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(LOS ANGELES) -- The president of a mortgage lending company in California has been arrested on suspicion of murder after allegedly driving drunk through an intersection and killing an 88-year-old man, police said.The traffic collision happened on Friday at approximately 6:15 p.m. when Orange County Sheriff’s deputies in California responded to a report of a traffic collision involving two vehicles at the intersection of Golden Lantern and Stonehill Drive in […]

(NEW ORLEANS, La.) -- Nearly a month after a terrorist drove a truck down Bourbon Street, killing 14 people, New Orleans is set to host Super Bowl 59.At a press briefing Monday, officials said there were no credible threats to the game, or its many surrounding events."Right now we have no specific credible threats to this event ... which I think should give us all a sense of security," Department of […]

(PHILADELPHIA) -- The black box from the medical transport jet that crashed in Philadelphia Friday evening is on its way to Washington, D.C., where the National Transportation Safety Board will try to extricate any information, Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker said during a press conference Monday.The jet, which was carrying a child and her mother along with four other people, was in the air for less than a minute after taking […]

(WASHINGTON) -- President Donald Trump's executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship will face its next legal hurdle this week when three separate federal judges hold hearings to consider whether to block the order.Ahead of the hearings, lawyers with the Department of Justice argued in legal filings that birthright citizenship creates a "perverse incentive for illegal immigration" while claiming that Trump's executive order attempts to resolve "prior misimpressions" of the […]

George Rose/Getty Images (ZION NATIONAL PARK, Utah) -- A 37-year-old man fell to his death while hiking at Zion National Park in Utah, authorities confirmed.The hiker was found dead Sunday morning on the Canyon Overlook Trail, a mile-long trail that runs along the east side of the park, according to the National Park Service.Authorities received a call at 7:06 a.m. reporting a “possible fall of a hiker in Zion National Park,” according […]

(WASHINGTON) -- Sixty-seven people are dead after a regional jet collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter Wednesday night over Washington, D.C., officials said, the nation's first major commercial airline crash since 2009.The aircraft went down in the frigid Potomac River, breaking into multiple pieces. There were no survivors.There were 64 passengers aboard the plane and three Army soldiers in the helicopter.Among the victims were 14 people who were returning home from a national […]

(WASHINGTON) -- Staff with the U.S. Agency for International Development were told overnight that the agency’s Washington headquarters will be closed Monday, according to an email obtained by ABC News from multiple sources."Agency personnel normally assigned to work at USAID headquarters will work remote tomorrow, with the exception of personnel with essential on-site and building maintenance functions individually contacted by senior leadership," the email said. "Further guidance will be forthcoming."The […]

Petty Officer 1st Class Brandon Giles/ U.S. Coast Guard via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) -- Hundreds of families are in mourning after an American Airlines regional jet collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter on Wednesday night, with both aircraft plunging into the Potomac River near Washington, D.C.'s Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.No one survived.Sixty-four people were on board the plane, which departed from Wichita, Kansas. Three soldiers were on […]

The Warren County Sheriff’s Office have been identified as the remains of missing person Dana Leigh Mustian in North Carolina. (Warren County Sheriff’s Office) (VANCE COUNTY, NC) -- The remains of a North Carolina woman who had been missing for over a year have been found by a dive team, officials said.A dive team discovered human remains in Vance County on Thursday, according to the Warren County Sheriff's Office. Vance […]