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Snow slams the South: Waco sees biggest snowstorm in 39 years

Snow slams the South: Waco sees biggest snowstorm in 39 years

loops7/iStockBy MAX GOLEMBO and EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News (NEW YORK) — A rare, heavy snow slammed the South overnight, leaving winter storm warnings stretching from Texas to Alabama Monday morning. Roadways are treacherous in Texas where some areas saw up to 9 inches of snow on Sunday. Residents of Waco, […]

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Mortuaries in southern California overwhelmed by COVID-19

Mortuaries in southern California overwhelmed by COVID-19

MJFelt/iStockBy ERIC MOLLO, ALEX STONE ABC News (LOS ANGELES) – In the past few weeks, the number of people dying from COVID-19 in Los Angeles County has skyrocketed. Hospitals are already overwhelmed, and mortuaries have little space for bodies. When somebody dies in L.A. County, family members are left calling […]

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Coronavirus live updates: UK variant detected in Russia for first time

Coronavirus live updates: UK variant detected in Russia for first time

narvikk/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR, ABC News (NEW YORK) — A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now infected more than 90.2 million people worldwide and killed over 1.9 million of them, according to real-time data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. Here’s how the […]

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Capitol riot suspects who allegedly brought zip ties, wore tactical gear arrested

Capitol riot suspects who allegedly brought zip ties, wore tactical gear arrested

Sunday’s booking photo of Eric Gavelek Munchel, 30. (Nashville Police Department)By ALEXANDER MALLIN and IVAN PEREIRA, ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Federal authorities arrested two men suspected in last week’s siege of the Capitol who were allegedly seen in tactical gear and carrying plastic restraints. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the […]

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Four dead following shooting spree in Chicago area

Four dead following shooting spree in Chicago area

WLS-TVBy JULIA JACOBO, ABC News (CHICAGO) — Four people are dead, including the suspect, after an hourslong shooting spree across the Chicago area. The bloodshed began Saturday at 1:50 p.m. when a man entered a parking lot on South East End Avenue in Chicago and shot a 30-year-old man who […]

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Two men arrested for allegedly stealing military veterans’ remains, using them in ‘religious practices’

Two men arrested for allegedly stealing military veterans’ remains, using them in ‘religious practices’

Polk County Sheriff’s DepartmentBy JON HAWORTH, ABC News (NEW YORK) — Two men have been arrested after allegedly stealing remains of military veterans from a cemetery in Florida that they subsequently used for “religious practices,” authorities said. On Dec. 6, 2020, four graves at the Edgewood Cemetery in Mount Dora, […]

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Memphis police officer arrested, charged with murdering man while on duty

Memphis police officer arrested, charged with murdering man while on duty

Memphis Police Department via TwitterBy JULIA JACOBO, ABC News (MEMPHIS, Tenn.) — A Memphis police officer has been fired after he allegedly killed and kidnapped a man while on duty. Robert Howard, 30, was first reported missing after his girlfriend called police on Wednesday around 8:30 p.m., the Memphis Police […]

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Six California inmates escape jail using homemade rope to descend walls, police say

Six California inmates escape jail using homemade rope to descend walls, police say

DanHenson1/iStockBy IVAN PEREIRA, ABC News (NEW YORK) — Police in central California are on the hunt for six men they say escaped from a jail late Saturday night by scaling down its walls from the roof with homemade rope. The Merced County Sheriff’s Office said the inmates, who range from […]

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Early hole too big for Pistons; Jazz prevail 96-86

DETROIT (AP) — Donovan Mitchell scored 13 of his 28 points in a decisive first quarter, and the Utah Jazz held on for a 96-86 victory over the Detroit Pistons. The Pistons were coming off an overtime win over Phoenix on Friday night in which they rallied from a 23-point […]

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Coronavirus live updates: Coronavirus live updates: California reports over 49,000 new cases, 468 new deaths

Coronavirus live updates: Coronavirus live updates: California reports over 49,000 new cases, 468 new deaths

Samara Heisz/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR, ERIN SCHUMAKER and EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News (NEW YORK) — A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now infected more than 88.3 million people worldwide and killed over 1.9 million of them, according to real-time data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at […]

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