BlakeDavidTaylor/iStockBy LUKE BARR, ABC News (NEW YORK) — The Police Executive Research Forum surveyed four cities across the country and found that crime rates in Indianapolis, Milwaukee, New York and Las Vegas have spiked since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and the reopening of the country — a fact […]
DNY59/iStockBy STEPHANIE WASH, ABC News (ATLANTA) — As the district attorney of Fulton County, Georgia, Paul L. Howard Jr. says he attends a lot of funerals. On Tuesday, at the invitation of the Brooks family, Howard attended Rayshard Brooks’ funeral, which was held to honor the late father of four, […]
amphotora/iStockBy BILL HUTCHINSON, ABC News (NEW YORK) — A retired top New York City detective is recommending “throwing out the book” on training for would-be police officers across the country and starting from scratch. Kirk Burkhalter, who is now a professor at New York Law School, told ABC News on […]
ABC NewsBy EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News (NEW YORK) — A father has pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree reckless endangerment in the hot car deaths of his one-year-old twins, New York prosecutors said Tuesday. Juan Rodriguez, 39, was sentenced to a one-year conditional discharge, Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark […]
U.S. national team players Megan Rapinoe, Tobin Heath and Christen Press have opted out of the National Women’s Soccer League tournament opening this weekend in Utah. Heath and Press played with Rapinoe on the champion World Cup team last summer in France. The two cited concerns about the coronavirus for […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. has been authorized to resume campaigning for governor after remaining in quarantine because of a coronavirus diagnosis. The Deseret News reported the Salt Lake County Health Department cleared the Republican to resume campaign work while seeking his party’s nomination. […]
Stewart Trial AttorneysBy EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News (ATLANTA) — Friends and family — some wearing Black Lives Matter face masks — gathered on a cloudy day in Atlanta for the funeral of Rayshard Brooks, a Black man who was shot dead in a Wendy’s parking lot by a police officer. […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Gov. Gary Herbert says he has no plans to shut down the economy even though he shares some of the concerns of the state’s epidemiologist. She warned a “complete shutdown” might be imminent if Utah can’t stop a prolonged spike of coronavirus cases. Herbert tweeted […]
Stewart Trial AttorneysBy EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News (ATLANTA) — Friends and family are gathering on a cloudy day in Atlanta for the funeral of Rayshard Brooks, a black man who was shot dead in a Wendy’s parking lot by a police officer. Brooks, a 27-year-old husband, father and stepfather, was […]
Myriam Borzee/iStockBy IVAN PEREIRA, ABC News(HOUSTON) — The rise in new COVID-19 cases in Texas is gotten so taxing that a children’s hospital in Houston is now admitting adult patients. The Texas Children’s Hospital said it opened up its intensive care unit and acute care-beds to adults who are suffering […]
