Year: 2017

ABC(WESTFIELD, N.J.) -- A New Jersey family that says they were scared away from their home after a series of cryptic and threatening letters from someone known as "The Watcher," has received a fourth "more derogatory and sinister" letter containing "specific threats," according to court documents.The homeowners -- who are so frightened by the letters that they have asked not to have their identities or address revealed -- said that […]

ABC News(CHARLESTON, S.C.) -- Convicted Charleston, South Carolina church shooter Dylann Roof will plead guilty to state murder charges instead of going through a second trial, solicitor Scarlett Wilson said.Wilson told ABC News Friday morning that a plea has been reached in Roof's state case, but said she will not release details about the plea agreement until the court hearing, which is set for April 10 at 1 p.m.Roof, 22, […]

iStock/Thinkstock(PORTLAND, Ore.) -- A giant boulder stretching nearly 12 feet high and weighing about 200 tons was totally blocking an Oregon highway until it was removed Friday, thanks to some dynamite.According to ABC affiliate KATU-TV in Portland, Oregon, several huge rocks fell onto and alongside Highway 138E in southwestern Oregon overnight Thursday. One particularly big boulder was blocking the scenic byway.A local company was called in to blow up the […]

ABC News(HARPURSVILLE, N.Y.) — The millions of people keeping track online of the progression of April the giraffe’s pregnancy should not wander far from the live stream Friday, according to the owner of the New York animal park where April lives.“Today is not the day to stop watching,” Animal Adventure Park owner Jordan Patch said Friday on Good Morning America. “We are there. We are close. All signs are go.”The […]

ABC News(HARPURSVILLE, N.Y.) — The millions of people keeping track online of the progression of April the giraffe’s pregnancy should not wander far from the live stream Friday, according to the owner of the New York animal park where April lives.“Today is not the day to stop watching,” Animal Adventure Park owner Jordan Patch said Friday on Good Morning America. “We are there. We are close. All signs are go.”The […]

FBI(WASHINGTON) — The FBI has released a previously unseen batch of archival photos showing the devastation at the Pentagon following the 9/11 terror attacks.The FBI uploaded 27 photos to its website's "FBI Records: The Vault" section of the horrific aftermath at the facility, located in Arlington County, Virginia.On Sept. 11, 2001, Al Qaeda terrorists crashed American Airlines flight 77 -- which had departed Dulles International Airport for Los Angeles -- […]

Kara Stewart(SHASTA LAKE, Calif.) — A 911 call log from 2003 recently released by California police reveal that the mother of Sherri Papini, the 34-year-old woman who went missing for three weeks in November after she claimed she was kidnapped while jogging, told police that her daughter was "harming herself and blaming it on [her.]"A call log from the Shasta County Sheriff's Office dated Dec. 17, 2003, indicates that Papini's […]

 WABC(CRANBURY, N.J.) — A man was fatally shot by New Jersey State Police troopers Thursday at a rest stop along the New Jersey Turnpike, ABC affiliate WABC reported.Citing the New Jersey Attorney General's Office, WABC reported that troopers shot the unidentified man around 2:45 p.m. during an investigation at the Molly Pitcher Service Area in Cranbury, located about an hour southwest of New York City.The man, who died at the […]

Kara Stewart(SHASTA LAKE, Calif.) — A 911 call log from 2003 recently released by California police reveal that the mother of Sherri Papini, the 34-year-old woman who went missing for three weeks in November after she claimed she was kidnapped while jogging, told police that her daughter was "harming herself and blaming it on [her.]"A call log from the Shasta County Sheriff's Office dated Dec. 17, 2003, indicates that Papini's […]