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(NEW YORK) -- Svetlana Dali -- the woman found guilty of stowing away on a Delta flight from New York to Paris last year -- is set to be sentenced on Thursday after a Brooklyn jury convicted her of a federal stowaway charge in May.Dali, a Russian citizen and U.S. permanent resident who most recently lived in Philadelphia, has already been in jail the past seven months, which federal prosecutors […]

(NEW YORK) -- At 4:22 a.m. on Friday, as Texas' Hill Country began to flood, a firefighter in Ingram – just upstream from Kerrville – asked the Kerr County Sheriff's Office to alert nearby residents, according to audio obtained by ABC affiliate KSAT. But Kerr County officials took nearly six hours to heed this call."The Guadalupe Schumacher sign is underwater on State Highway 39," the firefighter said in the dispatch […]

(LOS ANGELES) -- At least 31 workers were safely rescued after a tunnel collapsed in a large industrial complex in Los Angeles on Wednesday evening, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.The collapse took place at the "18-foot diameter tunnel, being constructed for municipal wastewater management, occurred at an underground (undetermined depth) horizontal excavation site about 5 to 6 miles south of the sole entry/rescue access portal," LAFD said.The trapped […]

(KERR COUNTY, Texas ) -- In one of the deadliest floods in Texas history, a mother's worst fears turned into grateful tears when she reunited with her two sons after they survived a harrowing experience at a camp near the Guadalupe River.The devastating floods that struck central Texas on July 4 have claimed at least 119 lives, with around 170 people still missing. The disaster has been severe in Kerr […]

(WASHINGTON) -- Neil Jacobs, the atmospheric scientist nominated by President Donald Trump to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has vowed to place science, human safety and technological innovation at the forefront of operations if confirmed as the agency's administrator.On Wednesday, U.S. senators interviewed Jacobs on how he would run NOAA, the federal agency that manages the National Weather Service, the nation's primary source for weather forecasts and […]

(WASHINGTON) -- The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) voted to advance Susan Monarez's nomination as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Wednesday.The panel voted along party lines 12-11.Monarez is the first CDC director nominee to require a Senate confirmation after Congress passed a law requiring it in 2022.If confirmed, Monarez will be the first CDC director without a medical degree since […]

(KERRVILLE, Texas) -- As the floodwaters rushed into Kerrville, Texas, under the cover of darkness on Friday morning, officers jumped into action to evacuate over 100 homes and rescue more than 200 people in one hour, the police department said.The officers "realized that areas of town that traditionally don't flood were going to flood, and that low-lying areas close to the river were in danger," Kerrville police community services officer Jonathan Lamb […]

Florida Department of Transportation (INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, Fla.) -- A 77-year-old Vermont man was killed on Sunday afternoon as he attempted to rescue a turtle on Interstate 95 in Indian River County, Florida, authorities said.The fatal accident occurred around 4:20 p.m. on the southbound lanes of I-95, just north of Sebastian Boulevard, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.The man was crossing the lanes when a chain-reaction crash unfolded, investigators said. […]

(UNION, Maine) -- A woman who was found dead after she went paddleboarding on a lake in Maine was murdered, officials said Monday, and police are still searching for her killer.Sunshine "Sunny" Stewart, 48, was found dead at Crawford Pond in Union on Thursday after police were contacted to say she had gone missing, Maine State Police said.An autopsy was then conducted, which determined her death was a homicide, police […]