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Dunwoody Police Department(ATLANTA) -- A crowded highway in suburban Atlanta turned into a lottery payday for dozens of drivers.Drivers pulled over and scrambled out of their vehicles when an armored truck's door accidentally swung open while driving along Interstate 285 Tuesday evening -- spilling cold, hard cash everywhere... Read More ... Read More ...

ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A state of emergency was declared in Louisiana on Wednesday as severe weather threatens the Gulf of Mexico.The tropical moisture, which has already triggered heavy rain and flash flood warnings in New Orleans Wednesday morning, is expected to intensify into a tropical depression by Thursday morning... Read More ... Read More ...

PLU$XANZ/Twitter(WASHINGTON) -- A police officer in Maryland is facing criminal charges after being filmed slamming a suspect’s neck into the sidewalk with his knee during an arrest.Kevin Moris has been charged with second degree assault and misconduct in office over an incident that happened on July 3, 2019, during his arrest of Arnaldo Andres Pesoa, 19.Moris... Read More ...

Salt Lake County Sheriffs Office(SALT LAKE CITY) -- Charges were filed Wednesday against the man accused of kidnapping and killing University of Utah student Mackenzie Lueck, prosecutors said.Ayoola Ajayi, 31, is accused of aggravated murder, aggravated kidnapping, obstructing justice and desecration of a human body, Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill said at a news conference on Wednesda

iStock(CHICAGO) -- It's not your average morning in Humboldt Park in Chicago today -- officials are trying to trap an alligator spotted in the lagoon there.The reptile is between 4 and 5 feet long, specialists said, according to Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi... Read More ... Read More ...

iStock(NEW YORK) -- When 8-year-old Noa Lewis was assigned a school project on Amelia Earhart, she flipped the script and asked instead to report on Bessie Coleman, who was the first female African American and Native American pilot.Noa and her second-grade class were given the assignment to create and be a part of a “wax museum,” with each student embodying their assigned historical figure. Noa h

ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A tropical system developing in the Gulf of Mexico could bring the first threat of this year's hurricane season to the United States.New Orleans was already under a severe thunderstorm warning and flash flood warning Wednesday morning... Read More ... Read More ...

iStock(TROY, Mich.) -- Longtime auto executive Lee Iacocca will be buried in Troy, Michigan, on Wednesday following a funeral mass in nearby Bloomfield Hills. When the bulletins began filling up my inbox last week, reporting that Iacocca had died at 94, I was instantly transported back to one memorable afternoon in Washington in 1991 ...

ABC News(HOUSTON) -- A 12-year-old boy from Texas has made it his mission to give back to his community by feeding the hungry and currently helps supply three meals a day for two dozen families every weekend of the school year.Matthew Reel, 12, of Conroe, Texas, was honored for his hard work and selflessness on Good Morning America on Wednesday with a surprise visit from Houston Mayor Sylvester Tu

ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A tropical system developing in the Gulf of Mexico could bring the first threat to the United States this hurricane season.The National Hurricane Center is giving the disturbance a 90% chance of forming into a tropical depression later Wednesday or Thursday in the northern Gulf... Read More ... Read More ...