Year: 2017

kaarsten/iStock/Thinkstock(FLINT, Mich.) -- The director of the Bishop International Airport in Flint, Michigan, believes a maintenance worker saved the life of the airport police officer who was stabbed in the neck during an attack Wednesday that is being investigated as an act of terrorism.The maintenance worker, who was not identified, jumped in and helped restrain the attacker, who allegedly assaulted airport police officer Lt. Jeff Neville outside the airport's TSA […]

Xinhua/Lu Rui via Getty Images(CINCINNATI) -- Otto Warmbier, an American college student who died just days after North Korea released him from prison while he was in a coma, was mourned at his funeral in his hometown of Cincinnati on Thursday.The funeral service began at 9 a.m. ET at Wyoming High School in Wyoming, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati, where Warmbier was the salutatorian of his 2013 graduating class. The […]

iStock/Thinkstock(FLINT, Mich.) -- The airport police officer who was stabbed in the neck at Bishop International Airport in Flint, Michigan, on Wednesday morning, was able to stop the assault within a minute and "never stopped fighting" until the attacker was in handcuffs, officials said.The suspect, Amor Ftouhi of Canada, is in custody and the police officer, Lt. Jeff Neville, was listed in stable condition Wednesday and is expected to fully […]

ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Tropical Storm Cindy made landfall in southwestern Louisiana near the Texas border early Thursday morning, bringing the threat of strong winds, rain and potentially-dangerous floods to several Southern states.The National Weather Service has warned that the storm could cause "life-threatening flash flooding."A tropical storm warning is in effect from High Island, Texas, to Morgan City, Louisiana. But ABC News meteorologists said this warning is likely to […]

Auburn Massachusetts Police Department(AUBURN, Mass.) -- A dog in distress was rescued from a hot car in Auburn, Massachusetts on Wednesday.The Auburn Police Department responded to a call about a dog in a vehicle at the Auburn Plaza shopping center.Police and Animal Control Officer Aimee Contois arrived on the scene and successfully removed the heavily-panting dog from the car in which temperatures had reached 120 degrees, officials said."Thankfully it all […]

ABC News(NEW YORK) -- The New Mexico State Police chief is pleading with author Forrest Fenn to call off a treasure hunt he created that authorities say has resulted in the death of two people."I want Mr. Fenn to retrieve the treasure or call off the hunt," Pete Kassetas, the chief of the New Mexico State Police, told ABC News. "It's solely based in the interest of public safety."Kassetas said […]

iStock/Thinkstock(FLINT, Mich.) -- Authorities are investigating the stabbing of an airport police officer at Bishop International Airport in Flint, Michigan, on Wednesday morning, as an act of terrorism, David Gelios of the FBI said Wednesday.The police officer, Lt. Jeff Neville, was stabbed in the neck, and is in stable condition and expected to fully recover, officials said.The suspect, who was taken into custody after the incident, was identified as Amor […]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- The family of Eric Garner -- the New York man who died after he was placed in a chokehold by an NYPD officer -- said they were "frustrated" by the lack of resolution in the federal investigation into Garner's death, which remains ongoing nearly three years later."Once again, we’re gonna be playing the waiting game," Garner's mother, Gwen Carr, said in a press conference Wednesday afternoon after […]