WMTW/ABC News(BANGOR, Maine) -- Lauri Quimby was told her son wouldn't survive.Charlie, 19, was shot in the right temple with a pellet gun by a friend, said police in Skowhegan, a town of about 8,000 about an hour from Bangor, Maine.Doctors deemed a surgery to remove a metal fragment from Charlie's skull too dangerous."When I asked if if he'd make it," she said, "they both shook their heads no."A local […]
WABC(NEW YORK) -- Police are searching for information after a tire mysteriously crashed into a car on a New York highway, killing a 60-year-old man, authorities said.The victim, David Dorazio, was driving on Sunrise Highway in West Babylon on Long Island Thursday afternoon when the tire struck his car, Suffolk County Police said.The tire then hit a second car, a 2000 Chevrolet SUV, driven by 61-year-old Mary DiFranco, police said.Dorazio, […]
KATU/ABC News(PORTLAND, Oregon) -- While campaigning in her district, the cops were called on a black lawmaker as she was meeting voters door to door.Rep. Janelle Bynum represents the 51st District in the Oregon House of Representatives, which encompasses Clackamas County, where she was canvassing a neighborhood when the police were called Tuesday. The Democrat was 1.5 miles away from her own home at the time, she said.Bynum told ABC […]
ABC News(LANCASTER, Penn.) -- The 27-year-old Lancaster, Pennsylvania, man shot in the back with a Taser as he sat on the curb said the incident wasn't racially motivated -- it was caused by incompetence."I don't believe it was driven by race. It was driven by the fact of the matter that the police were not doing their job right," Sean Williams told Good Morning America. "At the end of the […]
iStock/Thinkstock(DALLAS) -- After a midflight love connection went viral, a mystery couple gave everyone a glimmer of hope for a happy ending."I walked on a plane just ready to get home and ended up sitting next to a lovely girl and had such a great time with on the flight," Euan Holden, who has since been identified, said. “If there's a message going out, it's that there's still hope."His adventure […]
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Severe storms on Wednesday that stretched from Colorado to New Jersey dumped a record rainfall on Houston, with some areas seeing up to 8 inches.On America's birthday, 77 damaging storms were reported, including two tornadoes -- one in Florida, another in Texas -- that did damage.Some flooding is possible on Thursday with severe storms across the Northeast, Ohio Valley, Gulf Coast and into parts of the […]
ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- The woman who scaled Lady Liberty on the Fourth of July was formally charged in federal court Thursday.Therese Okoumou, 44, of Staten Island, New York, was charged with trespassing, interference with agency functions and disorderly conduct, prosecutors said.Each charge carries a maximum penalty of six months in prison or a fine.“As alleged in the information, the defendant staged a dangerous stunt that alarmed the public and endangered […]
Alex Wroblewski/Getty Images(ANNAPOLIS, Md.) -- It's been an emotional week for the survivors of the shooting at a newspaper office in Maryland, marked with tributes to their slain colleagues.First there was confusion over the ordering of federal flags to half staff, then they marched in the Fourth of July parade that they normally cover as reporters.Then at 2:33 p.m. this afternoon, the paper's newsroom held a moment of silence to […]
iStock/Thinkstock(DALLAS) -- A man was transported to the hospital after he was shot by a woman as he allegedly tried to steal her SUV with her two children in tow, Dallas police report.The woman was at a Shell gas station around 10:05 p.m. Wednesday with her children inside the sports utility vehicle, authorities told ABC News Thursday."An unknown suspect entered the victim's vehicle at the Shell gas station parking lot. […]
