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HUNT, Texas -- Camp Mystic's executive director Dick Eastland began evacuating campers approximately 45 minutes after the National Weather Service issued an alert about a "life-threatening flash flooding," according to an Eastland Family spokesperson.The catastrophic flooding that continues to threaten central Texas left 27 dead at Camp Mystic, an all-girls Christian summer camp located in Hunt, Texas, along the Guadalupe River.Eastland received an alert on his phone from the National […]

FALL RIVER, Mass. -- The Massachusetts assisted-living facility that caught fire Sunday evening, leaving nine dead, was slated to undergo a recertification and compliance review process later this year."Gabriel House is up for recertification in November 2025 and is on the list of compliance reviews to be conducted this Fall," a spokesperson for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services said in a statement Monday evening.An official briefed […]

Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) -- Attorney General Pam Bondi has fired one of the top career officials tasked with advising her and other senior Justice Department officials of their ethical obligations, an official familiar with the dismissal confirmed to ABC News Monday.Joseph Tirrell on Monday took to LinkedIn to post news of his termination, including a photo of his termination notice which provided no reasoning for his firing."Until Friday evening, […]

(WASHINGTON) -- The Supreme Court on Monday lifted an injunction against the Trump administration's efforts to gut the Department of Education.The move allows the administration to proceed, for now, with mass firings that slashed nearly half of the agency's workforce in March as well as other actions, such as shifting management of the federal student loan portfolio.A federal judge in Massachusetts had barred the administration from moving forward, rejecting the […]

(NEW YORK) -- Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced on Monday that he will actively stay in the New York City mayoral race, but that he will accept a pledge to abide by the results of a proposed September poll, where he and other candidates would drop out if they aren't leading."The fight to save our city isn't over… The general election is in November, and I am in […]

Clackamas County Sheriff's Office (CLACKAMAS COUNTY, Ore.) -- An avid mountain biker has been reported missing in Oregon after not returning from a planned biking trip near Mount Hood on Friday, according to the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office.Ralph Sawyer, 52, was reported missing on Friday at approximately 10:30 p.m. after he had left home that morning for a mountain biking trip and had not returned home at the expected time […]

(NEW YORK) -- A marketing professor at the University of California, Berkeley, was "murdered in cold blood" while visiting his children in Greece, according to his family.Przemyslaw Jeziorski, an associate marketing professor at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, was allegedly shot and killed in Athens on July 4 near the home where his two children -- Zoe and Angelo -- live, his younger brother Lukasz Jeziorski said in a […]

(FALL RIVER, Mass.) -- Nine people have been killed and dozens are hurt as a fire tore through an assisted-living facility in Fall River, Massachusetts, officials said.About 50 firefighters, including about 30 who were off duty, descended on the scene of the Sunday night fire at the Gabriel House assisted-living facility, officials said.Some people were rescued through their windows at the hard-to-access building, Fall River Fire Chief Jeffrey Bacon said.Thirty […]

(FALL RIVER, Mass.) -- Nine people have been killed and dozens are hurt as a fire tore through an assisted-living facility in Fall River, Massachusetts, officials said.At least 30 people, including five firefighters, were transported to local hospitals after the Sunday night blaze at the Gabriel House assisted-living facility, Fall River Fire Chief Jeffrey Bacon said."The fire went to five alarms, drawing about 50 firefighters to the scene, including about […]