ABC News(KANSAS CITY, Mo.) -- Kansas City, Mo., police said Thursday they have taken into custody a suspect in connection with a string of highway shootings that have set the area on edge.

SWAT teams were seen swarming the house of the male suspect in Grandview, Mo. In a brief news conference Thursday evening, police did not provide details on what led them to the suspect.

"Residents are safe......

Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images(SEOUL, South Korea) -- Divers entered the doomed Sewol ferry in waters off South Koreas coast Friday, hoping to find additional survivors as prosecutors seek an arrest warrant for the ships captain and two crew members.

West Maritime Police told ABC News that the captain -- identified as Lee Joon-seok, 68 -- left the bridge before the vessel sank on Wednesday, leav...

Mark Wilson/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- With his press briefing book sitting closed next to him, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney didnt have much to refer to when a person asked if he wanted to take a selfie.

Absolutely, Carney said, after an audience member at George Washington University promised it wouldnt be taken on a Samsung device -- referring to the recent controversy with Bo...

Zola(NEW YORK) -- Couples heading to the altar can now add items from multiple stores to one simple registry.

Brides-to-be can use their smartphones to scan the bar codes of products in any store or add links from online retailers with the new app from Zola, which launched Thursday. And users arent limited to products -- they can also add dance lessons, wine tasting tours, cooking classes or ho...

Marie Ishikawa/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Earlier this week, the religious drama Heaven Is For Real made its debut (read a review here). It will be joined at the box office by three more new films on Friday. Here's a closer look:

-- Transcendence: Johnny Depp is a controversial researcher in the field of artificial intelligence, who tries to create a sentient machine that contains human intelligenc...

AlexRaths/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- Advances in science and technology are moving faster than people can keep up with, but in spite of feeling overwhelmed by the complexity of everything, Americans are pretty optimistic about the way things are headed.

A new Pew Research center survey suggests as much even as the changes come fast and furious.

For instance, just over eight in ten respondents beli...