Year: 2017

Courtesy Piazza Family(NEW YORK) -- It is "excruciatingly difficult" for the family of Penn State pledge Timothy Piazza, who died after a fall at a fraternity house earlier this year, to sit in court, listening to the alleged details of fraternity members' actions after their son was hurt, said the Piazza family attorney."In Jim Piazza’s words, 'There wasn’t a moment today that I couldn’t stop thinking about my son Tim,'" […]

NYPD(NEW YORK) -- A New York Police Department officer and mother of three is being remembered at a funeral Tuesday morning, six days after she was gunned down while in a marked police command vehicle.Officer Miosotis Familia, 48 and a 12-year veteran, "died a patriot," New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said at the service Tuesday."She was killed solely because she wore a uniform," he said. "She was murdered […]

Cheri Glankler(NEW YORK) -- A lost dog is home safe and sound after surviving more than nine months in the Idaho mountains during a brutal winter. Her owners said "it's wonderful to have her home."When Mo, a 14-year old Chesapeake Bay retriever, wandered off from her owners Darwin and Cindy Cameron last September, the couple desperately searched for months but after a brutal winter, they feared the worst."The day she […]

iStock/Thinkstock(JACKSON, Miss.) -- At least 16 people were killed on Monday after a military plane crashed into a soybean field in Mississippi’s Delta region, authorities said.The plane, a Marine Corps KC-130 aircraft, crashed Monday at around 4 p.m. in Leflore County, Mississippi -- about 85 miles north of Jackson -- near Highway 82, according to authorities.Investigators told ABC’s Mississippi affiliate WLOX-TV that debris was found on both sides of the […]

Michael Watkins(ASHEVILLE, N.C.) -- A North Carolina man woke up Wednesday morning to law enforcement knocking on his door and a bear in his car.A sheriff’s deputy alerted Michael Watkins to the large, hairy and unusual passenger.“He’s like, ‘There’s a bear trapped in your car’,” Watkins told ABC affiliate WLOS-TV.The stunned car owner snapped a few photographs before the game warden arrived and ushered the bear from the scene.Damage to […]