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Booking photo of Apalachee High School shooting suspect, Colt Gray, released by the Barrow County Sheriff's Office. -- Barrow County Sheriff's Office (WINDER, Ga.) -- Colt Gray, the 14-year-old accused of opening fire at his Georgia high school, made his first court appearance on Friday, where the judge informed him of the charges against him and ordered him held without bond.Gray is charged with four counts of felony murder for […]

(NEW YORK) -- Colleges and universities are seeing mixed results in the diversity of their incoming freshman classes after the Supreme Court set new limits on the use of affirmative action in college admissions.For example, the Yale University class of 2028 saw no difference from the class of 2027 when it came to the percentage of African American students and Native American students. The Hispanic/Latino and International student populations remained […]

Booking photo of Apalachee High School shooting suspect, Colt Gray, released by the Barrow County Sheriff's Office. -- Barrow County Sheriff's Office (WINDER, Ga.) -- Colt Gray, the 14-year-old accused of opening fire at his Georgia high school, made his first court appearance on Friday, where the judge informed him of the charges against him and ordered him held without bond.Gray is charged with four counts of felony murder for […]

(NEW YORK) -- More than one year after the Supreme Court set new limits on the use of affirmative action in college admissions, the results of the controversial decision are beginning to trickle in.However, the results are a mixed bag, with schools seeing varied changes in the diversity makeup of their incoming freshman class after adjusting their admissions policies.For example, the Yale University class of 2028 saw no difference from […]

Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (WINDER, Ga.) -- Colt Gray, the 14-year-old suspect in the Apalachee High School shooting, is set to face a judge Friday for his arraignment.This will mark the first court appearance for the teenager, who authorities allege killed four people, including two teachers and two students, at his high school and injured nine others. The Georgia Bureau of Investigations previously said he will be tried as an adult.He […]

(WINDER, Ga.) -- The teenager suspected in the shooting at Apalachee High School on Wednesday that left four dead had an apparent affinity for mass shooters, multiple sources familiar with the investigation told ABC News.Investigators are currently scouring social media posts that mention prior mass shootings and those who carried them out from accounts associated with the suspect, who officials previously identified as 14-year-old Colt Gray, the sources said.Over a […]

(WINDER, Ga.) -- As students hid behind desks and doors during the latest deadly school shooting in the United States, they pulled out their cell phones.It was just before 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, that Becky Van Der Walt received a text message from her son that no parent wants to receive."I think there's a school shooting," Van Der Walt's son, Henry, a junior at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, wrote, […]

(SPRINGFIELD, Ill.) -- Newly released police body camera footage shows Sonya Massey interacting with police officers 16 hours before she was fatally shot in her Illinois home on July 6, when deputies responded to her 911 call of a suspected prowler.In the course of the video, which was obtained by ABC affiliate WICS and is about 45 minutes long, an upset Massey is seen outside of a home on July […]

(LOS ANGELES) -- After hours of legal wrangling on Thursday, Hunter Biden pleaded guilty to nine tax-related charges in a last-minute bid to avoid a lengthy and potentially embarrassing trial, abandoning an earlier proposal to plead guilty while maintaining his innocence on the underlying conduct.U.S. Judge Mark Scarsi accepted Hunter Biden's guilty plea to his nine-count tax case. Sentencing in the case is scheduled for Dec. 16.Scarsi clarified that Hunter […]