Year: 2017

Redheadedhornet/iStock/Thinkstock(NEW ORLEANS) -- As New Orleans began the process Thursday of removing the remaining Confederate-era monuments in the Louisiana city, officials said they are facing “intimidation, threats and violence” amid their efforts to dismantle the statues that were erected decades after the Civil War to honor the “Cult of the Lost Cause.”The city aims to take down four prominent Confederate-era monuments. The Battle of Liberty Place monument, which officials said […]

iStock/Thinkstock(TRENTON, N.J.) -- A deadly standoff in Trenton, New Jersey, has ended this evening after 35 hours.The incident began Wednesday morning in a residential neighborhood in New Jersey's capital when U.S. Marshals went to a home to attempt to serve a warrant, officials said. The suspect, 35-year-old Tyleeb Reese, who was inside, allegedly fired on the marshals. The officers backed out of the house while under fire, officials said.A bystander […]

artolympic/iStock/Thinkstock(HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif.) -- A mysterious Jane Doe case in Southern California has been solved after 27 years thanks to a fingerprint match, officials said on Thursday.Andrea Kuiper has been identified as the 26-year-old woman who was struck and killed by two cars while crossing the Pacific Coast Highway in Huntington Beach, California, on April 1, 1990, the Orange County Sheriff's Department said in a news release today.The Orange County […]

sorawat_c/iStock/Thinkstock(MURFREESBORO, Ark.) -- One lucky woman received a birthday surprise Saturday after finding a diamond during a trip to an Arkansas state park.On May 6, Victoria Brodski, of Tulsa Oklahoma, was visiting Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro with her daughter, brother and parents to celebrate her 25th birthday when she discovered the 2.65-carat gemstone."I wish I could tell you I was excited, but I didn't know it was […]

iStock/Thinkstock(FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.) -- Police have released the 911 calls depicting the moment when chaos erupted among customers at Florida’s Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on Monday after a slew of flights were cancelled.Spirit Airlines cancelled nine flights at the airport on Monday, leading to long lines, enraged travelers and altercations at the ticket counter, according to ABC News affiliate WPLG.Desmond Waul, 22, Janice Waul, 24, and Devante Garrett, 22, were […]

iStock/Thinkstock(CHARLESTON, W.Va.) -- Press freedom advocates have condemned the arrest of a journalist in West Virginia, who was apprehended as he questioned a Trump administration official at the State Capitol in Charleston on Tuesday.Police arrested veteran broadcast journalist Dan Heyman of Public News Service West Virginia on Tuesday and charged him with “willful disruption of government processes,” a misdemeanor, alleging that Heyman “was aggressively breaching the secret service agents” and […]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW ORLEANS) -- Dozens of people gathered in New Orleans on Thursday morning to witness the removal of the Jefferson Davis Memorial, the second of four Confederate-era monuments that are set to come down.The statue, erected in 1911 in honor of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, was taken down at around 6 a.m. Thursday by workers wearing masks and helmets. The area was heavily guarded by police officers, presumably to prevent […]