Month: August 2017

behindlens/iStock/Thinkstock(HOUSTON) -- The National Hurricane Center has issued an advisory instructing Texas residents along the Gulf of Mexico coast to "rush" their storm preparations as Hurricane Harvey "rapidly" intensifies.All preparations for residents along the middle Texas coast should be completed on Thursday, the National Hurricane Center said. The storm is expected to make landfall around 1 a.m. Saturday.The coastal city of Corpus Christi has so far not implemented mandatory evacuations, […]

SeanPavonePhoto/iStock/Thinkstock(CHARLESTON, S.C.) -- A "disgruntled employee" killed an individual at a restaurant in a tourist area in Charleston, South Carolina, said the city's mayor.Mayor John Tecklenburg said the incident was reported just after noon at Virginia's restaurant on King Street, one of the city's busiest thoroughfares.Tecklenburg said the suspect was a "disgruntled employee that came back to his place of employment with a gun and killed an individual in the […]

SeanPavonePhoto/iStock/Thinkstock(NASHVILLE, Tenn.) -- A teen who had been missing for 11 days, after he was separated from his stepfather during a hike, walked out of a dense Tennessee forest in good condition on Tuesday.Austin Bohanan, 18, described how he was lost and survived after he was stranded alone in the expansive Great Smoky Mountains National Park."I was with my stepdad and we were hiking up in the mountains and following […]

iStock/Thinkstock(HOUSTON) --Hurricane Harvey is expected to hit Texas as a Category 3 storm -- the likes of which haven't been seen since 1999's Hurricane Bret -- when it makes landfall late Friday or early Saturday, forecasters say.The storm strengthened to a hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 80 mph on Thursday afternoon.The storm's surge could be life-threatening, up to 10 feet, with waves as high as 20 feet on top […]

Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images(CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.) -- So-called antifa protesters and counterprotesters have drawn considerable attention of late, after the deadly violence this month at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.“Antifa” is short for anti-fascist, or someone opposed to fascism, which the Oxford English Dictionary defines as “an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization.”Many people who protest against President Trump consider him to be […]

U.S. Navy(NEW YORK) -- The U.S. Navy has identified the nine missing sailors from the USS John S. McCain, as search and rescue efforts were suspended.The McCain sailor who died in the collision has been identified as Electronic Technician 3rd Class Kenneth Aaron Smith, 22, of New Jersey. Divers recovered his remains inside the ship's flooded compartments.Crews from Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Australia spent more than 80 hours looking for […]

Ingram Publishing/Thinkstock(CAPE COD, Mass.) -- Two recent great white shark sightings off Cape Cod in Massachusetts have prompted a local official to propose a controversial public safety measure.A great white shark on Monday was caught on camera attacking a seal near swimmers at Nauset Beach. And just two days later, a paddleboarder had a close encounter with a great white at another beach fewer than 13 miles away from the […]