Lombard Police Department(CHICAGO) — Authorities are crediting two bystanders with helping to rescue a 96-year-old woman just before a train smashed into her car. The woman, identified as Antoinette Lazarra of Burr Ridge Illinois, drove her 2006 Lincoln Zephyr onto the tracks after she attempted to make a right turn onto Grace Street in Lombard, …
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Jan 16
Heavy rain causing concerns in West, wintry threat to eastern US at end of week
ABC News(NEW YORK) — With 3 inches of rain already fallen in the San Francisco Bay Area, a new more powerful storm is approaching the West Coast. Numerous flood, wind and snow alerts have been issued from California to Colorado. The powerful storm is in the Pacific on Wednesday morning and getting closer to the …
Jan 16
Shutdown side hustles: Workers selling personal possessions, starting businesses
Bill Oxford/iStock(NEW YORK) — Four weeks into the partial government shutdown, unpaid federal workers and contractors have started selling personal property, creating small businesses and spending more time with old friends. Working for the Coast Guard was always Albert Waterford Jr.’s dream job. The disabled veteran enlisted for two decades and, after his retirement, went …
Jan 16
‘We’re all out of hamberders’: Burger King flame broils Donald Trump
ilbusca/iStock(NEW YORK) — Burger King, home of the Whopper, has joined a growing list of U.S. companies that have roasted President Donald Trump via social media. After Trump offered up a fast-food feast to Clemson University’s championship football team at the White House, the president bragged on Twitter about ordering more than 1,000 “hamberders” — …
Jan 16
Theresa May faces no-confidence vote after defeat on Brexit deal
Jack Taylor/Getty Images(LONDON) — British Prime Minister Theresa May will face a no-confidence vote in her government Wednesday after suffering a historic defeat in Parliament over her flagship Brexit deal. The vote was tabled by the leader of the opposition Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, on Tuesday evening moments after Members of Parliament heavily voted down …
Jan 16
Boy, 16, dies after falling from balcony of Royal Caribbean cruise ship
fallbrook/iStock(FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.) — A teenage boy died after falling from an eighth floor balcony of a Royal Caribbean cruise ship docked in Haiti last week. The 16-year-old was trying to enter his room on Royal Caribbean’s Harmony of the Seas cruise ship through a nearby balcony last Friday when he slipped and fell to …
Jan 15
Student attendance plummets as Los Angeles teachers head into Day 2 of strike
KABC-TV(LOS ANGELES) — As scores of Los Angeles teachers formed picket lines for the second day of a massive strike, school district officials said student attendance plummeted and that the district lost $15 million on Day 1 of the classroom walkout. The United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) union reported that 30,000 public school teachers …
Jan 15
Grandfather of man suspected of kidnapping Jayme Closs: ‘Nobody had any clues’
Barron County Sheriff(BARRON, Wisc.) — The young man accused of abducting a 13-year-old Wisconsin girl, gunning down her parents and holding the child captive had been “a perfectly nice kid,” according to his grandfather. “Nobody had any clues up until this thing happened,” Jim Moyer told ABC News Tuesday, days after his 21-year-old grandson, Jake …
Jan 15
Brexit: crushing defeat for Theresa May as deal voted down by Parliament to leave Britain’s future hanging in the balance
LanceB/iStock(LONDON) — The political future of the United Kingdom has once again been thrown into uncertainty after Parliament voted against accepting Theresa May’s Brexit deal. The lead-up to the vote saw the Prime Minister Theresa May’s deal criticized by politicians and pundits on all sides of the political spectrum. Some critics argued that May’s deal …
Jan 15
Section of New York’s old Tappan Zee Bridge demolished in controlled explosion
ABC News(NEW YORK) — It spanned the Hudson River for 64 years, but on Tuesday, one of the last remnants of the Tappan Zee Bridge came down in just five seconds. At 10:52 a.m., dynamite charges went off, destroying steel support pillars at each end of the 672-foot section of the bridge. It plummeted down …