kali9/iStockBy MEREDITH DELISO, ABC News (BUFFALO, N.Y.) — Assault charges against two Buffalo, New York, police officers seen in a video shoving a 75-year-old man to the ground during a protest last year have been dropped, prosecutors announced Thursday. Officers Aaron Torgalski and Robert McCabe faced felony assault charges over […]
kuzma/iStockBy LUKE BARR, ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Two men and one woman were charged by the Justice Department for allegedly fabricating a COVID-19 vaccine website. According to an affidavit unsealed Thursday, Olakitan Oluwalade, Odunayo Baba Oluwalad and Kelly Lamont Williams fraudulently replicated Moderna’s website, purporting to sell the company’s vaccine. […]
Marilyn Nieves/iStockBy JAMES HILL and BILL HUTCHINSON, ABC News (KENOSHA, Wis.) — A Wisconsin judge on Thursday denied a request to increase Kyle Rittenhouse’s $2 million bond and issue an arrest warrant for him after a prosecutor argued that the teenager, charged in the fatal shootings of two men at […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Transgender athletes would be barred from playing on girls’ sports teams under a bill that advanced Thursday in Utah, one of over a dozen states considering similar measures that opponents say would harm trans teenagers. The bill was approved by a panel of lawmakers Thursday […]
Instagram/@kbstafford89By ABC News (DETROIT) — Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford and his wife, Kelly, are pledging $1 million to build an education center in Detroit’s Lipke Park. Stafford’s wife announced the pledge in a post on Instagram. “It has been our goal to always give back to the city. […]
ChristopherBernard/iStockBy EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News (FORT WORTH, Texas) — At least six people are dead from a massive freeway pileup in Fort Worth, Texas, according to Fort Worth police. Over 100 vehicles were involved in the crash on I-35, and multiple people were trapped in their cars, the fire department […]
kali9/iStockBy KIARA BRANTLEY-JONES and STACY CHEN, ABC News (SAN FRANCISCO) — A reported string of nearly two dozen violent, unprovoked attacks against Asians and Asian Americans in the Bay Area in recent weeks has left the community on edge, advocates say. While police say the motive for the attacks — […]
LOGAN, Utah (AP) — Search and rescuers have safely extracted two snowmobilers who were stranded in a snowstorm in Utah. The recovery operation that finished Tuesday occurred after search and rescue officials were contacted about two snowmobilers who were stranded in a rugged region of southeastern Cache County. The search […]
Vadim ZHakupov/iStockBy ABC News (NEW YORK) — The Toronto Raptors will continue to play their home games at the Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida for the rest of the 2020-21 NBA season, accoriding to an ESPN report. In a statement posted to the team’s website, the team said they would […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah lawmaker has received criticism for comments he made during a committee hearing on a proposed ban to race-based hair discrimination. The Salt Lake Tribune reported that several Black women testified about the harms of race-based grooming policies. Republican state Sen. Derrin Owens told […]
