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ABC News(NEW YORK) -- As a tropical system developing in the Atlantic threatens the hard-hit Bahamas, the Midwest is recovering from -- and facing more -- severe weather.Over 78,000 customers lost power in Michigan overnight as the powerful rain and winds toppled trees and downed power lines.Wednesday was also the second night of heavy rain for the Sioux Falls, South Dakota, area.In Sioux Falls, South Dakota's largest city, at least […]

Michael Hannegan Jr.(BOWIE, Md.) -- A plane’s pilot and passenger were seen standing in the median of a highway in Bowie, Maryland, on Thursday after surviving a crash shortly before noon.“I'm blessed that we're not hurt. I'm still overloaded and we're still running on adrenaline so we're doing okay,” pilot Julius Tolson, 58, told ABC News Washington D.C. affiliate WJLA-TV.As the plane went down, its wing slammed into the roof […]

Twitter/@VCFD_PIO(SANTA BARBARA, Calif.) -- In a preliminary report on the Southern California blaze that erupted on an anchored dive boat and killed 34 people, federal investigators revealed that surviving crew members told them there were no known mechanical or electrical issues with the vessel and smoke detectors sounded in the below-deck bunkroom where the victims were sleeping.The National Transportation Safety Board released the preliminary report on Thursday, a day after […]

Courtesy Josephine Kirk-Taylor(HOUSTON) -- Police said they arrested a man who was seen speeding past a school bus last month and nearly running over a young girl.Julio Coreas, 18, was arrested and charged with reckless driving -- a Class B misdemeanor -- on Wednesday, exactly two weeks after video surfaced of him zooming down a residential street and narrowly missing 5-year-old Melina Kirk-Taylor as she exited the school bus, police […]

amphotora/iStock(PHILADELPHIA) -- Philadelphia's acting police commissioner apologized this week after images surfaced of a racially insensitive T-shirt she wore in the 1990s, prompting calls for her resignation.Christine Coulter ignited uproar when a 25-year-old photo showed her donning a white T-shirt with the words, "L.A.P.D. We Treat You Like a King," written in black. The shirt appeared to make reference to the brutal Los Angeles police beating of Rodney King in […]

Tuscon Police Department via Facebook(TUCSON, Ariz.) -- Authorities in Arizona say they've captured a fugitive husband and wife couple who've been the subject of an intensive manhunt since escaping custody more than two weeks ago.Blane Barksdale and his wife Susan, both wanted for murder, escaped custody last month by overpowering a transport team that was taking them from upstate New York to Pima County, Arizona. The couple's capture came just […]

Evgen_Prozhyrko/iStock(LOS ANGELES) -- A Los Angeles deputy city attorney allegedly shot and killed his wife and 19-year-old son in their home on Wednesday before dying by suicide, police said.Eric Lertzman, 60, first killed his wife, Sandra, in the master bedroom of their Northridge home, according to Los Angeles police, and then walked across the hall where he attempted to shoot a woman who escaped and locked herself in the hallway […]

Wolterk/iStock(KNOXVILLE, Tenn.) -- A young boy who went viral for his homemade University of Tennessee T-shirt has been offered a four year scholarship to the school."In recognition of the fourth-grader’s Volunteer spirit, the university has extended an offer of admission for him to join the Class of 2032," the university announced in a press release on Thursday. "In addition, he has been awarded a four-year scholarship covering his tuition and […]

iStock(NORWALK, Conn.) -- Fotis Dulos, the estranged husband of missing Connecticut mom Jennifer Dulos, pleaded not guilty Thursday to a new charge that he tampered with evidence in the case."Mr. Dulos is not guilty," his attorney, Norm Pattis, told reporters after the court appearance in Norwalk. "We've got three words to the state: Bring it on."Fotis Dulos was first arrested in June on charges of tampering with or fabricating physical […]