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Glacier National Park (WEST GLACIER, Mont.) — The body of a 32-year-old climber has been found after an apparent fall a week after he went missing. Grant Marcuccio’s body was found at around 2 p.m. on Sunday, the National Park Service said this week. The cause of death is still under investigation, but traumatic injuries […]

(GRAND CANYON VILLAGE, Ariz.) — Breaks in a 12-and-a-half-mile long water main at Grand Canyon National Park that emerged on the heels of catastrophic flash flooding have prompted officials to halt overnight lodging on the canyon’s South Rim ahead of what was expected to be a busy Labor Day weekend at one of the Seven […]

(LAS VEGAS) — A former Nevada politician was sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty on Wednesday of killing journalist Jeff German in September 2022. As the jury’s foreperson read out the guilty verdict, former Clark County public administrator Robert Telles looked down and shook his head. Telles was sentenced to life in […]

(MOSCOW, Idaho) — The suspect in the murder of four University of Idaho students, Bryan Kohberger, is in court Thursday as the judge weighs whether to change the venue for his trial. Kohberger’s lawyers hope to move the trial to a different county, arguing the local jury pool in Latah County, which encompasses the college […]

EllenMoran/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A United Airlines flight en route to Chicago was diverted to Tennessee after experiencing “severe turbulence” Wednesday, the airline said. Seven people were injured, including one who was transported to a local hospital, authorities said. Flight UA1196 encountered “a brief period of severe turbulence” Wednesday afternoon, United Airlines said in […]

(ST. LOUIS) — A county prosecutor in St. Louis, Missouri, presented DNA evidence Wednesday alleging that a death row inmate convicted of first-degree murder is innocent in a case that has drawn opposition from the state attorney general. Marcellus Williams, 55, who has maintained his innocence, is scheduled to be executed on Sept. 24 for […]

(NEW YORK) — Life-threatening heat spread across the eastern half of the U.S. this week, first hitting the Midwest, then the Northeast and now the South. Chicago hit 99 degrees on Tuesday, breaking the city’s daily record of 97 degrees. Some schools in the area closed early due to the weather. On Wednesday, the heat […]

(NEW YORK) — When Jill Antares Hunkler purchased land in Belmont County, Ohio, in 2007, she never envisioned her home would be surrounded by 78 oil and gas fracking wells a decade later, she said. “I wanted to build my home where I had roots,” Hunkler, a seventh-generation Ohio Valley resident, told ABC News. “It […]

Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — D.C. police officer Wayne David died on Wednesday evening after he suffered an accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound while trying to recover a weapon from a storm drain, police have announced. Officers were responding to reports of a suspicious vehicle when a man jumped out of a car, ran onto the […]

(SALIDA, Colo.) — A worker on an office hiking retreat to a national forest in Colorado had to be rescued after 14 of his colleagues allegedly left him stranded on a 14,230-foot mountain, authorities said. “In what might cause some awkward encounters at the office in the coming days and weeks, one member of their […]