Carol Yepes/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A New York City woman has been charged with using cryptocurrency to provide financial support to terrorist groups in Syria, a rare prosecution involving virtual currency to fund terrorism. The 11-count indictment charged Victoria Jacobs, 43, who was known as Bakhrom Talipov, with providing […]
5./15 WEST/Getty Images (ELDRIDGE, Iowa) — Authorities say a 19-year-old woman scammed more than 400 donors, accumulating over $37,000, with false claims that she suffered from cancer, which she had allegedly touted on social media. Madison Russo was charged with theft on Jan. 23, according to the Eldridge Police Department […]
Jeremy Hogan/Getty Images (ALBURGH, Vt.) — A 60-year-old man died after a brawl broke out between spectators at a middle school basketball game in Vermont, according to state police. The fight occurred shortly before 7 p.m. local time Tuesday at a school in Alburgh, located near the Canadian border, according […]
Normand Blouin / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Residents of the Big Apple won’t be walking in a winter wonderland any time soon, but a light dusting of snowfall overnight means the record for the latest snow in a season now stands as Feb. 1, 2023. The latest measurable snowfall […]
ABC NEWS (ALEXANDRIA, Va.) — A former ABC News producer was arrested Tuesday on charges of transportation of child pornography, newly unsealed court records show. A criminal complaint filed in the Eastern District of Virginia alleges James Gordon Meek, who resigned from ABC News in April last year, details sexually […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — A massive ice storm is freezing Texas and the southern United States on Wednesday. Some 60 million people in 22 states — from New Mexico to Maine — are on alert for dangerously cold weather, ice and flooding. Freezing rain and sleet are in the […]
Cooper Neill/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Tom Brady announced his retirement — again — in a video on Twitter on Wednesday morning. “I know the process was a pretty big deal last time so when I woke up this morning I figured I’d just press record and let you guys […]
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images (MEMPHIS, Tenn.) — Tyre Nichols’ family will gather in Memphis, Tennessee, on Wednesday for his funeral, weeks after the 29-year-old died following a violent encounter with Memphis police officers caught on body camera. The graphic footage of Nichols’ traffic stop and beating was released to the public […]
amphotora/Getty Images (MEMPHIS, Tenn.) — Two of the former Memphis police officers charged in the death of Tyre Nichols were previously reprimanded for not filing required paperwork after forcibly arresting individuals, ABC News has learned. ABC News obtained personnel records for Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin III, Desmond Mills […]
Mark Newman/Getty Images (SAN FRANCISCO) — A mountain lion attack just 40 miles south of San Francisco has left a young child in an unknown condition at a local trauma center. The incident occurred at approximately 6:50 p.m. Tuesday on the 1000 block of Tunitas Creek Road in an unincorporated […]
