kali9/iStockBy CHRISTINA CARREGA, ABC NEWS (NEW YORK) — Six weeks have passed since a bystander recorded Fitzroy Gayle’s interaction with NYPD officers that quickly escalated to an aggressive arrest over smoking marijuana in a park. Yet, the 20-year-old Brooklyn, New York, man is still uttering the words over 142,000 Twitter […]
RiverNorthPhotography/iStockBy KENDALL KARSON, ABC NEWS (LANSING, Mich.) — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, one of the chief executives on the frontlines of the coronavirus crisis as her state suffers some of the highest tolls in the country, said she is “assessing daily” the restrictions put in place by her administration to […]
marvinh/iStockBy CATHERINE THORBECKE, ABC NEWS (CAMBRIDGE, Mass.) — After immense pressure from lawmakers, the president and others, Harvard University announced Wednesday it will not be accepting any bailout funds as part of the $2 trillion CARES Act. Harvard initially made headlines for receiving nearly $9 million in stimulus funds, and […]
Courtesy Mel Keefer(BATON ROUGE, Louisiana) — BY: TOMMY BROOKSBANK Two emergency room nurses said “I do” over the weekend with pictures of family and friends due to the coronavirus pandemic. Clare Seghers, 25, and Mel Keefer, 35, met three years ago working in the emergency room ward at Baton Rouge […]
SALINA, Utah-In news that broke Wednesday morning, North Sevier head football coach Devin Lindley confirmed he is leaving the Wolves to head to Class 5-A’s Region 8 with the Wasatch Wasps. Lindley, who went 15-28 (.349) in four seasons with the Wolves, expressed his appreciation for the North Sevier community […]
WEST JORDAN, Utah (AP) — Police say a man suspected of forcing his way into the Utah home of a couple he knew and killing them both in was arrested Wednesday morning in the Sacramento, California area. Police believe 30-year-old Katherine Butterfield and 31-year-old Tony Butterfield were sleeping when 31-year-old […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A former Nevada judge who was banned from the bench is working as a city attorney in Utah. The Deseret News reported Conrad Hafen became a Saratoga Springs assistant city attorney in January. The Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline censured Hafen following confrontations in his […]
narvikk/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR and ELLA TORRES, ABC News (NEW YORK) — A global pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed more than 178,000 people worldwide. Over 2.5 million people across the globe have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to data compiled […]
Kameleon007/iStockBy BILL HUTCHINSON, ABC News (NEW YORK) — Calling the 1,200 mid-sized to large jails in the nation “veritable volcanoes for the spread of the virus,” the American Civil Liberties Union released results on Wednesday of its own epidemiological model projecting a coronavirus death toll in the United States that […]
narvikk/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR and ELLA TORRES, ABC News (NEW YORK) — A global pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed more than 178,000 people worldwide. Over 2.5 million people across the globe have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to data compiled […]
