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iStock/Thinkstock(COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.) -- A 52-year-old man has been arrested in Colorado for starting the Spring wildfire, which grew to over 40,000 acres in size on Saturday.The Costilla County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that Jesper Joergensen was taken into custody on Saturday after the announcement was made at a community meeting held by Luis Valley emergency officials."The initial cause of the fire was human-caused," the sheriff's department said on Facebook.Colorado Springs […]

ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- Arriving nearly one minute before her 7-year-old son stepped into the terminal at Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C., Brenda rushed to embrace Kevin, after having been apart for a month and four days, a separation long enough for emotions to run high for this family reunification.“I couldn’t take one more minute without being able to be here with him,” said Brenda, who asked that her last […]

Sarah Morris/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Thousands of people marched in cities across the United States protesting the separation migrant at the Mexican border as part of the administration's "zero tolerance" policy on unauthorized immigration.From Raleigh, North Carolina to Anchorage, Alaska, there were approximately 700 marches under the banner of "Families Belong Together," decrying the separation of children from parents, who had been detained after crossing the border. Some marchers held […]

ABC News(LANCASTER, Pa.) -- A crowd of protesters gathered on the steps of an old courthouse in southern Pennsylvania on Friday evening, one day after a video posted on social media showed a local officer using a Taser on an unarmed black man sitting on a sidewalk.The dozens of demonstrators outside Lancaster County Courthouse were calling for an end to police brutality and an external investigation into the police officer's […]

WNEP-TV(MINERSVILLE, Penn.) -- A driver who felt guilty for decades has finally unburdened himself to police. His crime? Not paying a Pennsylvania parking ticket from 1974.Police Chief Michael Combs in Minersville, Pennsylvania, told ABC affiliate WNEP-TV that he received a letter with a parking ticket and payment in the mail last week.The note said, "Dear PD, I've been carrying this ticket around for 40 plus years. Always intending to pay. […]

ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Many of the major cities in the Midwest and Northeast -- from Chicago to Washington, D.C. -- began a heat wave on Friday. New York City, which missed a 90-degree reading by just one degree, will likely hit the number Saturday to start a trend of its own.Temperatures will soar well into the 90s across much of the Plains, Midwest and Northeast again on Saturday.The heat […]

Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call(WASHINGTON) -- The Trump administration last year “lost” nearly 1,500 migrant children whom a government agency placed with U.S. sponsors.Shocking news -- but it wasn’t true.But it was enough to outrage politicians, stir up journalists and make the public ask questions. Chasing this misleading story, however, helped uncover a story that many found even more troubling. And this one was real.Here’s how it happened.#WhereAreTheChildren takes holdIn late […]

ABC News(SANTA CLARA COUNTY, Calif.) -- A California man suspected in a decades-old unsolved slaying killed himself when police arrived at his home to serve a search warrant after DNA evidence helped identify him, authorities said.Stephen Blake Crawford, 72, had been linked to the killing of Arlis Perry, 19, who was found dead at the rear of Memorial Church on the Stanford University campus Oct 12, 1974, according to the […]

iStock/Thinkstock(SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico) -- Saturday marks the final day that nearly 1,800 Puerto Ricans will receive temporary housing assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.FEMA’s transitional sheltering assistance helps natural disaster victims with temporary housing in hotels and motels if their homes were severely damaged during a storm.There are 1,744 families checked into hotels and motels in 28 states, the District of Columbia and in Puerto Rico. The largest […]