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Handout / USGS/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images(PAHOA, Hawaii) -- Aerial footage of Hawaii's Big Island shows the extent of the damage from the Kilauea volcano's latest explosion.Before and after photos reveal a vast amount of land near Kapoho Bay now covered in lava.About 500 homes were in the direct path of the lava, and hundreds of homes in the Kapoho Beach Lots and Vacationland communities were destroyed, the County of Hawaii Civil […]

@ColbertLateShow/Twitter (NEW YORK) -- Former President Bill Clinton said his recent interview with NBC's Today Show addressing the Monica Lewinsky scandal wasn't his "finest hour" in a conversation with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday.Clinton was asked in the interview Monday if he would deliver a direct apology to Lewinsky, which he declined, saying he had publicly apologized in 1998. Clinton had an affair with then-White House intern Lewinsky while he was […]

iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. Secret Service arrested a government contractor on an outstanding attempted murder warrant issued in Maryland when he showed up for work at a White House checkpoint on Tuesday, according to authorities.The suspect, Martese Edwards, worked as a contractor for the National Security Council out of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, according to an NSC official. The Eisenhower Executive Office Building is located next to the White […]

ABC News(NEW YORK) -- The woman who was captured on video being repeatedly punched by a police officer on a Jersey Shore beach over the Memorial Day weekend is still grappling with the emotional "trauma," she said Wednesday."Now that this happened, it's a trauma," Emily Weinman, 20, said in an interview on ABC News’ Good Morning America with co-anchor Amy Robach. "It's going to take me a while to look […]

MNPDNashville/Twitter(NASHEVILLE) -- The man police say murdered his ex-boss with a hatchet at a gym in Tennessee has been arrested after over 24 hours on the run, according to Nashville police.Domenic Micheli, 36, who was an employee at The Balance Training gym, walked into the facility on Monday morning and stabbed his former supervisor with a hatchet, Metro Nashville Police Department said.Micheli was on the run since the attack, but […]

ABCNews.com(NOTTOWAY COUNTY, Va.) -- Virginia State Police were involved in an unusual police chase Tuesday evening as a stolen military vehicle sped down Interstate 95 at 40 mph.Police received word of the stolen vehicle Tuesday evening around 8 p.m. local time, and began pursuing the armored personnel vehicle down a highway, according to Corinne N. Geller, public relations director for the Virginia State Police.The vehicle was stolen by a soldier […]

iStock/Thinkstock(NOBLESVILLE, Indiana) -- The 13-year-old who allegedly shot a classmate and teacher at Noblesville West Middle School in Indiana on May 25 will not be charged as an adult, according to the Hamilton County prosecuting attorney."As a Prosecuting Attorney," D. Lee Buckingham II said in a statement, "I do not make the laws applicable to criminal or juvenile cases. My office works diligently to seek justice and enforce the laws […]

ABC News(EL PASO, Texas) -- A mother and son separated more than eight months ago by immigration officials at the U.S.-Mexico border were reunited at an El Paso, Texas, airport on Tuesday.Jocelyn, a 31-year-old immigrant from Brazil who asked that her last name not be used, and her 14-year-old son, James, crossed the border near El Paso illegally in August to seek asylum, she told ABC News last week.Jocelyn smiled […]

KTRK(HOUSTON) -- A 9-month-old girl has died after she was left in a scorching hot car near Houston on Monday, officials said.The baby "was apparently left unattended for an extended period of time" in Baytown, Texas, about 30 miles east of Houston, the Harris County Sheriff's Office said.Deputies found the baby unresponsive in a parked car at a mobile home park around 2 p.m., ABC station KTRK in Houston said.The […]