National

WCVB-TV(BOSTON) -- Dozens of endangered North Atlantic Right whales were seen feeding off the coast of Massachusetts over the past few days.The massive ocean mammals were seen swimming at the surface of the Atlantic Ocean near Marshfield -- a town about 30 miles southeast of Boston -- in chopper video captured by ABC Boston affiliate WCVB-TV over the weekend.The Marshfield Police Department's harbormaster and the U.S Coast Guard patrolled the […]

Jason Davis/Getty Images(NASHVILLE, Tenn.) -- In an emotional ceremony Tuesday at the Tennessee Capitol, lawmakers gave James Shaw Jr., the man who stopped the deadly attack a Waffle House in a Nashville suburb, a standing ovation for his bravery."You were confronted with the most unspeakable evil imaginable and you acted with the utmost honor, heroism, imaginable," state Rep. Jason Powell told Shaw. "And I want to say, James Shaw Jr., […]

Monroe County BOCC/Facebook(MONROE COUNTY, Fla.) When Jen Shockley Brack saw a baby deer running for its life, she jumped into the flames to save the endangered Key deer fawn.“I wasn’t scared. I saw his big eyes and he was so scared and trembling, I just had to get him,” Shockley Brack told ABC News.The Monroe County Fire Rescue firefighter saw the young spotted fawn while responding to the Big Pine […]

Amy Beth Bennett-Pool/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Florida Judge Elizabeth Scherer has found Nikolas Cruz to be indigent and the 19-year-old will keep his public defender, the State Attorney’s Office told ABC News today. Cruz is accused of fatally shooting 17 students and staff of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on Feb. 14. This is a breaking news story. Please check back for updates. Copyright © 2018, ABC […]

iStock/Thinkstock(ADRIAN, Mich.) -- Birdies on the golf course are usually a good thing. Just not when that bird is a very angry goose.At a high school golf tournament in Adrian, Michigan, a Blissfield High School foursome had teed off and was walking down a fairway where a goose was sitting on an egg in a nest off to the side. There was a sign warning them of the goose and […]

Metro Nashville Police Department(NASHVILLE, Tenn.) -- The suspected gunman in the Waffle House shooting near Nashville, Tennessee, that left four people dead was captured Monday afternoon in a wooded area less than two miles from where he allegedly committed the massacre, authorities said.Travis Reinking was taken into custody at 1:07 p.m., about an hour after police officials said they had received no credible sightings of the suspect since Sunday morning. […]

ABCNews.com(JERSEY CITY, N.J.) -- A dead baby girl found in a suitcase in April has been identified as a missing two-year-old girl from Virginia.A Port Authority employee completing a routine inspection midday April 11 found the child's remains in a suitcase near train tracks in Jersey City, just a few miles away from lower Manhattan, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said previously.The child was identified as Te'Myah Plummer, according to […]

ABCNews.com(MINNEAPOLIS) -- United States Customs and Border Protection is not the apple of Crystal Tadlock's eye.Tadlock told Fox affiliate KDVR she was on a Delta flight back from Paris headed to Minneapolis when flight attendants passed out free apples in plastic bags. She said she took one despite not being hungry, and instead saved it for later on her connecting flight to Denver."I wasn't hungry at the time so I […]

Michael Bryant-Pool/Getty Images(NORRISTOWN, Pa.) -- The defense team in Bill Cosby’s sexual assault retrial in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, rested its case on Monday, paving the way for key closing arguments Tuesday.“You now have all the evidence," Judge Steven T. O’Neill told the 12 primary and six alternate jurors, before advising they “rest up” in anticipation of closing arguments.Seven men and five women, two African-Americans among them, will likely begin deliberations […]