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Days before a former undergraduate student now known as Jane Doe filed a civil lawsuit alleging a fraternity house gang rape, Cornell University was negotiating a way for the fraternity to return to campus in a matter of years, documents obtained by ABC News show.Cornell said the fraternity, Chi Phi, could return to campus as soon as 2030 if it admitted to certain violations of the university's student code of […]

Officials at the University of Mississippi are investigating a video showing three white women outside a Black student's apartment Friday evening, with two of them allegedly making racist noises and gestures captured on Ring camera footage."[T]he incident is being actively investigated by the appropriate university offices," Vice Chancellor Shawnboda Mead said in a statement Monday, in part, adding, "our staff have reached out to the students directly impacted to offer […]

A "suspected homicide" is under investigation on board a cruise ship that docked in Texas, the FBI said Monday.The incident occurred on board an MSC Seascape cruise ship that docked in Galveston on Monday, according to the FBI's Houston field office.The suspect, 48-year-old Jason Watford of Tyler, Texas, is now in custody in connection with the alleged homicide. Watford has been booked into the Galveston County Jail and is on […]

The trial for the man accused of murdering Charlie Kirk while the conservative activist was speaking on a college campus last year is set to begin in mid-2028.Utah District Court Judge Tony Graf had been expected to set a timeline for the high-profile capital murder case, including the trial date, during a hearing last month. He ultimately scheduled a hearing on the matter for Monday afternoon, during which he announced […]

A crew member aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise ship was found by two fishermen and rescued off the coast of Southern California after surviving roughly nine hours in the Pacific Ocean, according to authorities and his rescuers.The crew member, whose name was not released, is believed to have fallen from the cruise line's 14-deck ship "Ovation of the Sea" early Friday morning, officials said. He was discovered later that day […]

One cyclist was killed, and a dozen others were injured Saturday morning after a car struck a group of bicyclists in Wake County, North Carolina, according to the State Highway Patrol.Authorities said impairment is suspected to have played a role in the crash.According to law enforcement, the crash happened around 9:39 a.m. on Optimist Farm Road near Talicud Trail, which sits near Raleigh, North Carolina.Investigators said a black car was […]

Heavy rain on Sunday in parts of southern Texas is prompting flash-flood threats that are expected to stretch into Monday and could produce rainfall totals of 7 to 9 inches.A flood watch remains in effect on Sunday after multiple days of rainstorms have saturated the ground across the South Texas region.Corpus Christi, Laredo, San Antonio, Brownsville and Kerrville are among the South Texas cities under a flood watch through Monday […]

Sayed Mohassib, 27, was arrested after detectives allegedly developed evidence they say placed him at the scene of the attack. (WABC) The NYPD said it arrested a New York City teacher's aide Saturday in connection with the killing of Katie Suarez, who was stabbed while jogging in Brooklyn last week.Sayed Mohassib, 27, was arrested after detectives allegedly developed evidence they say placed him at the scene of the attack, the […]

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return of a Nicaraguan immigrant who was deported to the Central African Republic.Kenis Lopez Gonzalez, who had been living in Minnesota since 2022 with a work permit, was detained by federal immigration agents in January during Operation Metro Surge, a large-scale federal immigration crackdown undertaken as part of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.After being detained for eight months, Lopez […]