Grant Halverson/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- It was a story tailor-made for Hollywood: A wealthy white family takes in a Black teenager, guiding his football career from a high school standout to Ole Miss to the NFL. However, years later now Michael Oher claims he was...
NYPD(NEW YORK) -- New York City police are searching for five suspects wanted in a "gang assault" on former New York Gov. David Paterson and his 20-year-old stepson on Manhattan's Upper East Side, according to officials.The attack, which unfolded around 8:35 p.m....
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images/STOCK(PORTLAND, Ore.) -- Police in Portland, Oregon, said they're seeking the mother of a 2-year-old girl who died from a suspected fentanyl exposure last month, and who is also wanted for "several violent crimes."Police said they have been...
Grant Faint/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. Supreme Court, at once a major flashpoint in the 2024 campaign and potential presidential election referee, gavels open a new term on Monday with the nation deeply divided over its recent rulings and skeptical of the...
ABC News(LOS ANGELES) -- The former Los Angeles police detective convicted in 2012 of killing her ex-lover's wife was denied parole on Wednesday in the 1986 murder and will continue to serve her 27 years-to-life sentence.Stephanie Lazarus was convicted of murdering...
An ABC News graphic shows the latest weather conditions and warnings in the wake of Helene, on Monday, Sept. 30, 2024. -- ABC News(NEW YORK) -- The storm surge, wind damage and inland flooding from Hurricane Helene have been catastrophic, flooding neighborhoods,...
A cluster of broken pieces of wood from destroyed houses rest along a damaged bridge in Lake Lure, North Carolina, Oct. 2, 2024, after the passage of Hurricane Helene. (Allison Joyce/AFP via Getty Images)(NEW YORK) -- At least 1,000 National Guard troops are heading...
In this Aug. 14, 2023 a view of destruction from Hwy 30 days after a fierce wildfire destroyed the town in Lahaina, Maui, Aug. 14, 2023. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images, FILE)(NEW YORK) -- A report has found that broken power lines caused the...
Tetra Images - Henryk Sadura/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- A "diverse set of actors" in the U.S. could use Monday's one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel as an opportunity to "engage in violence or threaten public safety," Department of Homeland...
Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Federal prosecutors requested an indefinite delay Wednesday in scheduling the trial for the man charged in an apparent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump at his Florida golf course last month, citing a...
Facebook / East Haven Police Department(NEW YORK) -- A man has been arrested after allegedly punching a pregnant woman and biting a medic’s hand in a violent carjacking attempt at a Dunkin’ Donuts drive-thru in Connecticut, police said.The incident happened on Tuesday...
An ABC News graphic shows the latest weather conditions and warnings in the wake of Helene, on Monday, Sept. 30, 2024. -- ABC News(NEW YORK) -- The storm surge, wind damage and inland flooding from Hurricane Helene have been catastrophic, flooding neighborhoods,...
Facebook / Justice for Emily Strite(NEW YORK) -- A mother of four who has been missing for nearly six months has been found dead in a wooded area in Missouri, authorities confirmed.Sheriff Dave Marshak of the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office announced that the body...
ftwitty/Getty Images(MEMPHIS, Tenn.) -- Prosecutors and defense attorneys delivered closing arguments on Wednesday in the case of the three former Memphis police officers who were charged in the January 2023 beating death of Tyre Nichols.The jury is set to receive...
Mayor Eric Adams exits the Thurgood Marshall Courthouse after making the first appearance in his corruption case on October 2, 2024 in New York City. (Alex Kent/Getty Images)(NEW YORK) -- It is "possible" New York City Mayor Eric Adams could face additional charges...
ABC News(LOS ANGELES) -- Human-amplified climate change is making it more likely that extreme heat to lasts longer into fall, as record-breaking temperatures for the month of October blanket much of the western U.S.An unprecedented late season heat wave is in effect...
An ABC News graphic shows the latest weather conditions and warnings in the wake of Helene, on Monday, Sept. 30, 2024. -- ABC News(NEW YORK) -- The storm surge, wind damage and inland flooding from Hurricane Helene have been catastrophic, flooding neighborhoods,...
An ABC News graphic shows the latest weather conditions and warnings in the wake of Helene, on Monday, Sept. 30, 2024. -- ABC News(NEW YORK) -- The storm surge, wind damage and inland flooding from Hurricane Helene have been catastrophic, flooding neighborhoods,...
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a briefing on Hurricane Helene response and recovery efforts, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on October 1, 2024 in Washington, DC. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden and Vice President...
Destroyed houses and buildings along the Broad River in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene on Oct. 1, 2024 in Bat Cave, North Carolina. (Sean Rayford/Getty Images)(NEW YORK) -- At least 6,300 National Guard troops are racing to get aid to those in need -- along with an...
