ABC News Photo Illustration (NEW YORK) — After Kansas voters decisively rejected a bid to remove abortion protections from its state constitution earlier this week, researchers and activists say state lawmakers are likely to continue efforts to restrict access to abortion. The Kansas vote was the first state-level test after the […]
Richard Williams Photography/Getty Images/Stock (NESCOPECK, Pa.) — At least three people are dead and several remain unaccounted for after an intense fire tore through a home in central Pennsylvania on Friday, authorities said. Crews responding to the early morning fire in Nescopeck could not initially get inside the home due to […]
LPETTET/Getty Images/Stock (KALAMAZOO, Mich.) — Federal prosecutors have charged a 25-year-old man for allegedly setting a Michigan Planned Parenthood clinic on fire. Joshua Brereton allegedly set fire to the Planned Parenthood in Kalamazoo on July 31 around 4 p.m., when the clinic was closed and no patients were inside, according to […]
DC Fire and EMS/Twitter (WASHINGTON) — Two Wisconsin residents have died following a lightning strike near the White House on Thursday night, police confirmed to ABC News Friday. Police said 76-year-old James Mueller and 75-year-old Donna Meuller, both from Janesville, Wisconsin, died after being injured in the strike in Lafayette […]
Alfredo Alonso Avila / EyeEm / Getty Images (LAUREL, Neb.) — Foul play is suspected after four people were found dead at multiple homes in a small Nebraska town Thursday morning following reports of an explosion and fires, authorities said. A suspect is in custody, Nebraska State Patrol announced Friday […]
Eric Thayer/Getty Images (SAN ANTONIO) — Eight years before Uvalde school Police Chief Pete Arredondo led the controversial law enforcement response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School, he was demoted from a high-ranking position at the Webb County Sheriff’s Office, according to reporting by a local news outlet […]
DC Fire and EMS/Twitter (WASHINGTON) — Four people are in critical condition following an apparent lightning strike at a Washington, D.C., park, authorities said Thursday evening. D.C. Fire and EMS said it had responded to Lafayette Park, located in front of the White House, and was treating the four patients […]
Marilyn LeBlanc-Downey and her son, Skip Bailey, remember Ferris LeBlanc as a brother, uncle and father figure. – ABC News (NEW ORLEANS) — The New Orleans City Council is reviving an effort to locate the lost remains of several victims of an arson that killed 32 people at a popular […]
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Thursday’s sports events: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL AMERICAN LEAGUE Oakland 8, LA Angels 7 Houston 6, Cleveland 0 Tampa Bay 6, Detroit 2 Toronto 9, Minnesota 3 Texas 3, Chi White Sox 2 Kansas City 7, Boston 3 NATIONAL LEAGUE Pittsburgh 5, […]
ABC (NEW YORK) — Two questions — “What is college for and who pays for it?” — form the foundation of a new book that explores a variety of systemic issues facing America’s higher education system. Will Bunch, author of “After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American […]
