Year: 2017

Sean Rayford/Getty Images(AUGUSTA, Ga.) -- Reality Leigh Winner, a 25-year-old National Security Agency contractor accused of leaking classified information about Russian hacking to the media, wrote that she wanted to "burn the White House down" in notes confiscated from her home during a raid, federal prosecutors said in court on Thursday.Winner pleaded not guilty to a charge of willful retention and transmission of national defense information in federal court in […]

Alex Schmidt/Thinkstock(JERSEY CITY, N.J.) -- A bystander, who had caught on fire when he was accidentally involved in a car crash during police pursuit of another vehicle, appeared to be kicked and dragged by officers after he escaped his burning vehicle in a cellphone video recorded by an observer.The video, obtained by ABC station WABC in New York, shows Jersey City officers approaching the man who had been actively on […]

iStock/Thinkstock(ATLANTA) -- A church bus with Alabama high schoolers on board overturned while headed to the Atlanta airport this afternoon, according to the church.One person died at the scene and another five or six people sustained critical injuries, according to the Atlanta Fire Department, which said eight additional people were in serious condition.The Mount Zion Baptist Church in Huntsville, Alabama, wrote on Facebook: "One of the buses with the student […]

iStock/Thinkstock(SCRANTON, Pa.) -- A grocery store employee in Wyoming County, Pennsylvania, shot and killed three of his co-workers early Thursday morning before killing himself, the Pennsylvania State Police said.The gunman, 24-year-old Randy Robert Stair of Dallas, Pennsylvania, had been working inside a Weis Market near Scranton since 11 p.m. Wednesday. At about 12:50 a.m. Thursday, he pulled two shotguns from a duffel bag and fatally shot three co-workers, police said.Stair […]

Parker Simpson(NEW YORK) -- A tense and bloody moment played out in the waters off the Florida Keys on Sunday when a man was attacked by a shark while spearfishing.Parker Simpson told Storyful that the 8-foot reef shark “came out of nowhere,” initially moving toward his friend before heading in his direction.The shark bit both of Simpson’s diving fins before sinking its teeth into his leg.According to Simpson, he lost […]

iStock/Thinkstock(PITTSBURGH, Pa.) -- The city of Pittsburgh is showing off a popular and rather large premature baby for the very first time.A baby elephant at the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium made its long-awaited debut Tuesday morning. ABC affiliate WTAE says she weighed in 52 pounds below the median birth weight since she was born early.WTAE says her mother, Seeni, was rescued along with three other elephants from Botswana in […]