Month: September 2019

iStock/janniswerner(BOSTON) -- The president of Harvard University has apologized for giving a speech in which he compared rich alumni donors to freed slaves. Harvard President Lawrence Bacow was slammed as "tone-deaf" and "inappropriate" by some of those who heard him make the analogy that rich alumni should be free to spread their wealth around instead of always feeling bound to giving to schools at the Ivy League institution they have […]

Carson King(NEW YORK) -- It all began with a handmade sign asking for beer money. Then it was discovered that Carson King, the 24-year-old whose sign reading "Busch Light Supply Needs Replenished" went viral after it appeared on ESPN's "College Game Day," had written some racist tweets as a teenager. King, who's vowed to donate more than $1 million in "beer money" to a children's hospital, apologized. He was bashed […]

iStock/DavidPrahl(LONGVIEW, Washington) -- Newly released video shows a school bus full of terrified children shortly before the driver was arrested for allegedly driving while intoxicated in Washington state.Catherine L. Maccarone, 48, was arrested on Sept. 12 after a Longview Public Schools student called 911 to report that he suspected she was driving drunk, according to a statement from the Longview Police Department.Hours of footage from the bus obtained by "Good […]

ABC News(LAS ANGELES) -- Police in California deployed a stun gun on a woman after she allegedly entered a police department armed with an 8-inch meat cleaver and threatened a victim.The suspect, 22-year-old Mariel Capulong, allegedly grabbed a woman who had just exited the Salinas Police Department, wrapping her arm around the victim's neck and leading her by force back into the lobby on Wednesday evening, according to a press […]

US Army(MIAMI) -- They're the Army's elite parachute team, jumping thousands of feet in perfect daredevil formations into air shows, festivals and sporting events all across the country.Largely made up of former combat soldiers, the Golden Knights are considered the "best of the best." But on Feb. 12, during a low altitude night jump at Homestead Air Reserve Base in Florida, the unthinkable happened.The parachutes of two soldiers became tangled […]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- The amount of greenhouse gases being emitted into Earth's atmosphere has reached such a high level that it will take major changes around the world to mitigate the effects on climate change, experts say. Greenhouse gasses such as carbon dioxide, which trap the sun's heat, are the "most significant driver of observed climate change since the mid-20th century," according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. To illustrate […]

Patrick McCloskey/Facebook(BLOOMSBURG, Penn.) -- A sightseeing helicopter smashed into several parked cars outside a fairgrounds in Pennsylvania on Saturday night, injuring three people on board the aircraft.The helicopter crashed at about 8 p.m. in a parking lot at the Bloomsburg Fair in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, about 90 minutes north of the state capital of Harrisburg.All three people who were injured were on the helicopter, including the pilot and two passengers. The […]

ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A major winter storm has developed in parts of the northern Rockies and is currently bringing very heavy snow and strong winds to the region. Winter storm warnings and winter weather advisories are in effect for the area on Sunday. Wind alerts have also been issued from California to Wyoming due to the gusty winds along the cold front associated with the storm.Snowfall rates of of […]

WMUR(BOW, N.H.) -- Scores of climate change protesters were arrested outside a coal power plant in New Hampshire on Saturday as they staged a demonstration calling for the facility to be shut down.About 120 people gathered outside Merrimack Station in Bow, New Hampshire, on Saturday afternoon, with 67 people being arrested, according to the Bow Police Department.The protesters were charged with criminal trespassing, a misdemeanor, according to police. There were […]