Drew Angerer/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Movie mogul Harvey Weinstein Tuesday pleaded not guilty to rape and criminal sex act charges in a New York City courtroom.Weinstein, 66, wearing dark jeans, a blazer and white shirt, answered "not guilty" in a soft voice when asked how he pleaded to the indictment by a Manhattan grand jury last week.Weinstein was accompanied by defense attorney Benjamin Brafman and was surrounded by court officers […]
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A hoax call to police was reported Tuesday morning at the Florida home of Parkland activist David Hogg, county officials said.Someone called authorities at 8:39 a.m. claiming there was a barricaded person at Hogg's Parkland home, according to the Broward County Sheriff's Office.SWAT officers responded and found no one home, the sheriff's office said.Such hoax calls -- also known as "swatting" -- are intended to bring […]
ABC News(PHOENIX) -- A man is now linked to the killings of six people over several days in Arizona, police said Monday, and it appears the victims were connected to the suspect's divorce.Dwight Lamon Jones, 56, died early Monday at an Extended Stay America hotel after a police standoff, officials said. Jones, who allegedly fired at officers, was gassed, and a robot was sent inside, where he later was found […]
WISN-TV(MILWAUKEE) -- Newly-released video of the arrest of Milwaukee Bucks player Sterling Brown shows law enforcement officers stepping on Brown’s ankle while he’s on ground, talking about getting overtime and acknowledging that the incident could spark a potential backlash.In new video of the incident taken by an officer's body-cam after the basketball player was taken away in an ambulance and obtained by ABC affiliate WISN-TV, officers can be heard expressing […]
USGS via Zuma Press(PAHOA, Hawaii) -- A river of lava fed by the erupting Kilauea volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii and its many fissures was moving faster and hotter than ever before as authorities raced to find people who defied evacuation orders and are now surrounded by the bubbling magma.A lava river a half-mile wide from one of the biggest fissures, fissure No. 8, was moving at a […]
WCW via ABCNews.com (SPRINGFIELD, Mass.) -- Officials said Monday the three victims who were found dead at a home in Springfield, Massachusetts, last week were all women.They were identified as: Ernestine Ryans, 47, of Springfield; America Lyden, 34, of Springfield; and Kayla Escalante, 27, of Ludlow, Massachusetts. Their cause of death was not immediately clear.The women's families are "distraught and heartbroken," Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni said at a news […]
iStock/Thinkstock(INDIANAPOLIS) -- A 13-year-old girl was shot seven times in the face, neck, chest and hand at her Indiana middle school last month, her family said Monday.Ella Whistler was in science class at Noblesville West Middle School on May 25 when a classmate allegedly walked in with two handguns and opened fire, authorities said. The teacher, Jason Seaman, immediately tackled the gunman, according to officials. Both Ella and Seaman were […]
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- The Supreme Court ruled on Monday in favor of a Colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple because it violated his religious beliefs.In the opinion issued by Justice Anthony Kennedy, the court disagreed with a Colorado court's previous ruling that the gay couple, Charlie Craig and Dave Mullins, had been discriminated against based on sexual orientation. The court ruled in favor of […]
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- At least five people were wounded, including a pregnant woman whose baby was delivered by emergency cesarean section, when a moped-riding gunman opened fire on a crowded football field in Dallas and people fired back, police said.The shooting erupted about 9:20 p.m. Sunday on a football field near the Cotton Bowl in southeast Dallas, police said. A large crowd was on hand for what had been a […]
