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iStock(LOS ANGELES) -- Opera star Placido Domingo resigned as general director of LA Opera in California shortly after stepping away from the Metropolitan Opera in New York."Plácido Domingo’s contributions to the cultural life of Los Angeles have been unprecedented and profound. He is not only an outstandingly talented artist, but also the driving force behind the creation, development and growth of LA Opera," the executive committee of the LA Opera […]

iStock(PIONEER, Calif.) -- Authorities in California are searching for a suspect who punched a 73-year-old man in the face during a road rage incident.The man told sheriff's deputies that he was driving on Highway 88 when he became involved in a dispute with a driver in a Honda sedan, according to a news release from the Amador County Sheriff's Office.Both vehicles then pulled into the parking lot of the Dollar […]

iStock(SARASOTA, Fla.) -- Siesta Key Oyster Bar in Sarasota, Florida, has made it a novelty for patrons to write messages on dollar bills and secure them to its ceiling and walls. Now, the establishment is donating thousands to Hurricane Dorian relief."After we saw the videos and everything that came out of the Bahamas, it was unreal," Siesta Key Oyster Bar's general manager Kristin Hale told Good Morning America. "What better […]

iStock(NEW YORK) -- Melinda Gates has pledged to donate a whopping $1 billion to promote gender equality in the United States.The famous philanthropist made the announcement in an op-ed published on Time's website on Wednesday, stating that only one CEO of a list of 500 is a woman and that although women make up 51% of the American population, just 24% of the seats in Congress are held by them."My […]

iStock(NEW YORK) -- Six alleged members of a drug delivery service known as “Mike’s Candyshop” were arrested on Wednesday by police and federal agents and charged with distributing heroin and cocaine, including a dose that killed Colin Kroll, the co-founder of the HQ Trivia app.Kroll, 34, who was found dead last December at his Manhattan home, was a customer of Mike’s Candyshop, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office for the […]

iStock(ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.) -- An 18-year-old in New Mexico has been charged with impersonating a sheriff's deputy after he allegedly conducted a traffic stop using police lights he outfitted on his car, police said.An Albuquerque Police officer happened upon the scene Monday just after 12:30 a.m. and saw a vehicle without any police markings but outfitted with red and blue flashing lights, according to a criminal complaint.As the officer was driving […]

wsfurlan/iStock(PHOENIX) -- A 4-month-old baby died Tuesday after being left inside a van in Phoenix, authorities said. The young child appeared to have been dead for hours when firefighters arrived on the scene Tuesday afternoon, as temperatures reached above 90 degrees Fahrenheit in Arizona's sun-drenched capital. The vehicle was parked outside a school district office where one of the child's parents works, according to the Phoenix Fire Department.The Phoenix Police […]

ABC News(NEW YORK) -- In the last 36 hours, 4 to 5 inches of rain fell from New Mexico all the way to Michigan producing areas of localized flash flooding. Des Moines had a rainfall record Tuesday of more than 3.5 inches of rain while flash flooding was reported in parts of the city and elsewhere in Iowa as well. Additionally, three tornados were reported in Iowa but no major […]

Chicago Police Department(CHICAGO) -- One year after two "senseless" killings took place in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood, police say they've exhausted all leads and are turning to the public to help generate more tips. In the first attack, on Sept. 30, 2018, a gunman shot and killed 72-year-old Douglass Watts, according to ABC Chicago station WLS-TV. The next day, just blocks away, Eliyahu Moscowitz, was shot and killed. The "brazenness […]