Mario Tama/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Thousands of cattle in Kansas have died as a national heat wave scorches the U.S., leaving one of the country’s leading cattle farming states with a loss amid rising production costs. At least 2,000 cattle have died as of Tuesday, the Kansas Department of […]
Scott Olson/Getty Images (BUFFALO, N.Y.) — A federal magistrate on Thursday urged federal prosecutors to quickly decide whether to seek the death penalty for alleged Buffalo supermarket shooter Payton Gendron, citing the expense to taxpayers of defending a death-eligible defendant. Gendron, 18, said at the U.S. District Court hearing that […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — For over a decade, Deborah Marion has been fighting for answers in the murder of her son, former NBA player Lorenzen Wright, who was found shot in 2010. “With Lorenzen, I’d be talking to his picture and sometimes his picture could look at me a […]
Emilee McGovern/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (UVALDE, Texas) — Several Texas school districts are requiring students to use clear backpacks in the wake of last month’s deadly shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde. Ingleside Independent School District, near Corpus Christi, became one of the latest to announce the new […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Down a dirt road, inside a church in Dallas, Texas, the cellphone of Zuleka Edwards buzzes constantly. “I was just trying to seek termination of a pregnancy,” one caller tells Edwards, abortion coordinator for The Afiya Center, the only Black-women-led abortion fund in North Texas. […]
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Wednesday’s sports events: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL INTERLEAGUE Kansas City 3, San Francisco 2 Cleveland 7, Colorado 5 LA Dodgers 4, LA Angels 1 AMERICAN LEAGUE Chi White Sox 13, Detroit 0 Houston 9, Texas 2 Minnesota 5, Seattle 0 Toronto 7, […]
Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (BALTIMORE) — Authorities are investigating potential arsons in Baltimore where, in the same area, four homes and an LGBTQ Pride flag were all on fire Wednesday morning. Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott’s office said in a news release that the pre-dawn incidents were separate, clarifying early reports that […]
Calhoun County Sheriff’s Office (GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.) — A Michigan police officer charged with second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of Patrick Lyoya during a traffic stop in April has been fired, city officials said. Christopher Schurr was terminated after waiving his right to a discharge hearing, Grand Rapids city […]
Timothy Abero / EyeEm/ Getty Images (CHESTERFIELD, Va.) — Fifteen kids and one adult were taken to the hospital on Wednesday after a hazmat incident at a neighborhood pool in Chesterfield, Virginia. Emergency crews initially responded to reports that children were experiencing nausea and respiratory issues, a Chesterfield Fire and […]
Thinkstock/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The United States is facing the most “complex” threat landscape in quite some time, a top Justice Department official told a conference in Washington, D.C., Wednesday. Lone-wolf actors, and their access to high-capacity firearms — like what allegedly occurred in Buffalo, New York — are very […]
