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(CHINO HILLS, Calif.) -- A suspected gas leak caused a home in California to explode, injuring nine people, officials said. An investigation is underway.The explosion also forced an evacuation of nearby homes in the Chino Hills neighborhood Sunday night, according to authorities.Jenny Smith, a spokesperson for the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, told ABC News that the explosion was caused by a possible gas leak."Deputies found a residence, in the […]

(NEWARK, N.J.) -- Officials are urging the suspects involved in the deadly shooting of a 10-year-old boy and a 21-year-old woman in New Jersey over the weekend to turn themselves in for committing the "heinous crime."“What you did was cowardly, heartless and unforgivable. You prove nothing but your own weakness," Essex County Sheriff Amir Jones said during a press conference on Monday. "We are coming, there is no hiding, there […]

Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- New York Jets player Kris Boyd was hospitalized in critical condition after being shot on Sunday morning on a New York City street.A 29-year-old male was shot in the abdomen just after 2 a.m. in front of a restaurant at 156 W. 38th Street in Midtown Manhattan, the NYPD confirmed to ABC News. The victim was taken to Bellevue Hospital in New […]

(NEW YORK) -- The suspect who was killed in a shootout over the weekend that left four Kansas law enforcement officers injured was identified on Sunday as a 22-year-old man, whose grandfather was also hurt in the incident, authorities said.The suspect, Stephen M. McMillan, allegedly opened fire on officers who responded to a "domestic disturbance" call at his family's rural farmhouse in Osage County, Kansas, at around 10:30 on Saturday […]

(CHARLOTTE, N.C.) -- A surge of federal agents arrived in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Saturday to take part in immigration arrests despite protests from the mayor and other local officials.Eyewitnesses filmed and photographed several incidents where masked agents arrested residents. Paula Walker Coleman filmed one of the incidents at a parking lot and told ABC News she witnessed agents arrest another woman who was filming."She was close to their car […]

(NORFOLK, Va.) -- A man suspected of killing at least three other people has now been identified as the suspect in a teenager's 1988 cold case murder, Virginia authorities announced.Laurie Ann Powell, 18, was last seen alive on March 8, 1988, walking along a road in Gloucester County, which is about 60 miles east of Richmond, Virginia State Police spokesperson Robin Lawson said at a news conference on Friday.Powell's body […]

mbbirdy/Getty Images (MONTEREY, Calif.) -- A father is dead and the search for a 5-year-old girl is ongoing after a large wave pulled them into the ocean in Monterey County, California, authorities said.A 15-to-20 foot wave swept the little girl and her dad into the Pacific Ocean just before 1 p.m. Friday near the Rocky Point Restaurant, the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office said.When the mom tried to reach out to […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) -- A storm is dropping rounds of heavy rain on more than 22 million people across Southern California on Saturday, and the rainfall could spark dangerous flash flooding, mudslides and debris flows.Here's the latest:The first round of heavy rain is slamming the region early Saturday morning, and the second round will hit between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. local time.Rainfall rates could top 1 inch per […]

(NEW YORK) -- The United States is maintaining a presence at COP30, despite the Trump administration declining to send an official delegation to the climate conference in Brazil.This is the first time since the inaugural Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1995 that the U.S. will not be officially represented at the annual climate summit.However, a large number of state […]