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FIU(MIAMI) — A South Florida college student who became confined to a wheelchair after suffering a debilitating spinal injury was able to walk during his graduation ceremony. Venezuela native Aldo Amenta broke his neck when [Read More…]

ABCNews.com(LOS ANGELES) — Two nuns at a Catholic church in Southern California are suspected of embezzling up to $500,000 in school funds, allegedly using some of the money to go on trips and gamble at [Read More…]

Okeechobee Police Department (NEW YORK) —  Surveillance video shows the dramatic moment an elderly woman in Florida was almost run over by a driver who allegedly had just stolen her purse. The woman had walked [Read More…]

Patrick Reevell/ABC News(NEW YORK) — The landscape approaching Russia’s spaceport in Baikonur is otherworldly. The yellow steppe of southern Kazakhstan where it is located is effectively desert, unbroken flatlands for hundreds of miles covered by [Read More…]

Woodland Park Police Department(WOODLAND PARK, Colo.) — The search for a young Colorado mother who vanished on Thanksgiving Day is intensifying with local police enlisting help from law enforcement nationwide and worried loved ones asking [Read More…]

WCVB-TV(WORCESTER, Mass.) — A Worcester, Massachusetts, firefighter died early Sunday while battling a massive fire in a three-story building — the latest in a sad history of firefighter deaths in the city. Firefighters responded to [Read More…]

Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office(CROSS LANES, W.Va.) — She impressed beauty pageant judges with her fiddle playing and tugged at hearts with her personal battle with multiple sclerosis, but now former Miss Kentucky Ramsey Bearse is [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — A major storm that dumped over 10 inches of snow on Lubbock, Texas, on Saturday is moving into the Southeast on Sunday with heavy rain on the southern side and as [Read More…]

iStock(LACEY, Wash.) — Federal authorities in Washington state are investigating the latest in a troubling series of arson cases at worship halls for Jehovah’s Witnesses. The latest fire broke out Friday at a Kingdom Hall [Read More…]

GiorgioMorara/iStock(NEW YORK) — A splinter pilots’ union is threatening to strike against Virgin Atlantic right before Christmas, demanding the airline recognize it at the negotiating table. The Professional Pilots Union is threatening to walk out [Read More…]

omersukrugoksu/iStock(ROME) — Six people are dead and at least 120 people are injured after being trampled by a panicked crowd running out of an Italian disco. The stampede occurred at the Lanterna Azzurra in Madonna [Read More…]

DONGSEON_KIM/iStock(EL DORADO HILLS, Calif.) — A 13-year-old boy with autism died in Northern California last week after becoming unresponsive at school while staff physically restrained him, authorities said. The boy became violent and needed to [Read More…]

ChiccoDodiFC/iStock(NEW YORK) — The second-largest, second-deadliest Ebola outbreak in history has spread to a major city. Butembo, a bustling city of almost a million people in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, is reporting an [Read More…]

Scott Olson/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — The nation saw multiple, unprecedented natural disasters this year, from the deadliest wildfire in California’s history to the worst hurricane to hit the East Coast since 1969. Reports from the [Read More…]

FOTOKITA/iStock(NEW YORK) — A suspect has been arrested in the kidnapping and killing of 13-year-old Hania Noelia Aguilar, who was snatched from her front yard in North Carolina last month, authorities announced Saturday. The FBI [Read More…]

NASA/Bill Ingalls/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Almost two months after NASA astronaut Nick Hague and his Russian counterpart Alexei Ovchinin survived a failed launch from Kazakhstan to the International Space Station, Hague told ABC News’ David [Read More…]

WAPT-TV(NEW YORK) — An inmate in Mississippi managed to hop out of a prison van while handcuffed and shackled and drive away from police — all while pausing to honk at his dumbstruck fiancee looking [Read More…]

ABC News(NEW YORK) — Heavy rain was already falling in the South on Saturday morning as western North Carolina prepares for the potential for as much as a foot of snow this weekend. A major [Read More…]