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Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC (NEW YORK) -- President-elect Donald Trump's criminal hush money conviction in New York must be dismissed "to facilitate the orderly transition of Executive power," Trump's defense attorneys argued Wednesday in a letter to the court.Defense attorneys Todd Blanche and Emil Bove -- both of whom Trump nominated last week to top DOJ posts in his new administration -- sought the judge's permission to file a motion to dismiss the case."Continuing with […]

(NEW YORK) -- Melissa Lucio, the death row inmate who was convicted of capital murder in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, is speaking out in an exclusive statement and audio recording to ABC News for the first time since a judge found last month that the Texas mother who has been behind bars for nearly 17 years is “actually innocent.”“More than words. There are truly no amount of words, no matter […]

ABC News One person was killed and two were injured by falling trees in Washington state as a powerful storm moved into the Pacific Northwest.In Lynwood, a woman in her 50s was killed when a tree fell on a homeless encampment Tuesday night. In Puget Sound, two were transported to hospitals when a tree fell on a trailer, officials said.The storm exploded into a bomb cyclone off the coast, near Vancouver […]

(NEW YORK) -- Righteous Torrance "Chevy" Hill had great plans for his future, cut short by a fatal shooting in front of his own home in February.Hill, a transgender man, left behind a budding legacy of activism as the founder of an LGBTQ-focused salon and barber shop called Evollusion. The salon was born out of his desire for a space where he and other clients weren't faced with uncomfortable or […]

(NEW YORK) -- A man accused of killing three people in an apparent unprovoked stabbing spree in Manhattan made his first appearance in court on Tuesday.Ramon Rivera, 51, was charged with three counts of first-degree murder, according to the New York Police Department. He confessed to the killings during questioning, according to police sources.The judge on Tuesday granted the prosecution's request for remand. Rivera is set to return to court on Nov. 22.The attacks […]

KABC (LOS ANGELES, Calif.) -- Police and relatives are pleading with the public to help find the driver who struck and killed a father of three in a hit-and-run in Los Angeles.Oscar Guardado was riding his bike home in south Los Angeles when he was hit by a car just before 10 p.m. on Oct. 27, the Los Angeles Police Department said.The driver fled and Guardado, 42, was pronounced dead […]

(PHOENIX, Ariz) -- A deaf Black man with cerebral palsy who was violently arrested by two Phoenix police officers in August said he tried to alert the officers that he was deaf before they repeatedly punched and tasered him for an alleged crime he had been falsely accused of by another suspect.Records show that the incident occurred when officers were dispatched to investigate a report of a man causing problems […]

(ATHENS, Ga.) -- The last moments before Laken Riley was killed while out on a run on the University of Georgia's campus were shown in court Tuesday on the third day of the trial involving the murder of the 22-year-old nursing student.The Augusta University student was found dead in a wooded area on the Athens campus on Feb. 22.Jose Ibarra, 26, is accused of murdering Riley after prosecutors said she […]

(NEW YORK) -- Prosecutors with the Manhattan district attorney's office said Tuesday they would oppose President-elect Trump's attempt to dismiss his criminal hush money conviction in New York -- but they told the judge they do not object to pausing the case.The DA's office faced a Tuesday deadline to propose the next steps in the case after the "unprecedented circumstances" of the former president's election following his conviction on 34 […]