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ABC News(DAVIE, Fla.) -- A missing woman is believed to have died after she was bitten by an alligator, according to Florida wildlife officials.The woman had been walking two dogs at the Silver Lakes Rotary Nature Park in Davie, Florida, a witness told authorities. Two dogs were found on the scene, and one of the dogs was injured, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said in a statement.FWC Pubic […]

ABC News(PASCO COUNTY, Fla.) -- Police in Florida proved that there’s no monkeying around when it comes to stolen cars.Deputies from the Pasco County Sheriff's Office pulled over 23-year-old Florida resident Cody Hession on Friday after he drove a vehicle he allegedly stole into a ditch, authorities said.The deputies were not expecting to have to also take Hession's pet Capachin monkey into custody when they made the arrest, according to […]

ABC News(CHICAGO) -- The Chicago man whom police killed Wednesday was shot in the back, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner.The shooting had already become the subject of a police oversight agency probe after the death of Maurice Granton during what authorities described as a narcotics investigation on Chicago’s South Side.Granton, 24, fled on foot, prompting officers to chase him, police said in a statement Thursday.The officers told Granton […]

iStock/Thinkstock(ZACATECAS, Mexic) -- It's hard for his mother to believe that 16 years to the day after she arrived with her firstborn son in the United States, he would be killed in the country they had both left behind.Manuel Antonio Cano Pacheco, 19, was kidnapped and killed May 18 in Zacatecas, Mexico, his mother said. Just weeks before, on April 24, he had been escorted by officers from U.S. Immigration […]

ABC News(LONG ISLAND, N.Y.) -- Three people believed to be teenagers were ejected and killed when the stolen SUV they were traveling in overturned and crashed on Long Island on Friday, police said.The driver of the 2005 Chevy Trailblazer was speeding and driving erratically, witnesses said. The car overturned several times on the Meadowbrook State Parkway just before noon, the New York State Police said.Ten people were in the SUV […]

ABC News(HACKENSACK, N.J.) -- A New Jersey man who heeded his wife's instructions to return a bottle of orange juice is now a multi-millionaire after he bought the winning ticket for the $315.3 million Powerball jackpot during the transaction.On May 1, the day of the drawing, 56-year-old Little Ferry resident Tayeb Souami had purchased orange juice for $5 at a ShopRite in Hackensack, but his wife told him to return […]

Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images(KAYSERSBERG, France) -- Award-winning chef, writer and television personality Anthony Bourdain has died in an apparent suicide. He was 61.Bourdain was found dead on Friday morning in his room at a luxury hotel in the tiny village of Kaysersberg in the Alsace region of northeast France. He appeared to have hanged himself, according to Christian de Rocquigny du Fayel, the prosecutor of Colmar in Alsace region, southeast of […]

ABC News(MIAMI) --   The woman who pleaded guilty to kidnapping a baby from a Florida hospital hours after she was born was sentenced Friday to 18 years in prison.Gloria Williams posed as a nurse and stole Kamiyah Mobley from a Jacksonville hospital in July 1998 before giving the child a different name, Alexis Manigo, and raising her as her own in South Carolina.Williams, who was arrested in 2017, entered guilty […]

@Bourdain/Twitter(NEW YORK) -- The sudden death of renowned chef Anthony Bourdain is spurring reflection on the accomplishments that catapulted him to stardom. But aside from his successful books and TV shows, Bourdain recently gained attention as an outspoken advocate of the #MeToo movement, with his vocal support of dozens of women -- including his own girlfriend, actress Asia Argento -- who accused disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault or […]