
Crystal Cranmore
Race and Culture Reporter at WABC-TV (New York, NY)
@ABC7NY Race & Culture Reporter; Emmy-Nominated; Jersey Girl ❤️ Howard and NYU! (RTs are not endorsements) 🇬🇾🇺🇸
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2 days ago |
abc7ny.com | Crystal Cranmore
TENAFLY, New Jersey (WABC) -- Edan Alexander, an American-Israeli hostage held by Hamas for nearly two years, is set to be released Monday. The community in Tenafly, New Jersey, is anxiously awaiting news of his release. Alexander was serving in the Israeli military when Hamas militants took him on October 7, 2023. Alexander's mother is on a flight to the Middle East to reunite with her son.
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5 days ago |
abc7ny.com | Crystal Cranmore
NEW YORK (WABC) -- The lights of the Empire State Building shone in gold and white overnight in honor of the new Pope Leo XIV. Four popes have visited St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City, and that is more than any other church outside of Italy. Many are wondering if Pope Leo XIV could be the fifth. When people found out that the new pope is American, the faithful dropped what they were doing to come together to celebrate and pray at St. Patrick's Cathedral.
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1 week ago |
abc7ny.com | Crystal Cranmore
NEWARK, New Jersey (WABC) -- The outage at Newark Liberty International Airport last Monday caused air traffic control computer screens to go dark for roughly 60 to 90 seconds, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the incident told ABC News. It prevented the controllers from talking to aircraft during this time as well. In the air traffic control recordings obtained by ABC News, you can hear an air traffic controller telling pilots that "approach lost all the radars.
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3 weeks ago |
abc7ny.com | Crystal Cranmore
NEW YORK (WABC) -- One mother has used her own personal experience as motivation to help other expecting women find the best care possible. "You're really not being treated as a person, it really felt like we were being treated like a number," said expectant mother Solaire Spellen. Spellen got a little extra help switching providers after an unsettling experience early in her pregnancy. "Now we're receiving care at a beautiful clinic, it's actually called Uah," she said.
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3 weeks ago |
abc7ny.com | Crystal Cranmore
KEW GARDENS, Queens (WABC) -- An ex-FDNY firefighter accused of being drunk and high behind the wheel in a deadly crash is set to appear before a judge in Queens on Thursday. Michael Peña is facing manslaughter and DWI charges. Eyewitness News expects to learn more details about the investigation when a grand jury indictment is unsealed later Thursday morning. Officials say surveillance video shows Peña running a red light on Northern Boulevard and 107th Street in Kew Gardens on February 26.
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