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Michael P. Desronvil has spoken out publicly for the first time since triggering a mistrial in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial. Desronvil, 48, a Bridgewater resident and father from a Haitian immigrant family, issued a statement Thursday to News Nation pushing…
A Texas National Guard pilot survived after ejecting from his F-16 fighter jet before it crashed and burned in northern Michigan during a training exercise. The pilot, whose name has not been released, is awake and alert after parachuting to…
Jeffery Lee, 49, spoke his final words before Alabama put him to death by lethal injection on Thursday evening. Lee was pronounced dead at 6:22 p.m. At William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, authorities said. His execution came three…
Charles Spencer has accused King Charles of sounding “giddily elated” upon learning of Princess Diana’s death in 1997, a claim Buckingham Palace has dismissed as grief-clouded memory. The Earl Spencer, 60, makes the allegation in his forthcoming memoir, *Swan Song:…
Newly released security footage has revealed the harrowing final seconds before an NBC4 news helicopter plunged from the sky into a Chatsworth parking lot, claiming three lives. The clip, obtained by NBCLA from a nearby building, shows the Airbus helicopter…
Nicole Check launched a GoFundMe to support the grieving family of Vanessa Wheyland after a suspected DUI hit-and-run killed the California mother of three. Check, who organized the fundraiser, identified Wheyland as a devoted wife and mother of three young…
The family of NBC4 aerial photojournalist Eliana Moreno has broken its silence following her death in a Los Angeles news helicopter crash. Moreno, whose brother Johan serves as a deputy with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, perished Tuesday evening alongside…
Judy Markey’s husband was by her side in a Swiss clinic when the Chicago radio legend made her final joke. Tom Collinger asked the 82-year-old whether she wanted Advil after she mentioned a headache from a few bites of a…
LeJames Norman, 40, was executed by lethal injection Wednesday evening at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, becoming Texas’s fifth execution this year. Norman, 40, had been sentenced to death for the 2005 fatal shootings of three people during an attempted…
Elizabeth Siders caressed her swollen stomach in an Ohio courtroom Wednesday as her attorney refused to deny she is pregnant again. The 34-year-old mother, clad in orange prison garb, appeared unsteady on her feet while holding her midsection during her…
KJ Biermann’s parents fought over his cellphone in sealed divorce court proceedings more than a year before his arrest on sex-crime charges. The battle between Kim Zolciak, 48, and Kroy Biermann, 41, erupted on Feb. 18, when the “Real Housewives…
Jewish institutions across the United States poured more than $1 billion into security last year, a staggering 33% single-year spike driven by relentless antisemitic violence since the October 7, 2023 Hamas terror attacks on Israel. The Jewish Federations of North…
The Congressional Budget Office projects the U.S. Total fertility rate will hit 1.58 births per woman this year, a level that would have been unimaginable just two decades ago. That figure marks a 25.5% collapse from 2.12 in 2007, the…
William Ferrer, 45, pleaded not guilty Thursday in Bronx Supreme Court to the murder of 12-year-old Jacob Freytes, gunned down by a stray bullet outside a Mount Eden bodega last month. Ferrer, clad in beige jail scrubs, entered the plea…
A San Diego County couple will spend the next 25 years in state prison after pleading guilty to years of torture against a 7-year-old girl left in their care. Devin Hughes, 39, and his girlfriend Kayla Reynolds, 32, received the…
Judge Judy Sheindlin has warned that prosecutors risk serious societal “danger” if they decline to retry Lindsay Clancy on first-degree murder charges. Sheindlin, 82, the longtime television jurist and former family court judge, weighed in on the divisive Massachusetts case…