National

iStock/Thinkstock(BOSTON) -- A Massachusetts mother posted a now-viral photo online of a kindergarten classroom poster explaining lockdown procedures through a rhyme.Somerville resident Georgy Cohen, 38, was touring a kindergarten room before her 5-year-old daughter starts school in the fall, she told The Boston Globe, when a colorful poster caught her eye.It read: "Lockdown, lockdown, Lock the door. Shut the lights off, Say no more. Go behind the desk and hide, […]

Mesa Police Dept.(MESA, Arizona) -- Two more Mesa, Arizona, police officers have been placed on administrative leave following the release of bodycam footage showing a violent arrest.Video released on Thursday that showed a 15-year-old suspect being taken into custody included officers kicking the teen and screaming expletive-laced insults at him."On May 17, 2018, officers were investigating an armed robbery and located a 15-year-old suspect, who was arrested and subsequently charged […]

Palm Beach Sheriff(PALM BEACH, Fla.) -- Authorities are still trying to identify a newborn girl who was found dead in the ocean off the Florida coast earlier this month.An off-duty firefighter was boating on June 1 when he spotted the little body floating on the ocean side of the Boynton Beach Inlet, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said.The newborn -- dubbed "Baby June" by the sheriff's office -- was […]

iStock/Thinkstock(DALLAS) -- The mother of “affluenza teen” Ethan Couch was sent back to jail on Thursday after a Texas judge issued an arrest warrant indicating she tested positive for drugs, ABC affiliate WFAA reported. Tonya Couch, who is facing charges of money laundering and hindering apprehension, violated the terms of her pre-trial release when she tested positive for amphetamine/methamphetamine earlier this week, the station reported, citing court documents.Tonya Couch allegedly […]

Brett Taylor/Thinkstock(INDIANAPOLIS) -- An Indiana orchestra teacher claims his former school forced him to resign after he refused to refer to a transgender student by their preferred name.Brownsburg High School has a policy that mandates teachers call transgender students by their preferred name, in place of their birth name.John Kluge, who taught at the high school for four years, disagreed with the rule and said he instead wanted to refer […]

Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Award-winning chef, writer and television personality Anthony Bourdain has died in an apparent suicide, according to CNN. He was 61. CNN confirmed his death in a statement Friday."It is with extraordinary sadness we can confirm the death of our friend and colleague, Anthony Bourdain," the network said. "His love of great adventure, new friends, fine food and drink and the remarkable stories of the world […]

ABC News(ALBANY, N.Y.) -- New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is offering free legal help to a pizza delivery man who was detained by immigration authorities when he tried to deliver an order to a military base in Brooklyn.Cuomo is offering to pay for Pablo Villavicencio's legal fees through the Legal Defense Project."Detaining a hardworking man, separating a father from his children and tearing apart communities doesn't make America safe, and […]

Released by US Attorneys Office, Middle District of Florida(ORLANDO, Fla.) -- A city police officer acting as a security guard didn't do his job and more than two dozen of his colleagues failed in their duties or violated the civil rights of surviving victims after the 2016 Orlando, Florida, nightclub massacre, according to a new federal lawsuit.The gunman, Omar Mateen, was shot dead by police after killing 49 people and […]

iStock/Thinkstock(EL PASO, Texas) -- Leslie Silva had yet to reach her teens when her father, Milo Silva, was deported for the third time.Since that deportation in 2012, Leslie, who now lives with her mother, two older sisters and two nieces in El Paso, Texas, has tried to spend every weekend with Milo, who lives in Ciudad Juarez in Mexico.“When I was little I didn’t know what was going on and […]