ABC News/KXXVBY: ELLA TORRES(KILLEEN, Texas) -- An investigation is underway into the death of a 26-year-old Fort Hood soldier found unresponsive in a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reservoir, government and local officials said.Pvt. Mejhor Morta was found July 17 after a fisherman called 911 to report seeing what he believed to be a body at the base of the dam, according to a statement from the Bell County Sheriff's […]
U.S. Attorney's Office in the District of Kansas via FBIBy CHRISTINA CARREGA, ABC News(LINN COUNTY, Kan.) -- Federal investigators in Kansas have exhumed the body of a Black man whose "suspicious" 2004 death may be linked to a possible hate crime, officials confirmed to ABC News on Wednesday.Alonzo Brooks attended a party with friends at a farmhouse in La Cygne on April 4, 2004. His body was found on May […]
From left, Tony "TJ" Wiggins, 26, his girlfriend, Mary Whittemore, 27, and Tony's brother, William "Robert" Wiggins, 21, have been arrested as a suspects in the triple homicide that occurred in Frostproof, Fla., July 17, 2020. - (Polk County Sheriff)By IVAN PEREIRA, ABC News (POLK COUNTY, Fla.) -- Police said they arrested three people Wednesday in connection with a brutal murder of three friends who were fishing on a Florida […]
Official White House Photo by Tia DufourBy BILL HUTCHINSON, ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- The NAACP is joining a coast-to-coast legal fight to prevent United States Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos from siphoning away Congressionally approved emergency COVID-19 relief funds from economically disadvantaged public schools, and giving the money to private ones.The country's largest civil rights group filed a lawsuit Wednesday in federal court in Washington, D.C., accusing DeVos of illegally changing […]
WLS-TVBy WILLIAM MANSELL and IVAN PEREIRA, ABC News(CHICAGO) -- At least 15 people were shot outside a Chicago funeral home in a drive-by shootout during a ceremony for a man who was killed in an earlier drive-by shooting, according to the Chicago Police Department.The city's mayor and police officials are urging the public to come forward with information to help end the cycle of violence.An unknown number of people inside […]
This satellite image shows Tropical Storm Gonzalo, July 22, 2020. - (NOAA)By MAX GOLEMBO and MELISSA GRIFFIN, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Tropical Storm Gonzalo formed in the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday morning, making it the earliest seventh named storm on record.Gonzalo is expected to travel over the island of Grenada and just south of Barbados this weekend, bringing gusty winds and heavy rain.The tropical storm is forecast to become a […]
JOHANNES EISELE/AFP via Getty ImagesBy AARON KATERSKY and IVAN PEREIRA, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Michael Cohen alleges he was sent back to federal prison and put in solitary confinement as retaliation over a tell-all book on the president he aims to publish, according to a lawsuit filed by the disgraced attorney.Cohen filed the suit in New York Federal Court Monday against U.S. Attorney General William Barr, the U.S. Bureau of […]
ABC News/KTSPBY: IVAN PEREIRA(MINNEAPOLIS) -- Nearly two months after George Floyd died at the hand of Minneapolis police officers, Minnesota state leaders approved a comprehensive police reform bill that included a ban on chokeholds and what it deemed "warrior-style training."The state Legislature passed the bill during the early morning hours Tuesday. Gov. Tim Walz said he will sign the legislation, calling the reforms "overdue," in a statement. Among the 14 […]
TSABY: AMANDA MAILE and SAM SWEENEY(NEWARK) -- A New Jersey woman was arrested after officials found an assault rifle that the Transportation Security Administration described as "artfully concealed" inside her suitcase at Newark Liberty International Airport on Monday.TSA officers found the concealed weapon "behind the lining of a suitcase" during screening operations of checked baggage at the airport.The assault rifle was found with a high-capacity magazine and four boxes of […]
