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Carmine Agnello, 40, married the woman who had accused him of domestic assault just two days before surrendering to federal prison. The grandson of infamous Gambino crime boss John Gotti wed Ariana Puran on August 8, his lawyer confirmed to…
The SUV driver who slammed into a Los Angeles Metro bus will be arrested on suspicion of murder after the crash killed two people, police said. The collision happened Tuesday as the bus traveled eastbound on Nordhoff Street in the…
Douglas County Sheriff Tyler Caille warned that a circle of young adults will face consequences after a July 4 fireworks stunt turned deadly. Michael Yakimov, 18, of Kent, Washington, is being held on $1 million bail after investigators linked him…
The White House has dismissed a viral image that appears to show Donald Trump kissing an assistant on a golf course as a fabricated photo. A spokesperson for the administration stated simply that the picture was “clearly a fake photo,”…
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey unveiled a sweeping postpartum care package Tuesday, pledging $2.25 million in new spending and telling struggling mothers, “I see you.” Healey, 54, announced the proposal at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, framing it as a…
A desperate search is underway for a Florida energy executive who vanished during a Monday morning paddleboarding trip off the Atlantic coast. Matt Pawlowski, 48, was last seen around 9 a.m. Monday roughly four miles east of Jupiter Beach, where…
FBI agents dragged a charity worker from her South Los Angeles home before dawn Wednesday in a sweeping raid targeting a multi-million dollar homeless services fraud scheme. Lakiya Malone, 48, emerged from her residence in handcuffs as agents in Kevlar…
Christa Pike’s lawyer has turned to a childhood photograph in a last-ditch bid to spare her from becoming Tennessee’s first executed woman in two centuries. Randall J. Spivey, an attorney for Pike, 49, filed a clemency petition with Governor Bill…
Hundreds of volunteers have joined an urgent search for a missing three-year-old boy who vanished from a village playground in Sussex. Noah Woods, 3, was at the park on Merriam Close in Brantham with a relative when he “became separated”…
Barack Obama has broken his silence after the death of the Obama family dog, Sunny. The former president, 63, shared the news in a lengthy statement posted to X on Saturday, confirming the Portuguese Water Dog died at age 13.…
Sean Michael Lee, a former Army paratrooper who spent decades running toward global crises, died Sunday at 50 after battling esophageal cancer tied to his wartime service. Lee served 20 years in the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, deploying multiple times…
Kim Kardashian has been awarded a single euro in damages following a French court’s ruling on the 2016 Paris armed robbery that left her bound and gagged in a hotel bathtub. The reality star, 44, requested only the symbolic sum…
Wisteguens Jean Quely Charles, a Haitian national whose defiant arrest rant went viral, has been deported after 19 months in federal custody. Charles, whose ICE takedown in Massachusetts last January spawned millions of views, was removed on a flight originating…
NBC4 Los Angeles has identified the two people aboard its news helicopter when it crashed and burned in Chatsworth on Tuesday night, killing three people total. Eliana “Eli” Moreno, a veteran aerial reporter known on Instagram as “Eli in the…
Kaegan Jude Solet, 47, has been arrested for slaughtering four relatives in a Louisiana stabbing rampage that left a 6-year-old boy critically wounded after he ran for help. The child had been staying overnight with his grandmother Letha Verret and…
The Texas Commission on Law Enforcement has revoked the Trinidad Police Department’s operating license, ordering the tiny agency to disband after finding it could not prove it served any public benefit. The commission sent Trinidad Mayor Dennis Haws a letter…