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ABC News (NEW YORK) — Two people have died in central Alabama after a tornado struck Montgomery County overnight, officials said. At least 29 tornadoes have touched down in Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama. Montgomery Fire [Read More…]

Nature’s Gifts Captured/Getty Images, FILE (TRENTON, N.J.) — Animal protection groups are seeking an emergency court challenge to stop a black bear hunt from taking place next Monday in New Jersey. The state’s Fish and [Read More…]

International Fund for Animal Welfare (EASTHAM, Mass.) — A group of pilot whales that were stranded on a Massachusetts beach have been returned to the ocean, but they may still be in peril, according to [Read More…]

nazarethman/Getty Images (MOSCOW, Idaho) — University of Idaho students, back on campus following Thanksgiving break, will gather Wednesday night for a vigil for their four classmates who were mysteriously stabbed to death this month. Kaylee [Read More…]

ABC News / WABC-TV (NEW YORK) — A housekeeper at a five-star luxury hotel has been hospitalized after encountering a powdery substance in a hotel room that was allegedly left by a man who trespassed [Read More…]

Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The owners of a nursing home in Western New York allegedly “wove a complicated web of fraud” that resulted in patient neglect and caused the conditions that led to [Read More…]

Catherine McQueen/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The leader of the far-right Oath Keepers group on Tuesday was found guilty of conspiring against the federal government as part of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol [Read More…]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — At least 15 tornadoes touched down across Mississippi and Louisiana Tuesday night in what can be considered a tornado outbreak, as severe weather impacts the Gulf Coast and the Tennessee [Read More…]

ABC News (PHILADELPHIA) — Across the country, police forces are scrambling to keep their roll call numbers at full staff, but officials said they’ve been hit with challenges. Burnout, low morale, and dejection have caused [Read More…]

Bell County Sheriff’s Office (WACO, Texas) — A woman accused of helping Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Guillen’s suspected killer dismember and dispose of her body pleaded guilty to multiple federal charges on Tuesday, weeks before [Read More…]

Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (CHESAPEAKE, Va.) — A Virginia community is reeling after a man armed with a handgun shot and killed six people and injured several others in a mass shooting at [Read More…]

Catherine McQueen/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A jury on Tuesday convicted Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes and associate Kelly Meggs of seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol while also convicting three [Read More…]

Chesapeake Police Department Handout (CHESAPEAKE, Va.) — A victim of the mass shooting at a Walmart store in Chesapeake, Virginia, filed a lawsuit against the company on Tuesday. The suit accused Walmart of being negligent [Read More…]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Numerous, intense tornadoes are possible as severe weather takes aim on the Gulf Coast and the Tennessee River Valley. A tornado watch has been issued for parts of southeast Arkansas, [Read More…]

In this photo released by the Racine Police Department, Timothy Olson is shown. – Racine Police Department (MILWAUKEE) — A Wisconsin man accused of financially preying on women he met on dating apps, and is [Read More…]

KABC-TV (RIVERSIDE, Calif.) — A former Virginia police officer allegedly “catfished” a teenage girl online before traveling to Riverside, California, and killing her family, according to police. The murders were discovered on Friday after authorities [Read More…]

Heather Roberts/ABC News (MOSCOW, Idaho) — The father of Kaylee Goncalves, one of the four University of Idaho students mysteriously stabbed to death in an off-campus house, said he’s feeling “a little defeated” and frustrated [Read More…]

MARK FELIX/AFP /AFP via Getty Images (UVALDE, Texas) — The mother of a girl killed during the school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, last May, filed a lawsuit Monday against gun distributors, local governments and 16 [Read More…]

Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (DALLAS) — The trial of now-former police officer Aaron Dean in the 2019 fatal shooting of Atatiana Jefferson began Monday after several delays. Jury selection began Monday with Judge George Gallagher saying [Read More…]

Beltrami County Sheriff’s Office (NEW YORK) — About 100 people fishing on a frozen lake in Minnesota were rescued after a large chunk of the ice broke off, leaving them stranded. Emergency dispatchers received a [Read More…]