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(LOS ANGELES, Calif.) -- Across the Pacific Palisades, where the current Los Angeles wildfires began on Jan. 7, homes and buildings have been reduced to rubble, the once-bucolic neighborhood left ashen and desolate.But standing tall among the wreckage -- almost entirely unscathed -- remains Palisades Village, the outdoor mall owned by Rick Caruso, billionaire real estate developer and former Republican mayoral candidate.To protect the high-end shopping center, several private water tankers, equipped […]

mbbirdy/Getty Images (COOPERSBURG, Pa.) -- A man has been arrested in the murder of a New Jersey woman whose body was found in a Coopersburg, Pennsylvania, dumpster over the weekend.Rolando Corte, 42, was charged with first-degree murder in the death of Lucrecia Jadan Sumba, 39, from Elizabeth, New Jersey, according to the Union County Prosecutor's Office.Sumba was reported missing by friends and family on Jan. 9 to the Elizabeth Police […]

(NEW ORLEANS) -- The man who is suspected of committing the New Years Day vehicle-ramming attack in New Orleans searched online for information about the Christmas market car-ramming attack in Germany, just hours before carrying out his own attack on Bourbon Street, according to the FBI.In a report released Tuesday, the FBI said a search of Shamsud-Din Jabbar's "electronics" showed that he "conducted many online searches" related to the New […]

Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- Rudy Giuliani's New York Yankees World Series rings must be stored in a closet in his son's apartment until a judge decides whether the former New York mayor must relinquish them as part of a defamation judgment he owes to two Georgia election workers, the judge ordered Tuesday."The point was to ensure the security of the rings," Judge Lewis Liman said during the final […]

Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- Steve Bannon must appear in court next week to explain why he switched lawyers so close to trial, a judge in New York ordered.Bannon, once a senior adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, is scheduled to stand trial Feb. 25 on charges he defrauded donors of "We Build the Wall," an online fundraising campaign to support a wall along the U.S. southern border.Bannon […]

Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- President-elect Donald Trump is asking a federal appeals court to reconsider overturning a jury's verdict that found he sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll in the mid-1990s and awarded her $5 million in damages.After the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit determined last month that Trump failed to prove he deserved a new trial, lawyers for Trump on Tuesday requested an en banc […]

(LOS ANGELES) -- Fires are continuing to burn in Southern California, with further weather-related threats expected to increase as another Santa Ana wind event picks up this week.While the end to the fire danger is not yet in sight, the hazards that will remain in its wake will be severe, especially due to the urban nature of many of the burn zones, experts told ABC News.The fires burning in Los […]

(LOS ANGELES) -- At least 24 people have died and more than a dozen others remain unaccounted for as multiple wildfires, fueled by severe drought conditions and strong winds, rage across the Los Angeles area.Thousands of firefighters are battling wildfires across 45 square miles of densely populated Los Angeles County. About 92,000 people remain under mandatory evacuation orders and another 89,000 are under evacuation warnings.Status of Palisades, Eaton firesThe Palisades […]

ABC News (LOS ANGELES) -- As strong winds in Southern California pick up further early on Tuesday, a "particularly dangerous situation" with a red flag warning will go into effect in western Los Angeles County and most of Ventura County, weather officials said.The warning begins at 4 a.m. local time. Winds are forecast to gust between 45 mph to 70 mph, with relative humidity as low as 8%.Those strong winds […]