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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 […]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The FBI has been able to gain extensive analysis on the mindset of the suspected shooter who carried out the July 13 assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, officials said Wednesday, but it has so far been unable to establish a clear motive. […]

(GROSSE POINT, Mich.) — The parents of a teenage passenger killed in a high-speed car crash in Michigan are pushing for authorities to charge the mother of the driver. In November 2023, Flynn MacKrell was riding in a car with his then-16-year-old friend who was driving over 100 mph in a 25 mph residential zone, […]

Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images (BOSTON) — A former Massachusetts police officer is accused of killing a pregnant 23-year-old woman who he began sleeping with when she was a teenager and staging her death to look like a suicide, a federal indictment unsealed in Boston on Wednesday alleges. Former Stoughton police officer Matthew Farwell allegedly strangled […]

Courtesy of Redlands Police Department/Facebook (REDLANDS, Calf.) — Police are searching for a couple and their dog who went missing from a California nudist community on Saturday. Stephanie Menard and Daniel Menard were reported missing on Sunday, according to the Redlands Police Department. The couple was last seen at their residence on Olive Dell Ranch […]