WFAA(ATHENS, Texas) — A 13-year-old middle school student is dead after a train plowed into a bus at a crossing with no warning lights or gates in a small town in east Texas. The accident happened at approximately 4 p.m. in Athens, about 70 miles southeast of Dallas, as the bus driver was taking students …
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Jan 26
9 dead, up to 300 feared missing after dam collapse in Brazil
iStock/LSP1982(MINAS GERAIS, Brazil) — At least nine people are dead and up to 300 people have been reported missing after an apparent dam collapse in Brazil, according to local firefighters. A spokesperson for firefighters in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais confirmed the rough estimate of how many people are missing in the wake of …
Jan 26
27-year-old suspected of killing 4 people is on the run in Georgia: Officials
Georgia Bureau Of Investigation(ROCKMART, Georgia) — A massive manhunt is underway for a 27-year-old man suspected of killing four people in Georgia Thursday night, authorities said. Four murder arrest warrants have been issued for Daylon Delon Gamble, who is still at large and considered armed and dangerous, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said. At about …
Jan 26
FBI arrests ‘Traveling Bandit’ wanted for allegedly robbing 7 banks in 6 states
FBI(FRUITA, Colorado) — The FBI has arrested a man who allegedly robbed seven banks in six different states in less than a month. According to a tweet from FBI Louisville, 49-year-old Jason Lee Robinson of Pikeville, Kentucky, was arrested Thursday without incident in Fruita, Colorado. Robinson was nicknamed the “Traveling Bandit” during the search. Robinson’s …
Jan 25
Brooklyn man to pocket more than $114M, winning second-largest jackpot in state lottery history
LPETTET/iStock(NEW YORK) — A Brooklyn man is nearly $300 million richer than he was a month ago after winning the Powerball drawing. David Johnson, a 56-year-old truck driver, was presented on Friday with a check for $298.3 million by the New York Lottery, making him the winner of the second-largest jackpot in the lottery’s history, …
Jan 25
Venezuelan gov’t standoff escalates, as Russia reportedly sends private military contractors to beef up Maduro’s security team
beyhanyazar/iStock(CARACAS, Venezuela) — The impasse between the government of Nicolas Maduro and the interim government of opposition leader Juan Guaido entered its third day in Venezuela — as both leaders gave defiant national addresses on Friday, and a new report suggested that private military contractors were dispatched from Russia to help beef up Maduro’s security …
Jan 25
Parents of Utah track star killed by her ex say the tragedy was preventable
(COURTESY: McClusky Family) Lauren McCluskey, a Utah track star who was murdered by her ex-boyfriend, is pictured here. Courtesy McCluskey Family Lauren McCluskey, a Utah track star who was murdered by her ex-boyfriend, is pictured here.(SALT LAKE CITY) — The parents of the Utah track star who was shot and killed by her ex — …
Jan 25
Flights delayed in New York and Florida due to air traffic control absences, ground stop at LaGuardia Airport: FAA
Jevgenij Kulikov/iStock(NEW YORK) — A ground stop at LaGuardia Airport and widespread flight delays in New York and Florida airports Friday were due to air traffic controller absences, the Federal Aviation Administration said. The current slowdown in the airspace over Florida and New York is due to staffing shortages in Washington and Jacksonville, an FAA …
Jan 25
Arizona governor Doug Ducey slams Hacienda HealthCare, where vegetative patient was impregnated
Credit: Office of Governor Doug Ducey(PHOENIX) — The governor of Arizona weighed in on the case in which a nurse at a Phoenix health care facility was arrested after a patient who is in a vegetative state gave birth to a child. Governor Doug Ducey posted a thread of tweets slamming Hacienda HealthCare, the company …
Jan 25
Massive sinkhole opens at apartment complex in Orange County, California
Chaiyaporn1144/iStock(LA HABRA, Calif.) — Authorities in Orange County, California are investigating what caused a massive sinkhole in an apartment complex in La Habra. “This is like a shocker to me,” Jesus Leon, who lives in the area, told ABC News while looking at the hole, which runs at least 50 feet long by 20 feet …