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Pell Grants offer prison inmates a chance to pursue a college education

ABC News(ELLSWORTH, Kan.) -- For the first time in decades, prison inmates are eligible for the Pell Grant, a federal financial aid program that helps low-income students receive a college education. Simon Garcia, 34, who graduated college last November from a state prison in Ellsworth, Kansas, is just one of the people whose life was changed due to a Pell Grant. “I've been in prison and incarcerated all my life, since I was 12 years old,” Garcia told ABC News. “Initially, […]

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91-year-old man fends off violent mugger in NYC attack, search for suspect continues

New York Police Department(NEW YORK) -- Police continue to search for a violent mugger who met his match in a 91-year-old man he tried to rob on a New York City street. The victim, Hyman Silverglad, was transported to St. Luke's Hospital Medical Center with multiple injuries last week after he fought off the mugger trying to steal his wallet. The assault took place on Feb. 1 on East 86th Street between First and Second Avenues around 10:30 a.m., local time, […]

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JetBlue planes clip one another at Boston Logan Airport

John Hudson Photography/Getty Images(BOSTON) -- Two JetBlue planes clipped each other Thursday morning while on a deicing pad at Boston Logan International Airport. The incident occurred when the two planes were on adjacent deicing pad lanes, JetBlue said in a statement. According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the left winglet of JetBlue flight 777, an Airbus A321neo, struck the right horizontal stabilizer of JetBlue flight 551, which was an Airbus A321. The impact damaged one aircraft's winglet and the other […]

todayFebruary 8, 2024

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Maui Strong 808: Six months later, police review response to deadly fires

Maui Police Chief John Pelletier. (Nicco Quinones for ABC News)(NEW YORK) -- On a wind-whipped August evening, Maui police officers Calvin Dawn and Kameryn Pupunu had just wrapped up homicide training when they started to hear radio calls for evacuation in Lahaina, the historic enclave on the other side of their island. They had no way of knowing then just how desperate those calls would grow in the hours to come on that day six months ago, Aug. 8, 2023 […]

todayFebruary 8, 2024

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Woman goes missing on hike during historic Southern California storm

Oliver Helbig/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A 22-year-old woman is missing after she went hiking alone in Southern California during this week's massive, multi-day storm, authorities said. Lisei Huang left for a hike in the Mount Baldy area of the San Gabriel Mountains at about 2 p.m. Sunday, and she was last heard from about two hours later, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said. She was reported missing Sunday night. Crews started searching for Huang at about 2:30 a.m. Monday, […]

todayFebruary 8, 2024

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Documents detail OceanGate’s battle with whistleblower years before fatal Titan submersible implosion

Lochridge dedicated several pages and pictures to the carbon fiber hull, demonstrating alleged porosity in the material. (Obtained by ABC News)(NEW YORK) -- Years before an OceanGate submersible tragically imploded on its way to the wreckage of the Titanic, a former employee warned company executives about the inefficiency of their hull design and the company's testing methods. The employee, who worked on the predecessor to the vessel that imploded, claimed his warnings went "dismissed on several occasions." The search for […]

todayFebruary 8, 2024

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Authorities investigating online threats made to potential witness related to Trump classified docs case

Former President Donald Trump arrives at the New York State Supreme Court in New York, on Oct. 2, 2023. (Stephanie Keith/Bloomberg via Getty Images)(NEW YORK) -- Federal authorities are currently investigating a series of threats made online to a potential witness related to special counsel Jack Smith's classified documents case against former President Donald Trump, according to a new court filing from Smith's team. In the filing late Wednesday in federal court in Florida, Smith's team asked U.S. District Judge […]

todayFebruary 8, 2024

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Baby decapitated during labor at Georgia hospital ruled a homicide

Family handout(NEW YORK) -- The parents of a newborn who had been decapitated during birth held a press conference on Wednesday after the Clayton County, Georgia Medical Examiner’s Office declared the baby's death a homicide. Dr. Roderick Edmond, one of the family’s attorneys and a medical doctor, pointed particularly to the hospital staff’s alleged attempt to hide the decapitation from the parents. "It’s diabolical in my mind," Edmond said. "That they tried to basically force her to get the baby […]

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Possible tornado hits southern California as storm dumps even more rain

Photography by Keith Getter (all rights reserved)/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A storm sweeping through southern California overnight unleashed damaging winds and even more rain on an already saturated area. A possible tornado hit a neighborhood of Grover Beach, south of Los Angeles, on Wednesday night. There was some property damage as well as downed power lines and trees in the area, but no reports of injuries, according to Five Cities Fire Authority Chief Steve Lieberman, who said his crews would […]

todayFebruary 8, 2024

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