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LordRunar/iStockBY: ELLA TORRES, ABC NEWS (NEW ORLEANS) — Nine months after a Hard Rock Hotel in downtown New Orleans partially collapsed and killed three construction workers, the bodies of two who had been trapped inside will soon be removed, officials said. The remains of Quinnyon Wimberly, 36, and Jose Ponce Arreola, 63, have been inside the wreckage since the hotel collapsed on Oct. 12, 2019. Officials had not been able […]

Myriam Borzee/iStockBy JON HAWORTH and EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- The novel coronavirus pandemic has now killed more than 579,000 people worldwide.Over 13.3 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 due to testing […]

Sean Pavone/iStockBY: IVAN PEREIRA, ABC NEWS (ASHEVILLE, N.C.) — Leaders in Asheville, North Carolina, have taken a historic step to repair centuries of racial prejudice by unanimously voting to provide reparations. The Asheville City Council voted 7-0 on a resolution Tuesday night that formally apologized to its Black residents for the city's role in slavery, discriminatory housing practices, and other racist policies throughout its history. The measure also calls for […]

Left, Joshua Taylor, 25, and Brandon Dingman, 34, of the Wilson Police Department in Oklahoma, is charged in connection to the second-degree murder of Jared Lakey. - (Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation)By CHRISTINA CARREGA, ABC News(CARTER COUNTY, Okla.) -- Disturbing video of a 28-year-old Oklahoma man, who died shortly after he was shot with a stun gun more than 50 times by two police officers and placed in a chokehold […]

Cecily Aguilar is seen in this undated booking photo. - (Bell County Sheriff's Office)By CHRISTINA CARREGA and MIKE REPPLIER, ABC News(BELL COUNTY, Texas) -- A married Texas woman who allegedly assisted her lover with dismembering the body of missing Fort Hood soldier Pfc. Vanessa Guillen will remain in federal custody.Cecily Ann Aguilar is described by military officials as the estranged wife of a former Fort Hood soldier and the girlfriend […]

ABC NewsBy MAX GOLEMBO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- More record heat will continue in the South and some of that heat will begin to spread north and east into the Midwest and the Northeast by the end of the week.Some temperature records from Tuesday include San Antonio, Texas, which reached a high of 105, Midland, Texas, with 111, Borger, Texas ended up hitting 112, and even in very humid Miami […]

Courtesy Ben Crump LawBy BILL HUTCHINSON, ABC NEWS (MINNEAPOLIS) -- The family of George Floyd filed a federal civil lawsuit on Wednesday against the city of Minneapolis and the police officers involved in the death of the 46-year-old Black man that ignited nationwide protests and demands for major reforms to U.S. policing.The suit was filed on the same day that a Minnesota judge allowed the limited release of previously unseen […]

DNY59/iStockBy KARMA ALLEN, ABC News(CLARKSBURG, Va.) -- A former Veterans Affairs nursing assistant has pleaded guilty in federal court to killing seven hospital patients by injecting them with unnecessary insulin, and assaulting another patient with intent to murder.Army veteran Reta Mays, 46, pleaded guilty to seven counts of second-degree murder and one count of assault with intent to murder on Tuesday, following a two-year investigation into the suspicious deaths of […]

A 43-year-old man was shot by police after he allegedly stabbed a man in a convenience store who complained about the suspect not wearing a face mask. - (Eaton County Sheriff's Office)By J. GABRIEL WARE, ABC News(EATON COUNTY, Mich.) -- A Michigan man was killed in an officer-involved shooting Tuesday morning after he allegedly stabbed a person during a dispute over wearing a face mask inside a convenience store, according […]