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The Pensacola naval base shooting suspect was identified as member of the Saudi military. Why was he there?

iStock(PENSACOLA, Fla.) -- Friday's shooting at Naval Air Station Pensacola, in which four people, including the shooter, died, marks the second time this week gun violence erupted at a U.S. military installation. But...

Storm to bring wind and heavy rain to West, snow to Upper Midwest

iStock(NEW YORK) -- A storm has moved into the Western U.S. and it's bringing heavy rain, wind and snow to the region today, before it moves toward the Midwest on Sunday night and early Monday. There are wind alerts,...

California power utility PG&E reaches $13.5B settlement for 2017-2018 wildfires

iStock(LOS ANGELES) -- PG&E, the California power utility, has reached a $13.5 billion settlement with victims of the catastrophic Northern California wildfires of 2017 and 2018. The agreement settles the last major...

School crowns all-girls Chicago chess team at pep rally after big win at state championship

iStock(CHICAGO) -- St. Ethelreda School on the South Side of Chicago placed highly at the state championships and came together to celebrate. A group of three eighth grade girls brought home a big win during an Illinois...

NASA is enlisting elephant seals to help them study climate science

iStock(NEW YORK) -- NASA scientists have playful helpers for studying the earth's climate: elephant seals wearing hat-like antenna. The antennae have sensors that take in information about the ocean's temperature and...

First lady Melania Trump makes annual holiday visit to children's hospital to read to patients

Alex Wong/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- First lady Melania Trump continued a nearly 70-year-long tradition Friday when she made her annual visit to Children’s National Hospital where she met with patients, their...

4 Shooting incidents occurred on military bases in the US in 2019

iStock(NEW YORK) -- For the second time this week, a military base in the United States faced an active shooter incident. The latest on Friday in Pensacola, Florida, has left four people, including the shooter, dead. The...

Coast Guard saves lucky dog swimming off Florida beach

US Coast Guard/Facebook(FORT MYERS BEACH, Fla.) -- The night crew had just started their shift when they got the distress call. A Coast Guard crew saved a very good boy off the coast of Fort Myers Beach on Wednesday. The...

Officials: 4 dead in shooting incident at Pensacola naval base; suspect was Saudi national

choicegraphx/iStock(PENSACOLA, Fla.) -- There is an active shooter situation at naval base NAS Pensacola in Florida, police say.

Western storm will cross country and bring snow, rain from California to NY

ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A brand new storm will be moving into Northern California and Southern Oregon later Friday with heavy rain all the way down to the San Francisco Bay area and heavy snow in the mountains. Storm alerts...

Mom pleads guilty to murder of 5-year-old son: Prosecutors

The Office of McHenry County State's Attorney (CHICAGO) -- An Illinois mother has pleaded guilty to murder for her role in the beating death of her 5-year-old son, prosecutors said Thursday. Joanne Cunningham and Andrew...

Woman found dead inside home of missing 1-year-old identified as child's mother

Ansonia Police Department(ANSONIA, Conn.) -- A body found inside the home of a missing 1-year-old Connecticut girl has been identified as the child's mother, police said Thursday. Christine Halloway, 43, was found dead on...

West Virginia corrections workers suspended over 'disturbing' Nazi salute photo

West Virginia Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety (CHARLESTON, W.Va.) -- A number of West Virginia corrections employees have been suspended in response to an image of them performing a Nazi salute. The...

Migrant child who died in Border Patrol custody seen vomiting with a fever in video

wingedwolf/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- House Democrats are demanding an investigation into the death of a migrant teen from the flu while in U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody after ProPublica released new video Thursday...

Texas police use drone to nab burglary suspect

KTRK-TV(HOUSTON) -- It used to be that police departments needed to have a helicopter to identify and locate fleeing suspects from the air. But not anymore. The advent of drone technology is putting that capability into...

Four killed in shootout following theft of UPS truck in Florida: Police

Richard_Lawrence_Photo/iStock(CORAL GABLES, Fla.) -- Police have confirmed multiple fatalities in a shootout after suspects absconded with a UPS truck in Florida. The incident began as an attempted robbery at a jewelry...

3 Soldiers killed when Minnesota National Guard Black Hawk crashes

VanderWolf-Images/iStock(ST. CLOUD, Minn.) -- A Minnesota Army National Guard helicopter with three people aboard was missing after having taken off from an Army aviation facility in St. Cloud, Minnesota, on Thursday,...

'Living in squalor': Watchdog agency slams New York City homeless placement program

LewisTsePuiLung/iStock(NEW YORK) -- New York City's own inspector general ripped a controversial city program intended to help curb homelessness after a probe showed it left needy families "living in squalor under the...

Amtrak worker killed while working on electrical line in New York

WABC(NEW YORK) -- An Amtrak maintenance man was working on an electrical line in New York City when he was electrocuted and killed Thursday morning, according to the New York Police Department. The line was supposed to be...

16-Year-old STEM school shooting suspect to be tried as adult, judge rules

Kuzma/iStock(DENVER) -- A 16-year-old will be tried as an adult for his alleged role in a shooting at a Colorado school that killed one student and injured eight others, a judge has ruled. Alec McKinney, 16, and Devon...