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San Leandro Unified School District Superintendent Mike McLaughlin has been placed on paid administrative leave following allegations of unwanted advances toward a female colleague. McLaughlin, who has led the East Bay district since 2013, is now under investigation after multiple…
A UC Berkeley math professor who wrote a viral op-ed attacking student preparedness has admitted she used artificial intelligence to help craft the piece. Zvezdelina Stankova, a teaching professor of mathematics at UC Berkeley, told the student newspaper The Daily…
Courtney Stodden, 31, celebrated the unanimous California Senate vote to advance a child marriage ban bill, calling it “incredible news” on Instagram. The model and advocate, who was married at 16 to a 51-year-old actor, shared a video on the…
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul issued a consumer alert warning that a fraudulent entity calling itself the “Jewish Holocaust Claims Center” has been targeting Holocaust survivors and their families with bogus restitution offers. The New York State Department of Financial…
Vietnamese authorities have charged a 23-year-old man with rape after American student Nguyen Thi Quynh Tam, 24, went public with her account of being assaulted during a group vacation. Tam, whose family moved to the United States when she was…
Mia Terrazas, Hayden Panettiere’s next-door neighbor in West Hollywood, says she was “terrified” of the actress’s on-again, off-again boyfriend Brian Hickerson and called 911 multiple times over disturbances at the condo. Terrazas, who lived one door down from Panettiere’s California…
Worcester police released doorbell footage showing Karen Solomon, 58, calmly walking from her home minutes before her husband’s body was discovered. Karen Solomon, 58, fled her residence on Wildwood Avenue in Worcester, Mass. Just before officers arrived around 5:30 a.m.…
A casino kitchen worker was arrested after allegedly stabbing five fellow employees at a Northern California resort. The suspect, a man in his 20s, was taken into custody within minutes of deputies arriving at Thunder Valley Casino Resort in Lincoln,…
FBI agents confronted former Rep. Eric Swalwell at San Francisco International Airport and seized his electronics under a search warrant. Agents served Swalwell, 45, with the warrant Saturday after he arrived in California and took his cellphone and other electronics…
Cohoes Mayor Bill Keeler confirmed the murder-suicide at a Wednesday press conference after Gabrielle Forman, 30, was shot dead by her estranged husband. Gabrielle Forman, 30, was killed by Jadet Forman, 37, in their second-floor apartment in Cohoes, just outside…
Raheleh Amiri, an Iranian-born activist blinded in one eye by Revolutionary Guard gunfire, is publicly denouncing the detained son of “Screaming Mary.” Amiri, who lives in California, spoke with The California Post about Seyed Eissa Hashemi, 43, the son of…
A Pennsylvania State Police helicopter pilot is dead and two state troopers are hospitalized after a midair collision near Carlisle Airport. The crash occurred Wednesday evening around 7:50 p.m. Local time at Carlisle Regional Airport in Cumberland County, involving a…
The Pew Research Center has found that only about a third of American teenagers held summer jobs this year, a dramatic plunge from rates seen three decades ago. Just 35.5% of 16-to-19-year-olds were working gigs this summer, according to Pew’s…
Melania Trump is set to unveil a new IndyCar partnership Thursday to expand college scholarships for foster children. The first lady, 55, will appear in the White House Rose Garden alongside President Trump, 79, IndyCar representatives, and officials from Indiana…
A New Jersey fire department that served its community for 118 years was dissolved after the mayor spent years arguing residents faced danger from insufficient staffing. The Woodbridge Township Council voted 8-1 on Aug. 12 to dissolve the Keasbey Fire…
NSW Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon has issued an unreserved apology to the family of Lily Hooper after officers mistakenly told them the missing teen had been found alive. Lanyon, 58, addressed the media on Wednesday, August 20, following the devastating…