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DNY59/iStock By EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News (SACRAMENTO, Calif.) -- Joseph DeAngelo, the man now known as the "Golden State Killer," was confronted in court Thursday by the family members of people he murdered decades ago.'I was the only living witness'On Sept. 11, 1975, DeAngelo, who was a police officer at the time, shot and killed journalism professor Claude Snelling in front of his daughter, Elizabeth, at their Visalia, California, home."My […]

Myriam Borzee/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR and ELLA TORRES, ABC News (NEW YORK) -- A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed more than 787,000 people worldwide.Over 22.4 million people across the globe have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. The actual numbers are believed to be much higher […]

Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty ImagesBy ELLA TORRES, ABC News(LOS ANGELES) -- Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has turned off the utilities at a Hollywood Hills home after he said it "turned into a nightclub.""Despite several warnings, this house has turned into a nightclub in the hills, hosting large gatherings in flagrant violation of our public health orders," Garcetti said in a statement Tuesday. "The City has now disconnected utilities at […]

Los Angeles Police Dept.By KARMA ALLEN, ABC News(LOS ANGELES) -- Police are looking to the public to help identify a man who was captured on video during an apparent assault of three transgender women on Los Angeles' Hollywood Boulevard this week.Detectives with the Los Angeles Police Department are using video shared on social media by one of the victims to help locate the man who allegedly targeted the women at […]

CGinspiration/iStockBy MEREDITH DELISO, ABC News(ATLANTA) -- Georgia has one of the highest COVID-19 infection rates in the United States, according to recent reports on per capita cases -- a data point Gov. Brian Kemp pushed back against on Wednesday.According to the Harvard Global Health Institute's current model on COVID-19 risk, as of Monday, Georgia had the highest number of daily new cases per 100,000 people in the country. The institute's […]

ABC NewsBy MAX GOLEMBO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Dozens of fires continue to burn in California Thursday as thousands of structures are threatened and many people remain under evacuation orders. The LNU Lightning Complex Fire, which includes Napa, Sonoma and Lake Counties in California, has burned more than 124,000 acres and is 0% contained. It has already destroyed 105 structures and 125,000 structures are still threatened. The commander of Travis […]

domnicky/iStockBy AARON KATERSKY, SASHA PEZENIK and ELLA TORRES, ABC News(DETROIT) -- The state of Michigan has agreed to pay victims of the Flint water crisis $600 million as compensation, both sources and officials confirmed Friday.The settlement would pay claims from several lawsuits that sought damages for people who suffered illnesses related to the crisis.The majority of the settlement, about 80%, will go towards minors, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said […]

amphotora/iStockBy HALEY YAMADA, ABC News(MINNEAPOLIS) -- Audio recordings of an investigator interview with one of the former Minneapolis police officers involved in George Floyd’s death were released Tuesday.The interview with Thomas Lane was conducted by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension shortly after Floyd died on May 25. The audio contains a statement by Lane as to his perspective regarding Floyd’s arrest and eventual death. “Once [Floyd] kind of stopped […]

Orange County Sheriff's OfficeBy IVAN PEREIRA, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A sheriff's office released body camera footage Tuesday night from an arrest outside a Florida mall on Aug. 7, when deputies shot and killed a suspect who they say was running away and drew a gun.The attorney representing the family of the slain man, Salaythis Melvin, 22, however, told ABC News the footage doesn't entirely fit the police's story and […]