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Body camera turned on after fatal shooting of unarmed Black couple in Illinois, footage shows
aijohn784/iStockBy MEREDITH DELISO and WILL GRETSKY, ABC News(WAKEGAN, Ill.) -- A police officer involved in a fatal shooting in Waukegan, Illinois, did not turn his body-worn camera on until after th...
Oct 28, 2020
'They didn't give a damn': Mother of slain Walter Wallace says police knew her son was in a mental crisis
Kali9/iStockBy BILL HUTCHINSON, ABC News(PHILADELPHIA) -- The mother of the 27-year-old Philadelphia man who was gunned down by officers Monday in front of his family's home said police knew he was ha...
Oct 28, 2020
Five arrested, charged as illegal agents for China
cbarnesphotography/iStockBy AARON KATERSKY, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Five people were arrested Wednesday, and one more was being sought, on charges they acted as illegal agents of China.The six acted at ...
Oct 28, 2020
Two dead as Zeta batters South, now a tropical storm
ABC NewsBy MAX GOLEMBO, EMILY SHAPIRO, MELISSA GRIFFIN and IVAN PEREIRA, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- At least two fatalities have been reported so far after fast-moving Hurricane Zeta, a Category 2 storm, m...
Oct 28, 2020
Ice storm to combine with Zeta Remnants bringing heavy rain and snow Northeast
ABC NewsBy MAX GOLEMBO, ABC News (NEW YORK) -- More than 300,000 people are without power overnight as ice storms continue for Oklahoma and parts of northern Texas in what is the earliest ice storm ev...
Oct 28, 2020
Coronavirus updates: Space Force's second in command tests positive
narvikk/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR, EMILY SHAPIRO and IVAN PEREIRA, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed more than 1.1 million people worldwide.Over 44 million people a...
Oct 28, 2020
San Francisco passes CAREN Act to criminalize phony 911 calls based on race
LordRunar/iStockBy IVAN PEREIRA, ABC News(SAN FRANCISCO) -- San Francisco leaders voted to crack down on so-called "Karens" who use 911 calls to discriminate against minorities.The San Francisco Board...
Oct 27, 2020
7-year-old student, driver killed in school bus crash in Tennessee
carlballou/iStockBy MARK OSBORNE and MATT FOSTER, ABC News(CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.) -- At least two people have been killed in a school bus accident in Meigs County, Tennessee, according to officials.The T...
Oct 27, 2020
Looting, protests underway in Philadelphia for second night after fatal police shooting
kali9/iStockBy BILL HUTCHINSON and JOSH HOYOS, ABC News(PHILADELPHIA) -- A knife-wielding Black man was in the throes of a mental health crisis, according to his family, when two Philadelphia police o...
Oct 27, 2020
Almost half of South Dakota's prison population tests positive for COVID-19
pinkomelet/iStockBy ERIN SCHUMAKER, ABC News(PIERRE, S.D.) -- Nearly half of South Dakota's 3,347-person prison population has tested positive for COVID-19, according to the most recent data released ...
Oct 27, 2020