pGiam/iStockBy ABC News(LAKE JACKSON, Texas) — After Texas authorities sent an urgent message about brain-eating amoeba found in a southeast county water’s supply, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality lifted a “Do Not Use” water advisory for all areas except one, Lake Jackson.On Friday, TCEQ posted on social media that it was informed of the…… Read more »
JannHuizenga/iStockBy KARMA ALLEN, ABC News(WASHINGTON) — This report is part of “Turning Point,” a groundbreaking month-long series by ABC News examining the racial reckoning sweeping the United States and exploring whether it can lead to lasting reconciliation.It took 233 years, but for the first time in its history, the New Jersey Supreme Court has a…… Read more »
GarysFRPBy EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News(SALEM, Ore.) — After weeks of steady decline, COVID-19 cases are rising in Oregon — and wildfires may be contributing.The Oregon State Authority reported 457 new cases on Friday — the single highest daily total since the pandemic began. The state’s coronavirus total now stands at over 32,000 cases.Among the recent…… Read more »
ABC NewsBy DANIEL MANZO, ABC NewsA major weather pattern change is in sight for the next few days in much of the U.S., including the return of dangerous fire weather conditions in parts of the West as well as a heat wave in the Southwest.Already Saturday morning, there are wind advisories, fire weather watches, red…… Read more »
Charles County Sheriff’s OfficeBy EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News(HUGHESVILLE, Md.) — A Maryland man has been sentenced to one year in jail after he hosted two parties against the governor’s COVID-19 large gathering orders, prosecutors said.Following a bench trial, Shawn Marshall Myers, 42, was convicted of two counts of failure to comply with an emergency order,…… Read more »
kali9/iStockBy EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News(ROCHESTER, N.Y.) — Cynthia Herriott-Sullivan has been appointed Rochester’s new interim police chief — the first woman to hold the position — amid criticism over the handling of the death of Daniel Prude, a Black man who died in March after he was seen being pinned to the ground by Rochester…… Read more »
JacqueRae S. Hill/FacebookBy MINA KAJI, ABC News(WASHINGTON) — In June, a black Southwest Airlines flight attendant was moved to tears during a discussion on race with one passenger who only later identified himself as American Airlines CEO Doug Parker.That emotional conversation has connected them for life, Parker says, and last weekend the two reunited over…… Read more »
Ovidiu Dugulan/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR, ABC News(NEW YORK) — A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed more than 984,000 people worldwide.Over 32.2 million people across the globe have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns…… Read more »
ABC NewsBy TENZIN SHAKYA and ANTHONY RIVAS, ABC News(WASHINGTON) — This report is part of “Turning Point,” a groundbreaking month-long series by ABC News examining the racial reckoning sweeping the United States and exploring whether it can lead to lasting reconciliation.In Oklahoma, the people of the Muscogee Creek Nation Reservation have just won their long-standing…… Read more »
Matthew Cavanaugh/Getty ImagesBy ARIELLE MITROPOULOS and AARON KATERSKY, ABC News(HOLYOKE, Mass.) — Two former leaders of the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home in Massachusetts have been indicted in connection with the COVID-19 deaths of nearly a dozen veterans, Attorney General Maura Healey announced Friday.Former Superintendent Bennett Walsh and former Medical Director Dr. David Clinton each have been…… Read more »