oatawa/iStockBy CATHERINE THORBECKE, ABC News (MINNEAPOLIS) — Minneapolis has scrapped plans to pay social media influencers to share information during the upcoming trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin for the death of George Floyd. In an email sent to city elected officials and obtained by ABC News, Minneapolis’ Director […]
FRANCOIS PICARD/AFP via Getty ImagesBy JULIA JACOBO, ABC News (JACKSON, Miss.) — Hundreds of thousands of residents in the South are still dealing with the after effects of two devastating winter storms as cities struggle to provide drinking water. Residents in Jackson, Mississippi, are still under a boil water alert, […]
Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for The MatchBy CARMEN COX, ABC News (LOS ANGELES) — Tiger Woods tweeted a message of love after fans and fellow golfers took to the final round of the WGC-Workday Championship wearing his signature Sunday red as a tribute to the star athlete. “It is hard to […]
PROVO, Utah — BYU today announced agreements for future football games with the University of Mississippi of the SEC and FCS foe Dixie State University. Ole Miss and BYU have agreed to a home-and-home series that will see the Rebels visiting LaVell Edwards Stadium in Provo, Utah, on Sept. 16, […]
vmargineanu/iStockBy EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News (PINE BLUFF, Ark.) — One student has been hurt in a shooting at Watson Chapel Junior High School in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, the school district said. “The parent of the student hurt has been notified,” the Watson Chapel School District said. All students are safe, […]
ABCBy ASHLEY BROWN, EMILIE DE SAINTE MARESVILLE and ALLIE YANG, ABC News (EVANSTON, Ill.) — Evanston, Illinois, is like a lot of American cities. The city just north of Chicago appears picturesque, updated and grand on one side — but not far away, one can see the signs of economic […]
welcomia/iStockBy EMILY SHAPIRO and MAX GOLEMBO, ABC News (NEW YORK) — Up to 5 inches of rain has slammed parts of Arkansas, Kentucky and Tennessee, leaving residents stranded, roads washed out and buildings flooded. In London, Kentucky, the London-Laurel County Rescue Squad used a raft to rescue a woman trapped […]
National Park Service via TwitterBy EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News (NEW YORK) — A 40-year-old man has gone missing at the Grand Canyon, sparking a search by the National Park Service. John Pennington, of Walton, Kentucky, was last known to be at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, near Yaki […]
Dekalb County Fire Department/FacebookBy MORGAN WINSOR, ABC News (NEW YORK) — Five people, including an infant, were rescued from a pickup truck that had slid off a water-covered bridge and into a swollen creek in Tennessee on Sunday afternoon amid severe flooding across the southern U.S. state, authorities said. The […]
YayaErnst/iStockBy LUKE BARR and MORGAN WINSOR, ABC News (WASHINGTON) — The union representing United States Capitol Police officers said “many” members of the force are looking to retire or leave the federal law enforcement agency after the Jan. 6 insurrection. “Many officers that are retirement eligible are seriously looking at […]
