Amy Held
Amy Held is an editor on the newscast unit. She regularly reports breaking news on air and online.
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Demonstrators took to the streets after a white ex-officer was acquitted Friday in the shooting death of a black man. The interim police chief said, "This is our city. And we are going to protect it." -
"Hard to compare to anything I've ever seen, the sheer destruction from the impact of this collision," said New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. -
The unrelated incidents in California and North Carolina killed one soldier and left several service members hospitalized. Five Marines were in critical condition. -
"We wanted to help others," a survivor tells Reuters. "There was nothing we could do." The victims were mostly children whose escape was blocked. -
"Your efforts could make the difference a family needs to get through this storm," Gov. Rick Scott said. -
The hurricane, which smashed through the Florida Keys earlier Sunday, made landfall again at Marco Island and is churning its way north along Florida's northwest coast. It has weakened to Category 1. -
A storm surge of up to 15 feet over parts of Florida remained one of the biggest concerns. "This will cover your house," Gov. Rick Scott warned. "You will not survive." -
The county prosecutor said that while Dan Heyman's conduct "may have been aggressive journalism," it "was not unlawful." -
María Pilar Abel Martínez has long claimed that the surrealist painter is her biological father — a claim that led to Dalí's remains being unearthed in July. -
The flames stranded a group of more than 100 hikers. They were so focused on escaping the blaze that a "bear actually came into our area and no one stirred," one hiker told The Spokesman-Review.
