Days after deciding not to bring charges in the shooting death of James Scurlock, Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine said Wednesday he is going to petition district court to convene a grand jury with a special prosecutor to review the case. “I’m not wavering in any way in the decision that we’ve made on this
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In response to the lawsuit that awarded Carole Baskin the zoo once owned by Joe Exotic, the “Tiger King’s” management team released a statement that said Baskin’s “treachery” has to be challenged. This month, a judge ruled in favor of Baskin’s Big Cat Rescue in her suit against the Greater Wynnewood Development Group, LLC, the
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EL PASO, Texas — The man accused of killing his estranged wife and placing her body in the storage area of the east El Paso apartment they had once shared is a Fort Bliss soldier, officials at the post confirmed on Thursday. Linwood James Smith, age 22, was arrested Wednesday in the death of Kerica
Continue Reading A World War II-era flag that was presumably stolen during a protest in Nevada was safely returned this week to a journalist who covered its disappearance. The flag went missing during protests near Reno City Hall on Saturday when its display case was found broken. City officials assumed the flag had been lost. The flag
Continue Reading New Jersey students will start learning about climate change in kindergarten and keep studying the crisis through graduation under the state’s new education standards. The State Board of Education adopted the new guidelines on Wednesday —which outline what will be taught to New Jersey’s 1.4 million students. It’s the first state to include climate change
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It could be a cabinet behind your mirror, a kitchen drawer or a first aid kit you carry in a backpack or in the car. Your medicine cabinet is your first go-to in times of illness, and sometimes it gets a little bare. But we’re in the midst of a global health crisis. And whether
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso’s only black City Council representative pointed to “systematic racism” as a problem not just for minorities, but for America as a whole. Sam Morgan, who represents District 4 in northeast El Paso, provided ABC-7 a statement in response to the death of George Floyd, who died while being restrained
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Click here for updates on this story LAUDERDALE COUNTY, Tenn. (WREG) — The sheriff of Lauderdale County admitted Wednesday it was his voice caught on a recent recording using the n-word in a conversation about a case. Sheriff Steve Sanders said he doesn’t remember saying the word, but he plans to apologize for it. Sanders
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — In an effort to deliver the most comprehensive coronavirus coverage, ABC-7 has started a weekly feature where we ask Dr. Jose Burgos, the director of internal medicine at University Medical Center, the same seven questions each week to track how the pandemic is changing. Here’s the Q&A for Thursday, June
Continue Reading As the weather heats up, many of us are contemplating how to safely go out into the world and enjoy the summer. CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta talks to CNN contributor and immunologist Erin Bromage about what to consider before doing anything including hosting a backyard party, going for a hike and taking
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EL PASO, Texas — A Heat Advisory was in effect for Thursday through Saturday for much of the Borderland as high temperatures were set to be in the triple-digits each afternoon through the three-day stretch. El Paso’s temperature reached 104 on Thursday afternoon, ten degrees higher than normal for this time of year. But it
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NEW YORK, NY — The NBA’s Board of Governors has approved a 22-team format for restarting the league season in late July at the Disney campus near Orlando, Florida, another major step toward getting teams back onto the court and playing games again. The format calls for each team playing eight games to determine playoff
Continue Reading Mary Pat Gleason, a prolific film and television actress, has died, her manager, Todd Justice, announced in a statement Wednesday. She was 70. “For those of you that were unaware, Mary Pat had been fighting the most heroic battle with cancer after being in remission for quite some time. She continued to work on shows
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Piers Morgan’s live interview with Rudy Giuliani on Thursday devolved into a heated argument, that at times turned very personal, on ITV’s “Good Morning Britain.” Both men have been strong supporters of President Donald Trump: Morgan often writes favorable op-eds about Trump. Giuliani is the president’s personal lawyer. But their views diverged Thursday. The interview
Continue Reading Amid dark times, a pair of projects premiere this weekend that offer elusive rays of hope. Apple TV+ introduces “Dear…,” a series profiling famous people and their positive impact on the lives of others, while the documentary “2040” explores the possibility of achieving progress on climate change in time to benefit the filmmaker’s four-year-old daughter,
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MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota — A memorial service for George Floyd, to mourn his death and honor his life, was held Thursday at the North Central University in Minneapolis, the first of a handful of services to honor him. One of Floyd’s brothers, Philonise Floyd, remembered him as someone everyone wanted to be around because of the way he
Continue Reading The police show is one of TV’s most durable staples. And after 30 years of “Law & Order” and its spinoffs, the genre finds itself again drawn into a conversation about how all those cops and crimes, neatly resolved in an hour, shapes the way the public views police and policing amid widespread protests about
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Mo. (WDAF) — A local attorney, who says she was working as a peacekeeper at the Plaza protests, was arrested Tuesday night. Attorney Stacy Shaw was arrested and charged with the misdemeanor of “failure to comply. “I was at the protest, as an attorney, as a
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story New Orleans, LA (WGNO) — A quiet Gentilly neighborhood has been disrupted byt the city’s plan for a new development. It’s not just any developement, and the neighbors are fighting mad. Colette Delacroix of the Voscoville Neighborhood Watch Association said,”What’s going on is that the City of New
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (East Idaho News) — The Idaho Falls Police Department asked people to come talk with them, and people did. In light of the protests throughout the country over police violence and the killing of George Floyd, IFPD asked the community to have a conversation. The
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Fort Smith, AR (KFSM) — During the early morning hours of Tuesday (Jun 2) Fort Smith Police detectives were searching an apartment related to an active homicide investigation when one detective discharged his weapon striking another detective in the hand and chest, according to Fort Smith Police Chief,
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Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson says he is “staggered” by events in the US in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd. Rather than talk about the NFL with reporters Wednesday, Wilson insisted on speaking about racism in America and how Colin Kaepernick was “trying to do the right thing” through his protests. Floyd
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Flashes of beauty have bloomed in the most random of places around New York over the past several years — a trash can here, a phone booth there — with surprise displays of flowers. But amid the pandemic, the floral designer behind them has a renewed sense of purpose. Lewis Miller, owner of floral design
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Mo. (WDAF) — A Kansas City photographer was shot and killed after Sunday night’s protest. Police say three men were trying to steal his Jeep. His family and Mayor Quinton Lucas want people to know his life was more than his death. The photographs 50-year-old Marvin
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA (WGCL) — Roderick Ponder can’t catch a break today. “It’s been non-stop. Every two minutes, every three minutes. Non-stop. Non-stop,” he said. Customer flow at Ponder’s Cleaners has done quite the 180, since business took a nose dive following the coronavirus outbreak. “Business pre-COVID 19 it was
Continue Reading Staffers at The New York Times expressed dismay Wednesday over the newspaper’s decision to publish an op-ed written by Republican Sen. Tom Cotton that called for the U.S. military to be deployed in cities across the country to help restore order. The op-ed was published in The Times opinion section, but staffers from both opinion
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BRUNSWICK, Georgia — A special prosecutor for the state of Georgia said Thursday that evidence in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery shows the young black man was repeatedly boxed in by two pickup trucks as he desperately tried to escape. The lead Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent in the case testified that the white driver
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story BALDWIN COUNTY, Ala. (WALA) — Protests and demonstrations over George Floyd’s death have had an unintended consequence. After many turned violent, gun sales, particularly for handguns are again on the rise. Gun store owners in Baldwin County say they’ve not seen demand for handguns this high in more
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HARTFORD, Conn. (Hartford Business Journal) — As Connecticut businesses begin to reopen, shift work is returning, albeit more slowly than in most states. That’s according to data from Massachusetts-based Kronos, which makes workforce management cloud software used by tens of thousands of employers. Kronos’ weekly “U.S. Workforce Activity
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KFSM) — As protests against racial injustice swell around the country, the sports world has turned to college football coaches, who lead teams of predominantly young African American men, to display leadership amidst uncertainty. Scrolling through Twitter, you find statement after statement from coaches around the
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