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(DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif.) -- An ancient lake that once existed at Death Valley National Park has reemerged after record rainfall in the region.Several inches of water have formed in Badwater Basin, which lies at 282 feet below sea level, the lowest point in North America, according to a press release from the National Park Service.During the Ice Ages, the basin -- colloquially known as Lake Manly -- was […]

(LOUISIANA) -- Officials are raising concerns about the conditions in a Louisiana jail as investigators continue to search for a man who authorities said escaped the facility with two others last week by scaling down a wall.St. Landry Parish Sheriff Bobby Guidroz released new photos and a video Monday of the Dec. 2 escape, when authorities said three detainees, Johnathan Jevon Joseph, Keith Eli and Joseph Allen Harrington, allegedly used […]

(FRANKFORT, Ky.) -- Multiple people were injured in a shooting Tuesday at Kentucky State University in Frankfort, according to the university and Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear.A suspect is in custody, according to Beshear and local police.The Frankfort Police Department said it responded to an incident on the school's campus Tuesday afternoon "regarding an active aggressor.""At this time, we are aware of some injuries," Beshear said on X. "Let's pray for […]

Jubilant Sykes sings with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in Leonard Bernstein's "Mass" at Carnegie Hall, October 24, 2008. Hiroyuki Ito/Getty Images (SANTA MONICA, Calif.) -- A Grammy-nominated opera singer was stabbed to death inside a California residence, and the 71-year-old's son has been arrested in connection with the killing, police said.Jubilant Sykes was killed in a home in Santa Monica on Monday, police said. Officers responded to the residence after […]

(WASHINGTON) -- A federal judge on Tuesday granted the Justice Department's motion to release grand jury materials and other nonpublic evidence from the criminal case of Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell in order to comply with Congress' directive to publicly release materials from the government's files on the wealthy financier and convicted sex offender who died by suicide in a New York jail in 2019.U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer determined in his 24-page […]

(NEW YORK) -- A suspect wanted in the Nov. 16 shooting of New York Jets player Kris Boyd has been arrested and charged with attempted murder, authorities said on Tuesday.The suspect, identified as 20-year-old Fredrick Green, was taken into custody on Monday in Buffalo, law enforcement sources told ABC News.Besides attempted murder, Green has been charged with assault and criminal possession of a weapon in connection with the Boyd shooting, […]

(NEW YORK) -- Authorities have released new photos of Ryan Wedding, a former Canadian Olympian snowboarder turned alleged drug kingpin who is on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.Wedding, 44, is wanted for "allegedly running and participating in a transnational drug trafficking operation that routinely shipped hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from Colombia, through Mexico and Southern California, to Canada, and other locations in the United States," the Los […]

(WASHINGTON) -- For several years, as U.S. authorities have struggled to stop online extremist networks like "764" from pushing teens to livestream acts of violence or self-harm, including their own suicide, the Justice Department has faced what authorities and victims both say is a vexing challenge: Such coercion is not a federal crime.That could change if the Republican chairman and the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which oversees the Justice […]

(NEW YORK) -- At least four rivers in Washington state are now at major flood stage -- the highest level -- and 11 others are forecast to reach the same level in the next day or two as an atmospheric river delivers heavy rain in the Pacific NorthwestThe multiday event from Washington to Oregon is swelling rivers to near-record levels.The event is forecast to bring up to 7 inches of […]