Georgia Schools Superintendent Richard Woods announced on Wednesday that the state will restore public funding for Advanced Placement (AP) African American studies to be taught in public schools after seeking "guidance and clarity" from the state’s attorney general regarding whether state law permits its inclusion in the state-approved course catalog.In…
(GASTONIA, N.C.) -- A North Carolina man accused of fatally poisoning his wife with eyedrops is now being accused of attempting to poison their 11-year-old daughter with the same substance, resulting in her hospitalization, according to court documents.Joshua Lee Hunsucker's was booked on Tuesday and his bond was revoked amid…
(TULSA, Okla.) -- A dog in Tulsa, Oklahoma, started a house fire after biting into a lithium ion battery, fire officials said.The Tulsa Fire Department recently released dramatic footage of the fire, which took place in May, showing the portable cellphone battery sparking and bursting into flames, sending two dogs…
(NEW YORK) -- The two astronauts who went up to the International Space Station (ISS) on Boeing's Starliner may have to come home on a different spacecraft, NASA officials said during a press conference Wednesday.Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita "Suni" Williams, who performed the first crewed test flight of Starliner,…
(DETROIT) -- A man in an "intimate relationship" with a Michigan neurosurgeon has been charged in the doctor's slaying, authorities announced Wednesday.Dr. Devon Hoover, 53, was found shot dead in his Detroit home on April 23, 2023, prosecutors said. He was shot twice in the head and his body was…
(NEW YORK) -- The estate of a Titanic researcher who was among the five people killed when the Titan submersible catastrophically imploded while on a deep-dive voyage to the site of the famous shipwreck last year has filed a wrongful death lawsuit seeking more than $50 million in damages.The lawsuit,…
(NEW YORK) -- Multiple motorists stranded on flooded roadways in New York and New Jersey had to be rescued from their submerged vehicles Tuesday night as some parts of the region got six inches of rain in about three hours, according to officials.The super-soaker storm brought torrential rain to New…
(BOSTON) -- Harvard University "failed its Jewish students" and must face a lawsuit over antisemitism on campus following the Oct. 7 Hamas attack against Israel, a federal judge in Boston ruled.Judge Richard Stearns said Jewish students plausibly claimed Harvard had been indifferent to their fears of walking through the campus…
(NEW YORK) -- Newly released documents describe the chaotic moments on board Alaska Airlines flight 1282 after the door plug blew out shortly after takeoff earlier this year, as the National Transportation Safety Board holds a two-day hearing into the matter.The NTSB released thousands of pages of documents and interview…
(NEW YORK) -- Four years after the coronavirus pandemic closed much of the nation's education system, thousands of the more than 50 million U.S. public school students and teachers are returning to school this month.In interviews with ABC News, education experts suggest the impact school closures had on the public…
