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Barack and Michelle Obama will deliver commencement speeches for the class of 2020
Scott Olson/Getty ImagesBy ALEXANDRA SVOKOS, ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- Former President Barack Obama will be holding a televised graduation event for the high school class of 2020, most of whom are miss...
ABC Audio May 05, 2020
Cops arrest armed men, Texas bar owner who violated order to close
Evgen_Prozhyrko/iStockBy IVAN PEREIRA, ABC News(ODESSA, Texas) -- Cops in western Texas said they arrested a bar owner and a group of armed men Monday after they violated the state's order.Ector Count...
ABC Audio May 05, 2020
Police chase leads suspect to drop almost $1 million on highway during pursuit
California Highway Patrol - MercedBy JON HAWORTH, ABC News(MERCED COUNTY, Calif.) -- Suspects in California stopped in the middle of a police chase to drop two cardboard boxes full of cash totalling a...
ABC Audio May 05, 2020
Fifteen children hospitalized in NYC with mysterious syndrome possibly linked to COVID-19
Samara Heisz/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR, EMILY SHAPIRO and MEREDITH DELISO, ABC News (NEW YORK) -- A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed more than a quarter of a million people worldwide.Over...
ABC Audio May 05, 2020
Cops thought they were pulling over impaired driver. It was actually a 5-year-old boy
Utah Highway PatrolBy CAMMERSON PARRISH, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A Utah Highway Patrol Trooper got quite a surprise when he went to pull over a swerving car Monday afternoon.Trooper Rick Morgan told ABC...
ABC Audio May 05, 2020
Navajo community left to fight COVID-19 with limited resources
ABC News(GALLUP, New Mexico) -- BY: MATT GUTMAN, ROBERT ZEPEDA, TENZIN SHAKYA, and ALLIE YANGCOVID-19 is surging through the Navajo community, which is suffering one of the highest infection rates per...
ABC Audio May 04, 2020
Greg Zanis, who built crosses to honor victims of mass shootings, has died
ABC News(CHICAGO) -- BY: MEREDITH DELISOAn Illinois man who made thousands of crosses commemorating victims of violence in America has passed away.Greg Zanis, founder of Crosses for Losses, died Monda...
ABC Audio May 04, 2020
Police chief's ban stokes flap over 'thin blue line' masks
iStock/traffic_analyzer By BILL HUTCHINSON, ABC News (SAN FRANCISCO) -- Face masks emblazoned with a "thin blue line" flag associated with the pro-police Blue Lives Matter movement have ignited contro...
ABC News Radio May 04, 2020
Crime down in New York City as residents shelter in place: NYPD
iStock/william87 By AARON KATERASKY and IVAN PEREIRA, ABC News (NEW YORK) -- The NYPD released its latest crime statistics Monday and said overall incidents were down in April.There were 5,121 reporte...
ABC News Radio May 04, 2020
Man allegedly pushed Austin park ranger enforcing social distancing into a lake
Austin Police Department By Sabina Ghebremedhin, Cammeron Parrish and Meredith Deliso, ABC News (AUSTIN) -- Austin police have arrested a man who allegedly pushed a park ranger into a lake.The inciden...
ABC News Radio May 04, 2020