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Month: August 2023

Idaho college killings prosecutor challenges defense’s grand jury claims

Idaho college killings prosecutor challenges defense’s grand jury claims

August Frank-Pool/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Prosecutors in the case against murder suspect Bryan Kohberger said his defense team was trying to “grind the litigation” to a “halt” with flimsy arguments and attempting to “buy more time” to challenge his indictment. Defense attorneys for Kohberger, a one-time doctoral candidate accused […]

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Trump indictment updates: Sweeping racketeering allegations spark reaction

Trump indictment updates: Sweeping racketeering allegations spark reaction

Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — After a two-and-a-half-year probe, a Fulton County grand jury has indicted former President Donald Trump and 18 others on charges related to efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. It marks the fourth indictment of the former president, who […]

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What to know about the judge who will handle the Trump case

What to know about the judge who will handle the Trump case

Superior Court of Fulton County (ATLANTA) — Former President Donald Trump and his 18 co-defendants drew the newest judge on the Superior Court of Fulton County — Scott McAfee. Appointed to the bench by Republican Gov. Brian Kemp and sworn in on Feb. 1, 2023, McAfee most recently served as […]

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Police raid on small Kansas newspaper sets off constitutional alarms

Police raid on small Kansas newspaper sets off constitutional alarms

Courtesy of the Marion County Journal Newspaper (MARION, Kan.) — A police raid on a small-town Kansas newspaper is prompting a First Amendment fight. Surveillance video of the raid on the family-owned Marion County Record newsroom obtained by ABC News shows a police officer reading Miranda Rights to a reporter […]

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Scoreboard roundup — 8/14/23

Scoreboard roundup — 8/14/23

iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Monday’s sports events: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL INTERLEAGUE Miami 5, Houston 1 Atlanta 11, NY Yankees 3 St. Louis 7, Oakland 5 Baltimore 4, San Diego 1 Tampa Bay 10, San Francisco 2 AMERICAN LEAGUE Texas 12, LA Angels 0 Kansas City […]

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Maui wildfire now ranks as the fifth-deadliest in US history

Maui wildfire now ranks as the fifth-deadliest in US history

Paula Ramon/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — With dozens of people still unaccounted for, the conflagration that has caused widespread devastation across the Hawaiian island of Maui is now the fifth-deadliest wildland fire in U.S. history. The blaze, which started on Aug. 8 on Hawaii’s second-largest island, has already […]

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Trump’s bid to remove judge in hush-money case is rejected

Trump’s bid to remove judge in hush-money case is rejected

Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — New York State Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan declined to recuse himself from overseeing former President Donald Trump’s hush-money case in New York, ruling Monday that Trump “has failed to demonstrate that there exists concrete, or even realistic reasons for recusal to be appropriate.” […]

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Boy, 12, speaks out about ‘traumatic’ wrongful detention by Lansing police

Boy, 12, speaks out about ‘traumatic’ wrongful detention by Lansing police

ABC News (NEW YORK) — A 12-year-old who was wrongfully handcuffed and detained by police in Lansing, Michigan on Thursday while he was taking out the trash spoke out in an exclusive interview with ABC News’ Good Morning America about what the family says was a “traumatic” experience. “When it […]

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Boy, 13, speaks after avoiding major injury in nearly 100-foot Grand Canyon fall

Boy, 13, speaks after avoiding major injury in nearly 100-foot Grand Canyon fall

ABC News (NEW YORK) — A 13-year-old boy said he has no permanent injuries after surviving a nearly 100-foot fall into the Grand Canyon last week. Wyatt Kaufman, who was visiting the Grand Canyon on vacation with his mother, stumbled and fell from Bright Angel Point, a popular trail and […]

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Prep Sports Roundup: 8/14

Prep Sports Roundup: 8/14

Baseball Non-Region ALTAMONT, Utah-The Altamont Longhorns pounded Valley 11-1 Monday in non-region baseball play.