Year: 2017

iStock/Thinkstock(BILOXI, Miss.) -- Gulf Coast residents are waking up to a wet, windy -- and in some cases, powerless -- Sunday morning, but it's still not as devastating as they expected: Hurricane Nate was downgraded to a tropical storm around 4:30 a.m. ET.The storm, moving north-northeast at 23 mph with maximum winds of 70 mph, is moving farther inland over Mississippi and Alabama."Even though Nate has made landfall and will […]

Tannen Maury/EPA via ABCNews.com(CHICAGO) -- Ahead of Sunday’s Chicago Marathon, a traffic stop by the city’s police on Saturday morning near O’Hare Airport led to the arrest of a Wisconsin man who allegedly had a pressure cooker in his trunk and a pistol and an AR-15 rifle in his possession, according to police.At around 8 a.m. on Saturday, units assigned to the airport pulled over a speeding car that was […]

iStock/Thinkstock(BILOXI, Miss.) -- Hurricane Nate -- which is threatening to bring a dangerous storm surge to the Gulf Coast -- made landfall near the mouth of the Mississippi River on the southeastern Louisiana coast Saturday evening and is expected to make a second landfall along the Mississippi coast overnight.Concerns about the Category 1 hurricane prompted officials in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida to declare states of emergency, order evacuations and […]

iStock/Thinkstock(CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.) -- White nationalists returned to Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday night to rally for another time at the foot of Emancipation Park's statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. Local reports said the torch-wielding protesters gathered at the statue, still covered by a black tarp, for about 20 minutes before dispersing. Alt-right leader Richard Spencer tweeted a video boasting about "Charlottesville 3.0" being a "great success," and said "we're […]

Randy Shots Lathrop(COCOA, Fla.) -- A historical canoe was unearthed by Hurricane Irma from the Indian River in Cocoa, Florida, along what locals have dubbed the state's “Space Coast” for its proximity to the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.“As soon as I saw it, I knew exactly what it was,” Randy Lathrop, who came across the canoe on the side of the road during an early-morning […]

ABC News(LAS VEGAS) -- The picture that is emerging of Steven Paddock, who has been identified as the gunman in Sunday's mass shooting in Las Vegas, is of a man that some law enforcement officials increasingly believe had severe mental illness that was likely undiagnosed, sources tell ABC News.The portrait, gleaned from interviews with hundreds of people interviewed over the past week, is that while Paddock might have been financially […]

Obtained by ABC News(LAS VEGAS) -- The family of a California man who was killed Sunday night during the mass shooting in Las Vegas is petitioning a court to freeze the gunman's assets.The gunman, identified by police as 64-year-old Stephen Paddock, opened fire on a musical festival crowd from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas on Oct. 1, killing 58 people and injuring […]