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"Our country went through a national reckoning in the spring and summer of 2020. Ben Crump was at the center of that," the college's president said.

Smollett, 39, is charged with six counts of felony disorderly conduct for making what prosecutors say was a false police report.

Mekka, best known for his role as Carmine Ragusa on the sitcom "Laverne & Shirley," died at his home in Newhall, California, his brother said.

Shawna Browning, 29, mother of Haley Mae Coblentz, and Browning's significant other, Lauren Harrison, 34, were charged with aggravated murder, police say.

The news special was produced by KTRK, ABC’s owned-and-operated local station in Houston.

“We’re not going to go underground,” a local advocate said as the Supreme Court heard arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization.

NBC's Bracey Harris reports on how abortion rights advocates in Mississippi are strategizing for a potential world without Roe v. Wade after the Supreme Court seemed likely to uphold the state's abortion law.

The Oakland County Sheriff said, "More than likely, it was one of our plainclothes detectives and he may have been talking ‘bro’ in a conversational manner."

Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said the person at the door was not the gunman, identified as Ethan Crumbley, and was most likely a plainclothes detective who was trying to put the students at ease.

The agency added there is no threat to the public.

William "Roddie" Bryan, along with father and son Gregory and Travis McMichael, were found guilty last week in the fatal shooting last year.