Severe weather outbreak for April 2, 2024. ABC News (NEW YORK) — Many schools across Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana have announced closures or early dismissals as a line of severe thunderstorms brings damaging winds and a threat of dangerous tornadoes to the Ohio Valley. A tornado watch was issued Tuesday […]
2017 solar eclipse. Philip Yabut/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Inmates in a New York prison have filed a lawsuit after the state’s Department of Corrections announced a lockdown that would prevent them from watching next week’s total solar eclipse. The six men, who are incarcerated at the Woodbourne Correctional Facility, […]
Dennis Macdonald/Getty Images (TALLAHASSEE, FLA) — The Florida state Supreme Court issued a decision Monday upholding the state’s 15-week abortion ban, dealing a blow to a legal challenge asking the court to throw out the ban. The state Supreme Court heard arguments in September after it took up the case […]
Stephanie Keith/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Two people were charged Monday for allegedly distributing the heroin and fentanyl that caused the death of transgender activist Cecilia Gentili. Cecilia Gentili was 52 when she fatally overdosed on Feb. 6 in her New York City home due to effects of fentanyl-laced heroin, […]
Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (BALTIMORE) — A cargo ship crashed into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge early Tuesday morning, causing a near-total collapse of the span and halting vessel traffic into and out of the Port of Baltimore. Six construction workers believed to have fallen from the collapsing bridge […]
Getty Images – STOCK (Charleston, S.C.) — Alex Murdaugh, who is already serving two life sentences for the murder of his wife and child, was sentenced Monday to 40 more years in prison for financial crimes, according to Charleston, South Carolina, ABC affiliate WCIV. Murdaugh, 55, pleaded guilty in September […]
Joe Raedle/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Powerball has climbed to $1 billion for Monday night’s drawing. “This is no April Fools’ Day joke, we have an advertised Powerball jackpot that’s hit $1 billion to kick off the month of April,” Drew Svitko, Powerball product group chair and Pennsylvania Lottery […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Severe weather is in the forecast for the Heartland and the Midwest, with damaging winds, large hail and even a few strong tornadoes possible. On Monday, severe thunderstorms are expected from Texas to West Virginia, with the greatest tornado threat from Oklahoma to Missouri. The […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — During police investigations, interrogations — the formal questioning of a potential suspect — are critical and can lead to a big break in the case. Historically, investigators have been taught aggressive, coercive strategies aimed at one primary goal: obtaining a confession, whether true or false. […]
Police mugshot of suspect Anton Rucker. — Metro Nashville Police Department (NASHVILLE, Tenn.) — Police in Nashville, Tennessee, are searching for a gunman who they say opened fire during an Easter brunch. Anton Rucker, 46, is wanted for killing 33-year-old Allen Beachem and injuring five others “non-critically” in Sunday afternoon’s […]
