Year: 2017

DJ Mack/Instagram (SAN ANTONIO) -- Eight people were found dead and about 30 others injured inside a brutally hot semitrailer parked in a Walmart parking lot in San Antonio, Texas, in what authorities are calling "a horrific scene."One of the injured later died, officials said, bringing the death toll to nine in what police described as an apparent "human trafficking crime." Officials had first said two additional people had died, […]

South Florida Museum(BRADENTON, Fla.) -- Snooty, believed to be the world's oldest manatee and the oldest manatee in captivity, has died one day after celebrating his 69th birthday, according to officials at the South Florida Museum in Bradenton. Officials said Snooty's death was the result of a tragic accident where the manatee was able to get into an underwater area that's normally blocked off and used to access plumbing for […]

La Plata County Sheriffs Office(BELLINGHAM, Wash.) -- Nearly five years after a 13-year-old boy disappeared while on a court-ordered visit with his father in Colorado, the man has been charged with murdering his son.Mark Redwine was arrested Saturday in Bellingham, Washington, and may face a request by authorities to extradite him to Colorado where a grand jury has indicted him for second-degree murder and child abuse in the death of […]

ABCNews.com(CARSON CITY, Nev.) -- The countdown is on for O.J. Simpson's release from Nevada's Lovelock Correctional Center, which could come as early as Oct. 1.So how is the former football star's state of mind?"Mr. Simpson is on cloud nine," his lawyer, Malcolm LaVergne, told Fox News' Jeanine Pirro during an interview Saturday night. "He obviously likes the outcome ... Everything is hung from the moon at this point."A group of […]

Janet Weinstein/ABC News (NORFOLK, Va.) -- President Trump at the commissioning of the Navy's first new aircraft carrier in 40 years declared that the massive ship ensures that "if a fight does come ... we will win."The president made his remarks aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford, which was unveiled at a commissioning ceremony on Saturday in Norfolk, Virginia.The massive ship -- which displaces 100,000 tons of water and is […]