Lamar Goodwine(WASHINGTON) — BY: KENNEDEY BELL Though permanently scarred from surviving a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in 2018, Aalayah Eastmond, 19, said she refuses to let her traumatic experiences obstruct her road to activism against gun violence and racial injustice . Eastmond’s life was upended on […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The four Republicans in the race for Utah governor clashed Tuesday over the response to a police-brutality protest that included the burning of a police car. The Deseret News reports that former House Speaker Greg Hughes said the National Guard should have been called in […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Police say an explosion under the car of a candidate for the Utah House of Representatives was caused by a vehicular malfunction and not an explosive device. Democrat Robert Burch told police a small explosion happened as the car was backed out of his family’s […]
PROVO, Utah (AP) — Utah health and water quality officials will temporarily stop monitoring a lake for toxic algal blooms as a result of state funding uncertainty caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The Daily Herald reports the state Division of Water Quality and Utah County Health Department will postpone the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah lawmakers have taken a first step toward banning ban police officers from placing their knees on the necks of people being detained in the type of chokehold used by a Minnesota police officer in the death of George Floyd. The Salt Lake Tribune reports […]
ULora/iStockBy ERIN SCHUMAKER, ABC News (MIAMI) — Florida reported its second-highest new daily increase of coronavirus cases Wednesday with 2,610 announced. This comes a day after Florida reported a record-high one-day increase of 2,783 cases on Tuesday. Miami, among Florida’s most populous cities, won’t move into the next phase of […]
Stelsone/iStockBy EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News (ATLANTA) — The district attorney in Fulton County, Georgia, will soon announce his charging decision in the shooting death of Rayshard Brooks, a black man who died at the hands of an Atlanta police officer. District Attorney Paul Howard Jr. is set to hold a […]
Myriam Borzee/iStockBy OLIVIA RUBIN, JOSH MARGOLIN and EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News (MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Ala.) — Montgomery County, Alabama, home to the state’s capital, is quickly emerging as a hot spot in the state’s battle against COVID-19, according to a leading health expert. With nearly 3,000 people diagnosed with the […]
ABC NewsBy CHRIS FRANCESCANI, SANTINA LEUCI and VICTORIA THOMPSON, ABC News (NEW YORK) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo called the federal government’s early coronavirus tracking a “terrible blunder” in an interview with ABC News’ Good Morning America, said he would not accept a cabinet position in a Joe Biden […]
ABC NewsBy MAX GOLEMBO, ABC News(NEW YORK) — There are nearly three dozen wildfires burning in the United States Wednesday morning and most of them are in Arizona where the many evacuations are being ordered. The biggest fire in the nation is called the Bush Fire and it is 64,513 […]
