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A trio of armed robbers on bicycles targeted six people in Central Park during a rapid cellphone mugging spree late Thursday, police said. The holdups unfolded over roughly an hour along East Drive, with the suspects flashing a gun before…
Federal authorities arrested a Mexican national who worked for three decades at a major military contractor after she allegedly used a stolen certificate of naturalization to hide her immigration status. Alma Patricia Contreras Villafana, 54, of South Los Angeles, was…
A married couple and their employee were arrested for allegedly running a brothel out of a Cupertino day spa that authorities say serviced roughly 30 men daily. Lin Wang, 46, and Xian Wang, 48, the owners of Humming Bird Day…
A Bronx judge handed a Florida man the maximum 25-year sentence Friday for a 2001 rape solved through investigative genetic genealogy, a method never before used in New York to crack cold-case sexual assaults. Judge Laurence Busching ordered Jancys Santiago,…
Joe Petraro-Hyppolite, 13, has been accepted to NYU’s master’s program in sports management after beating cancer and graduating college a decade ahead of his peers. The East Rockaway, Long Island prodigy said his IQ clocks in at 168, surpassing the…
Corie Walsh’s husband is standing by her as she faces murder charges for strangling their toddler son, her attorney said. Walsh, 38, of Illinois, is accused of killing 2-year-old Barrett on Sept. 1 in what her defense team describes as…
Angela Lipps is suing the City of Fargo for $10 million after AI facial recognition led to her wrongful arrest and six-month imprisonment. Lipps, 50, was taken into custody at gunpoint last July at her rental home in Tennessee while…
Vanessa Bautista’s family released a heartbreaking obituary honoring the 24-year-old mother of two after her body was pulled from a sunken Jeep in a Michigan river. Bautista, 24, and Alexa Navarro, 23, both of South Bend, Indiana, were discovered dead…
A Cincinnati father is demanding answers after his 7-year-old daughter with special needs was found dead in her wheelchair on a school bus. Abdoul Talla received a call Wednesday afternoon that his daughter Ngone, who had cerebral palsy, was not…
A mountain lion prowling a San Francisco neighborhood was captured Friday morning after multiple residents spotted the big cat in their front yards. The sightings unfolded around 44th Avenue and Ulloa Street in the Outer Sunset, where videos posted to…
Liann May has publicly criticized her daughter Taylor Frankie Paul over a bath scene in the new season of “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.” May, Paul’s mother, posted a video to her official TikTok account after watching Season 5…
Denny Glover refused to believe his fishing buddy at first. Glover, who was angling with friends on the Sacramento River south of the Rio Vista Bridge last Wednesday, said one of his companions spotted spray from the water. “I honestly,…
Frankie Muniz opened up about his personal struggles in a raw Instagram post on Friday. The “Malcolm in the Middle” star, 40, described the past month and a half as the darkest stretch he has faced. “The last 6 weeks…
A former Cornell student has filed a 101-page lawsuit accusing seven Chi Phi fraternity members of drugging and gang-raping her in October 2024. The anonymous plaintiff, now 20, alleges the assault began after a night of bar-hopping with her sorority…
Gemma Renwick has revealed how a Botox injection into her throat ended 43 years of daily pain from a condition that left her unable to burp. The 43-year-old UK woman spoke about her experience with retrograde cricopharyngeus dysfunction, or R-CPD,…
Tom Cruise has broken his silence on what he and Taylor Swift discussed during their viral NFL booth hangout. The “Mission: Impossible” star, 62, appeared on NBC’s “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” this week and revealed that Swift, 35,…