Month: August 2017

ABCNews.com(OCEAN CITY, Md.) -- The mysterious death of a Texas woman whose body was found this week buried on a Maryland beach with just one arm poking through the sand has been ruled an accident, officials said.A beachgoer in Ocean City discovered the woman's body in a hole mostly covered by sand Monday morning and alerted police. The deceased was later identified as 30-year-old Ashley O'Connor of Plano, Texas, who […]

iStock/Thinkstock(MINNEAPOLIS) -- One person is dead, one is missing and seven are in the hospital after an explosion caused a school building to collapse in Minneapolis Wednesday, the Minneapolis Police Department said.The explosion set the building at Minnehaha Academy on fire and the flames were further fed by a ruptured gas line, according to police. The fire has since been put out, police said.The Minneapolis Fire Department confirmed the explosion […]

iStock/Thinkstock(ATLANTA) -- The leader of a major black law enforcement organization said he is worried that President Donald Trump's recent comments on the use of force could damage the already-fragile relationship between police and minority communities.“We are not thugs. We are professionals," Perry Tarrant, president of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives, told reporters in Atlanta on Tuesday. "We fully expect law enforcement around the country to behave […]

Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images(HYNDMAN, Pennsylvania) -- A CSX train carrying flammable liquids derailed in Hyndman, Pennsylvania, Wednesday morning, forcing residents living within 1 mile of the crash to evacuate, officials told ABC News.At least six freight cars derailed, according to Bedford County officials. No injuries were reported.The National Transportation Safety Board has dispatched six investigators to the scene, three of whom are expected to arrive Wednesday afternoon.The CSX train derailed at […]

Karina Vetrano/Instagram(NEW YORK) -- On a warm August afternoon a year ago, 30-year-old Karina Vetrano went out for a jog alone in Queens, New York. She never returned.Her father, Phil Vetrano, found her later that night just off the path the two often ran together. She had been strangled to death. Her killing dominated headlines, but it would take until February for police to arrest a suspect.For her father, the […]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- George Wray, a 73-year-old man from Queens, New York, who was burned after opening a package that exploded in his hands on Friday, succumbed to his injuries and died, according to a report from WABC-NY.The incident happened in front of a house that is rented to two families on 222nd Street in Springfield Gardens, according to WABC.Police told WABC that the mysterious package had been sitting on […]