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WABC (NEW YORK) -- Several New York City beaches will remain closed for the weekend due to strong rip currents from Hurricane Ernesto.The Category 1 storm made landfall in Bermuda early Saturday, hovering slowly over the island throughout the day with hurricane-force winds and heavy rain. Although hundreds of miles offshore, the system is generating rip currents on the East Coast of the U.S., prompting the National Weather Service to […]

Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- George Santos is expected to plead guilty in his fraud case during a hearing Monday in federal court on Long Island, sources familiar with the case told ABC News, while cautioning the erratic former Republican congressman could always change his mind.A guilty plea would avoid a trial that is scheduled to begin next month. Hundreds of potential jurors had already been summoned.Calls seeking […]

(AUSTIN, TEXAS) -- A 78-year-old man has now been charged with a murder committed over 40 years ago after genetic genealogy helped investigators identify him as a suspect.Deck Brewer Jr., a man already imprisoned in Massachusetts, has been charged with the 1980 murder of 25-year-old Susan Leigh Wolfe, according to the Austin, Texas, Police Department.Wolfe had just enrolled as a nursing student at the University of Texas at Austin when […]

(TALLAHASSEE, FL) — The New College of Florida is under fire after what appears to be hundreds of books that have been wiped from its collection and discarded on the street.Social Equity Through Education Alliance (SEE), a local activist group, was alerted on Thursday by a New College student who reported seeing what they believed was up to "thousands" of books being "shoved into a dumpster" behind the college's library. "We […]

(OCALA, FL) -- A jury began deliberating Friday in the case of Susan Lorincz – the Florida woman who is charged with first-degree felony manslaughter in the fatal shooting of her neighbor, Ajike “AJ” Owens, through a closed door on June 2, 2023, in Ocala, Florida.The six-person panel was seated on Monday and began deliberating on Friday shortly after 12:00 p.m. ET after prosecutors and the defense presented their closing […]

(NEW YORK) -- In an encore “20/20” airing August 16 at 9 p.m. ET, the show, which originally aired in 2020, revisits the case of Pamela Smart, who was sentenced to life in prison without parole for being an accomplice in her husband Gregg’s murder in 1990.Smart, whose murder trial was the first in U.S. history to be broadcast on television gavel-to-gavel, maintained her innocence for 30 years. But this […]

Brad Vest/Getty Images (KIMBERLING CITY, MO) -- A Missouri woman was arrested Friday morning in connection with an alleged scheme to defraud Elvis Presley's family out of millions of dollars and the ownership of Graceland, the Justice Department announced.Lisa Findley is alleged to have orchestrated the scheme to conduct the sale of Graceland by falsely claiming that Presley's daughter, prior to her death, had pledged the estate as collateral for […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) -- A hurricane warning has been issued for Bermuda as Ernesto strengthened to a Category 2 storm overnight.Ernesto had maximum sustained winds of 100 mph Friday morning.The hurricane is forecast to strengthen on Friday, but will remain a Category 2 storm as it passes Bermuda.  Flash flooding covers a roadway after Tropical Storm Ernesto moved through the area in Dorado, Puert...The hurricane will approach Bermuda Friday […]

Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump embraces the firefighter uniform of Corey Comperatore as he speaks on stage on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 18, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Photo by An (PITTSBURGH) -- Helen Comperatore and her daughters are remembering Corey Comperatore, the volunteer fire chief who was killed when he died protecting his family during the gunfire […]