WILD VIDEO: Train barrels into cop car seconds after suspect is pulled from it
Stunning video out of Atlanta shows the moment someone stole a police patrol car, drove it away and then crashed it out onto train tracks, the suspect rescued from the tracks, just moments before a train ran into the wrecked vehicle.
Tropical Storm Nalgae, flooding in Australia and Hurricane Lisa in Belize
Hello, and welcome to November! Typically this can be a very active time for us here in Southeast Texas with cold air moving in and interacting with our warm moist Gulf air, forming a secondary severe weather season. Thankfully for us here, our tropical season is done, but that is NOT the case across the globe.
Pork industry takes battle over California law to the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in an industry challenge to the constitutionality of a California animal welfare law. The law bars sales in California of pork, veal and eggs from animals whose confinement doesn't meet minimum space requirements.
news.yahoo.comResident: Sanibel Island will rebuild after Ian
A photographer who helps chronicle life on Florida's Sanibel Island stayed there during Hurricane Ian. Chuck Larsen with Santiva Chronicle.com was rescued and is now in Orlando. He says he believes the Sanibel community will rebuild. (Oct. 3)
news.yahoo.comHurricane Ian makes landfall in Florida
On Wednesday, Hurricane Ian made landfall in southwest Florida as a Category 4 storm, with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph. As Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell warn that the worst may be yet to come, video footage shared on social media shows severe flooding and property damage from violent winds and flying debris.
news.yahoo.comKentucky man who shot classmates in '97 denied parole
Michael Carneal, who killed three fellow students and wounded five others when he was 14 years old, will have to spend the rest of his life in prison without another opportunity to seek parole, the Kentucky Parole Board voted Monday.
news.yahoo.comAdnan Syed conviction in ‘Serial’ case tossed
A Baltimore judge on Monday ordered the release of Adnan Syed after overturning Syed’s conviction for the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee - - a case that was chronicled in the hit podcast “Serial,” a true-crime series that transfixed listeners and revolutionized the genre. (Sept. 19)
news.yahoo.comWH slams Texas and Florida governors for sending migrants to other states
During the White House briefing on Thursday, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called out Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for sending migrants to the vice president’s residence in Washington, D.C., and Martha’s Vineyard, describing it as a “cruel, premeditated political stunt.”
news.yahoo.comPilot arrested after threatening to crash stolen plane into Mississippi Walmart
A stolen plane circled the skies of Tupelo, Mississippi, Friday for hours. Authorities said the pilot, an aircraft maintenance employee, didn’t have a pilot’s license and was threatening to crash the plane into a Walmart. He eventually landed safely and was taken into custody. Elise Preston has the details.
news.yahoo.comColumbus teachers strike on first day back to school
A strike by teachers in Ohio's largest school district entered its third day Wednesday — the first day of school for some 47,000 students, with some of those students and their parents rallying behind them. (Aug. 24) (AP Video shot by Samantha Hendrickson)
news.yahoo.comWalmart ordered to pay Oregon man $4.4M in damages for racial profiling
DDA Multnomah County grand jury has ordered Walmart to pay $4.4 million in damages to a man who sued the store saying he was racially profiled and harassed by a Walmart employee at a Portland, Ore., area store in 2020.
news.yahoo.comFormer Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson on Cheney, Trump and today's GOP
Wyoming Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney lost her primary against a Trump-backed challenger Tuesday. Former U.S. Senator from Wyoming Alan Simpson joins "Red and Blue" to discuss the fallout from Cheney's defeat and how things have changed in the Republican Party.
news.yahoo.comBeto O'Rourke calls out heckler over Uvalde shooting
At a town hall meeting in Mineral Wells, Texas, Beto O'Rourke, the Democratic candidate for Texas governor, lashed out at an audience member who was reportedly laughing at O'Rourke's comments about the Uvalde school shooting. "It may be funny to you, motherf***er, but it's not funny to me," said O'Rourke, receiving applause from the audience.
news.yahoo.comBiologists rescue tiny fish as Rio Grande dries
For the first time in four decades, the Rio Grande went dry in Albuquerque, New Mexico, last week. Miles of habitat for many endangered Rio Grande silvery minnow — a shimmery, pinky-sized native fish — went with it. (Aug. 3) (AP Video/Brittany Peterson)
news.yahoo.comCalifornia's largest fire of 2022 out of control
Crews battling the largest wildfire so far this year in California braced for thunderstorms and hot, windy conditions that created the potential for additional fire growth as they sought to protect remote communities. (Aug. 1) (AP Video/Noah Berger)
news.yahoo.comUkraine’s first lady appeals to members of Congress for continued support in fight against Russian invasion
Speaking to members of Congress in Washington, D.C., the first lady of Ukraine, Olena Zelenska, urged lawmakers to continue U.S. support of Ukraine's response to the Russian invasion that started nearly five months ago.
news.yahoo.comGhislaine Maxwell sentenced to 20 years in prison in Jeffrey Epstein sex abuse case
Ghislaine Maxwell, the socialite who was convicted of helping financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage girls, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. The judge said Maxwell played a “pivotal” role facilitating “heinous and predatory” abuse.
news.yahoo.comProtesters and NRA members standoff in Houston amid annual convention
The NRA held its annual convention for the first time since 2019 this weekend in Houston, just 300 miles away from Uvalde, the site of the school shooting. Gun control advocates and NRA members confronted each other this weekend in the city as emotions ran high. Robert Costa reports from Houston.
news.yahoo.comExclusive clip: "Black Gold"
Beginning in the 1970s, Al Gore was on a mission to understand and act on climate change. He was unaware at the time that major oil companies, most critically Exxon, were years ahead of him in predicting and anticipating how climate change would affect the world, and their bottom line. Stream "Black Gold," a three-part docuseries, now on Paramount+.
news.yahoo.comFedEx driver gives basketball hoop, basketball to boy in random act of kindness
DAYTON, Ohio – An Indiana mom got the sweetest of surprises after a FedEx driver noticed her son ’s basketball hoop was looking rough, Storyful and WLWT reported. In a Facebook post, Coledo Cleo Wheeler said she and her husband came home from work when they noticed a brand new basketball hoop and a new basketball with an instruction manual. Come to find out a random act of kindness had happened in our home,” she wrote on her Facebook post. He knew exactly who Aubrey was," Wheeler wrote, “He started crying." In an update, she wrote that she came home to sandbags to place on the base of the basketball hoop.