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(NEW YORK) -- Nearly four years after he allegedly shot and killed an unarmed Black man who was dropping off Christmas money to a friend, the murder trial of former police officer Adam Coy was getting underway on Monday.Coy, who is white, was fired from the Columbus Police Department about a week after the 2020 fatal shooting of 47-year-old Andre Hill.About a month after the shooting, the 46-year-old Coy was […]

(PHILADELPHIA) -- Members of the "Central Park Five" filed a defamation suit against former President Donald Trump on Monday, accusing him of spreading "false, misleading and defamatory" statements about their 1989 case during the Sept. 10 ABC News presidential debate, according to a new court filing.Attorneys representing the five men -- Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson, Antron Brown and Korey Wise -- filed their civil suit against Trump in federal court in […]

(ASHEVILLE, N.C.) -- Twenty-six people remain unaccounted for in hard-hit North Carolina, weeks after the devastation unleashed by Hurricane Helene, officials said Monday.Last week, 92 people were unaccounted for, officials said.Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida on Sept. 26, wreaking havoc across the Southeast from Florida to Virginia. Helene destroyed homes and roads, stranded residents without cellphone service and water, and claimed the lives of nearly 250 people throughout the Southeast.At least […]

Houston Fire Department (HOUSTON) -- Four people, including a child, were killed when a helicopter crashed into a radio tower in Houston, officials said.The crash happened just before 8 p.m. Sunday when a private aircraft struck a radio tower in Houston's Second Ward, Houston police said.All four people on the helicopter were killed. No one on the ground was injured, officials said.No homes or structures were impacted except for the […]

(NEW YORK) -- The contentious debate surrounding New York City's struggle to address homelessness and mental illness has clouded the memory of who Jordan Neely was.But to some who cared for him, Neely is remembered for breaking out into dance and singing along with the hits on the radio as a joyous child.He's remembered as a teen who struggled to cope with the loss of his best friend -- his […]

(SAPELO ISLAND, G.A.) -- The "catastrophic failure" of an aluminum ferry gangway caused the deaths Saturday of seven people who were attending an annual cultural event on historic Sapelo Island off the coast of Georgia, officials said Sunday.Three other people were critically injured and remained hospitalized Sunday afternoon, Commissioner Walter Rabon of the Georgia Department of Natural Resouces said during a news conference.Among those killed was 77-year-old Charles Houston of […]

Houston Fire Department (HOUSTON) -- A helicopter that crashed into a radio tower in Houston, Texas, Sunday left four people killed, including a child, officials said.The crash happened at approximately 7:54 p.m. local time, when a private aircraft struck a radio tower in Houston's Second Ward, Houston police said in a press conference Sunday night.All four of the individuals killed were aboard the helicopter and no one on the ground […]

(NEW YORK) -- Rick Singer, the man convicted of orchestrating the so-called "Varsity Blues" college admissions scandal, has continued to advise prospective undergraduates on their college applications while serving his sentence in federal prison in Florida, and now from a California halfway house.Singer, 64, a one-time college admissions consultant who pleaded guilty in 2019 to facilitating bribes between wealthy parents and elite universities in exchange for their children's enrollment, told […]

(LOUISVILLE, KY) -- Opening statements are set to begin Monday in the federal retrial of Brett Hankison, a former Louisville police officer accused of violating the civil rights of Breonna Taylor, her boyfriend and their neighbors in 2020, when Taylor was shot and killed in a botched police raid.The initial trial ended in a mistrial last year when the jury reached an impasse because they were not able to reach […]