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(JACKSONVILLE, Fla.) — Three men have been charged in connection with the killing of a 39-year-old Black man in Jacksonville, Florida. On May 2, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office was alerted to an unconscious individual, and found the victim lying on the ground near a dumpster in downtown Jacksonville with an apparent gunshot wound. He was […]
(NEW YORK) — Casey White pleaded guilty Thursday to his 2022 jail escape, which precipitated a multi-day manhunt that ended in the death of a corrections officer who authorities said helped him break out of the Alabama detention center. White, 39, was charged with escape in the first degree following his capture in May 2022. […]
Matt Miller/ABC (WASHINGTON) — Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is leaving the agency, President Joe Biden announced. “She led a complex organization on the frontlines of a once-in-a-generation pandemic with honesty and integrity,” Biden said in a statement. “Dr. Walensky leaves CDC a stronger institution, better positioned […]
(PHOENIX) — A man has been taken into custody after a woman was killed while hiking on a Phoenix trail last week, police said. “Phoenix police have taken a man into custody in connection with the murder of 29-year-old Lauren Heike,” the Phoenix Police Department tweeted Thursday night. He was identified Friday as 22-year-old Zion […]
Jodie Wallis/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The case involving the death of a homeless man on a New York City subway is likely headed to a grand jury next week, law enforcement sources said. The investigation into John Neely’s death is ongoing. A grand jury would determine whether criminal charges are warranted, according to the […]
(WASHINGTON) — A new piece of legislation being introduced this week would make sharing non-consensual AI-generated pornography illegal in the United States, and open up new legal avenues for those impacted. “This bill aims to make sure there are both criminal penalties, as well as civil liability for anyone who posts, without someone’s consent, images […]
(ANTIOCH, Calif.) — The mayor and police chief of Antioch, the California city facing an FBI investigation and a lawsuit over alleged civil rights violations by its police officers, agree on one thing – the police department has an issue with culture. “Good people can exist in bad cultures,” Antioch Mayor Lamar Thorpe told ABC […]
(NEW YORK) — Brandon Presley doesn’t want to be compared to Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear or any of the other Democratic governors elected in recent cycles to serve in reliably red states like Kansas and Louisiana. “Let me be clear about this … I’m my own man,” Presley in an interview with ABC News. Presley […]
(PULLMAN, Wash.) — Newly released video shows the suspect in a quadruple murder in Idaho talking his way out of a traffic ticket for running a red light in Washington state a month before the gruesome slayings. The Washington State University Police Department released body camera footage on Thursday from when one of its officers […]
(WASHINGTON) — Americans divide closely on whom they’d blame if the federal government defaults on its debts, even as most align with the Biden administration’s position on how Congress should handle the issue. If default occurs — as Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Monday could happen by June 1 — 39% in this ABC News/Washington […]
