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Queer and trans youth are marching on International Transgender Visibility Day in 49 states amid anti-LGBTQ attacks. Several months after Samira, a 16-year-old Florida transgender girl, began taking gender-affirming hormones, the Florida medical board’s ban on transgender youth healthcare stopped her in her tracks. “The day before the policy passed for real, I was dropped from my provider suddenly, without notice, and had to scramble to get a meeting to get that cleared up,” Samira told ABC News in an interview. She says the nationwide wave of policy and legislative efforts to restrict gender-affirming care for trans people has not only taken a toll on her access to care, but also on her mental Health . “It's been rough, but having a purpose, having the ability to fight back against that, having the drive to do that, has been great,” Samira said. She is one of hundreds of protesters expected in 49 states across the country to march in honor of the International Transgender Day of ...

A set of locks for an Ohio River dam in Kentucky is closed due to a "navigational incident" after 10 barges were released from a tugboat. A set of locks for an Ohio River dam in Kentucky is closed due to a "navigational incident" after 10 barges were released from a tugboat, including one barge carrying 1,400 tons of a toxic alcohol compound, officials said. The incident occurred at roughly 2 a.m. Tuesday, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Of 11 total barges, 10 became loose from a tugboat; three barges became pinned to the dam, and one additional barge was pinned against a pier, the agency said. The Army Corp of Engineers said it recovered the barge pinned against the pier by noon Tuesday. It wrote in a statement that the remaining six barge s were recovered, adding that the dam's locks will remain closed until the " barge s on the dam are stabilized." Several barges were loose on the Ohio River in Louisville, Ky., March 28, 2023. Kentuc...

A stranger helped three Buffalo nurses get to work during the historic, deadly storm. When the historic Buffalo, New York, storm stranded nurse s at home, they turned to a stranger in a snowmobile club to give them an unconventional ride to work. Ally Mederer, an ICU nurse at Buffalo General Medical Center, spent days trapped in her house during the deadly storm. "I've lived in Buffalo my whole life," she told ABC News. "I have never seen anything to this extent." Abandoned cars block a road following a winter storm in Buffalo, New York, Dec. 27, 2022. Lindsay Dedario/Reuters Vehicles are seen trapped under heavy snow in the streets of downtown Buffalo, New York, on December 26, 2022. The Office of Governor Kathy Hochul/AFP via Getty Images But while Mederer was at home, some of her coworkers were stuck at the hospital. "They had worked anywhere from 50 to 60 hours straight with minimal relief in the hospital, so we just felt awful for them," she sa...

After police turned to Twitter to find the unknown Buffalo storm hero they dubbed "Merry Christmas Jay," the local man has been identified and is speak out to ABC News. The Buffalo storm hero who police have dubbed "Merry Christmas Jay" has been identified and is speak ing out to ABC News. Police in the town of Cheektowaga, just outside of Buffalo, credit 27-year-old Jay Withey with saving the lives of two dozen people during the deadly storm by rescuing strangers from cars trapped in the snow and bringing them into a school for shelter. "I feel 100% that Jay's actions were heroic and 100% saved lives," Cheektowaga Police Chief Brian Gould said. It all began when Withey went to pick up a friend who was stranded. But with only a quarter of a tank of gas left, his car quickly became stuck in the whiteout conditions. "The wind blowing, the snow falling -- you couldn't see if you stuck your hand out. You couldn't see the tap of your finger...

Authorities in Pennsylvania have arrested a suspect in the killings of four slain Idaho students, a law enforcement official said Friday HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Authorities in Pennsylvania arrested a suspect in the killings of four University of Idaho students who were found stabbed to death in their beds more than a month ago, a law enforcement official said Friday. Arrest paperwork filed in Monroe County Court said Bryan Christopher Kohberger, 28, was being held for extradition to Idaho on a warrant for first degree murder. A law enforcement official confirmed the arrest to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the official could not publicly discuss details of the investigation ahead of a formal announcement expected later Friday. A Ph.D. student by the same name is listed in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Washington State University, which is a short drive across the state line from the University of Idaho. Messages seeking more informat...

Officials in the small city of Eudora, Arkansas, are enforcing an emergency curfew after struggling to stop what the city’s mayor described as a “rampage of shootings.” Officials in the city of Eudora, Arkansas, said they are enforcing a mandatory emergency curfew after struggling to stop what the city's mayor described as a "rampage of shootings." Officials in the small city of Eudora, Arkansas are enforcing an emergency curfew after struggling to stop what the city's mayor described as a "rampage of shootings." KATV The city of fewer than 3,000 residents has recently experiences more than 10 shootings , according to Mayor Tomeka Butler, including one which killed a local resident on Dec. 24. Facing increased crime, few actionable leads, and limited police resources, Butler announced the "civil emergency curfew " on Dec. 27. The curfew applies from 8 p.m. until 6 a.m. with exceptions for both employment and medical emergencies, officials said. In...

A member of an airline ground crew working at an Alabama airport died Saturday afternoon in an accident at the facility MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- A member of an airline ground crew working at an Alabama airport died Saturday afternoon in an accident at the facility. The American Airlines/Piedmont Airlines employee died in an “industrial accident ” around 3 p.m., Montgomery Regional Airport said in a statement. “We are saddened to hear about the tragic loss of a team member of the AA/Piedmont Airlines," airport Executive Director Wade Davis said in the statement. The airport said in a Twitter post that normal operations resumed at 8:30 p.m. and an FAA investigation into the incident is ongoing. American Airlines did not immediately respond to an email from The Associated Press seeking additional information. Source: https://thefoxposts.com/ground-crew-worker-killed-in-accident-at-alabama-airport-TheFOXposts-7656.html?utm_source=blogger_source&utm_medium=blogger_medium&utm_...

Dry Tortugas National Park announced it would close on Monday after multiple migrant landings over the past couple of days shut down operations at the park. Dry Tortugas National Park announced it would close on Monday after multiple migrant landings throughout the region over the past couple days shut down operations at the park. A statement released by the park says it will "temporarily close to public access while law enforcement and medical personnel evaluate, provide care for and coordinate transport to Key West for approximately 300  migrant s who arrived in the park over the past couple of days." MORE: 'All eyes are on El Paso,' the latest epicenter of migrant surge  A spokesperson for the U.S. Coast Guard would not confirm if the National Park's estimate of how many migrants arrived is accurate, but said the Homeland Security Task Force is currently rescuing several migrants from uninhabited islands in the park. The historic Parade Grounds at Fort Jef...

The Maine teen charged in the New Year's Eve knife attack near Times Square on New York City police officers is due in court as soon as Tuesday. The Maine teen charged in the New Year's Eve knife attack near Times Square on New York City police officers is due in court as soon as Tuesday to face attempted murder and attempted assault charges. Trevor Bickford, 19, of Wells, Maine, carried out what a senior police official told ABC News was a terror attack likely motivated by Islamic extremism. "He knew what he was doing. He knew why he was doing it and he thought he would die in the attack ," Thomas Galati, NYPD Chief of Intelligence and Counterterrorism, told ABC News. "He did yell out 'Allahu Akbar.'" Trevor Bickford, 19, has been charged with attempted murder for attacking New York City police officers on New Year's Eve near Times Square. Handout Galati said the FBI interviewed Bickford last month in Maine after his mother reported her concer...

A serial grifter who gained national infamy as a teenager when he impersonated a doctor to defraud a patient is heading back to prison after pleading guilty to stealing more than $10,000 from his employer WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- A serial grifter who gained national infamy as a teenager when he impersonated a doctor to defraud a patient is heading back to prison after pleading guilty to stealing more than $10,000 from his employer. Malachi Love-Robinson, 25, received a sentence of over two years and four months last week after pleading guilty in Palm Beach County, Florida, to grand theft and organized scheme to defraud. Court documents show that in 2020, Robinson was working as a salesperson for a company that connects shippers with trucking companies. Instead of having customers make payments to the company, Love-Robinson would have them send the money to accounts he controlled. Love-Robinson first came to national attention in 2016 as an 18-year-old when he was arrested after open...

Amber McLaughlin is set to be the first trans person to be executed in the U.S. and the first person executed in 2023, according to Death Penalty Information Center. Amber McLaughlin is set to be the first openly trans gender person executed in the U.S and the first person executed in 2023, according to non-profit execution tracker Death Penalty Information Center. McLaughlin, 49, is scheduled to die by injection in Missouri on Tuesday. Her execution has been highlighted by activists, politicians and legal experts, including former judges for what they call failures in the sentencing phase of the trial. McLaughlin was sentenced to death in the killing of a former girlfriend Beverly Guenther in 2003. McLaughlin was found guilty of first degree murder, armed criminal action and forcible rape. This photo provided by the Federal Public Defender Office shows death row inmate Amber McLaughlin. Jeremy S. Weis/Federal Public Defender Office via AP, File According to McLaughlin's counse...

The mastermind of the nationwide college admissions bribery scandal is set to be sentenced in federal court BOSTON -- The mastermind of the nationwide college admissions bribery scandal is set to be sentenced on Wednesday after helping authorities secure the convictions of a slew of wealthy parents involved in his scheme to rig the selection process at top-tier schools. Federal prosecutors are asking for six years behind bars for Rick Singer, who for more than a decade helped deep-pocketed parents get their often undeserving kids get into some of the nation's most selective schools with bogus test scores and athletic credentials. The scandal embarrassed elite universities across the country, put a spotlight on the secretive admissions system already seen as rigged in favor of the rich and laid bare the measures some parents will take to get their kids into the school of their choice. Singer, 62, began secretly cooperating with investigators and worked with the FBI t...

Andrea DelVesco, a 21-year-old UCLA senior, was murdered in her apartment in Sept. 2015. Westwood, the picturesque Los Angeles neighborhood home to UCLA, is the "perfect college town," according to one student. "It's beautiful. It feels safe." But one morning in September 2015, just as a new school year began, a bright, promising student was brutally stabbed to death and set on fire in her Westwood apartment in an unfathomable crime that sent shockwaves across campus. In the Sept. 21, 2018, file photo, images of murdered 21-year-old UCLA student Andrea DelVesco are displayed as Alberto Medina, 25, not pictured, listens to victim impact statements before being sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole at Los Angeles County Superior Court's Airport Courthouse in Los Angeles. Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images, FILE Andrea "Andy" DelVesco was an adventurous 21-year- old studying psychology. "When Andrea was in...