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MNPDNashville/Twitter(NASHVILLE) -- A manhunt is underway to track down a fired gym employee who allegedly killed a co-worker with a hatchet, Metro Nashville Police Department officials said.Authorities said that Domenic Micheli, 36, showed up at his former Balance Training gym workplace Monday morning with a hatchet and allegedly stabbed his former supervisor -- who has been identified by Nashville police officials as 46-year-old Joel Paavola.Nashville police issued a tweet reporting […]

Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Some remnants of the Confederacy have been removed from prominent U.S. cities and locations to great fanfare, like the removal of the Confederate flag from the South Carolina statehouse grounds after the Charleston church mass shooting in 2015.In other cases, as in Baltimore, city officials last year removed several confederate monuments in the dead of night.All told, according to a new report from the […]

Scott Olson/Getty Images(EL PASO, Texas) -- A hail storm shattered an American Airlines plane's windshield and caused damage to its nose on Sunday, forcing the plane to divert to El Paso, Texas.The plane landed safely despite the damage, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). No one was injured.The flight had taken off from San Antonio, Texas, at 6:57 p.m. local time before being forced to divert to El Paso […]

ABC News(PARKLAND, Fla.) -- While most of his peers will be having fun soaking in their final summer before college, David Hogg will be traveling across the country to call for change, lobbying Washington, D.C. in an effort to protect students from mass shootings like the one he survived this year.After the deadly shooting at Marjory Stoneman High School in Parkland, Florida, where 17 students and staff teachers were killed, […]

Bend Fire Department(WARM SPRINGS, Oregan) -- A motorcyclist died on Saturday after crashing into a bear in Oregon.Rhett Larson, who worked as a firefighter in Bend, Oregon, was killed when he hit the bear and fell off his motorcycle, police told Oregon ABC affiliate KATU. Larson was then stuck by an oncoming SUV on Highway 26 near Warm Springs.Larson was returning from Portland at the time of the accident, Oregon […]

ChiccoDodiFC/iStock/Thinkstock(SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.) -- As authorities in neighboring Arizona cities ramp up their investigations into the killings of a famed forensic psychiatrist and two paralegals, police have identified the victim of another fatal shooting -- which may be connected the others.Marshall Levine was found shot to death just after midnight on Saturday, according to the Scottsdale Police Department.The 72-year-old man's body was discovered by an acquaintance inside of his Scottsdale office […]

Joe Raedle/Getty Images(PARKLAND, Fla.) -- Nearly four months after a mass shooting killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the class of 2018 graduated and posthumous diplomas were presented to families of the four seniors who lost their lives.Hundreds of seniors from the high school in Parkland, Florida, were clad in sashes that read "MSD Strong" as they walked across the stage to accept their diplomas during a […]

nirat/iStock/Thinkstock(MARSHFIELD, Mass.) -- Tyler Soloman walked up to his graduation stage like the rest of the 336 fellow students to receive a diploma.But he got so much more.While handed the scrolled document, Marshfield High School Principal Robert Keuther shook Tyler's hand and then stalled him."Hold one sec," the principal can be seen in a video telling Tyler.In the foreground appeared a sight that lit up Tyler's eyes.U.S. Army Sgt. Damon […]

Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images(KAPOHO, Hawaii) -- Approximately twelve people are currently trapped in the Hawaiian town of Kapoho by lava that continues to flow from the Kilauea volcano.Hawaii State Senator Kai Kahele told ABC News that the people likely refused to evacuate the town when orders to do so were given. At least three people were airlifted out of the area early Sunday, and the others remaining will either […]