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(DELPHI, Ind.) -- A 30-second video filmed by 14-year-old victim Libby German just before she was murdered in Delphi, Indiana, was played for the jury on Tuesday during Richard Allen's trial.Allen is accused of killing Libby and 13-year-old Abby Williams while the best friends walked on a trail in their small town on the afternoon of Feb. 13, 2017.The video -- played during testimony from Indiana State Police digital forensic examiner […]

(WASHINGTON) -- Federal and local law enforcement and officials in Washington, D.C., are ramping up preparations to ensure a safe and peaceful transfer of power on Jan. 6, 2025, and on Inauguration Day.In September, the Department of Homeland Security designated Jan. 6 a National Special Security Event (NSSE) and approved D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser's request for additional federal resources.The District is anticipating that there will be no declared winner on […]

(LOS ANGELES) -- After it was announced last week that Erik and Lyle Menendez might have their case reevaluated, based on the emergence of new evidence, the Los Angeles district attorney on Tuesday clarified that the decision would likely come by the end of the week.In an unrelated news conference on Tuesday evening, LA District Attorney George Gascon answered a prompt for an update on the brothers' potential resentencing by […]

(HOUSTON, TX) -- A couple has been arrested and charged for attempting to kidnap and kill a man the wife was having an affair with in Texas.The victim, who told an ABC News' Houston affiliate he would not like to be named due to fears over his safety, was shot twice and is now recovering.Hana Ahmad Alolaimi, 35, and Omar Mahmoud Bishtawi, 48, were charged with aggravated assault and aggravated […]

Lindsey Nicholson/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images (HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA) -- Police in Canada said Tuesday they are investigating after a 19-year-old Walmart employee was found dead inside a store's walk-in bakery oven.Officers responded to the Walmart -- located in Halifax, Nova Scotia -- on Saturday night after the employee was found dead, police said."The woman, who was an employee of the store, was located in a large walk-in […]

(NEW YORK) -- Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has seven days to turn over luxury items and shares of his New York City co-op apartment to cover much of what he owes to two Georgia poll workers he defamed in 2020, a federal judge in New York ruled Tuesday.Giuliani must transfer all personal property "including cash accounts, jewelry and valuables, a legal claim for unpaid attorneys' fees, and […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) -- Federal prosecutors on Tuesday announced criminal charges against an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps official in connection with an alleged failed attempt to assassinate a New York-based Iranian journalist.Ruhollah Bazghandi, who is based in Iran and beyond the reach of law enforcement, allegedly orchestrated the alleged 2022 plot to kill the journalist, prosecutors said.The charges name Bazghandi and six other Iranian operatives who federal prosecutors said […]

(ORLANDO, Fla.) -- The parents of a newborn who died months after birth are suing a Florida hospital, alleging a worker broke the baby's neck, ultimately killing her, according to the lawsuit.The infant, Jahxy Peets, was born prematurely at 24 weeks in June 2022 at the Orlando Health Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women & Babies, according to the family's lawsuit. Immediately following her birth, she was admitted to the neonatal intensive […]

(NEW YORK) -- Former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries and two others were arrested Tuesday as part of a criminal sex trafficking investigation by the FBI and federal prosecutors in Brooklyn.Jeffries, his partner Matt Smith and a third man, Jim Jacobson, are accused of operating an international sex trafficking and prostitution business that recruited young men for parties in the U.S. and abroad, according to an indictment.The former retail executive and Smith […]