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Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (OMAHA, Neb.) -- A 15-year-old boy is in critical condition after he was shot at his high school in Omaha, Nebraska, on Tuesday, police said.The shooting inside Northwest High School was reported at about 12:23 p.m., and a description of the suspect was put out over the radio, Omaha police said. The suspect was taken into custody around 12:58 p.m., police said.The shooting appeared to stem from […]

(NEW YORK) -- A 76-year-old man has been arrested in an alleged attack on the owner of a New York City clothing boutique who says confrontation erupted last month over a large poster of Vice President Kamala Harris she displayed in her window, according to police.The New York City Police Department confirmed to ABC News that the suspect, Juan Bernal of New York City, was arrested on Saturday and charged […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) -- Tropical Storm Francine is forecast to strengthen into a hurricane on Tuesday as it takes aim at the Gulf Coast.By Tuesday night, Francine is expected to become a Category 2 hurricane with winds of 100 mph.Landfall is expected on Wednesday in Louisiana, between Cameron and Morgan City, as a Category 2 hurricane.Heavy rain and strong winds are already lashing South Padre Island, Texas, on Tuesday […]

(NEW YORK) -- Four people are dead after a small plane crashed in Vermont on Sunday, police said.Vermont State Police identified the deceased as Paul Pelletier, 55; Frank Rodriguez, 88; Susan Van Ness, 51; and Delilah Van Ness, 15.Pelletier was an aerospace and manufacturing teacher at Middletown Public Schools in Connecticut, the school said in a statement. Delilah Van Ness, a sophomore, was one of his students, and Susan Van […]

Rescue 1, Manhattan's elite lifesaving unit, which was one of the first firefighting squads to reach the twin towers after last week's terrorist attack lost all of its members at the World Trade Center, New York City, Sep. 12, 2001. (Todd Maisel/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) -- Twenty-three years after Sept. 11, 2001, illnesses linked to the World Trade Center terrorist attack have now killed more […]

(NEW YORK) -- Two people have been arrested in connection with a spree of bronze veteran marker thefts from headstones being stolen from cemeteries across Indiana, police said.The La Porte County Sheriff’s Office launched an investigation on Aug. 28 following a series of reports to authorities that bronze veteran markers were being stolen from grave headstones in the immediate vicinity of Union Mills and Rolling Prairie Cemeteries, but also from […]

(NEW YORK) -- A Georgia sheriff whose office in 2023 investigated an online school shooting threat that led to Colt Gray, the teen now accused of a deadly rampage inside his high school last week, said they "probably" dropped the ball on notifying the suspect's school district about monitoring him.Colt Gray, 14, is accused of killing two students and two teachers in Wednesday's shooting at Apalachee High School in Barrow […]

(NEW YORK) -- The trial for Andrew Lester, the Kansas City man charged in the shooting of Ralph Yarl after the teenager mistakenly went to the wrong house, was delayed indefinitely on Monday after a judge ordered a mental evaluation for the 85-year-old to determine if he is fit to stand trial.Lester appeared in court Monday morning for a preliminary hearing ahead of the trial, which was set to begin […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) -- Tropical Storm Francine was forecast to strengthen into a hurricane early Tuesday ahead of its expected landfall in Louisiana on Wednesday, the National Hurricane Center said.The storm's winds remained at about 65 mph just after midnight, the center said in its 1 a.m. CT update on Tuesday."Francine will likely become a hurricane today, with significant strengthening expected before it reaches the coast," the update said.Weather […]