ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Flash flooding, dust storms and even a tornado were reported Monday in Arizona.This stormy weather had to do with a combination of remnant moisture from Tropical Storm Lorena and a storm system in the Southwest.Some areas in Arizona got up to 3 inches of rain creating areas of flash flooding.There was also a small and weak tornado reported just north of Phoenix. The last time there […]
ABC News, The Sentencing Project(NEW YORK) -- The renewed interest in criminal justice reform is having an impact in a real way, experts say.A recent report shows that 39 states had decreases in their prison populations from 2009 to 2017, but there is still concern that those overhauls can be undone quickly.In addition to the decreases in 39 states, the total U.S. prison population also decreased by 7.3 percent since […]
iStock(NEW YORK) -- A submarine in the Pacific Ocean was found with over 12,000 pounds of cocaine worth over $165 million dollars, officials said.The vessel was intercepted by officials with the U.S. Coast Guard, who arrested four suspected drug smugglers, the Coast Guard said in a statement announcing the apprehension.Crew members aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Valiant, along with members of the Coast Guard Pacific Tactical Law Enforcement Team, launched […]
VEX Collective/iStock(NEW YORK) -- The newest class of New York City firefighters includes a group following tracks laid by their parents 18 years ago.Of the 301 probationary firefighters who graduated Tuesday from the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) training academy, 13 are children of firefighters who died at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. Six are sons of firefighters or police officers who died of 9/11-related illnesses."They […]
U.S. Navy(NORFOLK, Va.) -- The deaths by suicide of three sailors serving aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush last week have led the ship's commanding officer to urge his crew to come together and help shipmates in need.The three unrelated deaths by suicide occurred while the ship has been in dry dock at its homeport of Norfolk, Va., undergoing scheduled long-term maintenance since earlier this year. None of […]
rypson/iStock(NEWTON, Conn.) -- The seventh anniversary of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School is two and a half months away, but there is a different date that caused heartbreak for one mother.Nicole Hockley's six-year-old son Dylan was one of the 20 children killed in the 2012 shooting, and she has worked as an advocate for gun violence prevention ever since.Hockley posted an emotional tribute on Twitter on Monday, telling […]
WABC-TV(NEW YORK) -- Cellphone video captured a harrowing rescue on Monday, showing bystanders who scrambled to rescue a young girl when her father jumped in front of a moving train while holding her in his arms.The video showed commuters as they jumped into action on Monday morning when a 45-year-old man jumped to his death from a subway platform in the Bronx while holding his daughter.The 5-year-old girl miraculously landed […]
Kuzma/iStock(DALLAS) -- The trial of a white former Dallas police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man when she mistook his apartment for her own got underway Monday with a prosecutor telling a jury the officer fired first without making any effort to de-escalate the situation and a defense attorney countering that the exhausted officer made "innocent mistakes" that led her to fear for her life.In a case that […]
Dallas Police Department(DALLAS) -- Dallas police are searching for a man who shot a transgender woman several times over the weekend while yelling anti-LGBTQ slurs at her.The 35-year-old woman was shot late Friday night in an attack that police are investigating as a hate crime, according to the Dallas Police Department.Investigators said the gunman pulled up alongside the woman at around 11 p.m., shouted "a number of slurs regarding her […]
