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Police seeking missing girl converge on Alabama neighborhood

Police looking for a missing 3-year-old girl in Birmingham, Alabama, have swarmed around a residential area a few miles from where she was last seen. Authorities haven't said exactly what's going on in their search for Kamille McKinney. Authorities say the girl known as "Cupcake" to her family was snatched away from a birthday party outside a housing project in Birmingham on Saturday night.

Prosecutors suspect man of illegally detaining Dutch family

Prosecutors said Wednesday they are charging a 58-year-old man arrested in connection with the discovery of a Dutch family who lived largely isolated from the outside world for nine years. The man, widely reported in Dutch media to be a 58-year-old Austrian national identified only as Jozef B., was scheduled to appear before an investigating judge on Thursday. Prosecution spokeswoman Melanie Kompier declined to give further details on the case or confirm the suspect's identity.

U.S. Supreme Court divided over Kansas immigrant identity theft case

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared divided over the legality of Kansas prosecuting three immigrants for violating identity theft laws by using other people's Social Security numbers in a dispute over whether the state impermissibly encroached on federal control over immigration policy. The justices heard arguments in the state's appeal of a 2017 Kansas Supreme Court ruling that voided the convictions of three restaurant workers and found that a 1986 federal law, the Immigration Reform and Control Act, prevents states from pursuing such prosecutions. The case tests how state criminal laws can be used against illegal immigrants and other people who do not have work authorization in the United States.

Wisconsin man ordered to pay $450K to Sandy Hook father for saying he falsified son's death

A Wisconsin man who claimed that the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting never happened was ordered to pay $450,000 to the father of a boy killed in the massacre. Lenny Pozner, whose son, Noah, was killed in the shooting at the Connecticut elementary school that left 26 dead, filed a defamation lawsuit against James Fetzer in November 2018. Fetzer co-authored a book titled "Nobody Died at Sandy Hook." In it, he argued that the shooting was a hoax meant to promote gun control.

Census confirms drivers' records request tied to citizenship

The U.S. Census Bureau is acknowledging that its nationwide request for state drivers' license records is the result of President Donald Trump's order to gather records that can better determine the numbers of citizens and non-citizens across the U.S. The bureau has expanded its request for state records in response to Trump's order , officials said in a statement Tuesday. Trump issued the order after the U.S. Supreme Court blocked his administration's efforts to include a citizenship question on the 2020 Census.

Trump on Turkey going into Syria: 'It's not our problem'

Trump on Turkey going into Syria: 'It's not our problem' originally appeared on abcnews.go.comPresident Donald Trump on Wednesday again tried to distance himself and the U.S. from the Syria crisis, telling reporters asking about Turkey attacking into Syria, 'It's not our problem."That is between Turkey and Syria he said at an Oval Office photo-op with Italy's President Sergio Mattarella.(MORE: Vice President Mike Pence to head delegation to Turkey for ceasefire talks )Elaborating on the continued fighting between Turkish forces and the U.S. ...

After the debate, who's up, who's down in the Democratic primary?

At the end of the night, it would be hard to say if many minds were changed by the Democratic primary debate Tuesday at Ohio’s Otterbein University. But it did bring some differences among them into sharper focus, setting the stage for the next phase of the primary process.

American prosecutor gunned down in Micronesia had 'most dangerous job' on the tiny island

Simon Hammerling was at home on Monday evening baking brownies with a child he and his wife were helping to take care of when he heard three loud gunshots. "I just kind of fell by her, not really thinking about anything else," Hammerling recalled in a Skype interview with ABC News. Bergeron had returned from her daily jog around 7 p.m. and was shot while opening the trunk of the car to let out the dog.

Da Vinci's "Vitruvian Man" drawing can go on loan to Louvre

An Italian court has ruled that Leonardo Da Vinci's iconic "Vitruvian Man" drawing can be loaned to France's Louvre Museum, solving an ongoing cultural dispute between Italy and France. The Venice court last week had suspended the loan of the world-famous drawing, which is part of a batch of works by Leonardo and Raphael that the Italian government had agreed to send to Paris. The "Vitruvian Man" is currently kept in a climate-controlled vault in Venice's Accademia Gallery and is put on public display only occasionally.

Roadside Bigfoot: Georgia museum devoted to legendary beast

Along a bustling four-lane highway that winds through the north Georgia mountains, an unassuming wooden structure breaks the monotony of churches, billboards and stores selling kitschy knickknacks. Once a BYOB supper club, it's now ground zero in the search for a legendary beast. "I can remember my great-grandmother talking about having a cabin in the woods, and she saw Sasquatch," says Sherry Gaskinn of Villa Rica, Georgia, who was driving by one afternoon and had to stop in.

Indiana attorney general tries barring testimony against him

Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill is trying to block two women from testifying about allegations of sexual misconduct as he faces a disciplinary hearing on separate claims that he drunkenly groped four women at a bar last year. The state's attorney disciplinary commission wants the women to testify about Hill's actions when he was the Elkhart County prosecutor before becoming attorney general in 2017. Hill's lawyers argue in legal filings that such testimony about unrelated events shouldn't be allowed at Hill's professional misconduct hearing next week.

Bank of America puts investments over cost cuts as 'operating leverage' fades

For the first time in nearly five years, Bank of America Corp did not rely on cost cuts to amplify profits – the latest sign of big U.S. banks prioritizing investments in their businesses over short-term gains. On Tuesday, Bank of America reported better-than-expected quarterly results, helped by loan growth, higher equities trading revenue and bigger fees from dealmaking and wealth management. The difference between those two figures, known as operating leverage, is watched closely on Wall Street as a barometer of how well a bank manages costs.

4th defendant in federal case involving Rudy Giuliani associates arrested

A fourth defendant in the federal campaign finance case involving two associates of Rudy Giuliani, the president's personal attorney, was arrested in New York on Wednesday. David Correia, an American businessman, was taken into custody at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport.

Trump calls meeting with family of dead British teenager 'beautiful' but sad

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he had a beautiful but sad White House meeting with a British family whose son was killed in the collision in England of his motorbike with a car driven by a U.S. diplomat's wife. Harry Dunn, 19, died in the collision near an air force base in central England used by the U.S. military. The diplomat's wife, Anne Sacoolas, left Britain under a disputed claim of diplomatic immunity.

Scientists discover big storms can create 'stormquakes'

The shaking of the sea floor during hurricanes and nor'easters can rumble like a magnitude 3.5 earthquake and can last for days, according to a study in this week's journal Geophysical Research Letters. A stormquake is more an oddity than something that can hurt you, because no one is standing on the sea floor during a hurricane, said Wenyuan Fan, a Florida State University seismologist who was the study's lead author. "This is the last thing you need to worry about," Fan told The Associated Press.

'I'm not gonna stop 'til I find this baby': Why 1 woman refuses to give up search for 3-year-old Kamille McKinney

Days into the desperate search for an abducted 3-year-old Alabama girl, the head of a local missing persons group is refusing to stop -- because she said she's been in this family's shoes. Kamille "Cupcake" McKinney was playing with other children at an outdoor birthday party in Birmingham on Saturday night when she vanished, authorities said. An Amber Alert was issued but the Birmingham police said earlier this week that there was no information on Kamille's whereabouts.

Trump on Turkey invading Syria: It's not our problem

President Trump on Wednesday tried to further distance himself from his decision to pull U.S. troops out of northern Syria, abandon America’s Kurdish allies and clear the way for Turkey’s bloody incursion that has quickly turned into a humanitarian crisis.

'I like killing people': Man accused of killing 3 allegedly said he 'wants to be a serial killer'

A man accused of slaying three people across two states allegedly told a victim who survived he wanted to be a serial killer. "I like killing people," Stanley Mossburg alleged told the victim, according to authorities. Mossburg, 35, was arrested Tuesday and charged with killing two people in Winter Haven, Florida, and one person in Greeneville, Tennessee.

Dutch man arrested on suspicion of holding family in remote farm against their will

Dutch prosecutors have announced that a 58-year-old man, arrested after the discovery of a family hidden on a remote farm, is suspected of holding them against their will and harming their health. “He is being investigated under suspicion of involvement in illegally depriving others of their freedom and endangering their health,” announced the local prosecution service in the northern Netherlands. He will appear before an examining magistrate on Thursday to decide if he will remain in custody. The announcement is the first result in a major Dutch police investigation, launched after six people were discovered in a small, enclosed space in a farmhouse on the Buitenhuizerweg road in Ruinerwold village earlier this week. When they were released, they told the police that they were a family of five children and a father, none of whom was officially registered as living there. They said that they were adults “but this is being investigated”, according to police. A woman from animal ambulance holds cat carriers at the site of a remote farm where a family spent years locked away  Credit: REUTERS/Eva Plevier An older man who rented the building, named by Dutch media as an Austrian national called Josef B., refused to cooperate and was arrested. Now it appears that concrete charges may be laid against him. Meanwhile on Wednesday, more details emerged of social media accounts that Dutch media have linked with a 25-year-old man, Jan, who sounded the alert on Sunday. He wandered into a local bar, drank five beers, and told barman Chris Westerbeek that he had run away and that he and the rest of his family had been shut away from the outside world for nine years. Dutch media have linked him to an active social media profile on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. On Facebook, this profile says he started working as “online store manager” for local company, Creconat, creating an online catalogue from June this year. This is named in Chamber of Commerce records as one of several companies under the banner Native Creative Economy, apparently owned by the 58-year-old odd job and furniture maker who was arrested. The family lived in the cellar for years and where waiting for 'the end of time'  Credit: Hollandse Hoogte/REX  The social media accounts said to belong to the 25-year-old talk about joining climate strike action, trees, newborn animals and beefburger recipes. The Facebook account apparently shows a nine year gap in posts from 2010 to 2019. However a link in the timeline – apparently posted in 2010 – saying that Jan had just moved to Ruinerwold was actually added on September 15th this year, as were three earlier posts dated as 2008, 2005 and 1994. The account is now full of Dutch commentators pointing out the disparities. Meanwhile, neighbours interviewed by Dutch newspaper the AD reported never having seen the family but having spotted Josef B. with a car full of shopping and toilet rolls, which “seemed a lot for someone who lived alone.” Other locals described him as a "closed" man with an unusual number of security cameras. “We understand that everyone has a lot of questions and we do too,” said the police in a statement. “This is why we want to investigate thoroughly and carefully.” It added that the family is now in a safe place, receiving care.

Earthquake probed as possible cause of California fuel fire

Officials were trying to determine Wednesday if a 4.5 magnitude earthquake triggered an explosion at a fuel storage facility in the San Francisco Bay Area that started a fire and trapped thousands in their homes for hours because of potentially unhealthy air. The earthquake struck about 15 miles (24 kilometers) southeast from the NuStar Energy fuel storage facility in the Bay Area community of Crockett 15 hours before the Tuesday fire that consumed thousands of gallons (liters) of fuel.

Jaime Pressly defends her choice to call one of her kids her 'favorite'

Jaime Pressly defends her choice to call one of her kids her 'favorite' originally appeared on goodmorningamerica.comJaime Pressly shared a post earlier this month that garnered some mixed responses from critics.The actress and mother to 12-year-old son Dezi and 2-year-old twins Leo and Lenon posted a photo on Instagram with Dezi in which she described him as her "favorite son.""That’s right I said it," she wrote in the caption of her post. "I have a favorite son although I luv all 3 of my boys with everything I have in me. ...

City official: I support vandalism of Columbus statue

A city councilor in Rhode Island says she thinks the recent vandalism to a Christopher Columbus statue is a good thing. Democrat Katherine Kerwin told WPRO radio on Wednesday that she thinks the statue should be removed and that healthy civil disobedience is good for society and the city of Providence. Democratic Mayor Jorge Elorza said Tuesday he'd consider moving the statue to another neighborhood.

A homeless man was sentenced to 15 years after pleading guilty to cocaine possession — but it turned out to just be powdered milk

Cody Gregg, 29, had his case in Oklahoma City dismissed on Friday, days after pleading guilty to possession of cocaine with intent to distribute.

Wanted: Intimacy coordinators. Hollywood's fastest growing job

Two years after a sexual harassment scandal roiled Hollywood, one of the fastest growing jobs in the entertainment industry is that of the intimacy director. Fueled by the #MeToo and Time's Up movements, demand is soaring for intimacy directors or coordinators who help choreograph TV and movie scenes involving sex or nudity and ensure that actors are not exploited or made to feel uncomfortable. "We have stunt coordinators.

Students tackle gunman at California high school, police say

Students at a California high school tackled a gunman and managed to take his weapon from him after brandishing it at the school, police said. La Habra High School went on lockdown Tuesday morning after a student yielded a .22 caliber gun in the school, according to a statement from La Habra police. "It was the students who tackled him," Rocha said.

Former governor stands by tweet comparing Trump to Hitler

Former New Jersey Gov. Christie Whitman says she stands by a tweet she deleted in which she compared President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. The Republican tweeted Hitler "has nothing on" Trump. Whitman's tweet was in response to reports that a violent parody video depicting a likeness of Trump shooting and stabbing opponents and members of the media was played during a conference at his Miami golf resort.