Year: 2017

Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images(ATLANTA) -- A suspect is dead and all hostages have escaped without injury after a standoff at a Wells Fargo bank in Marietta, Georgia, near Atlanta, police said.The hostages -- who were at least two employees -- escaped the bank on their own, police said, and during the extraction of hostages, contact was made with the suspect, who was still inside.The suspect died after a three-hour negotiation, police […]

iStock/Thinkstock(PHILADELPHIA) -- Family and friends of the 18-year-old killed in an alleged road rage shooting in Pennsylvania gathered to mourn her death on Friday.The funeral for Bianca Roberson was attended by more than 300 people, ABC Philadelphia station WPVI-TV reported, and her brother, Rodney Roberson Jr., spoke about her.Wreaths of purple and white flowers adorned the church, which was also decorated with photos of Roberson. She was killed on June […]

Milwaukee Police Department(MILWAUKEE) -- A Milwaukee police officer jumped into a lagoon Wednesday to save a dog that was struggling to stay afloat.Two officers were helping kids at McGovern Park untangle their fishing gear from the weeds in the lagoon when they heard a splash, the Milwaukee Police Department wrote on Facebook.When the officers looked to see where the splash came from, they saw movement in the water below a […]

iStock/Thinkstock(ATLANTA) -- A woman accused of murdering four of her young children and their father appeared in a Georgia court Friday morning, smiling and posing for cameras.Isabel Martinez, 33, made her first court appearance before Gwinnett County Magistrate Judge Michael Thorpe a day after police said she stabbed family members at a residence in Loganville, a small town some 35 miles east of Atlanta. One child, a 9-year-old girl, survived […]

Sam Eichenwald/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images(DALLAS) -- One year after five law enforcement officers were gunned down by a sniper in Dallas -- the deadliest day for United States law enforcement since 9/11 -- the city is still grieving, according to former Dallas Police Chief David Brown.On the night of July 7, 2016, 25-year-old Micah Johnson opened fire on officers during a peaceful demonstration against police brutality in Dallas.As chaos erupted, demonstrators […]

Teton County Sheriff's Office(JACKSON, Wyo.) -- Efforts are being scaled back in the search for a 21-year-old man who has been missing since he fell out of a raft along a Wyoming river on the Fourth of July, officials said.Oliver Woodward was in a group of six people rafting Tuesday when he and another rafter fell overboard while traveling through rapids known as “Kings Wave" in the Snake River Canyon, […]

TheaDesign/iStock/Thinkstock(FORT WAYNE, Ind.) -- Streets have reopened in downtown Fort Wayne in northeast Indiana after authorities responded to reports of a shooting this morning, police said.Police initially told residents to avoid the area near the 800 block of East Berry Street."The blockade is due to a SWAT call out for shots fired in the area," the police said on Twitter."There is NO active shooter," the police added. The blockade is […]

SeventhDayPhotogrpahy/iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- A professional marathon runner was forced to put his training to the test against two of nature's top predators.Moninda Marube was about six miles into his morning run in Maine when two black bears emerged from the woods.The professional runner decided to make a run for it."I was not going to fight them," Marube told ABC News.The marathon champion sprinted to an empty house nearby and slipped […]

TomasSereda/iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- The FBI and Department of Homeland Security have sent a warning to operators of the nation's power plants -- nuclear and otherwise -- that hackers are targeting such facilities, following a series of hacks that have targeted that critical sector since May.Administration officials tell ABC News the hacks targeted corporate computers of a number of companies that run nuclear power plants, including the Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation […]