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Click here for updates on this story     HOUSTON (KTRK) — A Harris County Precinct 1 sergeant made a ‘dying declaration’ of child sex assault and implicated two co-workers before taking his own life. The complicated web of allegations started unraveling a week ago when officials with the Harris County Precinct 1 Constable’s Office said they

For most passengers on board Ryanair flight 4978 from Greece to Lithuania on Sunday, the news that the plane would instead touch down in the capital of Belarus represented an inconvenience. For one passenger, however, the diversion was far more ominous. Roman Protasevich, a young Belarusian dissident, scrambled to grab his luggage and is said

New York City schools will fully return to in-person learning in September with no remote option, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday on MSNBC. De Blasio said that the increase in vaccinations, decrease in cases and layering of health measures will make the move possible. New York City has the biggest school district in the

Click here for updates on this story     HOUSTON (KTRK) — The coins in your pocket could be worth big bucks. One hopeful collector thought she had something of value but wasn’t sure. Margaret Matt asked ABC13, but this was job for an expert. To the untrained eye, a penny is not worth much, but when

Click here for updates on this story     SPRINGFIELD, Massachusetts (WSHM) — One man is dead after a house fire in Springfield overnight Sunday. Western Mass News spoke exclusively with the residents of that house. The victim’s name has not been released yet, but residents told Western Mass News he was a friend of more than

It’s not just tourists who invade Florida in the summer. The colorfully named, obnoxious — and sometimes deadly — microorganisms known as red tide and blue green algae also take advantage of the change in temperature to proliferate. And it causes major problems. Both types of algae bloom are starting to make their presence known

Click here for updates on this story     MORGAN, UTAH (KSL) — A 7-year-old boy from Morgan has returned home to recover following a traumatic injury. Isaac Evans fell on a pencil that punctured just above his eye and went into his brain. Caid and Alicia Evans, Isaac’s parents, sat down with KSL-TV to talk about

Click here for updates on this story     LOS ANGELES (KABC) — Among the students who donned their cap and gown and walked in USC’s commencement ceremony last week was 78-year-old Robert Kroener. “It has been a long time coming. So, I’ve waited a long time for this,” said Lt. Colonel Kroener. The retired Air Force

A house party packed with hundreds of guests devolved into chaos when gunfire erupted, killing at least two people and wounding a dozen more. Kevin Elliot, 30, and Asia Hester, 25, both of Bridgerton, New Jersey, were killed in the shooting, Attorney General Gurbir Grewal said. At least 12 more people were shot in the

Hundreds of children are feared missing or were separated from their families after Mount Nyiragongo erupted in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said Sunday that the children were lost amid chaos as residents fled the nearby city of Goma. More than 150 children have been separated

Click here for updates on this story     ORANGE, California (KABC) — The family of a 6-year-old boy who was killed in a road rage shooting in Orange is hoping to offer a cash reward for information leading to an arrest. Joanna Cloonan, the boy’s mother, spoke out over the weekend and called for his killers

An attacker stabbed two men near Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood on Monday, according to Israeli police, wounding them before being shot and killed by police officers. There are conflicting reports about the condition of the injured. One report from Israel’s Red Cross, Magen David Adom, said one of the injured was in a severe condition.

Ryanair slammed Belarus on Monday over what it described as a “state-sponsored hijacking” of one of its passenger planes, as new details emerged about the brazen operation to arrest a dissident journalist on board Sunday’s flight from Greece to Lithuania. Ryanair’s CEO Michael O’Leary accused Belarus of “state-sponsored piracy” after its flight 4978 from Athens

Ryanair flight 4978 was about to begin its descent to Vilnius in Lithuania on Sunday when it suddenly changed direction after a “security alert,” turning sharply east and descending towards the capital of Belarus, Minsk. Whether that security alert was a fabrication by the Belarus authorities is now at the heart of an incident which