Year: 2017

aijohn784/iStock/Thinkstock(SPOKANE) --  One student is dead and three others are injured after a school shooting near Spokane, Washington, police said.The shooter has been apprehended and is in custody, police said. The wounded were transported to a local hospital and are expected to survive, authorities said.Freeman Middle School and Freeman Elementary school, both located in Spokane County, have been placed on lockdown, the sheriff's office wrote on Twitter.Several deputies and officers […]

iStock/Thinkstock(HOLLYWOOD, Fla.) -- Eight people are dead after Hurricane Irma knocked out air conditioning at a nursing home in Hollywood, Florida, according to ABC affiliate WPLG-TV.While the causes of their deaths were not immediately clear, the entire facility was evacuated due to the cooling issues.Police said Wednesday morning that this may be related to the loss of power during the storm.An individual handling air conditioning for the facility told WPLG-TV […]

Sarasota County Sheriff's Office(OCALA, Fla.) -- Authorities are searching for an elderly couple in Florida who disappeared while evacuating from Hurricane Irma over the weekend.Florida residents Milan and Lucille Yezic were last seen Saturday night at approximately 7:30 p.m. ET at a gas station near Interstate 75 in Ocala. At the time, the 89-year-old husband and 86-year-old wife were headed to Pennsylvania to evacuate as Irma barreled toward their home […]

KTRK-TV(HOUSTON) -- A Houston police sergeant who died trying to get to work during Hurricane Harvey was remembered Friday morning at a funeral service.Sgt. Steve Perez, a 34-year veteran, was "bravely serving the city of Houston in the face of this unprecedented weather-related disaster when his vehicle entered high water," the Houston Police Department said.Perez, a father and husband, died two days shy of his 61st birthday, according to Houston […]

Drew Angerer/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Convicted ex-pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli said Friday that his appeal to his social media followers to “grab” Hillary Clinton’s hair was an “awkward attempt at humor or satire” and was not the threat that federal prosecutors allege.Shkreli conceded he used “poor judgment” when he offered $5,000 to anyone who could “grab a hair from her” during Clinton’s tour to promote her new book. Prosecutors said […]

ABC News(TAMPA, Fla.) -- The death toll from Hurricane Irma continued to climb Wednesday in the United States, with at least 30 dead across three states.Four people died in South Carolina and three in Georgia, officials said.In Florida, 23 people have died in connection with the storm, including a weather-related car accident in the Florida Keys and the eight people who died after Irma knocked out air conditioning at a […]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(KEY LARGO, Fla.) -- Residents of the Florida Keys are returning to a much different landscape than the one they left last week. Three days after Hurricane Irma rumbled through the region, residents are coping with the aftermath.According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, 90 percent of homes in the Florida Keys suffered some damage. As many as 25 percent of all homes in the Florida Keys were […]

Spencer Platt/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A New York City mother of three, who was injured while trying to shield her children from a falling tree in New York City's Central Park last month, plans to sue the city and the park, her attorney said Tuesday.The woman, 39-year-old Monoky Goldman, plans to file a $200 million notice of claim against the city and the Central Park Conservancy, which said the tree […]