By BRIAN MELLEY, MATTHEW BROWN and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say the pipeline that leaked tens of thousands of gallons oil into the water off Southern California was split open and apparently dragged along the ocean floor. Coast Guard Capt. Rebecca Ore said Tuesday that divers determined about 4,000
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These videos pulled from the ABC 17 News archive show the station’s original reporting in the aftermath of a 1994 triple murder at a Casey’s gas station.
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By Leah Asmelash, CNN After months of tension between hunters and environmentalists in Wisconsin, the state’s Department of Natural Resources on Monday announced a limit of 130 wolves for a planned hunt in November — a move that has upset both supporters and detractors of the hunt. The move by the state’s DNR was somewhat
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A new legislative audit says that many Kansas school districts aren’t taking basic steps to protect their computer systems and the privacy of sensitive information collected about students. The report released Tuesday by the Legislature’s auditing agency based its conclusions on a survey sent to the state’s 286 local school districts,
Continue ReadingBy Tammy Watford Click here for updates on this story CANDLER, North Carolina (WLOS) — Some special guests dropped by for lunch at one Buncombe County school on Tuesday. It doesn’t get much better than nachos and firefighters! It was food and fun at Enka Intermediate School, where members of the Enka-Candler Fire and Rescue
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By Sarah Dean Anti-Semitic graffiti has been found at the Auschwitz concentration camp complex, staff from the museum said in a statement on Tuesday, denouncing the incident as “an outrageous attack” on the memorial site. The vandalism, some of which was anti-Semitic, was sprayed in English and German on nine wooden barracks at the Auschwitz-Birkenau
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By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — An executive who lied to regulators about two South Carolina nuclear plants that never generated a watt of power is ready to go to prison. Former SCANA Corp. CEO Kevin Marsh has agreed with prosecutors that he should spend two years in prison. He goes before
Continue Reading By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — An executive who lied to regulators about two South Carolina nuclear plants that never generated a watt of power is ready to go to prison. Former SCANA Corp. CEO Kevin Marsh has agreed with prosecutors that he should spend two years in prison. He goes before
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN On this sizzling exoplanet hundreds of light-years from Earth, droplets of iron rain fall from the sky at night. Now, researchers have also detected sodium and ionized calcium in the planet’s atmosphere, based on observations from the Gemini North Telescope, which is located near the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii.
Continue Reading PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A jury in Oregon has found a member of the far-right group the Proud Boys guilty of assault, menacing and unlawful use of a weapon for pulling out a loaded revolver, firing paintballs and spraying bear mace at people during Portland protests last year. Prosecutors called Alan Swinney a “vigilante cowboy,”
Continue ReadingBy Mary Caltrider Click here for updates on this story SOUTH BEND, Indiana (WBND-LD) — “Most importantly we are on day 120, today, day 120 in the hospital since the accident on June 6, says Jodie Dittman, mother of Keller. 120 days, that is 2,880 hours, that Jodie Dittman has sat next to her son,
Continue Reading WINDSOR, Ontario (AP) — The discovery of two inactive grenades inside a vehicle led to a seven-hour closure of Canada-bound traffic on the Ambassador Bridge at the busiest border closing with the U.S. Windsor police said Tuesday the inert grenades were found submerged in an unidentified white powdery substance, leading to the closure from about
Continue Reading The Associated Press A slump in several big companies weighed down the stock market Tuesday, leaving most major indexes lower. The S&P 500 index fell, as did the Nasdaq composite, which is heavily weighted with technology companies. Gains for McDonald’s and UnitedHealth helped push the Dow Jones Industrial Average higher. A stark profit warning from
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Tuesday: Lululemon, Moderna rise; Comtech, Newmont fall.
Continue Reading By JONATHAN LEMIRE and ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press HOWELL, Mich. (AP) — Calling opponents “complicit in America’s decline,” President Joe Biden is making the case for his ambitious social spending and building plans by framing them as as key to America’s global competitiveness and future success. With his agenda in jeopardy on Capitol Hill, Biden
Continue Reading PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A man is facing murder and other charges in the shooting death of a colleague at the downtown Philadelphia hospital where they both worked and the subsequent wounding of two officers in an exchange of gunfire. Police said Tuesday that 55-year-old Stacey Hayes was charged in the attack that killed Thomas Jefferson
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos Barreda (CNN) — El médico forense del condado de Orange confirmó este martes que el cuerpo encontrado en un área boscosa cerca del complejo de apartamentos Tymber Skan on the Lake en Orlando es Miya Marcano, la joven de 19 años que desapareció el mes pasado. “Una identificación positiva de una mujer cuyo
Continue Reading By BRIAN MELLEY, MATTHEW BROWN and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — The Coast Guard says it did not investigate initial reports of an oil spill for nearly 12 hours because it didn’t have enough corroborating evidence and were hindered by darkness and a lack of technology. Rear Admiral Brian Penoyer told
Continue Reading By BRIAN MELLEY, MATTHEW BROWN and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — The Coast Guard says it did not investigate initial reports of an oil spill for nearly 12 hours because it didn’t have enough corroborating evidence and were hindered by darkness and a lack of technology. Rear Admiral Brian Penoyer told
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By Scottie Andrew, CNN In a metallic gold gown, her dual-toned hair curled into effortless waves, Evan Bialosuknia looked every bit the undisputed queen of her high school homecoming. She’d been nominated to her Orlando school’s homecoming court, with enough votes to get her name on the ballot for homecoming queen. She thought she might
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