(NYPD) Jeanine Cammarata, 37, a substitute teacher and mother of three, has been missing on Staten Island since Saturday, March 30, 2019. (NEW YORK) — A body discovered Thursday morning at a New York City storage facility is being investigated in connection with a public school teacher who went missing on Saturday, police said. The …
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Apr 04
Search expands for American tourist kidnapped in Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park
benedek/iStock(KAMPALA, Uganda) — Ugandan authorities on Thursday continued a desperate search for American tourist Kimberly Sue Endicott and her safari guide who were allegedly abducted at the country’s most popular national park by gunmen demanding ransom. A public information officer for the Uganda Police Force told ABC News that police have “widened the search area” …
Apr 04
19-year-old arrested in killing of Philadelphia police chief inspector’s son: Officials
(Philadelphia Police Department) Tyquan Atkinson is seen here in an undated mug shot. (PHILADELPHIA) — A teenager was arrested Wednesday in the killing of the 20-year-old son of the Philadelphia police’s chief internal affairs inspector, according to authorities. Tyquan Atkinson, 19, faces charges including murder and conspiracy for the Saturday night shooting of Nicholas Flacco. …
Apr 04
Short story vending machines rolled out in London’s Canary Wharf
Alex Segre / Contributor/Getty Images(LONDON) — Commuters in one of London’s most important financial centers will now be treated to a dose of literature on their way to work, as three Short Story Dispensers were installed on Thursday, the first of their kind in the U.K. In their first day, the Short Story Dispensers are …
Apr 04
What you need to know about the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Stephen F. Somerstein/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Over a half-century ago, Martin Luther King Jr. traveled to Memphis to support and bring attention to a strike by more than 1,300 city sanitation workers, but the journey to Tennessee would cost him his life. Fifty-one years have passed since one of the nation’s most harrowing episodes unfolded, …
Apr 04
More than 1,000 bodies discovered in Belarus mass grave a dark reminder of Holocaust
SERGEI GAPON/AFP/Getty Images(BREST, Belarus) — The city of Brest, on the Belarusian side of its border with Poland, has kept a terrible secret in its city’s historic district for almost 80 years: a mass grave containing more than 1,000 bodies. The prime real estate inside the old city of Brest was once a Jewish ghetto, …
Apr 04
Damaging winds, large hail threaten Deep South
ABC News(NEW YORK) — A storm system that moved in from the west brought baseball-size hail to parts of Texas and Oklahoma on Wednesday. The storm system will move east into the Mississippi River Valley on Thursday with severe weather stretching from New Orleans to Jackson, Miss., and into Shreveport, La., and eastern Texas. The …
Apr 04
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg tells ABC News he’s ‘confident’ about 2020 election
(Peter Dasilva/ABC)(MENLO PARK, Calif.) — Just over a year after the Cambridge Analytica scandal threw Facebook at the center of a global controversy, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told George Stephanopoulos he was proud of the progress the company has made in combating the spread of misinformation and major privacy breaches. He defended the company’s actions …
Apr 03
Actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin face judge in massive ‘Varsity Blues’ college entrance scam
YinYang/iStock(BOSTON) — Hollywood actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin made their first formal appearances Wednesday in Boston federal court along with ten other parents charged in the massive college entrance scandal in which prosecutors say they allegedly lied and bribed to get their children into elite schools across the country. While there was no red …
Apr 03
One dead in single vehicle crash near the James River
The South Dakota Department of Public Safety says a 28 year old man died in a single-vehicle crash that occurred two miles northeast of Mitchell. A 2008 Chrysler Town and County Van was eastbound on 250th Street when the vehicle eventually entered the south ditch, went through a barbed wire fence and into the James …
