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Police have released disturbing new details about how “The Challenge” star Tyler Duckworth was found dead in his North Dakota apartment. View this post on Instagram The Grand Forks Police Department confirmed that Duckworth, 44, was discovered “up against the…
A tour bus fire killed at least one person Friday morning on the 60 Freeway in Hacienda Heights, prompting a coroner’s response. The blaze erupted around 5:38 a.m. Near State Route 60 and Azusa Avenue, according to a California Highway…
A South Carolina sanitation worker died on his first day on the job after falling from a garbage truck his own father was driving. John Derrick Dover, 32, was one of two workers standing on the rear platform of a…
The Harris County sheriff described telling three young children their mother was dead as “heartbreaking.” Nicole Karastury Elliot, 35, was shot in the head outside her Waverly Hall, Ga., home on Monday morning, Aug. 17, after returning from dropping her…
Former University of Kentucky cheerleader Laken Snelling pleaded guilty Friday morning to manslaughter charges for killing her newborn son and stuffing his lifeless body in a trash bag. Snelling, now 22, entered the plea in a Kentucky courtroom after initially…
A former acting U.S. Attorney was found dead inside a San Diego federal building Wednesday after being reported missing hours earlier. San Diego police discovered Andrew Haden, 48, deceased in an office at the Edward J. Schwartz Federal Building downtown.…
A hospital chaplain took the stand Thursday to recount Lindsay Clancy’s first words after the deaths of her three children. Sheila Cavanaugh, a board-certified chaplain at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, testified at Plymouth Superior Court that she first…
Newly released bodycam footage shows a Florida teacher walking police through her classroom while confessing to sexual encounters with a 17-year-old student. Heather Mashburn-Smith, 37, was arrested on April 29 at Port Charlotte High School in Charlotte County, Florida, according…
An American tourist fell to her death from the 18th floor of a luxury Cancun resort as her husband rushed to tell security she had done something “outrageous,” according to local reports. The woman, who has not been publicly identified,…
Melania Trump broke her month-long public silence with a pointed five-word greeting to the crowd at the White House Rose Garden on Thursday. The first lady, 55, had not been seen in public since the FIFA World Cup final on…
A North Carolina mother of three who spotted a barefoot 12-year-old girl fleeing from the woods has spoken out about the chilling moment the child told her she had been kidnapped. Jennifer Maxwell was driving home from work on US…
Doria Ragland, 69, will remain in California while her daughter Meghan Markle, 45, and Prince Harry, 41, prepare to relocate to the United Kingdom later this month, insiders said Thursday. The social worker is active within her yoga community on…
Perez Hilton has been granted supervised visitation with his three children under a new court order. The 48-year-old gossip blogger, whose real name is Mario Lavandeira Jr., will be allowed to see his kids only when supervised by a therapist…
Royce Moser’s mother apologized to Karoline Heintz’s family as she was led away in handcuffs. Karoline Heintz, 18, an incoming freshman soccer player at PennWest California, was found stabbed to death in the back hatch of her Jeep Cherokee around…
Married New York doctor Keith Hoerning has filed new court documents claiming his stripper ex-mistress threatened his family and extorted him. Keith Hoerning, 51, a wealthy family physician from Long Island, submitted the filing Thursday in Suffolk County court containing…
Jessica Bowie, 35, told FBI informants she wanted to bomb the New York State Capitol on a day when the most senators would be present. The Albany resident, who also went by the Islamic name Aisha Saif after converting to…