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Severe weather threat continues for South with damaging winds and tornadoes possible
ABC NewsBy Max Golembo, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- As a storm system moves through the South Thursday morning, several tornado warnings have been issued in Mississippi and Louisiana. A couple of these warn...
ABC Audio Apr 08, 2021
Man is found dead, eight injured following Ohio paint plant explosion
pictore/iStockBy William Mansell and Marlene Lenthang, ABC News(COLUMBUS, Ohio) -- One person has died and at least eight others are injured following an explosion and fire at a paint manufacturing pl...
ABC Audio Apr 08, 2021
Suspect in mass shooting that killed five in South Carolina played in the NFL
carlballou/iStockBy William Mansell and Emily Shapiro, ABC News(ROCK HILL, S.C.) -- Five people are dead, including a doctor and two of his grandchildren, following a shooting at a home in Rock Hill, ...
ABC Audio Apr 08, 2021
Charges filed against 17-year-old Lamborghini driver in fatal Los Angeles car crash
@LAPDWestTraffic/TwitterBy Meredith Deliso, ABC News(LOS ANGELES) -- A 17-year-old Lamborghini driver is facing charges nearly two months after a Los Angeles crash claimed the life of a 32-year-old wo...
ABC Audio Apr 08, 2021
Migrants coming from Central America to US: 'We don't have many options'
John Moore/Getty ImagesBy Robert Zepeda, Catherine Mckenzie, Jack Feeley, Olga Delauz and Haley Yamada, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Crossing the Rio Grande is the last leg of an often long and always harrow...
ABC Audio Apr 08, 2021
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky expects all schools will be fully open for in-person learning in September
Burak Sur/iStockBy CATARINA ANDREANO, ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky anticipates that all schools will be fully in person and no long...
ABC Audio Apr 07, 2021
6 former youth detention center employees arrested on sexual assault charges
BlakeDavidTaylor/iStockBy AARON KATERSKY and IVAN PEREIRA, ABC News(MANCHESTER, N.H.) -- Six men were arrested Wednesday as part of an ongoing investigation into claims of sexual assault at a state-ru...
ABC Audio Apr 07, 2021
Key takeaways from the Derek Chauvin trial in George Floyd's death, Day 8
kuzma/iStockBy BILL HUTCHINSON, ABC News(MINNEAPOLIS) -- It wasn't just former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin's knee on the neck of George Floyd that contributed to the alleged excessive for...
ABC Audio Apr 07, 2021
UK variant has become most dominant COVID strain in US, CDC says
narvikk/iStockBy CHEYENNE HASLETT, ABC News(ATLANTA) -- The more contagious variant of coronavirus that originated in the UK, the B-117 variant, has become the dominant strain in the U.S., CDC directo...
ABC Audio Apr 07, 2021
More than 50 drug convictions vacated over former NYPD cop accused of perjury
Marco Curaba/iStockBy Aaron Katersky, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- One by one, Brooklyn Criminal Court Judge Keisha Espinal vacated more than 50 drug convictions that had been based on the testimony of forme...
ABC Audio Apr 07, 2021