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Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(ANNAPOLIS, Md.) --  Veteran journalist Rob Hiaasen, one of five employees gunned down at the Capital Gazette newspaper in Maryland on Thursday, will be remembered at a "Celebration of Life" memorial Monday night. The event in Owings Mills, Maryland, is "summer casual" because "Rob would never want you to put on a suit for him," according to the Evite. Hiaasen joined the Capital Gazette in Annapolis as an […]

Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Officials are searching for a suspect who allegedly stabbed a Lyft driver in the head following a verbal altercation between the passenger and the driver in Washington, D.C. The driver got into a “verbal altercation” with the suspect while dropping him off at his destination over the weekend, according to a police report. The suspect then stabbed the driver multiple times in the head, neck and […]

ABCNews.com(NEW YORK) -- The American who was killed when a boat exploded in the Bahamas this weekend was celebrating her wedding anniversary with her husband.Maleka Jackson was killed and nine were injured when the small tour boat exploded off the coast of Exuma on Saturday.Jackson and her husband, Tyran Jackson, had booked the trip to celebrate their 15th wedding anniversary, according to Jackson's father, Malvin Grimes.Tyran Jackson was among the […]

iStock/Thinkstock(SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico) -- A federal judge has approved a temporary restraining order that allows the nearly 1,800 Puerto Rican survivors of Hurricane Maria to stay in temporary housing for another four days.Following the order, the Federal Emergency Management Agency added a fifth day of housing.The FEMA-funded Transitional Sheltering Assistance for 1,744 Maria victims was set to end at checkout time Sunday. U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin ruled that […]

Cherokee County Sheriff's Office(CANTON, Ga.) -- Police in Georgia showed up at an upscale house in Cherokee County looking for a suspected criminal on Friday only to find a completely unrelated $1.2 million marijuana grow house operation -- and a very elusive homeowner.The Cherokee County Sheriff's Office arrived at the home of Carlos Suarez-Diaz in Canton, Georgia, on a completely unrelated warrant just before noon on Friday when they stumbled […]

iStock/Thinkstock(HOUSTON, Texas) -- The world’s deadliest offshore oil disaster, the Piper Alpha explosion, happened 30 years this week. One hundred sixty-seven workers perished in the fire that followed an explosion on July 6, 1988, caused by a gas leak on the North Sea oil rig, 120 miles off the northeast coast of Scotland. The rig was owned by Occidental Petroleum Corporation, an international oil and gas exploration and production company […]

iStock/Thinkstock(ANNAPOLIS, Md.) -- Three days after a gunman opened fire in the Capital Gazette newspaper office, killing five staff, the publication in Annapolis, Maryland, thanked the community for its support in a piece printed on its Sunday opinion section.“Thank you. We will not forget,” read the headline.“Thank you for the outpouring of sympathy for the terrible tragedy that took place Thursday in our Annapolis office,” the article begins.It goes on […]

iStock/Thinkstock(BOISE) -- Nine people, including six children, were hospitalized, some with life-threatening injuries, when a man went on a stabbing spree at an apartment complex in Boise, Idaho, that is home to many refugee families, police said.A 30-year-old man, identified by police as Timmy Kinner, was arrested in connection with the attack Saturday night. The suspect's motive for attacking specific individuals is under investigation, police said."This incident is not a […]

ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A multiday heat wave that brought a heat index reading of 112 degrees to Chicago on Saturday will reach its peak in the Northeast on Sunday.Temperatures were in the 90s from Chicago to New York City on Saturday, including a high of 96 degrees in Newark, New Jersey;  95 degrees in Philadelphia; and 93 degrees in Central Park.A true signature of a heat wave is the […]