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(LOUISIANA) -- NFL hopeful Kyren Lacy, one of the top wide receiver prospects in this year's draft, has been arrested for negligent homicide in connection with a deadly crash in Louisiana last month.Lacy was booked into the Lafourche Parish Correctional Complex on Sunday evening, authorities said -- two days after Louisiana State Police announced they had issued an arrest warrant for the athlete for allegedly leaving the scene of a […]

(WASHINGTON) -- U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who dismissed Donald Trump's classified documents case, has ruled that the Justice Department can release Volume One of special counsel report Jack Smith's report, covering his election interference case against Trump -- but is reserving ruling on whether the DOJ can make Volume Two, on the classified documents case, available to congressional leadership for review.Cannon has scheduled a hearing for Jan. 17 on […]

(LOS ANGELES) -- The wildfires burning across the Los Angeles area have ravaged thousands of structures, with the Eaton Fire destroying generations of homes in Altadena. One woman's house was the only one on her block to survive.Debbie Slavin told ABC News on Monday about how her house avoided catching fire when the first six houses on her block were burned to the ground."When the fire burned the fence, it also burst […]

(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 […]

Tracy Wilcox/PGA TOUR via Getty Images (INDIANAPOLIS) -- A Texas man has been charged with stalking for allegedly sending WNBA star Caitlin Clark threats over social media, officials said Monday.Michael Lewis, 55, was arrested on Sunday in Indianapolis and has been charged with stalking for allegedly sending "numerous threats and sexually explicit messages to Clark via his social media accounts," the Marion County Prosecutor's Office said in a press release."No […]

(LOS ANGELES) -- Family members have begun to identify the Los Angeles residents who were killed in the wildfires sweeping through the area since Jan. 7.As of Sunday evening, the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner said it was investigating at least 14 fire-related deaths from the Eaton and Palisades Fires which have burned through thousands of acres.Here is what we know of the deceased victims.Anthony and Justin MitchellHajime White told […]

Joe Raedle/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) -- With the court injunction prohibiting U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland from releasing special counsel Jack Smith's final report on his investigations into Donald Trump set to expire today, attorneys for Trump's former co-defendants continue to implore the judge who oversaw their classified documents case to block the report.In a filing overnight that appeared to be the legal equivalent of re-upping their last email, lawyers for Walt Nauta […]

(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 Santa Ana winds, continue to rage across Southern California.Thousands of firefighters are battling wildfires across 45 square miles of densely populated Los Angeles County. About 105,000 people remain under mandatory evacuation orders and another 87,000 are under evacuation warnings.Status of Palisades, Eaton […]

ABC News (LOS ANGELES) -- Weather officials have issued a "Particularly Dangerous Situation" red flag warning for western Los Angeles County and most of Ventura County beginning on Tuesday at 4 a.m. into Wednesday at noon, warning of a heightened fire risk even as crews rush to extinguish blazes tearing through the region.A new Santa Ana wind event is forecast today through Wednesday with the strongest winds Tuesday into Wednesday. Peak winds for […]