USGS via Zuma Press(PAHOA, Hawaii) -- A river of lava fed by the erupting Kilauea volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii and its many fissures was moving faster and hotter than ever before as authorities raced to find people who defied evacuation orders and are now surrounded by the bubbling magma.A lava river a half-mile wide from one of the biggest fissures, fissure No. 8, was moving at a […]
WCW via ABCNews.com (SPRINGFIELD, Mass.) -- Officials said Monday the three victims who were found dead at a home in Springfield, Massachusetts, last week were all women.They were identified as: Ernestine Ryans, 47, of Springfield; America Lyden, 34, of Springfield; and Kayla Escalante, 27, of Ludlow, Massachusetts. Their cause of death was not immediately clear.The women's families are "distraught and heartbroken," Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni said at a news […]
iStock/Thinkstock(INDIANAPOLIS) -- A 13-year-old girl was shot seven times in the face, neck, chest and hand at her Indiana middle school last month, her family said Monday.Ella Whistler was in science class at Noblesville West Middle School on May 25 when a classmate allegedly walked in with two handguns and opened fire, authorities said. The teacher, Jason Seaman, immediately tackled the gunman, according to officials. Both Ella and Seaman were […]
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- The Supreme Court ruled on Monday in favor of a Colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple because it violated his religious beliefs.In the opinion issued by Justice Anthony Kennedy, the court disagreed with a Colorado court's previous ruling that the gay couple, Charlie Craig and Dave Mullins, had been discriminated against based on sexual orientation. The court ruled in favor of […]
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- At least five people were wounded, including a pregnant woman whose baby was delivered by emergency cesarean section, when a moped-riding gunman opened fire on a crowded football field in Dallas and people fired back, police said.The shooting erupted about 9:20 p.m. Sunday on a football field near the Cotton Bowl in southeast Dallas, police said. A large crowd was on hand for what had been a […]
MNPDNashville/Twitter(NASHVILLE) -- A manhunt is underway to track down a fired gym employee who allegedly killed a co-worker with a hatchet, Metro Nashville Police Department officials said.Authorities said that Domenic Micheli, 36, showed up at his former Balance Training gym workplace Monday morning with a hatchet and allegedly stabbed his former supervisor -- who has been identified by Nashville police officials as 46-year-old Joel Paavola.Nashville police issued a tweet reporting […]
Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Some remnants of the Confederacy have been removed from prominent U.S. cities and locations to great fanfare, like the removal of the Confederate flag from the South Carolina statehouse grounds after the Charleston church mass shooting in 2015.In other cases, as in Baltimore, city officials last year removed several confederate monuments in the dead of night.All told, according to a new report from the […]
Scott Olson/Getty Images(EL PASO, Texas) -- A hail storm shattered an American Airlines plane's windshield and caused damage to its nose on Sunday, forcing the plane to divert to El Paso, Texas.The plane landed safely despite the damage, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). No one was injured.The flight had taken off from San Antonio, Texas, at 6:57 p.m. local time before being forced to divert to El Paso […]
ABC News(PARKLAND, Fla.) -- While most of his peers will be having fun soaking in their final summer before college, David Hogg will be traveling across the country to call for change, lobbying Washington, D.C. in an effort to protect students from mass shootings like the one he survived this year.After the deadly shooting at Marjory Stoneman High School in Parkland, Florida, where 17 students and staff teachers were killed, […]
