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cmannphoto/iStockBy CHRISTINA CARREGA, ABC News (SATILLA SHORES, Ga.) — Within a makeshift memorial in the Satilla Shores, Georgia, neighborhood where Ahmaud Arbery was gunned down during a caught-on-camera confrontation with a father and son, is where a “heartfelt” anonymous note was left. The family of Arbery and their attorneys want the author to come forward. “I’m pleading on behalf of the family that you please make yourself known to the authorities so my family can begin to have closure,” said Wanda Cooper-Jones on Wednesday evening in a recorded video message.…

Breonna Taylor FamilyBy CHRISTINA CARREGA, ABC News (NEW YORK) — The mother of Breonna Taylor, an EMT who was shot and killed inside her Louisville, Kentucky, apartment during a police raid, is expected on The View. Taylor and her boyfriend Kenneth Walker were sleeping in their Springfield Drive apartment on March 13 when officers with the Louisville Police Department arrived to execute a “no-knock” search warrant. Police said Taylor was accepting USPS packages for an ex-boyfriend who police were investigating as an alleged drug trafficker and used her address, according…

amphotora/iStockBy IVAN PEREIRA, ABC NEWS (BROWARD COUNTY, Fla.) — One of the officers who was fired over his handling of the 2018 Parkland, Florida, high school shooting will get his badge back. Sgt. Brian Miller will receive full back pay and seniority when he returns to his duties at the Broward County Sheriff’s Office, the Broward Sheriff’s Office Deputies Association Union said Wednesday. Miller was one of two officers who were fired last year after an investigation deemed they had “neglected their duties” when they responded to the Feb. 14,…

Live Nation Entertainment Doobie Brothers fans, rejoice!  Michael McDonald is rejoining the band for a 50th anniversary tour. For the first time in nearly 25 years, McDonald will join The Doobie Brothers — led by longtime core members Tom Johnston, Pat Simmons and John McFee — for the milestone trek.  The band broke the news at the end of its show Monday night at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, which featured performances of the classic Doobies albums Toulouse Street and The Captain and Me in full.  Nashville native McDonald came onstage during…

sdart/iStock(LAKELAND, Fla.) — A man who punched a little league umpire in the face after he disagreed with one of his calls has been arrested in Florida. Polk County Sheriff’s Office deputies were called to the Highland City Ball Park in Lakeland, Florida last Friday night to reports of the altercation between two men. According to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, Alberto Escartin Ramos, 22, was at the park to watch his nephew and disagreed with a call the umpire made during the little league game. Once the game concluded,…

WLS(CHICAGO) — The attorney representing a group that said they were asked to move seats at an Illinois Buffalo Wild Wings because of their race is calling for the company to be “trailblazers” when it comes to standing up to racism. “We are hoping, in fact, we are expecting that they will be good corporate citizens and take the opportunity to do the right thing … We are looking to change things,” attorney Cannon D. Lambert said at a press conference Tuesday. Justin Vahl and Marcus Riley said at the…

Broward County Sheriffs Office(HALLANDALE, Fla.) — Authorities in Florida are pouring over audio recordings from a couple’s Amazon Echo Dot devices as they continue to investigate a bizarre death. Detectives are hoping to find audio from July 12, the night Silvia Galva was killed in Hallandale when the blade of a spear pierced her chest after a fight with her boyfriend, Adam Crespo. Crespo has been charged in her slaying. Christopher O’Toole, an attorney for Crespo, told ABC News that he was “looking forward to the recordings” because he believes…

pablohart/iStock(AMERICUS, Ga.) — Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has been hospitalized after falling at his Georgia home on Monday evening, according to a spokesperson. The Carter Center, which the former president founded in 1982, posted a statement via Twitter on Tuesday morning, saying Carter had been “admitted to Phoebe Sumter Medical Center for observation and treatment of a minor pelvic fracture.” Carter, who is 95, “is in good spirits and is looking forward to recovering at home,” the center tweeted. Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter had a fall yesterday evening…

Kuzma/iStock(NEW YORK) — A pair of Ohio teenagers have been charged in a deadly log tossing incident that claimed the life of a photography teacher last month. The 16-year-old boys were arrested and charged with reckless homicide in the death of Victoria Shafer, a 44-year-old teacher in southern Ohio who died after being hit by a falling log on Labor Day, police said over the weekend. Shafer, a married mother of four, was on a park photo shoot with five high school seniors on Sept. 2 when the 6-foot log…

Columbus Ohio Police(COLUMBUS, Ohio) — An Ohio man has been arrested after he was caught on surveillance footage whipping his 3-year-old son dozens of times with an extension cord and then leaving him alone in the car while he went shopping with the mother and his three other children. Robert Lee Slocum, 27, turned himself into Columbus Police from a church less than 24 hours after the authorities released video of him committing the brutal beating of his son, according to ABC’s affiliate station in Columbus, WSYX-TV. “He saw the…