Year: 2017

iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- President Trump’s second travel ban proposal is still being largely blocked by the courts after the latest decision was handed down Monday.The Ninth Circuit decided to uphold in large part the injunction on the second iteration of the travel ban, according to the ruling.This revised version of the executive order proposed keeping people from six majority-Muslim nations from entering the United States for 90 days while the administration […]

iStock/Thinkstock(BOSTON) -- Michelle Carter, the 20-year-old Massachusetts woman charged with involuntary manslaughter for allegedly urging her then-boyfriend to commit suicide in 2014, became "involuntarily intoxicated" from prescription drugs, a psychiatrist for the defense testified Monday.Conrad Roy was 18 when he died in July 2014 of carbon monoxide poisoning after locking himself in his truck. The prosecution claims Carter, then 17, was reckless and caused Roy’s death by telling him to […]

Police Handout (KANSAS CITY, Kan.) -- A man who spent 17 years behind bars for a crime he has always said he didn't commit is now free after a case of mistaken identity.The conviction of Richard Jones, 41, has been overturned after the Midwest Innocence Project and the University of Kansas School of Law helped uncover what is now believed to be a wrongful conviction due to eyewitness misidentification."I hope […]

Deb Wells Cassidy(MATTITUCK, N.Y.) -- One Mattituck, New York, woman’s class ring has been found in the Peconic Bay 36 years after it was lost.“We were at a party and we were in the water and it slipped off my finger and I was heartbroken,” Deb Wells Cassidy told ABC News of that fateful day in 1981. “We never found it. I thought I’d never see it again. I always […]

iStock/Thinkstock(OKLAHOMA CITY) -- Four dangerous inmates, including one in custody on a first-degree murder charge, escaped from an Oklahoma jail early this morning through the ventilation system, officials said Monday.Two of the escapees escaped from the same jail just three months earlier, the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office said.The jailbreak happened between 1 a.m. and 4 a.m. local time Monday at the Lincoln County Jail, which is about 46 miles northeast […]

iStock/Thinkstock(NORTH ROYALTON, Ohio) -- Police in Ohio are investigating the mysterious deaths of a mother and her two young adult daughters, whose bodies were all found Sunday evening.The mother, 45, and two daughters, ages 21 and 18, were all found in one bedroom at their home in North Royalton, Ohio, about 18 miles outside of Cleveland, Det. Dave Loeding of the North Royalton Police Department said at a news conference. […]

Hemera/Thinkstock(STATE COLLEGE, Pa.) -- Penn State pledge Timothy Piazza "looked like a corpse" after he was fatally injured at the Beta Theta Pi fraternity house, a detective testified Monday.Piazza, a 19-year-old sophomore and pledge at Beta Theta Pi fraternity, died on Feb. 4 after he fell down the stairs during a pledge ceremony at the house on the night of Feb. 2. Fraternity members did not call 911 until the […]

(ORLANDO, Fla.) -- Family and friends of those who were killed in a mass shooting at Pulse nightclub in Florida last year gathered at the club to mark the one-year anniversary of the country’s worst mass shooting.Forty-nine people were killed and more than 50 others were injured on June 12, 2016, when a gunman opened fire on the gay nightclub.The city of Orlando, in collaboration with Pulse, declared Monday as […]

Seth Wing(OCALA, Fla.) -- Footage was captured at a shopping center parking lot in Ocala, Florida, on Sunday when a sinkhole swallowed up a car.According to firefighters on the scene, the sinkhole was roughly 20 feet by 20 feet and just as deep.Seth Wing, who shot video of the incident at Gateway Paza, witnessed an elderly driver get out of her car just as the sinkhole opened.“She just walked out […]