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University of West Florida football player Ben Conken, 20, died Monday after a battle with cancer, his obituary confirmed. Conken signed with the Argonauts as a 6-foot-3, 205-pound linebacker out of Cottage Hill Christian Academy in Mobile, Ala. He was…

Addison Hunnicutt, 16, is speaking out after being charged for tackling a middle school football player she says was abusing her younger brother during a game in Winchester, Tenn. Hunnicutt told WTVF on Thursday that she ran onto the field…

President Trump has now won back-to-back golf tournaments at his own clubs, adding a Westchester caddies’ day title to his Bedminster championship. The 80-year-old president, who took first place in both the senior and super senior divisions at Trump National…

A six-year-old girl has died in hospital after being pulled from the sea in a tragedy that has already claimed three members of her family. Saja El-Khawas, 6, passed away on Friday, three days after her parents Hassan El-Khawas, 55,…

Seven people including two police officers died after a Volkswagen Passat being pursued crashed head-on into a police car on a northeast England highway. The collision occurred at 3:39 a.m. On Saturday, August 22, on the A66 in South Bank,…

Jen Shah will complete her federal sentence and become a free woman on Friday, Aug. 28. The “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” alum, 52, will finish nearly eight months of home confinement with an ankle monitor after serving 33…

A Chicago woman has filed a federal lawsuit against Wendy’s after she says a delivered double cheeseburger left her hospitalized twice and buried under more than $93,000 in medical debt. Roxie Ellis Douglas, 68, alleges she contracted Campylobacteriosis from a…

Nancy Kassebaum Baker, the trailblazing Kansas Republican who became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate without following a spouse into office, has died at 94. Her son, Bill Kassebaum, confirmed that she died Friday of natural causes. “She…

Two workers at a San Francisco homeless shelter were arrested for allegedly helping a gunman evade capture after he shot a police officer. Oliver Barcenas, 36, and Erika Porter, 45, both employees at Bayshore Navigation Center, were taken into custody…

Natalie Harp, 35, has privately chafed at being called Donald Trump’s “human printer,” leaked personal letters reveal, even as the nickname has become cemented in Washington parlance. The special assistant to the president, who works at a desk directly outside…

The families of two murder victims are speaking out after a plea deal allowed confessed killer Marquez Hill-Turnipseed to serve concurrent sentences for two separate killings. Marquez Hill-Turnipseed, 24, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the 2022 drive-by shooting death…

A Brooklyn delivery driver was killed after being shot seven times in a possible road rage attack on Friday night, police and sources said. Gunfire rang out on Crescent Street between Loring and Stanley avenues in East New York around…

A 17-year-old boy was shot and killed during a high school football game in Bakersfield on Friday night, sending players and fans scrambling from the scene, authorities said. The Bakersfield Police Department said they were called to the stadium a…

Five passengers were burned when a laptop burst into flames on an American Airlines flight, prompting an emergency response. The incident unfolded on Flight 2398, an Airbus A321 carrying more than 130 passengers from Atlanta, Georgia, to Dallas, Texas, on…

Andrea Mauk is fighting to change Ohio law after her teenage son’s tissue was donated without her knowledge or consent. Mauk, 42, was in Costa Rica with her husband when her 18-year-old son Damon died in a single-car crash on…

Gypsy-Rose Blanchard posted a public apology on TikTok after racist prison phone calls resurfaced online. Blanchard, 35, addressed the recordings in a statement posted to the platform on Friday, August 21, before the account was deleted. The calls contained what…