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iStock(SAN FRANCISCO) -- Hundreds of thousands of Californians are left in the dark after their electricity was turned off in an effort to reduce the risk of wildfires.Why does cutting the power help? Are there better solutions? Here's what you need to know: Weather and powerThe power was preemptively cut to a wide swath of Northern California Wednesday and Thursday as high winds, which contribute to blazes, moved into the […]

iStock(WILMETTE, Ill.) -- A beloved crossing guard just got the sweetest 80th birthday surprise.Alec Childress was surprised by 100 kids, parents, family and church members on Thursday at the intersection where he's served as a crossing guard in Wilmette, Illinois, for 14 years.The village even presented Childress with an honorary street sign which read, "Alec's Corner.""It's a joy that words cannot explain," Childress told Good Morning America moments after the […]

iStock(CHICAGO) -- Amid chemotherapy, radiation and a 26-hour long surgery to fight cancerous tumors, 12-year-old Johnny Martin only wanted to talk about one thing."He would talk about [corgis] to everyone," Michelle Boyer, Johnny’s mother, told Good Morning America.The seventh-grader from Joliet, Illinois, just outside of Chicago, wanted nothing more than a corgi to call his own.In June 2018, Johnny was diagnosed with desmoplastic small round cell tumors. After suffering a […]

iStock(PANAMA CITY, Fla.) -- One year ago on Thursday, Hurricane Michael became the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the United States since 1992 and the second strongest to ever hit the Gulf Coast.The Category 5 storm killed at least 59 people in the U.S., damaged thousands of homes and structures and left over a million homes without power as it made landfall near Mexico Beach and Panama City, Florida, […]

DNY59/iStock(CLEARWATER, Fla.) -- A white Florida man found guilty of manslaughter in the 2018 killing of an unarmed African-American father he shot in a dispute over a handicap parking space was sentenced on Thursday to serve 20 years in prison.Michael Drejka, 48, learned his fate after Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge Joseph Bulone heard from family members of the victim, Markeis McGlockton, 28, including his parents and the mother of his four […]

Greensboro Police Dept.(GREENSBORO, N.C.) -- An Amber Alert has been issued for a 3-year-old girl who was reported abducted in North Carolina Wednesday, allegedly taken by a woman in her 20s, authorities said.Ahlora Ashanti Sample Lindiment was reported abducted at 6:33 p.m. Wednesday from the Phillips Avenue area in Greensboro, the Greensboro Police Department said. The 3-year-old was taken from a playground, reported ABC Raleigh station WTVD-TV. Police said they […]