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ABCNews.com(PITTSBURGH) — A Pittsburgh dad working three jobs knew he had to make his daughter’s dream come true for her eighth-grade dance, surprising her in a now viral video seen by tens of thousands. Nevaeha [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(CLEARWATER, Fla.) — Loved ones of an African-American man shot dead in a Florida parking dispute by a white man invoking the state’s controversial “stand your ground” self-defense law are about to get a boost [Read More…]

Le Pictorium / Barcroft Images / Barcroft Media via Getty Images(ATHENS. Greece) — The death toll from wildfires that swept through a seaside area of Greece last week rose to 91 on Sunday and officials [Read More…]

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(SHASTA COUNTY, Calif.) — A 70-year-old woman and her two great-grandchildren were killed when a rapidly-spreading wildfire swept into a Northern California town of 92,000 people, trapping them inside their home as one [Read More…]

Florence County Sheriffs Office(FLORENCE, S.C.) — A wild police chase straight out of “Grand Theft Auto” ended with the woman’s SUV rolling over three times and ejecting her from the car. Somehow, the 24-year-old South [Read More…]

WGNO via ABCNews.com(NEW ORLEANS) — Three people are dead and another seven were injured in a hail of gunfire outside a jazz bar in New Orleans on Saturday night. According to the New Orleans Police [Read More…]

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — There are heat advisories, excessive heat warnings and watches issued for parts of the western U.S. on Sunday as the region continues to see above-average temperatures. The heat is also [Read More…]

ABC News(PRETORIA, South Africa) — Zimbabweans will go to the polls Monday to vote in the first election in nearly four decades without the name of former ruler Robert Mugabe on the ballot. The election [Read More…]

SOPA Images/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — The government of Malaysia on Monday will release what it calls a full and final report on the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 carrying 239 people more than four [Read More…]

Family handout via WRTV(INDIANAPOLIS) — The remaining five members of the close-knit family who were killed in last week’s tourist boat accident were laid to rest Saturday. An afternoon funeral service was held at Eastern [Read More…]

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(SHASTA COUNTY, Calif.) — A fast-moving wildfire in Northern California that has killed two people almost doubled in size overnight, officials said Saturday. The Carr Fire in Shasta County had burned an area [Read More…]

Rob Hess/ABC News(BROOKLYN, Iowa) — It’s been 10 days since 20-year-old Mollie Tibbetts mysteriously vanished in a rural Iowa town, but investigators say they haven’t given up hope that they will find her alive. “At [Read More…]

CJ ENM(South Korea) — “National producers, thank you for your vote and support!” That’s the message from performers of Produce 48, a K-pop idol audition program in South Korea, to their “producers” — or the [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(BENTON HARBOR, Mich.) — A 26-year-old woman and five of her young relatives, ages 2-10, were killed early Saturday in a motel fire in Michigan, authorities said. Kiarre Samuel died when the blaze ignited at [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(BENTON HARBOR, Mich.) — A 26-year-old woman and five of her young relatives, ages 2-10, were killed early Saturday in a motel fire in Michigan, authorities said. Kiarre Samuel died when the blaze ignited at [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — There are more than 60 large, uncontained wildfires burning in 13 western states on Saturday as the region deals with bone-dry humidity levels and temperatures in the 90s and above. Dangerous [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(ROBSTOWN, Texas) — Three people were found dead at a nursing home in south Texas after police responded to calls of an active shooter at the location. Further investigation found two more people dead at [Read More…]

ABC News(BRANSON, Mo.) — The captain of the ill-fated duck boat that sank in Missouri earlier this month had checked the weather reports and discussed safety procedures, including the location of life jackets, an initial [Read More…]

Ford(DEARBORN, Michigan) — Cormac Wright didn’t know anything about honeybees two years ago. Now he’s the de facto spokesperson for a new Ford Motor initiative to help save the nation’s dwindling population of honeybees. Six [Read More…]

Facebook/Kevin Russell(CHICAGO) —  Good Samaritans in Chicago came to the aid of two police officers who crashed their car into a tree, a new video shows. The officers, who had been responding to a foot [Read More…]