Author Archives: Syndicated Content

Wreckage of TWA Flight 800 to be destroyed 25 years after crash
Alex Wong/Getty ImagesBy SAM SWEENEY, ABC News (NEW YORK) -- The National Transportation Safety Board said it will destroy the remaining wreckage of TWA Flight 800 after nearly 20 years as a training ...
ABC Audio Feb 24, 2021

Ghislaine Maxwell, associate of Jeffrey Epstein, requests release on bail for third time
allanswart/iStockBy AARON KATERSKY, ABC News (NEW YORK) -- Ghislaine Maxwell offered to renounce her British and French citizenship and put her assets into a monitored account Tuesday as she tried for...
ABC Audio Feb 24, 2021

75-year-old man shoved to ground at Buffalo protest files lawsuit against city, police
DNY59/iStockBy EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News (BUFFALO, N.Y.) -- The 75-year-old man shoved to the ground by Buffalo, New York, police during a George Floyd protest has filed a lawsuit against the mayor and ...
ABC Audio Feb 24, 2021

Ancient dog bone reveals when man's best friend migrated to North America
JeanUrsula/iStockBy JULIA JACOBO, ABC News (NEW YORK) -- Researchers have narrowed down a timeline for when man's best friend may have migrated to North America based on a 10,000-year-old bone fragmen...
ABC Audio Feb 24, 2021

Massachusetts schools may soon return to full-time in-person learning
Oleksi Liskonih/iStockBy MARLENE LENTHANG, ABC News(BOSTON) -- Elementary school students in Massachusetts may return to in-person learning five days a week by April, education officials said Tuesday....
ABC Audio Feb 23, 2021

Ahmaud Arbery's mother files federal lawsuit against 3 men accused of killing son
Kuzma/iStockBy BILL HUTCHINSON and SABINA GHEBREMEDHIN, ABC News(AUGUSTA, Ga.) -- The mother of Ahmaud Arbery filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday alleging that the three white Georgia men charged with ...
ABC Audio Feb 23, 2021

No charges filed against Rochester police officers involved in death of Daniel Prude
Prude FamilyBy JULIA JACOBO, ABC News(ROCHESTER, N.Y.) -- Charges will not be filed in the death of New York man Daniel Prude, who was seen on police body camera footage being pinned to the ground wit...
ABC Audio Feb 23, 2021

Police chief responds to report on Elijah McClain's death: 'I'm extremely sorry'
Michael Ciaglo/Getty ImagesBy BILL HUTCHINSON, ABC News(AURORA, Co.) -- Responding to a scathing report that alleged numerous mistakes by police officers in the death of Elijah McClain, the Aurora, Co...
ABC Audio Feb 23, 2021

29-year-old cancer survivor to become youngest American to go to space
Sundry Photography/iStockBy CATHERINE THORBECKE, ABC News(NE WYORK) -- After childhood cancer derailed her dreams of becoming a NASA astronaut, a 29-year-old Tennessee woman is set to become the young...
ABC Audio Feb 23, 2021

New Yorkers should wear two masks until at least June: Mayor
Rattankun Thongbun/iStockBy EMILY SHAPIRO and AARON KATERSKY, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- In New York City, which was the U.S. epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic last spring, the mayor is asking residents t...
ABC Audio Feb 23, 2021