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Joe Raedle/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Teen activist David Hogg and his younger sister Lauren Hogg rose to national fame in the aftermath of the Valentine's Day massacre at their high school in Parkland, Florida. The two survived when a gunman opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, killing 17 people with an AR-15-style weapon.In the wake of the tragedy, the siblings, along with their classmates and friends, launched the […]

WFAA(NEW YORK) -- A video of a toddler scaling a locked and covered ladder to reach an above-ground pool has now gone viral online, serving as a warning for all families.Keith Wyman posted a video on Facebook last Friday of his 2-year-old son Cody successfully climbing a covered and padlocked pool ladder. The young child is seen grabbing on to the gated ladder and lifting himself up to the top […]

ABC News(DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.) -- A pharmacy technician in Florida was arrested for the second time in three weeks for allegedly stealing bottles of prescription pills after store surveillance video appeared to show her stuffing bottles down her shirt, police said.The Volusia County Sheriff's Office said Katie Jean Williams, 28, of Daytona Beach, had been working at the Pierson Community Pharmacy for about a month when authorities said she stole […]

WLS(CHICAGO) -- First responders had already draped a sheet over a 17-year-old who was shot in the head and left for dead.But after a few minutes went by, the unidentified teen restarted breathing.They quickly lifted the sheet and worked to revive him by performing chest compressions, police said. He was then rushed to Stroger Hospital, where he was listed in very critical condition."I do understand that paramedics looked at him, […]

iStock/Thinkstoclk(BENICIA, Calif.) -- A California man is the first of hundreds of plaintiffs to see his day in court with Monsanto in a lawsuit alleging that its weed killing product Roundup gave him cancer.Jury selection began Monday in California Superior Court in DeWayne Johnson’s suit against the agrochemical giant. Johnson worked for a school district and regularly applied Roundup on campuses dozens of times a year. He was diagnosed with […]

John Moore/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Dozens of harrowing images have rippled across the country from the southern border in recent weeks, but one that has caught the attention of many shows a crying 2-year-old girl who looked on as her mother was searched by U.S. Border Patrol agents."These folks, they didn't know what was about to happen" with the policy leading to the separation of families, photographer John Moore told […]

U.S. Customs and Border Protection(NEW YORK) -- Young migrant children, fighting through tears, can be heard crying "Mami" and "Papa" in an eight-minute audio clip first obtained by ProPublica.The children are believed to be between 4 and 10 years of age, and they're crying because their parents have been detained elsewhere after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, according to an activist who provided the recording."Well, we have an orchestra here -- […]

iStock/Thinkstock(PRINCETON, Ind.) -- A freight train derailment in Indiana on Sunday caused a loud explosion and calls for mandatory evacuations in the area.The Gibson County Sheriff’s Office and emergency service personnel issued a mandatory resident evacuation within a one mile radius in Princeton, Indiana, on Sunday evening following the train derailment and explosion.According to the Gibson County Sheriff, at approximately 7:19 p.m. local time Gibson County Central Dispatch received numerous […]

ABC News (DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.) -- Amanda Bostic remembers the harrowing moments when she was tossed more than 30 feet from a roller coaster that had just derailed."I remember falling through the air and I remember hitting the ground," she said during an exclusive interview with "Good Morning America."The 34-year-old mother of two sons said she was "knocked out" from the fall. But when she she woke up, she heard […]