Police officers in the central Arkansas city of Conway have been cleared of wrongdoing in connection with the death of a man who was in custody. The case has drawn attention because during his arrest, Lionel Morris told officers he could not breathe and three officers each used a foot to restrain him while he
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was watching late-night television when he saw a hospital boss criticizing him and Ethiopia’s Health Ministry, which he was leading at the time, for doing a terrible job. Instead of responding with a furious diatribe, as some political leaders might when watching their detractors on TV, he contacted the man, Dr. Kesete
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EL PASO, Texas – The job of a college athletic trainer is anything but easy, and now during Covid-19, the job has become increasingly challenging. UTEP athletic trainers have been tasked with not only treating players dealing with injuries, but also trying to keep them safe from the coronavirus. What makes the job difficult is
Continue Reading Rhode Island issued 176 tax refund checks this week signed by iconic duo Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse — instead of the state treasurer and controller. The misprint was a result of a technical glitch in the Division of Taxation’s automated refund check printing system, according to Jade Borgeson, chief of staff for the state’s
Continue Reading Wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) when caring for patients with Covid-19 isn’t enough to completely eliminate the threat from the virus for frontline workers, according to a new study from King’s College London. Health care workers with adequate gloves, gowns and face masks still had 3.4 times the risk of contracting the coronavirus compared to
Continue Reading A protester had his hands raised when Los Angeles police shot him in the head with a “less-lethal projectile” during a May demonstration, body camera videos released Friday show. The incident, which happened five days after the killing of George Floyd, is being investigated by LAPD’s Force Investigation Division, according to LAPD. The videos shows
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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 Friday, July
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Early Friday morning, Nereida Jaimes, carrying her youngest child, opened her front door to walk her two older children to the school bus, a familiar ritual during the school year. However, only one of them, wearing a mask, got on the bus this time — the other was too scared to go back to school.
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New York Liberty guard Sabrina Ionescu left Friday’s game against the Atlanta Dream with an ankle sprain, according to the team. The injury happened during the second quarter when Ionescu appeared to roll her left ankle. Ionescu hit the ground and immediately grabbed the ankle. She was helped off the court, putting no weight on
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ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE — President Donald Trump says he will take action as soon as Saturday to ban TikTok, a popular Chinese-owned video app that has been a source of national security and censorship concerns. Trump’s comments late Friday night aboard Air Force One came after published reports that the administration is planning to
Continue ReadingKINGSVILLE, Texas — The U.S. Navy’s first Black female tactical aircraft pilot, Lt. j.g. Madeline Swegle, received her “wings of gold” on Friday, marking a historic milestone for naval aviation. Swegle was named a naval aviator and awarded her gold naval aviator wings with 25 classmates during a small ceremony at Naval Air Station Kingsville
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EL PASO, Texas — The 27th Annual “Be a Star, Save a Life” Telethon raised more than $82,000 as of last count Saturday night despite the unprecedented challenges brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic. “I am so thrilled. This shows that El Paso is so extraordinary,” said Deb Benedict holding back tears. She is the
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EL PASO, Texas — The main goal for doctors and nurses at Del Sol Medical Center in east El Paso has always been to save lives. That was especially true last Aug. 3. Nearly one year after the shooting at the Cielo Vista Walmart, some shared their experiences of that day with ABC-7. Dr. Stephen
Continue Reading Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont signed comprehensive police accountability legislation into law Friday afternoon. The law institutes a new statewide watchdog for police misconduct, bans “chokeholds” in most instances and puts limits on the ability of police departments to withhold officers’ disciplinary records. It also allows individual officers to be held financially liable in civil suits
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Isolated storms will move from the north to the south tonight and over the weaken. Some of these storms could be strong to severe with gusty winds , heavy rain and hail. Temps will be in the mid and upper 90’s for the weekend with sunshine mixing with clouds. The chance for storms will continue
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EL PASO, Texas — A 22-year-old man was arrested by sheriff’s deputies Friday, accused of making threats towards an El Paso Walmart worker. Cameron Charles Covington was booked into the downtown jail on $2,500 bond on charges including assault and evading arrest. His arrest Friday at a hotel along Joe Battle Boulevard came after he
Continue Reading As an Indiana school district welcomed students to the 2020-21 academic year, one of their students tested positive for Covid-19 on the first day of class, according to a letter sent to parents. The Hancock County Health Department notified Greenfield-Central Junior High School Thursday afternoon that one of their students, who had attended part of
Continue Reading Orlando Magic forward Jonathan Isaac became the first NBA player to stand for the National Anthem as the league resumed play after a 20-week hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic. The television broadcast showed Isaac, who is Black, standing as players and coaches from both teams, as well as referees, took a knee during the
Continue Reading Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred warned union leader Tony Clark in a Friday call that if the league and players don’t do a better job of following Covid-19 protocols and managing the virus, Manfred could shut down the shortened season, ESPN reported. On Friday, the league and the MLB Players Association announced that 29
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A federal appeals court ruled on Friday to vacate the death sentence of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who along with his brother planted homemade bombs near the finish of the 2013 Boston Marathon, killing three spectators and injuring hundreds. The court also ruled to set aside three of his 30 convictions but said he will remain in
Continue Reading Washington state has trapped its first Asian giant hornet — or, what we’ve come to know as the “murder hornet.” Scientists have been trying to trap the invasive insects and prevent an infestation since they were first spotted in the state last year. More than two inches long, the hornets get their nickname from their
Continue Reading A South Florida newspaper is pleading with Gov. Ron DeSantis to do more amid the surge in coronavirus cases and deaths spreading across Florida. The Sun Sentinel editorial board asked him to issue a statewide face mask mandate in an editorial titled, “Help us out, Gov. DeSantis. We’re dying here.” “Help us all out. Far
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James Murdoch, the youngest son of billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch, resigned on Friday from the board of News Corp in a dramatic break from the family business. In his brief resignation letter, James Murdoch said he was exiting the company over “disagreements over certain editorial content published” by its news outlets and “certain other
Continue Reading A Connecticut man decapitated his landlord with a sword after being told he had to move out because of overdue rent, Hartford police say. The Hartford Police Department responded to a 911 call Saturday morning from the landlord, Victor King, who said that his roommate Jerry Thompson, 42, had been “waving a sword at him
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Two Doña Ana County women were among seven new coronavirus deaths in New Mexico reported by state health officials on Friday. The victims were a woman in her 70s who had been recently hospitalized, and a woman in her 80s who was a resident of the Good Samaritan Society nursing
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was discharged from a New York City hospital on Friday after her latest medical procedure, the court said. “She is home and doing well,” a statement from the court’s public information office read. Ginsburg had been hospitalized earlier this week for a nonsurgical procedure to replace a bile duct
Continue Reading A Los Angeles judge on Friday ordered the murder trial of real estate tycoon Robert Durst be postponed — again — until next year. Durst, 77, was not in the courtroom when L.A. County Superior Court Judge Mark Windham announced that the prosecution and defense team had agreed to the lengthy postponement. The trial will
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Five years after small explosions outside two churches stirred a scare in Las Cruces the case remains a mystery. The FBI on Friday reminded the public that it is still looking for tips as it more than doubled the reward offered in the case to $50,000. “Investigators have conducted more
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A Covid-19 outbreak at a Georgia sleep away camp this June could have implications for school reopening, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. The camp had followed some but not all of the CDC mitigation steps against the spread of the new coronavirus — but was not enough to keep campers and
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A beloved toy store in southern Minnesota says it reported customers to law enforcement for abusing an exemption in the governor’s face mask mandate. In a Facebook post, Lark Toys said that a family visited the store on Thursday, claiming that all four of them
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