Month: August 2017

National Park Service(WASHINGTON) -- The Lincoln Memorial was vandalized with bright-red graffiti early Tuesday morning at around 4.30 a.m.Officials with the National Park Service (NPS) said the red spray paint appears to state “[expletive] law” on one of the memorial’s columns overlooking the National Mall. Another instance in silver spray paint was also discovered on a Smithsonian wayfinding sign in the 1400 block of Constitution Avenue. Work to remove the […]

Theo Stroomer/Getty Images(DENVER) -- Taylor Swift was awarded exactly $1 for her victory in civil court Monday, but the award could represent much more for victims of sexual assault.After a Denver jury found that a preponderance of evidence showed that former radio DJ David Mueller had groped the pop star, Swift said in a statement that her four-year ordeal, which included a two-year-long trial process, was for "anyone who feels […]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Dramatic video shows bystanders and first responders coming to the rescue of a mother and her three young children after they were injured by a fallen tree in Central Park Tuesday morning.A large elm tree uprooted and fell on the woman, 39, as she was pushing two children, ages 4 and 2, in a stroller while carrying an infant in her arms near 62nd Street and Central […]

Philadelphia Police(PHILADELPHIA) -- Police in Philadelphia are searching for a man caught on surveillance video giving a lewd hand gesture to the camera and then urinating on the walls of a synagogue.On Sunday at about 12:30 a.m., the unknown man was seen on surveillance video approaching the front doors of the Congregation Beth Solomon, the Philadelphia Police Department said.The suspect "gave an obscene hand gesture in the direction of the […]

ABCNews.com(CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.) -- The weekend violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, underscored the re-emergence of white supremacy and nationalist groups in the United States, some experts say.Racist hate groups have been a part of U.S. history for much of the country’s existence, but their recent revival has reached a startling point, according to one expert.“Since the era of formal white supremacy -- right before the Civil Rights Act when we ended [legal] […]

ABC News(CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.) -- As of 2016, the U.S. was home to more than 700 Confederate monuments or statues on public property, according to a study by the Southern Poverty Law Center.But Confederate symbols, such as the Confederate flag and statues of leaders of the Confederacy during the Civil War, have often been the source of controversy for their perceived racial ties. As part of a groundswell calling for the […]

iStock/Thinkstock(DURHAM, N.C.) -- Protesters who pulled down a Confederate statue in North Carolina in an apparent response to violence over the weekend in neighboring Virginia may be charged with vandalism, authorities said.A video showing protesters pulling down the statue in downtown Durham, North Carolina, went viral Monday.Durham County Sheriff Mike Andrews referred to the action Tuesday as "civil disobedience that is no longer civil."“I am grateful the events that unfolded […]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- As a new school year nears for more than 50 million U.S. students, many districts worry how they will get children to school.The country has a shortage of school-bus drivers which 22 percent of private bus contractors call "severe," according to a recent survey by School Bus Fleet Magazine.Five percent of school-bus contractors are "desperate" to find drivers, the survey found."We're seeing some school districts having to […]

ABCNews.com(EUCLID, Ohio) -- A police officer in Euclid, Ohio, is on paid administrative leave as authorities continue to investigate an incident in which he was captured on cellphone video as well as dashcam footage punching a man repeatedly in the head during a traffic stop arrest.According to a Euclid Police Department media release, around 10:30 a.m. Saturday, officers stopped a 2011 silver Hyundai being driven by Richard Hubbard III because […]