Month: August 2017

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- A missing woman thought to be dead emerged from the woods after 28 days, naked and visibly sick, but still alive. Lisa Theris was last seen on July 18 and her family feared the worst. Yet last Saturday. a woman driving down a country road outside of Union Springs, Alabama, spotted her and called police 911 dispatchers. "I just passed a road and there's a lady that, […]

KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. Navy will relieve the USS Fitzgerald's commanding officer, executive officer and senior enlisted sailor for mistakes that lead to a deadly crash with a merchant ship on June 17. Seven U.S. sailors lost their lives when the Navy destroyer collided with a Philippine flagged container ship in the middle of the night off the coast of Japan. The Navy announced Thursday that the commander […]

Ty Wright/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Echoes of the Confederacy are scattered across the U.S. in the form of hundreds of symbols that are a reminder of the nation's divided past. Last weekend's violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, where a rally by white nationalists, including neo-Nazis, skinheads and Ku Klux Klan members, over plans to remove a Robert E. Lee statue ended in the death of a counter-protester, has again put a […]

Yeung Family(SEATTLE) -- Two sisters from Seattle, Washington, are turning their family science project into the opportunity of a lifetime: working with NASA during the historic total solar eclipse. Rebecca and Kimberly Yeung are participating in NASA’s Eclipse Ballooning project in conjunction with the University of Montana on Aug. 21. Rebecca, 12, and Kimberly, 10, built their own balloon craft that they will launch from Casper, Wyoming, into the eclipse's […]

iStock/Thinkstock(BELTON, Mo.) -- The family of Kara Kopetsky, a 17-year-old who vanished 10 years ago, is finally able to lay her to rest now that her remains have been found and identified. The Belton, Missouri, police and the Kopetsky family told ABC News on Wednesday that remains found in a rural area south of Kansas City, Missouri, in April have been identified as Kopetsky. "It's been a long 10 years, […]

ABCNews.com(CHARLOTTESVILLE, N.C.) -- Hundreds of people flooded the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia on Wednesday night in a peaceful, candlelight vigil for the victims of Saturday's violence surrounding a white nationalist rally.Mourners raise candles during vigil tonight in Charlottesville before beginning chorus of "Love wins." https://t.co/aG4OxKiQPB pic.twitter.com/yJHmzwSRPT— ABC News (@ABC) August 17, 2017 Heyer, 32, was killed on Saturday afternoon when a car plowed into a group of counterprotesters who had […]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- The numbers for the $432.5 million Powerball jackpot were drawn Wednesday night -- but there was no winning ticket.The estimated jackpot has now jumped to $510 million. The numbers will be drawn Saturday night.The numbers drawn were 9, 15, 43, 60, 64. The Powerball is 4.JUST IN: The winning #Powerball numbers are 64-43-60-09-15. Powerball is 04: https://t.co/CmQUakXKqz pic.twitter.com/PGz4sq8qhC— ABC News (@ABC) August 17, 2017 The odds of […]