Mark Makela/Getty Images (PHILADELPHIA) — A fugitive who escaped from a Pennsylvania prison just days after being sentenced to life without parole in the fatal stabbing of his ex-girlfriend was captured early Wednesday after he tried to crawl away and was taken down by a law enforcement K-9 named Yoda, Pennsylvania […]
Chester County District Attorney via Reuters (PHILADELPHIA) — The capture of convicted murderer Danelo Cavalcante two weeks after he escaped from a prison in Pennsylvania has brought relief to the local community, but questions remain about security measures at county prisons in the state. When asked about concerns surrounding Cavalcante’s escape […]
Seattle Police (SEATTLE) — A Seattle police accountability office is investigating after an officer was recorded on his body camera joking over the death of a 23-year-old woman who was fatally struck by another officer who was responding to a call. Graduate student Jaahnavi Kandula was in a crosswalk the night […]
Adria Malcolm/Bloomberg via Getty Images (SANTA FE, N.M.) — A federal judge granted a temporary restraining order against New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s order suspending the right to carry firearms in public in and around Albuquerque. The Democratic governor issued last Friday a 30-day suspension of open and concealed carry […]
Luiz C. Ribeiro for NY Daily News via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is considering “unprecedented” legislation that would have the state issuing work authorization for asylum seekers arriving by unyielding busloads from southern border states. Hochul said she is talking to state Assembly and Senate […]
Scott Olson/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A federal appeals court on Wednesday denied former President Donald Trump’s attempt to stay the 2019 defamation lawsuit brought by writer E. Jean Carroll. The lawsuit by the former Elle magazine columnist is scheduled to go to trial on Jan. 15. It alleges that Trump […]
Richard Brian/Las Vegas Review-Journal (LAS VEGAS) — A Nevada judge issued a preliminary injunction barring the continuation of what it ruled was a teachers strike after the Clark County School District said eight schools had to be closed in seven days due to teachers calling in sick. “What’s happening here is […]
(Washington, DC) — Utah Republican Senator Mitt Romney will not run for re-election. Romney told the “Washington Post” he will not seek a second term, adding it’s time for a new generation to “step up” and “shape the world they’re going to live in.” He added a second term would […]
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (LONG BEACH, Calif.) — The wife of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was released from her California halfway house on Wednesday, after being convicted of helping run the Mexican drug cartel for which her husband was the boss, a prison official confirmed to ABC News. Emma Coronel Aispuro was […]
ABC News (MIAMI) — After Florida’s governor and education department rolled out a controversial updated curriculum regarding Black history lessons, many students, parents, educators and elected officials raised their voices over how slavery was being presented. The new curriculum included instruction for middle school students that “slaves developed skills which, in […]
