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ABC News (PARKLAND, Fla.) -- Joaquin Oliver was one of the 17 students and faculty murdered on Valentine's Day at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, when a former student allegedly opened fire with an AR-15-style rifle.On Sunday, his fellow seniors will walk across The BB&T Center stage to accept their diplomas.But Joaquin and three other seniors gunned down -- Nicholas Dworet, Meadow Pollack, and Carmen Schentrup -- […]

Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Deafening chants of "We want Bobby!" filled the stifling Embassy Room of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles around midnight on June 5, 1968, as New York Sen. Robert Francis Kennedy weaved his way across a jam-packed stage.When he finally reached the microphones, they weren't working."Can we get something that works?" the senator shouted to his aides in a Boston Brahmin accent that reminded […]

ABC News (SANFORD, Maine) -- A woman in Maine has been charged with manslaughter after she hit a man while driving out of control onto a baseball field during a little league game Friday evening.Carol Sharrow, of Sanford, Maine, allegedly blew through a gate and drove onto the field at Goodall Park, sending players and bystanders scattering for safety, police said. The woman turned around right in the middle of […]

KTRK(CLEVELAND, Texas) -- Most toddlers are learning how to write or count. Thankfully, one Texas 3-year-old learned how to call 911.Dorothy Craig, of Cleveland, Texas, may very well have saved her mother's life -- or her siblings' lives -- on Wednesday when she collapsed and fell unconscious on the floor, according to Houston ABC station KTRK.That's when Dorothy, not even old enough to go to school, sprang into action. The […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) -- Already rain-soaked states in the mid-Atlantic are looking at another dose of downpours to end the weekend.Tropical moisture is working up from the South on Sunday and colliding with a stalled low-pressure system across southern Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware and Virginia. Heavy rains and even scattered thunderstorms are expected to continue through Sunday night in the region.With the ground already saturated from prior periods of rain, […]

Athens-Clarke County Police Department(ATHENS, Ga.) -- The Athens-Clarke County Police Department has fired one of its officers after an investigation showed he intentionally ran down and hit a fleeing suspect with his police cruiser.Officer Taylor Saulters, who was driving the car, was initially suspended, but he was fired by the police department on Saturday."After reviewing the officers’ body camera footage, and all the other facts and circumstances of this case, […]

KMGH(DENVER) -- An FBI agent got himself into an embarrassing situation on Saturday when his service weapon fell out of its holster while dancing at a Denver club and he accidentally shot a fellow patron while retrieving it.Denver police responded to Mile High Spirits Distillery and Tasting Bar for an accidental shooting at about 12:45 a.m. on Saturday. According to police, an off-duty FBI agent was dancing at the club […]

andrew_t/iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- A small plane with four people on board crashed off the coast of New York's Long Island on Saturday.According to the U.S. Coast Guard, a Piper PA31 Navajo aircraft crashed about one mile off the coast of Indian Wells Beach. One person from the aircraft was recovered, while the three others were still missing hours later.The Federal Aviation Administration said they will investigate and the National Transportation […]

haveseen/iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Two climbers were killed while climbing on El Capitan at Yosemite National Park on Saturday, the National Park Service says.According to a press release, the pair fell while on the rock formation's Freeblast Route. The incident happened shortly after 8 a.m. local time. Park rangers responded to multiple 9-1-1 calls about the fall. When the climbers were located, they were deceased.The climbers were later identified as Jason […]