Photo by Tara Ziemba/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Television personality Montel Williams is recovering in a New York City hospital where he was taken after feeling unwell during a workout. His spokesperson, Jonathan Franks, tweeted a statement on Friday, explaining that the 61-year-old former talk show host, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, "overdid it" at the gym and was taken to the hospital "out of an abundance of caution." The "exercise […]
Erik McGregor/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- On the first day of “Wear Orange Weekend,” the National Rifle Association and gun control advocates traded barbs on Twitter. Wear Orange Weekend is an initiative started by Everytown for Gun Safety, an organization launched in 2014 by former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg to lobby for more stringent gun control. Supporters were encouraged to wear orange starting all weekend starting on […]
STXfilms(LOS ANGELES) -- The following movies open nationwide on Friday: * Adrift -- Shailene Woodley stars in this action adventure drama based on the true story of Tami Oldham Ashcraft, who found herself in a race against time to save her fiancé Richard Sharp -- played by The Hunger Games' Sam Claflin -- who was badly injured after a massive hurricane left their boat in ruins. Rated PG-13. * Action Point -- This comedy features Jackass star Johnny Knoxville as the owner of Action Point, a minimum […]
La Porte Police Department(HOUSTON) -- Newly released dashcam footage shows Texas police officers snatching an apparently distraught woman from the edge of a 180-foot bridge as she sat precariously with her legs dangling over the Houston Ship Channel. “Ma’am. Come talk to me, ma’am,” one of the La Porte, Texas, officers said to the woman as the three officers gingerly approached her Monday night on the Fred Hartman Bridge. “You’re […]
ABCNews.com(NEW YORK) -- Daniel Liu has aspirations to one day go to Harvard or the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Until then, he will spend lots of time in a University of Toledo laboratory -- where he has studied since he was 11. He is now 12. An assistant professor of chemistry at the university who is part of Daniel's research team said he was skeptical at first that an 11-year-old […]
Mario Tama/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The number of deaths in Puerto Rico spiked dramatically toward the end of 2017, according to data released Friday by the island's Demographic Registry, bolstering claims of an undercount of fatalities related to Hurricane Maria. The figures show that there was an increase of 1,397 deaths on the island during the September through December 2017 compared to the same period the year before. Hurricane Maria made […]
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Vermont is more than the place that provides the nation with delicious maple syrup, Ben and Jerry's ice cream and independent Sen. Bernie Sanders. Now, it's the state that will pay you up to $10,000 in moving and business expenses to move there. On May 30, Vermont Gov. Phil Scott signed a bill committing his state to paying people to pack their bags, move to his state […]
iStock/Thinkstock(LOS ANGELES) -- An alleged car thief suspected of driving under the influence led police on an odd, slow-speed car chase through the surface streets of Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley, according to ABC Los Angeles station KABC-TV. The chase began Thursday around 10:15 p.m. in Reseda and ended over an hour later in Los Angeles, KABC reported. It took four spike strips and nine different pit maneuvers […]
iStock/Thinkstock(MIAMI) -- An airport worker suffered minor injuries Friday, after his van plunged off the fourth floor of an airport parking lot, crashing into the roadway below. According to the Miami-Dade Police Department, the American Airlines employee, an adult male in his mid-50s whose identity has not been revealed, was behind the wheel of a company van when he drove through a wall in the employee parking garage. The van […]
