Fedorovekb/iStock(CRYSTAL LAKE, Ill.) — JoAnn Cunningham, the mother of missing 5-year-old Andrew “AJ” Freund, is being “uncooperative” with investigators as the frantic search for the Illinois boy reaches a fifth day, Crystal Lake police said on Monday. AJ was last seen the night of April 17. Police say there’s no indication he was abducted. The …
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Apr 22
How to practice food sustainability and cut waste on Earth Day
James Beard Foundation(NEW YORK) — Attention foodies, home cooks and eaters: Chefs have long practiced incredibly smart ways to fight food waste, and you can implement their top tips, recipes and other ways to practice a sustainable relationship with food in your own kitchen. For Earth Day ABC News’ Good Morning America spoke to leaders …
Apr 22
Happy Earth Day: How to dress up more sustainably, now and forever
thredUp(NEW YORK) — We live in a world where “fast fashion” is supreme and retailers are creating clothing at the drop of a dime. But is it time to slow down? Multiple reports suggest that in addition to oil, fashion is the next largest industry to pollute the world. However, that might change as awareness …
Apr 22
Sri Lanka bombings: 290 dead, hundreds injured in church, hotel explosions on Easter Sunday
Stringer/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — At least 290 people were killed and hundreds more injured on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka when attackers unleashed an apparently coordinated series of suicide bombings that simultaneously targeted Christian churches and luxury hotels, sending a wave a terror across the globe. Eight explosions took place miles apart, three at Christian …
Apr 22
New storm system takes aim at Texas, Great Lakes
ABC News(NEW YORK) — A complex storm system is moving from the Rockies into the central U.S., stretching from the Midwest into the southern Plains, threatening Texas and the Great Lakes with what could be a very wet week. Over the next three days, severe weather will slowly cross most of Texas, parts of which …
Apr 21
Video shows woman caught in door, dragged onto train tracks in San Francisco
KGO-TV(SAN FRANCISCO) — Officials in San Francisco are promising a full investigation after a frightening video was released showing a woman getting her finger caught in a closing train door and dragged onto the tracks under the train. In the surveillance video, the woman can be seen walking down the stairs at the city’s Embarcadero …
Apr 21
Transit worker stabbed on subway platform in New York City following random altercation
Google Maps Street View(NEW YORK) — A New York City transit worker is recovering after he was stabbed on a subway platform on Easter Sunday following an altercation. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority conductor was sitting on a bench at the southbound platform for No. 2, 4 and 5 trains at 149th Street and Grand Concourse …
Apr 21
Comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy wins Ukrainian presidential election: Exit poll
Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images(KIEV, Ukraine) — Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a comedian with no political experience who plays the president on TV, has won Ukraine’s presidential election in a landslide, according to a national exit poll. The poll showed Zelenskiy receiving 73 percent of the vote, sweeping away Ukraine’s incumbent president, Petro Poroshenko, who conceded defeat on Sunday. …
Apr 21
Leader of armed militia that held migrants arrested on weapons charges
Sherry Smith/iStock(SUNLAND PARK, N.M.) — The leader of a militia operating along the southern border has been arrested by the FBI days after the armed group detained over 200 migrants who had just illegally crossed into New Mexico. Larry Mitchell Hopkins, 69, of Flora Vista, New Mexico, was arrested Saturday on charges of being a …
Apr 21
California authorities searching for suspect after LAPD officer shot during traffic stop
KABC-TV(LOS ANGELES) — An LAPD officer was shot and injured while exchanging gunfire with a suspect in South Los Angeles Saturday night. The officer, a gang officer in the Newton area, was conducting a traffic stop near Long Beach Avenue and 52nd Street when the driver got out and fled, according to the LAPD. The …