Month: August 2017

garytog/iStock/Thinkstock(CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.) -- More than 700 teachers and staff members from Charlottesville, Virginia, public schools broke into song Tuesday at a back-to-school convocation just days after protests and deadly violence shook their city.The school officials sang “Lean On Me” and held glow sticks to symbolize light coming from darkness during the convocation at the Martin Luther King Jr. Performing Arts Center at Charlottesville High School.“It was emotional,” Rachel Wilson, a […]

dreamnikon/iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- You've probably heard by now to watch out for a total solar eclipse in the United States on Aug. 21. But do you know exactly what it is and what will happen when it occurs?Here's what you need to know:What is a total solar eclipse?To truly understand a total solar eclipse, you must be familiar with the different types of eclipses.An eclipse is when one astronomical body, […]

zabelin/iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- The heads of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps have weighed in on Twitter in the wake of last weekend's violent clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia, condemning racism and standing up for military values.It is rare for the nation's top military leaders to weigh in on political events because of the Department of Defense's tradition of remaining apolitical.Adm. John Richardson, chief of naval operations, first posted […]

La_Corivo/iStock/Thinkstock(CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.) -- At a memorial service on Wednesday Heather Heyer, the woman killed Saturday when a car rammed into a crowd of counterprotesters at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Heyer's mother was met with a standing ovation as she said, "They tried to kill my child to shut her up -- well, guess what -- you just magnified her.""Although Heather was a caring, compassionate, person, so are […]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Responders are searching for five missing crewmen after receiving a report of a downed U.S. Army helicopter off the coast of Hawaii, the U.S. Coast Guard said Wednesday.The search was reported late-Tuesday night local time, about 2 miles west of Kaena Point, the westernmost tip of land on the island of Oahu.Lt. Colonel Curtis Kellogg, a spokesman for the 25th Infantry Division, said two helicopters were taking […]

Win McNamee/Getty Images(BALTIMORE) -- Four Confederate monuments were removed in Baltimore, Maryland overnight, days after Charlottesville, Virginia, became the center of a deadly clash over the planned removal of a Robert E. Lee statue.The removed statues, according to ABC's Baltimore affiliate WMAR, included the monument of Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas. J. “Stonewall” Jackson; the Confederate Women's Monument; the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument; and the monument of […]

New Mexico State Land Office(NEW YORK) -- New Mexico is tired of Texas playing dirty, and now the two states are digging in for a turf war -- over actual soil.The Lone Star State has come under fire after years of allegedly dispatching road workers across state lines to collect protected New Mexico State Trust land soil to repair a spartan two-lane dirt road across the border. The road crews […]

Facebook(CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.) -- A memorial service is set for Wednesday morning for the 32-year-old woman killed after a car rammed into a crowd of people who were counter-protesting a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday.The memorial for Heather Heyer of Charlottesville is expected to begin at 11 a.m. at Charlottesville's Paramount Theater.The Saturday crash that killed Heyer took place at a Unite the Right rally spurred by Charlottesville's […]

iStock/Thinkstock(DURHAM, N.C.) -- Deputies in North Carolina arrested a woman on Tuesday, who says she helped pull down a Confederate statue in Durham.According to ABC affiliate WTVD, Takiyah Thompson, 22, is charged with disorderly conduct by injury to a statue, damage to real property, participation in a riot with property damage in excess of $1,500 and inciting others to riot where there is property damage in excess of $1,500. North […]