON) — A U.S. military base in Somalia was attacked by extremists Monday. No American troops were killed or wounded in the attack, a U.S. official told ABC News. The Somali extremist group al-Shabab has [Read More…]

RiverNorthPhotography/iStock(LOS ANGELES) — Forever 21 has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. In a letter to customers Sunday night, the Los Angeles-based retailer said the move allows the company to “continue to operate its stores [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(CARY, N.C.) — Police in North Carolina have captured three of four “extremely dangerous” inmates who escaped from an Ohio jail early Sunday morning. Brynn K. Martin, 40, Christopher M. Clemente, 24, Troy R. McDaniel [Read More…]

Hailshadow/iStock(COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Medical officials in Ohio said at least 10 people just died from drug overdoses in only 26 hours, calling it an “unusually high number” for the area in a such a short [Read More…]

BlakeDavidTaylor/iStock(NEW YORK) — The recent arrests of two 6-year-old students in Orlando, Florida, which prompted outrage and the firing of the officer who restrained one child’s hands with flex cuffs, mirrors a persistent problem confronting [Read More…]

ABCNews.com(CHICAGO) — Police have opened an investigation into a disturbing act of road rage last week after cellphone video showed three women attacking each other with a bat on a busy Chicago highway. Illinois State [Read More…]

jaminwell/iStock(DELAND, Fla.) — Three people were killed after a small plane crashed in Central Florida. The Cessna 421 crashed in a wooded area off State Road 44 in Deland around 4 p.m., according to a [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(GALLIPOLIS, Ohio) — Ohio authorities are searching for four inmates who escaped a jail after overpowering two female corrections officers. They were armed with at least one homemade weapon when they overpowered the corrections officers [Read More…]

Google(GLYNNFOLIAGE, Georgia) — A hunter has been killed after one of his companions shot him while mistaking him for a deer in Georgia, according to authorities. A group of hunters were in a wooded area [Read More…]

iStock/rawintanpin(SANTA FE, N.M.) — Search-and-rescue crews are scouring a million acres of New Mexico wilderness for a small private plane with two people aboard that was reported missing after taking off from an airport and [Read More…]

Carson King(NEW YORK) — It all began with a handmade sign asking for beer money. Then it was discovered that Carson King, the 24-year-old whose sign reading “Busch Light Supply Needs Replenished” went viral after [Read More…]

USGS(TALCA, Chile) — An earthquake measuring a magnitude of 6.8 has been detected off the coast of Chile, according to officials with the U.S. Geological Survey. Chile’s National Office of Emergency says the quake will [Read More…]

iStock/DavidPrahl(LONGVIEW, Washington) — Newly released video shows a school bus full of terrified children shortly before the driver was arrested for allegedly driving while intoxicated in Washington state. Catherine L. Maccarone, 48, was arrested on [Read More…]

ABC News(LAS ANGELES) — Police in California deployed a stun gun on a woman after she allegedly entered a police department armed with an 8-inch meat cleaver and threatened a victim. The suspect, 22-year-old Mariel [Read More…]

iStock/janniswerner(BOSTON) — The president of Harvard University has apologized for giving a speech in which he compared rich alumni donors to freed slaves. Harvard President Lawrence Bacow was slammed as “tone-deaf” and “inappropriate” by some [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(GALLIPOLIS, Ohio) — Ohio authorities are searching for four inmates who escaped a jail after overpowering two female corrections officers. They were armed with at least one homemade weapon when they overpowered the corrections officers [Read More…]

New York Police Department(NEW YORK) — A veteran police officer was shot and killed in New York City just after midnight Sunday during a physical struggle with an armed suspect. The 27-year-old suspect was also [Read More…]