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(BOCA RATON, Fla.) -- A small plane crashed in Boca Raton, Florida, on Friday morning, according to local police.Video shows what appears to be the small plane's wreckage on railroad tracks next to a road. The fire caused by the crash has been extinguished.Additional information was not immediately available.This is a developing story. Please check back for updates. Copyright © 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

(NEW YORK CITY) -- A tourist helicopter carrying family members from Spain plunged into the Hudson River in New York City, killing six, including three children.The New York Helicopters chartered chopper, which was carrying a pilot, two adults and three children, fell into the Hudson River by Lower Manhattan in New York City on Thursday afternoon, officials said during a press briefing.Agustin Escobar, an executive from European automation company Siemens, […]

Sylvain Gaboury/Paul Bruinooge/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- Ghislaine Maxwell asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to overturn her sex-trafficking conviction, arguing she was covered by a non-prosecution agreement the government made with her former paramour, Jeffrey Epstein.Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence. She was convicted on five counts of aiding Epstein in his abuse of underage girls in December 2021.A federal appeals court rejected […]

(WASHINGTON) -- A federal judge has scheduled a hearing for Friday, following the Supreme Court's order requiring the Trump administration to "facilitate" the release of a Maryland man who was deported to El Salvador in error last month.In an order filed late Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge Paula Xinis directed the Trump administration to take all available steps to facilitate the return of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to the U.S. […]

(LOS ANGELES) -- Eight relatives of the Menendez brothers sat down with ABC News in an exclusive interview the night before the case returns to court to show they are unanimous in supporting Erik and Lyle Menendez’s release from prison.This marks the first time the brothers' aunt, Jose Menendez’s sister, Terry Baralt, has spoken out in decades."They are like the boys that I didn’t have," she told ABC News."It’s time […]

Camden County Prosecutor's Office of New Jersey (CAMDEN, N.J. ) -- A New Jersey woman has been charged with attempted murder after she allegedly tried to hire someone on Tinder to kill her ex-boyfriend -- a police officer -- and his teenage daughter, according to prosecutors and a probable cause statement.Jaclyn Diiorio, 26, was charged with two counts of first-degree attempted murder, one count of conspiracy to commit murder and one […]

WABC (NEW YORK CITY) -- All six people on board were killed when a helicopter plunged into the Hudson River by Lower Manhattan in New York City on Thursday afternoon, law enforcement sources told ABC News.The helicopter was carrying a pilot, two adults and three children, according to law enforcement sources. The family members were tourists from Spain, sources said.The helicopter was in the air around Manhattan for about 15 […]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) -- The wingtip of an American Airlines plane hit another American Airlines plane on a taxiway at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.No one was hurt, the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority said. Both planes returned to gates and airport operations weren't impacted, the agency said.Rep. Nick LaLota, R-N.Y., tweeted that his plane was "stationary on the runway" […]

(DELANO, Calif.) -- An escaped California inmate is now wanted for killing a Mexican police commander who hunts down foreign fugitives -- also known as a "gringo hunter" -- during a shootout in Tijuana, officials said.Abigail Esparza Reyes, who was part of a specialized Mexican state police unit responsible for locating foreign fugitives who cross the border, was killed on Wednesday while trying to arrest Cesar Hernandez, an escaped inmate […]