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ABCNews.com(HOWELL, Mich) -- A hot air balloon pilot will live to fly another day after surviving a terrifying crash. At about 8 a.m. Sunday during the Michigan Challenge Balloonfest in Howell, Michigan, the hot air balloon, flying over Thompson Lake, struck power lines, causing a fiery explosion, according to event organizers and ABC Detroit affiliate WXYZ-TV. The pilot, flying solo, escaped uninjured, the completion director said in a statement, which […]

Alaska State Troopers (ANCHORAGE, AK) -- A deaf hiker who fell down a snowy Alaskan mountain last week found an unlikely rescuer and friend. Amelia Milling, 21, was four miles into her hike through the Crow Pass Trail in Chugach State Park, nearly 30 miles outside of Anchorage, when her trekking poles broke and she fell nearly 300 feet down a snow-covered portion of the mountain. Milling hit a large […]

Joe Raedle/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Department of Homeland Security employees are seeing violent threats with greater frequency because of the president's immigration policy, according to an official with knowledge of a recent threat assessment. The department determined that there was a "heightened threat against DHS employees" in response to recent government actions surrounding immigration, according to a letter sent to employees over the weekend. "This assessment is based on specific and […]

ABCNews.com(PITTSBURGH) -- Michelle Kenney and Antwon Rose Sr. did something Sunday they never thought they would ever have to do: Go to a funeral home for the wake of their 17-year-old son, Antwon Rose II. But before getting in a car and driving to the Tunie Funeral Home in Homestead, Pennsylvania, the grieving mother and father had much to say about their child and the police officer who shot him […]

ABCNews.com(DETROIT) -- Two people died Sunday near Detroit Coleman A. Young International Airport when a Cessna 210 crashed and exploded. The third person on board, the pilot, appeared to have escaped the wreckage with help from witnesses, according to ABC Detroit affiliate WXYZ. The pilot had reported having a problem with the plane's landing gear and was low on fuel short before the accident, according to a statement from the […]

iStock/Thinkstock(SAN DIEGO) -- Two San Diego police officers were shot late Saturday and hospitalized responding to an incident they first thought may be an apartment fire.The suspect who allegedly shot the two officers was pronounced dead at the scene. His identity is not yet known.One officer was last reported in stable condition and the other was in serious but stable condition, police said.When police first arrived on scene, they observed […]

iStock/Thinkstock(OTERO COUNTY, New Mexico) -- A pilot "involved in a mishap" at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico died on Friday, the Navy said.Lt. Christopher Carey Short, from Canandaigua, New York, died in a crash involving the A-29 he was piloting, the Navy said in a statement on Saturday.He was on a mission over the Red Rio Bombing Range, which is part of White Sands Missile Range, north of […]

iStock/Thinkstock(MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota) -- Officers on Saturday shot and killed a suspect in Minneapolis who allegedly was firing a gun into the air and into the ground while walking down the street.Minneapolis Police Department personnel responded after an anonymous 911 caller at 5:26 p.m. local time told authorities a man was walking around firing a handgun, police said in a statement, adding: "That caller provided a very detailed description of the […]

Consolidated News Pictures/Getty Images(MANASSAS, Va.) -- Twenty-five years ago to the day, the name Lorena Bobbitt became notorious: on June 23, 1993, the young wife cut off her husband's penis with a kitchen knife.Here's a look back at the key moments from the sensational case that transfixed America.The infamous assaultLorena Bobbitt, a 24-year-old Ecuadorian immigrant, claimed the knife attack occurred minutes after her husband, John Wayne Bobbitt, drunkenly returned to […]