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A California father was killed and his wife was left critically injured after their SUV flipped on a major freeway and was struck by multiple vehicles in a predawn chain-reaction crash. Greg Tobias, 29, of Vacaville, was pronounced dead at…
Police arrested a suspect Monday in the deadly Spirit Halloween store shooting that killed a pregnant woman and wounded six others in Fairfield, California. The Fairfield Police Department announced the arrest just days after gunfire erupted inside the seasonal retailer…
Erin Benavides, the woman once linked to Tony Parker during his marriage to Eva Longoria, died by apparent suicide at her Texas home last month, with a newly obtained police report revealing multiple firearms were recovered from the scene. Benavides,…
A disgraced former West Point cadet has pleaded guilty to felony assault after drugging his pregnant girlfriend and forcing abortion pills on her, and is now awaiting sentencing while enrolled at Columbia University. Caleb T. Suh, the son of US…
A Washington father launched a profanity-laced tirade against a Bellevue, Washington, Christian family after discovering religious pamphlets in his son’s Halloween candy bag. The confrontation, which occurred on Halloween night, was captured on video and posted online by Jonathan Choe…
A homeless convicted sex offender was arrested Sunday after allegedly shoplifting from a Manhattan TJ Maxx, leading police to discover he was wanted for the 2024 strangulation of a beloved Soho art dealer. Larry Powlis, 60, tried to give officers…
Nine people died when a private Learjet nosedived in Palm Beach County, Florida, on its way to the Bahamas. The passengers have now been identified as Texas tech entrepreneur Adam Robinson, 44, his wife Helen, and their two young children,…
Six people were injured in a mass stabbing at a Halloween party in West Covina, California, early Sunday morning, and a 22-year-old suspect is being held on $1 million bail. West Covina Police Department officers responded to the 2000 block…
Nathalia Gadelha’s final text to her boyfriend carried a chilling warning just ten minutes before the Learjet she was co-piloting slammed into a Florida road. The 20-year-old, who had earned her private pilot’s license at 17, messaged her pilot boyfriend…
Erin Marie Benavides, a Texas prosecutor and children’s advocate who was once at the center of a celebrity cheating scandal, has died by suicide. Benavides, 54, was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in her Port Aransas home on…
A Miami aviation attorney has broken down why search teams found almost no surface debris after a Learjet 60 slammed into a Florida neighborhood at catastrophic speed. Zachary Gorwitz, an aviation attorney based in Miami, told the Miami Herald that…
A Los Angeles judge granted Vivienne Jolie’s petition to drop “Pitt” from her legal name during a Monday hearing. Vivienne, 18, filed the paperwork on July 20, just eight days after celebrating her birthday alongside twin brother Knox. Her attorney,…
Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras, 20, texted her boyfriend about turbulence and ice just ten minutes before her Learjet crashed in Florida. Filgueiras, the young copilot on the doomed flight, sent the message at approximately 12:40 p.m. Sunday, her stepfather, Thiago Corteleti,…
Cherie Walker, 34, was sentenced to seven consecutive life sentences on Friday for enabling her husband to rape her 11-year-old daughter and forcing the child to give birth without medical care in their squalid Oklahoma home. The Muskogee County mother…
Bianca Garza’s boyfriend has spoken out publicly after watching her kidnapped at gunpoint by her estranged husband. Ezekiel Cain took to Facebook to mourn Garza, 34, the Texas mother of two who was abducted last Thursday morning moments after dropping…
Elaina Gomez-Villeda, 40, has been arrested and charged with murder after her 10-year-old son fatally shot a teenage neighbor during an altercation over loud music in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The incident unfolded last Friday afternoon in a southeast Albuquerque apartment…