Year: 2017

@MelinaSardar/Twitter(LOS ANGELES) -- Some residents in southern California are returning to their homes after a brief reprieve from the scorching heat.Los Angelenos spent their Labor Day weekend breathing in nasty air and staring above at a gray and jaundiced sky caused by record heat and 25 raging wildfires.According to Los Angeles Fire Department officials, 1,400 evacuees in three cities -- Los Angeles, Burbank and Glendale -- can safely reoccupy the […]

WPVI-TV(PHILADELPHIA) -- Several people were injured when a vehicle struck pedestrians gathered at a Labor Day block party in south Philadelphia on Monday, according to police. At least eight people were seriously injured, but there were no life-threatening injuries, ABC station WPVI-TV reports.  One of the injured was a 21-year-old pregnant woman who was taken to Hahnemann University Hospital, according to WPVI-TV. The driver is now in custody, police said. […]

MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images(HOUSTON) -- Officials are allowing residents who live inside the 1.5-mile evacuation zone around an Arkema chemical plant in Crosby, Texas, that was at risk of exploding last week to return home, the company announced Monday.The facility had lost power and refrigeration capabilities due to Hurricane Harvey and its aftermath, causing organic peroxides stored in nine containers at the plant to become unstable and break down as they […]

Massachusetts State Police(BOSTON) -- Police shut down a tunnel in Boston to rescue a kitten who officials said "decided to play a little hide and seek." The adorable gray kitten was spotted by drivers in the Route 90 Connector Tunnel on Sunday, according to Massachusetts State Police, and officials received multiple calls. "Thank you for all the calls and especially to the Animal Rescue League of Boston, for their quick […]

ABC News(PHILADELPHIA) -- A Temple University student whose body was found Saturday was determined to have died of the combined effects of blunt trauma and strangulation, officials said.According to ABC-owned station WPVI in Philadelphia, 22-year-old Jenna Burleigh, who had just transferred to Temple, was last seen leaving a Philadelphia bar around 2 a.m. Thursday. The Philadelphia Police Department said surveillance video showed her with a man identified as Joshua Hupperterz, […]

Photo Courtesy of Matt Mika(WASHINGTON) -- The lobbyist who was shot multiple times earlier this year when a gunman opened fire at lawmakers practicing for a charity baseball game spoke out, recounting the harrowing scene of the shooting when, he says, "Time stopped, it just stopped.""I could see his eyes and the gun, but that was it," Matt Mika, 38, said in an exclusive interview with "Good Morning America," of […]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- For Enrique Ramirez, the last week of August was supposed to mark a new beginning.He moved from his brick Quincy House dorm on Harvard University's campus into an apartment he shares with his sister not far from the University of Texas Law School where he plans to study immigration law. He bought his books and attended orientation.And then, Hurricane Harvey came. Ramirez and his family watched from […]