Year: 2017

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Alex Honnold is no longer atop El Capitan but he's still on cloud 9, after becoming the first person to ever climb to the rock's summit solo and sans safety gear or ropes."I don't know if there's anything better," he told ABC News on Tuesday.Honnold took just four hours Saturday to scale the massive, 3,000-foot wall at Yosemite National Park.He told ABC News that he'd spent about […]

Google Maps(WASHINGTON) -- Police in suburban Maryland are investigating the double murder of two teenagers who were set to graduate high school Tuesday, but were found shot dead Monday night.After Montgomery County police officers responded Monday night to a report of the sounds of shots being fired, they found the teens inside a car parked on a residential street in Montgomery Village, about 23 miles north of Washington, D.C., Montgomery […]

An arrest photo from 2010 of John Robert Neumann Jr. (Seminole County Sheriff's Office)(ORLANDO, Fla.) -- After a "disgruntled" ex-employee returned to his former workplace near Orlando, Florida, shooting and killing five people, the company said it is "heartbroken," calling the attack "unspeakable."The suspect, 45-year-old John Robert Neumann Jr., shot and killed himself after allegedly shooting his former co-workers at Fiamma Monday in what the sheriff described as "likely a […]

iStock/Thinkstock(AUGUSTA, Ga.) -- A contractor assigned to a federal government facility in Georgia for work requiring Top Secret security clearance was charged Monday with improperly removing classified materials related to Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, and then mailing the information to a news outlet.Reality Leigh Winner, 25, of Augusta, Georgia is accused of printing an intelligence report containing confidential information from her workplace and later sharing the materials […]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) --Reality Winner, a government contractor accused of leaking top secret National Security Agency intelligence on Russia’s alleged interference in last year’s election, was arrested on Monday, according to court documents filed in the case.Within hours of the arrest, the Department of Justice announced she had been charged with removing classified material from the government facility where she worked and mailing it to a news outlet. She could now […]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- As a deadly terrorist attack was unfolding on London Bridge and at Borough Market on Saturday night, London's Metropolitan Police tweeted to the public: run, hide, tell.ABC News contributor John Cohen, a law enforcement and homeland security expert whose roles have included counterterrorism coordinator for the Department of Homeland Security, says the "run, hide, tell" advice from London police is similar to what U.S. authorities advise the […]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- A Florida mother is under police investigation after posting a video to Facebook showing her one-year-old daughter being bitten by a Red Ratsnake, according to reports.The mother, whose identity has not been released, told ABC's Tampa affiliate WFTS on Monday that she intentionally allowed the snake to bite the infant because she thought it was “harmless.""It had bitten me and my son and didn't leave a mark, […]