ABC News(NEW YORK) — As residents of Puerto Rico brace for Hurricane Maria — which slammed into the Caribbean as a Category 5 storm Monday night — Puerto Rico’s governor is calling the storm “the biggest and potentially most catastrophic Read More
John McCall, South Florida Sun-Sentinel/TNS via Getty Images(HOLLYWOOD HILLS, Fla.) — A ninth person has died after a Florida nursing home lost its air conditioning in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, subjecting the residents to sweltering heat. Rehabilitation Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(APOPKA, Fla.) — A huge sinkhole opened up in a city northwest of Orlando, Florida, this morning, damaging part of a home. According to ABC affiliate WFTS, emergency crews responded to the house in Apopka, Florida, around 8:30 a.m. Officials told Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(JACKSONVILLE, Fla.) — The Navy’s surgeon general has ordered a stand down for all Navy medical personnel over the next 48 hours to reaffirm service commitments to patients and review social media policies after photos emerged on social media Read More
Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images(INDIO, Calif.) — A recidivist jewel thief who became famous for her decades-long international crime spree is out of jail after her latest sentence. Doris Payne, 86, has a long rap sheet of robberies to her name, Read More
Ingram Publishing/Thinkstock(BATON ROUGE, La.) –A 23-year-old white man has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder and illegal use of a weapon and two counts of attempted first-degree murder, aggravated criminal damage to property and illegal use of a Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(ST.LOUIS) — It’s been four straight nights of civil unrest in St. Louis, Missouri, after former police officer Jason Stockley was acquitted of murder in the death of Anthony Lamar Smith. The protests have been marked by a police force Read More
ABC News(ATLANTA) — Three people were arrested and students were ordered to shelter in place at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta on Monday as violent protests erupted in response to the police shooting death of a student who allegedly had a knife, the Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — The days of Latanya Simpson being a shy and timid student are a thing of the past. “My 9th grade year I was kind of not sure of myself,” Simpson said. “I didn’t have the confidence I really Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Chris was an 11-year-old Boy Scout in New Jersey when he says his life became consumed with a dark secret. “You do everything you can to block it out of your mind,” he said. Chris, whose last name “Nightline” is Read More
