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(NEW YORK) — More than 20 years ago a North Dakota town was shaken after a college student went missing after she left the mall where she worked at the beginning of the busy holiday season. Dru Sjodin’s disappearance in November 2003 banded together several of her friends, family, and neighbors in two states along […]
Mint Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Justice Department said Friday in a court filing it will seek the death penalty for Payton Gendron, the then-19-year-old who killed 10 people in a racially motivated shooting at a Tops Supermarket in Buffalo, New York, in May 2022. “United States believes the circumstances in Counts 11-20 of […]
(JACKSON, Miss.) — Residents of Jackson and Flowood, Mississippi, have been advised to boil their water after routine water samples tested positive for E. coli, the state’s health department said Thursday. “Health officials strongly recommend that all water be boiled vigorously for one minute before it is consumed,” the Mississippi State Department of Health said […]
(EAGLE PASS, Texas) — The state of Texas has seized control of a nearly 50-acre park on the banks of the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass, Texas, against the city’s desires, Mayor Rolando Salinas said. In a video posted on Facebook by the mayor on Wednesday night, Salinas said officials from the Texas Department of […]
(NEW YORK) — Over 1,000 flights have been canceled nationwide Friday as major winter storms prepare to unleash blizzard conditions, flooding rain and tornadoes. The Midwest and the Great Lakes are in the crosshairs Friday morning. Blizzard warnings are in effect for six states from Nebraska to Wisconsin, including the major cities of Des Moines, […]
(NEW YORK) — Americans are divided on how the U.S. Supreme Court should handle former President Donald Trump’s ballot access, but a majority in a new ABC News/Ipsos poll say they would support the court either barring Trump from presidential ballots nationally or letting states take that step individually. The national poll finds a close […]
(WASHINGTON) — The Biden Administration is rolling out another pathway to debt relief for certain student loan borrowers next month. The program targets people who took out smaller loan balances initially and have been paying their loans down for over a decade, unable to get out from under the debt. It’s a component of the […]
(TAHOE CITY, Calif.) — One person was killed in an avalanche at the Palisades Tahoe resort on the California side of Lake Tahoe, authorities said. Authorities have identified the victim of the avalanche as 66-year-old Kenneth Kidd, who is a resident of both Point Reyes and the Truckee area. The death marks the first U.S. […]
mbbirdy/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Trevor Bickford pleaded guilty Thursday to federal charges stemming from a 2022 New Year’s Eve knife attack on three New York Police Department officers manning a checkpoint on the Times Square periphery. Bickford, who was 19 when he carried out the alleged attack, came from Maine in December 2022 intending […]
(NEW YORK) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams defended temporarily housing migrants in a Brooklyn high school ahead of a winter storm this week, amid backlash over the administration’s handling of the migrant crisis. City officials relocated hundreds of migrants from a shelter at Floyd Bennett Field, a former airfield, to James Madison High […]
