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(NEW YORK) -- Warming waters are causing the colors of the ocean to change -- a trend that could impact humans if it were to continue, according to new research.Satellite data shows that ocean waters are getting greener at the poles and bluer toward the equator, according to a paper published Thursday in the journal Science.The change in hue is being caused by shifting concentrations of a green pigment called […]

(MEMPHIS, Tenn.) -- A man accused of trespassing at the home of the Memphis, Tennessee, mayor has been charged with attempted kidnapping and stalking, according to police, who said the suspect had a Taser, gloves, rope and duct tape in his vehicle at the time of his arrest.The suspect was apprehended and charged after police investigated "suspicious activity" in Mayor Paul Young's neighborhood, the Memphis Police Department said Wednesday."On Sunday […]

(BOCA GRANDE, Fla.) -- A 9-year-old girl who was bitten on the hand by a shark in Florida is speaking out about the terrifying moment she was attacked.Leah Lendel was snorkeling near Boca Grande on June 11 when "something hard bit me and then tried to tug me away," she said at a news conference Thursday alongside her parents and the doctors who treated her."Then I pick up my hand and it's […]

(WASHINGTON) -- Moving cross-country from the Carolinas to California, the Reeder family looked forward to its next assignment in San Diego in the summer of 2022. The couple had originally met in California.But in the first week, after the Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant and his family had settled into their new home, they had to move out and into a hotel temporarily."The first thing you know, military families want to […]

(MINNEAPOLIS) -- Minnesota state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife are crediting their daughter Hope for "saving countless other lives" on the night the couple was shot and wounded at their home in what prosecutors called an assassination attempt."Without Hope, we wouldn’t be here right now," the Democratic state senator and his wife said in a statement on Wednesday, according to Minneapolis ABC affiliate KSTP. "Our daughter’s quick instincts and wherewithal to state […]

CREDIT: amphotora/Getty Images (SEATTLE) -- A fugitive who has been on the run for more than six weeks after escaping authorities at an airport while being transported across state lines has been captured, authorities said.The incident began almost seven weeks ago on May 4 when 29-year-old Sedric Stevenson was in the custody of contracted agents at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and was being transported to Kentucky so he could face outstanding […]

Kai Eiselein-Pool/Getty Images (MOSCOW, Idaho) -- Newly surfaced bodycam footage from last year shows an interview with a woman claiming to be a DoorDash driver, who says she saw murder suspect Bryan Kohberger while she was dropping off food just moments before police say four University of Idaho college students were slain in 2022.In the video, the woman, who is wrapped in a gray blanket, is being questioned in a […]

(BOSTON) -- A Massachusetts jury found Karen Read not guilty of murdering her Boston police officer boyfriend in 2022, nearly a year after her first prosecution ended in a mistrial.The jury began deliberating the afternoon of June 13 in Norfolk County before reaching a verdict Wednesday afternoon.Prosecutors allege Read hit her boyfriend, John O'Keefe, with her car outside the Canton home of fellow police officer Brian Albert in January 2022 […]