FangXiaNuo/iStockBY: MARK OSBORNE, ABC NEWS (ATLANTA) — Nine people have tested positive for COVID-19 at a Georgia high school where a photo of a packed hallway went viral earlier this week. Six students and three staff members who were at the school last week have tested positive, according to a letter sent to parents Saturday that was acquired by ABC News. The positive cases were reported to the school after private tests. “We have anticipated that COVID-19 would impact us as it has nearly every community, and the district has…
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Kansas mother of 3 goes missing on trip to visit family in Alabama
By MARK OSBORNE, ABC News (BIRMINGHAM, Al.) — A mother of three from Kansas has now been missing for a week after leaving on a trip to visit family in Alabama. Marilane Carter, 36, left her home in Overland Park, Kansas, just outside Kansas City, on the night of Saturday, Aug. 1, according to police. She was last seen in surveillance footage checking into a hotel in West Plains, Missouri, the following morning. Law enforcement said Carter last spoke to family on that Sunday near Memphis, Tennessee, before her phone…
Remains of 7 Marines, sailor who died in training accident recovered
MivPiv/iStockBY: ELLA TORRES, ABC NEWS (LOS ANGELES) — The remains of seven Marines and a Navy Sailor who were killed when their amphibious assault vehicle (AAV) sank during a training exercise on July 30 off of San Clemente Island in Southern California have been recovered, the Marine Corps announced Friday night. After initially saying recovery efforts would likely be unsuccessful, officials with the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), I Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF), and the Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) positively identified the AAV on Aug. 3, nearly 400…
'We're tired of being patient': 10 months after Hard Rock collapse, bodies inside to be removed
Courtesy Frank WimberlyBY: ELLA TORRES, ABC NEWS (NEW ORLEANS) — Frank Wimberly began grieving for his brother, Quinnyon, last fall after learning that he was one of three construction workers killed in the collapse of the Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans. Yet 10 months later, Wimberly said the pain still feels fresh because his brother’s body hadn’t been recovered. Authorities have been working to remove the 36-year-old’s body and that of a second victim, 63-year-old Jose Ponce Arreola, since the hotel crumbled on Oct. 12, 2019, but safety concerns…