Killed in a boating accident. He was born in cuba and tried three times to defect before being successful. He was just 24 years old. A curfew in effect in charlotte since thursday has now been lifted. There were violent protests following the Fatal Police Shooting of keith scott, but demonstrators have been peaceful in the last two days. Those are some of the top stories on this monday, september 26th. From abc news, world news now. Good monday morning, breaking news, a sports legend passed away, in fact, one of the greatest golfers of all time, Arnold Palmer passing away yesterday afternoon at the age of 87. He won seven major tournaments. The masters four times and british and u. S. Open each twice. Overall, he won nearly 100 tournaments worldwide, but palmer will be remembered for ability. Abcs Lindsey Davis has the story. Reporter in the golf world, hes known simply as the king. The place of golf in modern professional sports owes everything to Arnold Palmer. In the 1950s when golf
Carolina. Cbs reporter Craig Boswell is in columbia where the polls closed 90 minutes ago reporter good evening from ted cruz headquarters where cruz will be addressing his supporters here later this evening. Every time his name pops up on the big screen, you will hear a very large cheer from the crowd so thats what youre going to be seeing and hearing behind us as we talk throughout the evening. It is senator ted cruz and marco rubio battling for that second place spot here in South Carolina. Look, people were tell us all throughout the day that they were deciding late making up their minds going into the polling place some people changing their minds on the spot. Cbs news projects donald trump has won the South Carolina republican primary. Ted cruz and marco rubio trailed. Earlier volunteers at cruzs call center worked to get out the vote. Bring all your family and friends to vote, too, okay . Reporter today cruz attended the funeral for Supreme Court justice antonin scalia. This wee
He ccstill wanted ccto play we would cccnot let nrhim. He, you know, you saw, im 5a sure, he was very ccupset. ccertainly bad news fompnth s riors and all of ctheir fans sprained knees can sideline an athlete for cdays, weeks ccc months. In cccsome ccases. We will have much cccmore cc injury donight. cnrccccccc nra double nrcokcmycmurd kate has details. cu reporter tonight cther still xdca large police presen on clucas ccourt czvw e offi con nr[ 1st perioded this is homicide investigation. Police tell nrme they got here about 2 00 cthis afternoon but also say cthis investigation c just getting cstarted. Thats why they chave not revealed ccvery ct many deta again confirmed one homicide but cthey are not ctelling anything about ccthe victim including their ccage or gend a large ccrowd gathered con tc street as nmifhbors cwonder wh is ccgoingcon. Off camera qe neighbor told c police knocked on nrher nrdoor 3 asked if she heard
Today we learned a man who lived in the basement lost his life. Fox5s teisha lewis is life in i gaithersburg with the disturbin new details. Teisha, we understand this is now a homicide investigation. Well, tony, thats great and the first sign tony and shawn thatan you know this is not your yo typical fire is behind me. This long fence, its more thant six feet tall. I wont touched the bashed wires but it is protecting what wha started as a Fire Investigatione that is now the focal point of f murder case. Police identified the victim as 63 year old steven skal brand sa and investigators say his death is suspicion based on what the scene and the autopsy. Police are tight lipped about the specifics that led them to t determine he was murdered, butut investigators returned to thernd home tonight to gather more evidence. Sk found in the basement of the of home where hes lived for a few years. He was one of three tenants ten renting a room inside this th house. Two of them survived the fire
Fence and then the overpass should be open soon. All you heard was air. That was it, you know mplts it was going too fast. That was the first time this debris truck was in trouble. Witnesses saw it speeding eastbound. It instruction a light pole. That impact caused the truck to roll on its side some of the construction debris spilled on to the freeway but no one was hurt. What surprises witnesses is no pedestrians were hurt as the truck crossed the busy intersection. A little bit earlier and it would have been filled with school kids. Thats the pads over the rim. Thats where they walk to two to school. So a lot of lucky people today. Lucky. The luckiest one is the driver. Shahadi ran to the truck to help the driver who was trapped inside the cab. The truck did hit a car seconds earlier injuring two people. That vehicle subsequently crashed into a home on the corner of san bruno and somerset. Sky 7 hd was overhead showing how the collision landed. Police conducted their investigation an