Year: 2017

Derik Holtmann/Belleville News-Democrat/TNS via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- A list of Republican members of Congress was found in the pocket of James T. Hodgkinson, who was killed Wednesday after allegedly firing on Republican lawmakers practicing for a charity baseball event, sources told ABC News.The list contained about a dozen names, a source said. Investigators have not determined the purpose of the list and they are still trying to determine its meaning.Hodgkinson […]

Sarasota County Sheriff's Office(SARASOTA, Fla.) -- Five men are under arrest in South Florida after an attempted armed robbery was caught on video.According to the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office, on early Thursday morning, a homeowner was able to disarm an alleged robber by using a machete and hold the suspect until deputies could arrive on the scene.As seen in the haunting video, three men -- armed with a crowbar, a […]

ABCNews.com(WASHINGTON) -- Police believe the mysterious double murder of two Maryland teenagers the night before their high school graduation was not a random crime.Shadi Adi Najjar, 17, and Artem Ziberov, 18, were found shot dead the night of June 5 in a parked car on a residential street in Montgomery Village, about 23 miles north of Washington, D.C., Montgomery County police said. They were set to graduate from Northwest High […]

iStock/Thinkstock(ATLANTA) -- The couple held hostage by Georgia inmates Donnie Russell Rowe and Ricky Dubose, who were armed and on the run for over 48 hours after one of them shot and killed two correctional officers Tuesday, made a dramatic call to 911 on Thursday that led to the dangerous prisoners' capture."We’ve had an armed home invasion," the Shelbyville, Tennessee, man says in the 911 call. "They escaped from the […]

Visit Spokane(NEW YORK) -- The national day honoring dads was started by a woman who was raised by a widower. Sonora Smart Dodd’s father, William Smart, raised her and five brothers after their mother died during childbirth.While listening to a Mother’s Day sermon with her father at the Central Methodist Church in 1909, Dodd was bothered that there wasn’t a day to honor her civil war veteran father who raised […]

Jyll Justamond (LITTLETON, Colo.) -- Just in time for Father's Day, one man has come face to face with a daughter he never knew he had.Al Annunziata, 63, and Jyll Justamond, 40, embraced on June 11 in an emotional meeting that was captured on video."I'm never going to let you go, ever," Annunziata said to Justamond in the footage. "This is my beautiful daughter."Justamond of Littleton, Colorado, told ABC News […]

Brian Doben/NBC News(NEW YORK) -- Controversial radio host Alex Jones released what he said is secretly-recorded audio of phone conversations with Megyn Kelly in an apparent attempt to discredit an upcoming broadcast of her interview with him as a “fraud” and a “hit piece.”The InfoWars site host known for spouting provocative conspiracy theories, including that the 9/11 terror attacks involved the U.S. government, and questioning whether the massacre at Sandy […]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Michelle Carter, a 20-year-old who was accused of urging her then-boyfriend to commit suicide three years ago, has been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter by a Massachusetts judge.Carter broke down crying in court, putting her head in her hands, before Judge Lawrence Moniz announced the verdict.Conrad Roy was 18 when he died in July 2014 of carbon monoxide poisoning after locking himself in his truck.The prosecution claimed […]