Georg Wendt/picture alliance via Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — Legendary singer Tina Turner, known for her sultry voice and a string of platinum hits, has died at age 83. The news was confirmed on Turner’s official Facebook page. “It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Tina Turner,” […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — The strongest tropical cyclone to impact Guam in decades is bringing “life-threatening” conditions to the U.S. island territory. Typhoon Mawar’s eyewall “clipped” the northern portion of Guam early Thursday local time, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The storm is bringing “destructive winds, […]
Tribune News Service via Getty Images, FILE (CHARLESTON, S.C.) — A grand jury has indicted convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh, the disgraced South Carolina attorney, on federal fraud charges, prosecutors announced Wednesday. Murdaugh, 54, is currently serving life in prison after being convicted of murdering his wife and their youngest son. […]
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Rapper Fetty Wap was sentenced Wednesday to six years in prison for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy that blanketed parts of Long Island and New Jersey in cocaine, heroin, fentanyl and crack. Prosecutors said the 31-year-old hip-hop star, whose real name is […]
Rob Carr/Getty Images, FILE (NEW YORK) — After news broke that Amanda Gorman’s historic poem “The Hill We Climb” was moved to the middle school section of a Miami-Dade school, the poet slammed efforts to restrict or censor books in schools. “I’m gutted,” she said in a statement posted to […]
Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (NEW YORK) — One of the two inmates who escaped from an Ohio prison has now been caught, authorities said. However, an inmate convicted of murdering two people remains at large. The Allen County Sheriff’s Office warned residents on Tuesday to “be aware and […]
Brandon Bell/Getty Images (UVALDE, Texas) — When Texas state legislators delved into the circumstances that preceded the deadly mass shooting in Uvalde that took the lives of 19 students and two teachers last year, lawmakers highlighted failures of leadership, law enforcement training and communication capabilities. But buried in their 77-page […]
Metropolitan Nashville Police Dept. (NASHVILLE, Tenn.) — A Tennessee judge is poised to rule on Wednesday whether to allow the parents of children killed and those traumatized in a mass shooting at Nashville’s Covenant School to voice their opposition in court to the release of the shooter’s writings. Davidson County […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — A powerful typhoon taking aim at Guam could be the strongest tropical cyclone to impact the U.S. island territory in decades. As of Wednesday 7:50 p.m. local time (5:50 a.m. ET), the eye of Typhoon Mawar was passing over or very near northern Guam with […]
ABC News (UVALDE, Texas) — Former Robb Elementary School teacher Mercedes Salas can still recall the hours leading up to the mass shooting at the Uvalde, Texas school on May 24, 2022, that claimed 21 lives. That morning, Salas was trying to figure out what to wear for the annual […]
