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(NEW YORK) -- Florida State University law professor Dan Markel's last day alive began like many others.He dropped off his two young sons at preschool and went to the gym, authorities said. But things took a dark turn.After pulling into his driveway on the morning of July 18, 2014, Markel was shot in the head multiple times and rushed to a hospital where he died the next day, authorities said.Markel […]

Ohio authorities are searching for a suspect after a dentist and his wife were found murdered inside their home earlier this week.Columbus Police Patrol officers responded to the home of Spencer Tepe, 37, and Monique Tepe, 39, on Tuesday morning after a welfare check was requested, according to an incident report viewed by ABC News.When officers arrived, they found the couple suffering from apparent gunshots wounds. Paramedics arrived and the […]

(WASHINGTON) -- For weeks, President Donald Trump has said that he received an MRI at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in October, but when asked about the procedure by the Wall Street Journal in an interview published Thursday, Trump and his doctor said that he actually got a CT scan instead."It wasn’t an MRI," Trump told the Journal. “It was less than that. It was a scan.”Last month, Trump […]

(New York) New Year's Day was met with snow and cold temperatures from the Northeast to the Great Lakes while much of California braces for heavy rains.Rochester and Buffalo received six inches of snow while Pittsburgh received four inches and Cleveland up to two inches.A snow squall quickly moved through the Northeast and parts of the I-95 corridor earlier this morning, bringing heavy snow and gusty winds that briefly reduced […]

(NEW YORK) -- Devastating wildfires, flooding and extreme heat events took place over the past year, several resulting in mass fatalities, with experts linking some of the worst events to human-amplified climate change.These are the biggest weather stories of the year:Los Angeles wildfiresMultiple wildfires that sparked in Los Angeles at the beginning of the year spread quickly and burned for weeks, destroying more than 16,000 structures and killing dozens of […]

(MINNEAPOLIS) -- An official with the Department of Health and Human Services says the agency has "frozen all child care payments" to the state of Minnesota after allegations of fraudulent day care centers there.In addition, HHS is tightening requirements for payments from the Administration for Children and Families to all states, requiring a justification and a receipt or photo evidence, Deputy HHS Secretary Jim O'Neill said in a post on […]

(NEW YORK) -- This year began with a deadly New Year's Day car-ramming terrorist attack in New Orleans and is finishing with a flurry of horrific shootings, including a mass shooting at Brown University, but 2025 is also poised to end with the largest one-year drop in U.S. homicides ever recorded, according to data from cities both large and small.Based on a sampling of preliminary crime statistics from 550 U.S. […]

(SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, Calif.) -- A 19-year-old who fell while hiking on Southern California's Mount Baldy and two others were found dead during the search and rescue effort for the teen, authorities said.The recovery effort for the three deceased hikers is underway, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said on Tuesday.Amid dangerous conditions, Mount Baldy is now closed until New Year's Day to "protect natural resources and provide for public […]

(NEW YORK) -- A federal magistrate judge did not immediately rule Tuesday on whether the Virginia man charged with placing pipe bombs outside of the Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee headquarters the night before the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol will remain behind bars pending trial, after saying both prosecutors and the defendant's attorneys raised important legal issues that he will have to take under further […]