iStock/Thinkstock(PORTLAND, Ore.) -- The mother of a stabbing victim was able to meet the hero who saved her son's life on Sunday.Margie Fletcher's 21-year-old son, Micah Fletcher, is still in the hospital after being injured in a stabbing rampage that left two other men dead on a Portland, Oregon, train on May 26.Marcus Knipe, an Iraq War veteran, acted quickly when he saw Micah stumbling on the train station platform."He […]
Courtesy Hayes Family(STRATFORD, Wisc.) -- For decades, trumpet player Elmer Hayes has been honoring fallen service members with taps.Hayes, 91, knows the 24-note soundtrack well. The Korean War veteran from Stratford, Wisconsin, has been playing taps on Memorial Day since 1956.When he started playing the trumpet at 10 years old, he seemed to display a natural talent.And when Hayes entered high school, a teacher asked him for a favor: to […]
iStock/Thinkstock(ELM GROVE, Wisc.) -- Three people were injured while watching a Memorial Day parade in Wisconsin after show ponies broke loose from their handlers and ran into the crowd, police said.The ponies, which were pulling a wooden carriage with their owners on board, were likely startled by firework "snaps" and tennis balls that may have been thrown into the parade route by children, according to the Elm Grove Police Department.Although […]
Mohammed Elshamy/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A Navy SEAL who died during a parachute demonstration on Sunday was honored at the Memorial Day service held at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City.The Navy SEAL's parachute failed to open properly during a jump that was part of a Fleet Week event at Liberty State Park in Jersey City, New Jersey. He landed in the Hudson River […]
Courtesy Jennifer Tilson (GRANITE CITY, Ill.) -- A 19-year-old U.S. Army soldier was reunited with his family thanks to a good Samaritan who paid for him to travel home.Keaton Tilson returned to Granite City, Illinois, for the first time since Christmas after Josh Rainey of St. Louis, Missouri, shelled out the $350 for his plane ticket."I needed to personally and publicly thank him," mom Jennifer Tilson said of Rainey. "You […]
iStock/Thinkstock(JACKSON, Miss.) -- Investigators have yet to determine what triggered a 35-year-old man to allegedly kill a sheriff's deputy and seven other people in a shooting rampage in rural Mississippi over Memorial Day weekend.The suspect, Willie Corey Godbolt, was apprehended Sunday after the shootings, which took place overnight Saturday. The preliminary investigation indicates that Godbolt was either related to or an acquaintance of the victims, police said.Godbolt remains hospitalized at […]
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Across the country, bouts of severe weather are having a big impact on Americans marking Memorial Day weekend.A man and a woman died and another woman is still missing after their car was swept away by flood waters in Branson, Missouri, over the weekend, a spokesperson for the city said Sunday.Up to 5 inches of rain fell, flooding roads and neighborhoods in the popular family vacation […]
Gene Mace Jr./Storyful(NEW YORK) -- A newly-released video depicts the harrowing moment a great white shark confronts a kayaker in California's Monterey Bay.The shark knocked the kayaker into the water during the terrifying encounter, which took place this March. The victim can be seen flailing in the water as the shark swims nearby. Gene Mace Jr., who filmed the incident, can be heard in the video asking his wife to […]
Multnomah County Sheriffs Office(PORTLAND, Ore.) -- A young woman who was targeted with suspected hate speech in Oregon Friday before her attacker allegedly went on a deadly stabbing rampage asked for privacy and time to heal from the traumatic event.Destinee Mangum, 16, and a 17-year-old friend who was wearing a hijab, were riding a light-rail train in Portland, Oregon, Friday evening when Joseph Christian, 35, allegedly began to yell racial […]
