Jetlinerimages/iStock(TORONTO) — A sleeping passenger was left on board an Air Canada flight earlier this month hours after the plane had landed and the crew disembarked. Tiffani O’Brien, of Ontario, Canada, said she fell asleep in an empty row of seats on her short flight home from Quebec City to Toronto. She awoke hours later …
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Jun 24
Former prep school student released from jail over good behavior in sex assault case
Corey Hendrickson/Getty Images(CONCORD, N.H.) — The prep school student who was convicted of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old classmate was released from jail for good behavior. Owen Labrie’s attorney confirmed to ABC News that he was released from Merrimack County’s jail Monday morning after nearly six months. “Owen is happy to be home with his family. …
Jun 24
Trump announces new sanctions on Iran, including on Supreme Leader
SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump on Monday announced new “hard-hitting” sanctions on Iran, including on the country’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Trump signed an executive order imposing the sanctions, which he promised after pulling back on a military strike against Iran for the shooting down of an American drone. The president said …
Jun 24
Fashion influencer’s marriage proposal may have been monetized for social media
cclickclick/iStock(NEW YORK) — A three-day scavenger hunt that led to what looked like a fairy tale proposal — complete with tears, dancing and going down on one knee at a chateau in France — was actually a carefully crafted advertisement. Gabriel Grossman, a VP at Morgan Stanley, popped the question to his longtime girlfriend, Marissa …
Jun 24
Air Canada investigating after woman left in empty, locked airplane
BrendanHunter/iStock(NEW YORK) — Imagine what it would be like to fall asleep during your flight, and then wake up on a pitch-black, empty aircraft. Tiffani Adams doesn’t need to imagine. She was asleep less than halfway into her 90-minute Air Canada flight from Quebec City to Toronto’s Pearson International Airport on June 9. When she …
Jun 24
Bodies of woman, infant, toddlers found near Rio Grande River in Texas
Rex_Wholster/iStock(RIO GRANDE VALLEY, Texas) — Four bodies were found Sunday evening near the Rio Grande River, southeast of the Anzalduas Park in Las Paloma Wildlife Management Area, an area rife with human trafficking, authorities said. The deceased appeared to be two infants, a toddler and a 20-year-old woman, Hidalgo County Sheriff Eddie Guerra told ABC …
Jun 24
Severe weather threatens 50 million from Wisconsin to Georgia
ABC News(NEW YORK) — More than 200 severe weather reports stretching from the Plains to the Southeast on Sunday included a reported tornado near South Bend, Indiana, that damaged a building but injured no one. About 4 to 6 inches of rain fell in southwest Missouri in fewer than six hours, resulting in a flash …
Jun 24
Arkansas medical school student recalls blacking out before friend’s killing
Jessy Pacheco/Facebook(NEW YORK) — An Arkansas native attending medical school in Mexico spoke publicly for the first time since his apparent kidnapping last week, but the Sunday press conference seemed to offer more questions than answers. Jessy Pacheco, of Van Buren, Arkansas, and Carlos Alejandro Delgadillo Romero, also an American citizen and student at Mexico’s …
Jun 23
City in Oklahoma ordered to boil water after possible E. coli contamination
iStock/kirilllutz(KINGFISHER, Okla.) — A northern Oklahoma town was warned against consuming public water without boiling it first after a city well tested positive for E. coli. bacteria. Residents in Kingfisher, about 50 miles northwest of Oklahoma City, were told to boil their water to kill potential E. coli bacteria or other possible “disease causing agents” …
Jun 23
Man’s body found with apparent gator bite marks, South Carolina authorities say
iStock/Joe Pearl Photography(KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C) — A man whose body was found in a pond behind his South Carolina home may have been attacked by an alligator, according to authorities. Deputies from the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office responded to the man’s home on Kiawah Island, a barrier island about 30 miles south of Charleston, Saturday …