Pacharada17/iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Almost everyone has fallen victim to an April Fools’ Day joke. But why does this tomfoolery take place every year on April 1?The origin of the holiday is a bit tricky.Some historians trace back the impish tradition to Geoffrey Chaucer's “The Canterbury Tales” in 1392. One of them, called “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale,” is a mock-heroic that emphasizes foolishness.The tale is set on “March 32,” which could […]
Pacharada17/iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Almost everyone has fallen victim to an April Fools’ Day joke. But why does this tomfoolery take place every year on April 1?The origin of the holiday is a bit tricky.Some historians trace back the impish tradition to Geoffrey Chaucer's “The Canterbury Tales” in 1392. One of them, called “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale,” is a mock-heroic that emphasizes foolishness.The tale is set on “March 32,” which could […]
ABC News(TUCSON, Ariz.) -- The remains of Isabel Celis, the 6-year-old who went missing from her Arizona home in 2012, have been found, the Tucson Police Department announced Friday.Investigators found the human remains in a rural area in Pima County, said Tucson Chief of Police Chris Magnus. A portion of those remains were then sent to an out-of-state laboratory for DNA analysis, which confirmed they were the remains of the […]
Ron Chapple Studios/Thinkstock(ATLANTA) -- Three people have been arrested in connection with the large fire that collapsed a portion of an Atlanta highway Thursday, according to fire officials.The suspects were identified as Basil Eleby, Sophia Broner and Barry Thomas, Georgia Deputy Insurance Commissioner Jay Florence to ABC News. Eleby faces a charge of criminal damage to property, while Broner and Thomas each were charged with criminal trespass. They have not […]
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas) -- Most -- if not all -- of the occupants of a bus transporting churchgoers from a retreat in Texas were wearing their seat belts at the time of the crash, according to the NTSB.While the driver and front-seat passenger were equipped with standard three-point seat belts, the rear passenger seats were equipped with lap-only belts, said NTSB Investigator-in-Charge Jennifer Morrison at a press conference Friday.Only one […]
Frederick County Sheriff's Office(THURMONT, Md.) -- A Maryland teenage girl accused of plotting a shooting at her high school was released from the hospital this morning and taken into custody, where she was served with outstanding arrest warrants, officials said.Nicole Cevario, 18, had been in the hospital since March 23, after her father told officials at Catoctin High School in Thurmont, Maryland, about a "potential threat of violence toward the […]
iStock/Thinkstock(HILLSBORO, Ore.) -- An Oregon mom is suing for negligence after an overcrowded Easter egg hunt allegedly led her to suffer serious injuries, according to court documents obtained by ABC News.Rachel Townsend of Hillsboro has filed a lawsuit against both the venue where the egg hunt took place and the event planning company that hosted the egg hunt. In the lawsuit, she claims the defendants should have known the activity […]
ABC News(GRAND CANYON, Ariz.) -- The Texas woman who spent five days stranded in the Arizona desert reunited with the first responders who saved her life.Amber VanHecke, a 24-year-old college student from Denton, Texas, was sightseeing by herself near the southern rim of the Grand Canyon when her GPS instructed her to make a wrong turn, leading her through increasingly tough terrain. Her car ran out of gas and she […]
ABC(WESTFIELD, N.J.) -- A New Jersey family that says they were scared away from their home after a series of cryptic and threatening letters from someone known as "The Watcher," has received a fourth "more derogatory and sinister" letter containing "specific threats," according to court documents.The homeowners -- who are so frightened by the letters that they have asked not to have their identities or address revealed -- said that […]
