Month: December 2022
ABC National News
3 slain UVA football players honored with posthumous degrees
Justin Ide / forThe Washington Post via Getty Images (CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.) — Three University of Virginia football players killed in a mass shooting on the Charlottesville campus have been honored with posthumous degrees from the [Read More…]
ABC National News
Atatiana Jefferson trial: Witness testimony continues on officer charged in fatal shooting
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (DALLAS) — Witness testimony continued Tuesday in the trial of now-former police officer Aaron Dean in the 2019 fatal shooting of Atatiana Jefferson. Dean is charged with murder in the death of [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Women not getting equal medical advice when it comes to heart health, study finds
The Good Brigade/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States for both men and women, but women may not be receiving the same treatment, according to [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Some schools close to stem flu outbreaks — but is it a good long-term solution?
ljubaphoto/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Some schools across the United States have been closing early in an attempt to stem influenza outbreaks. In Maine, students at Casco Bay High School in Portland were dismissed early [Read More…]
ABC World News
Russia-Ukraine live updates: Ukrainian special forces were in Russia during strike
Andrei Pungovschi/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than six months after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched an invasion into neighboring Ukraine, the two countries are engaged in a struggle for control of areas [Read More…]
ABC National News
Trump Organization convicted in executive tax dodge scheme
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s company was convicted of tax fraud Tuesday for helping executives dodge taxes on extravagant perks such as Manhattan apartments and luxury cars, a repudiation of financial practices at the [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Sylvester Stallone on bonding with ‘Tulsa King’ creator Taylor Sheridan, and making a TV star out of an extra
Paramount+ Taylor Sheridan has another hit show on his hands. The creator of the Paramount Network ratings powerhouse Yellowstone is also the creator of the acclaimed Paramount+ drama Mayor of Kingstown starring Jeremy Renner. With [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Gugu Mbatha-Raw teases “bolder, more surreal” second season of ‘Loki’
Marvel Studios Loki is the only Disney+ Marvel series to get a second season so far and Gugu Mbatha-Raw is happy to be back. She tells Entertainment Tonight it has been “amazing” to shoot the [Read More…]
Ag News
Wisconsin’s new transfer on death law lacks reporting mechanism
An attorney who remains active with the family farm says Wisconsin’s new transfer-on-death law for farm machinery could use an additional reporting tool. Kelly Wilfert from Two Rivers tells Brownfield that Wisconsin’s groundbreaking law allows [Read More…]
Ag News
Farm Bureau evaluates specialty crop limitations in farm bill
The American Farm Bureau Federation wants to enhance specialty crop insurance coverage in the next farm bill. Economist Danny Munch recently analyzed the nearly 80 policies currently in place. “You have a number of specialty [Read More…]
Ag News
Ag researchers call for funding improvements
Agricultural researchers testified on how farm bill investments need to go further during a Senate Ag Committee hearing Tuesday. Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics Dr. Chavonda Jacobs-Young says federal investments in ag research [Read More…]
ABC National News
Seventeen workers arrested at sit-in as University of California strike enters fourth week
ftwitty/Getty Images (SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — Seventeen academic workers on strike were arrested at a University of California administrative office in Sacramento, as a system-wide worker strike across all 10 campuses enters its fourth week. The [Read More…]
ABC National News
Colorado Springs Club Q shooting suspect faces 305 charges, including bias-motivated crimes
Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.) — The suspect accused of killing five people in a mass shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado, is facing 305 charges, including first-degree murder, attempted murder [Read More…]
ABC National News
Former correctional officer sentenced after assisting white supremacist assault on Black detainees: DOJ
Olena Ruban/Getty Images (KAY COUNTY, Okla.) — A former supervisory correctional officer in Oklahoma was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison for “abusing his position of power and authority to … facilitate an attack [Read More…]
ABC National News
Tens of thousands without power in NC county for third day as search continues for saboteurs
Dominik Stötter / EyeEm/ Getty Images (MOORE COUNTY, N.C.) — More than 30,000 customers in a North Carolina county awoke for the third day Tuesday without electricity as a search for those responsible for sabotaging [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Jan. 6 officers awarded Congressional Gold Medals; some family seem to snub Republican leaders
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Top lawmakers on Tuesday presented police officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, with Congressional Gold Medals — the highest honor that Congress can bestow — nearly two [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Jan. 6 committee ‘will probably make’ criminal referrals related to Capitol attack, Thompson says
Omar Chatriwala/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House Jan. 6 committee’s chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson, indicated on Tuesday that criminal referrals related to the Capitol attack were under discussion but that final decisions — including on [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Firearm deaths among Black men at 28-year high, doctors are taking steps to reframe gun violence as one of America’s major health crisis
DBenitostock/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — There’s been a substantial increase in firearm-related deaths in the United States over the past three decades and Black men are the most affected, according to new research from a [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Bill Cosby sued by 5 new women for sexual assault; reps call action “frivolous”
Matt Rourke-Pool/Getty Images Actor Bill Cosby is facing new accusations of sexual assault and battery from five women under New York’s new Adult Survivors Act, according to a lawsuit filed Monday. The lawsuit was filed [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Vanna White says thinking about ‘Wheel of Fortune’ without Pat Sajak is “depressing”
ABC/Eric McCandless Pat Sajak and Vanna White are synonymous with Wheel of Fortune, but what of a future in which the dynamic duo is no longer leading the show? “I don’t even want to think [Read More…]