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Behind bars for 40 years, Maryland woman seeks release due to COVID-19
ABC NewsBY: Luke Barr, ABC News (BALTIMORE) — Eraina Pretty is the longest-serving female inmate in the Maryland corrections system and in those 42 years behind bars, her daughter said she has h...
ABC Audio May 06, 2020
$1 million anonymous donation funds bonuses for hospital employees on front lines
Courtesy Dignity HealthBY: Tommy Brooksbank, ABC News  (SANTA CRUZ, Calif.) — Employees at a Northern California hospital are receiving a bonus for all their hard work amid the coronavirus ...
ABC Audio May 06, 2020
Salon owner sentenced to a week in jail for reopening despite COVID orders
Dallas County Sheriff's DepartmentBy IVAN PEREIRA, ABC News (DALLAS) -- A Dallas salon owner who repeatedly defied orders to shut down her business in compliance with state coronavirus executive order...
ABC Audio May 06, 2020
Coronavirus pandemic exacerbates challenges for homeless college students
Wanda Jewell/iStockBy BRIANA STEWART and SOPHIE TATUM, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Liam Spady, a student at the Community College of Philadelphia, struggled with homelessness --"couch surfing" on friends' s...
ABC Audio May 06, 2020
Have mixed messages on masks, critical tools to slow pandemic, slowed widespread adoption?
Rike_/iStockBy OLIVIA RUBIN, SOO RIN KIM and KATHERINE FAULDERS, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Public health experts agree that the continued wearing of masks and other face coverings in public will be a crit...
ABC Audio May 06, 2020
Severe weather for southern Plains, snow for Northeast and record heat for Southwest possible
ABC NewsBy MAX GOLEMBO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Severe storms moved through the Southeast Tuesday, which brought baseball size-hail, damaging winds and deadly lightning to South Carolina, where one pers...
ABC Audio May 06, 2020
Tribes will begin to see some coronavirus relief money owed by federal government
Evgeny555/iStockBy CHEYENNE HASLETT and LAURA ROMERO, ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- Native American tribes were expected to see some long-awaited relief money from the federal government trickle in as soon ...
ABC Audio May 06, 2020
Over 5,000 corrections officers have contracted COVID-19
MivPiv/iStockBy LUKE BARR, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- As the novel coronavirus ravages prisons around the country, over 5,000 state and federal correctional officers have tested positive for the virus, dat...
ABC Audio May 06, 2020
Sixty-four kids hospitalized with disease possibly related to COVID-19
Myriam Borzee/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR and EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed over 263,000 people worldwide.More than 3.7 million people across the g...
ABC Audio May 06, 2020
Balloon artist creates 'thank you' art for essential workers
Courtesy Ausome Balloon Creator(EDISON, N.J.) -- BY: ALICE CHAMBERSOne artist has found a personal way to thank essential workers during the COVID 19 crisis.Eddie Lin, a 22-year-old balloon artist fro...
ABC Audio May 05, 2020