Year: 2017

MarcBruxelle/iStock/Thinkstock(PHILADELPHIA) -- Five Jewish headstones were knocked over in a Philadelphia cemetery this week, the second time Jewish graves have been vandalized in the city this year, police said.No arrests have been made in either case, the Philadelphia Police Department said, adding that they consider this week's incident to be a random act of vandalism, not anti-Semitism.A groundskeeper at Adath Jushurun Cemetery -- a predominately Jewish cemetery -- found five […]

Obtained by ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Chelsea Manning was released from military prison Wednesday after seven years of incarceration at the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, a free woman after President Obama commuted her sentence three days before he left office. Her imprisonment was longer than any whistleblower in U.S. history.An Army spokesperson confirms that Chelsea Manning left Fort Leavenworth's disciplinary barracks at 2 a.m. central time Wednesday.In […]

WPVI-TV(LANCASTER, Pa.) — Police near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, are searching for a driver who authorities say caused a school bus to crash Wednesday morning, sending 15 students and the bus driver to the hospital.Police said a driver in a sedan hit the back of an escort vehicle in East Lampeter Township. The escort vehicle was then pushed into another lane, side-swiping the school bus.The collision tipped the bus on to its […]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW ORLEANS) -- Masked city workers in New Orleans dismantled a massive horseback statue of Confederate Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard early Wednesday as the city attempts to rid itself of public works that celebrate the memory of the Confederacy, officials said.The statue -- which honors the man who led a Confederate army in the attack that launched the Civil War -- is the third of four Confederate-era monuments vowed to take […]