Jacksonville Sheriffs Office(JACKSONVILLE, Fla.) -- The mother of missing 5-year-old Jacksonville girl Taylor Williams is now a person of interest in the little girl's disappearance, authorities said Monday. Taylor's...

Society for Science & the Public/YouTube(WASHINGTON) --  At a national science and engineering competition for middle school students, girls took home all five top awards for the first time this year. The...

aijohn784/iStock(PHILADELPHIA) -- An 11-year-old boy was shot dead in Philadelphia on Monday, becoming the latest in a string of children to be shot in the city. The 11-year-old, whose name was not released, was shot once...

Atlanta Police Department(ATLANTA) -- Music and prayer filled Georgia's Clark Atlanta University campus Sunday night as grieving students came together to remember slain classmate Alexis Crawford, allegedly killed by her...

Canadian crude oil is once again moving through a pipeline nearly two weeks after the line leaked an estimated 383,000 gallons (1.4 million liters) of oil in North Dakota.

NASA(NEW YORK) -- Mercury will pass in front of the sun on Monday, appearing as a dark spot moving across the star’s bright surface. The cosmic event, which is called a transit, will last for roughly 5.5 hours and...

amphotora/iStock(ROXBORO, N.C.) -- Two fast food employees have been fired after one of them refused to serve a police officer who wanted to order food from the establishment. The incident occurred last week at the Cook...

ABC News(NEW YORK) -- An early season arctic cold front is barreling through the Midwest Monday morning and is expected to reach the Gulf Coast and the East Coast on Tuesday. Ahead of that cold front was a quick-moving...

YinYang/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- More than 700,000 young immigrants, who came of age in America but have lacked permanent legal status, look to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to uphold a program protecting them from...

MicroStockHub/iStock(HARDY, Va.) -- A former Marine is wanted in the murder of his mother's boyfriend. Rodney Brown, 54, was shot and killed on Saturday just before noon at his home in Hardy, Virginia, about 9 miles...

rvolkan/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Bernard J. Tyson, chairman and CEO of Kaiser Permanente, died in his sleep on Sunday, the company confirmed to ABC News in a statement. He was 60. "An outstanding leader, visionary and champion...

Western Tidewater Regional Jail(CHESAPEAKE, Va.) -- Federal prosecutors have accused a Virginia doctor of performing surgeries on women -- such as hysterectomies and removing their fallopian tubes without their consent...

KGTV(SAN DIEG) -- More than a dozen fraternities at San Diego State University have been suspended after a freshman was hospitalized following an event last week. The student allegedly attended a fraternity event...

Ulster County Sheriffs Office(MELVILLE, NEW YORK) -- A New York woman has been arrested for allegedly harassing a child with a genetic disorder, according to police. Krista Sewell, 26, of Melville, allegedly posted...

Eloi_Omella/iStock(BISHOP, Calif) -- A hiker who had gone missing while exploring a mountain in California was later found on top of a glacier, according to authorities. Alan Stringer, 40, of Huntington Beach, failed to...

kali9/iStock(FORT WORTH, Texas) -- Marquis Jefferson, father of Atatiana Jefferson, a black woman fatally shot by a white police officer inside her Fort Worth, Texas, home last month, has died. Family spokesperson, Bruce...

Ricks Moulton/iStock(LOS ANGELES) -- A lawsuit filed by the parents of an 8-year-old boy alleges that a teacher disallowed their son to use the bathroom and made him pee into a trashcan in front of his classmates before he...

ABC News (NEW YORK) -- Saturday was the end of the latest cold blast across much of the eastern U.S., however a more intense, much colder, record breaking cold blast that will impact more than half of the U.S. is on the...

wsfurlan/iStock(NEW YORK) --  A 7-year old boy is fighting for his life after plummeting 9 floors from his family’s apartment window. The incident occurred around 11 a.m. on Saturday morning at the Bronx River...

amesy/iStock(TUSCALOOSA, Ala.) -- A towering "Baby Trump" balloon -- which has become a popular symbol for critics of the president -- was knifed and deflated in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on Saturday during President Donald...