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Oklahoma Secretary of State Benjamin Lepak, 42, was arrested for public intoxication outside an Edmond McDonald’s on Friday night, with newly released police bodycam footage capturing him slurring “I want to eat my McDonald’s” as officers questioned him. Lepak, who…
Erin Patterson appealed her triple-murder convictions Wednesday in a two-day hearing before Victoria’s Court of Appeal. Patterson, 51, watched by video link from prison as three judges began reviewing her convictions on three counts of murder and one of attempted…
Bridget Reagan’s sister has vowed to preserve the boutique she built as their Ohio community mourns the mother of three killed by a falling tree. Bridget E. Reagan, 35, of Minerva, was driving a 2023 Jeep Wagoneer west on US…
Wisconsin State Fair officials condemned a chaotic brawl that erupted in the final hours of the annual festival. Seven people were arrested for their involvement in what officials called a series of “disturbances” at the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds in West…
US Marshals Assistant Chief James Tapp called it a miracle that none of the officers’ firearms discharged when they plummeted to the ground. The dramatic collapse occurred on July 21 in Randolph County, Missouri, when a federal task force of…
A new report has surfaced linking Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed’s mother to a designated terrorist organization accused of funding Osama bin Laden, Hamas and the Taliban. The report, published by The Midwesterner, states that El-Sayed’s birth mother, Fatten…
Grieving parents confronted Meta outside a California federal courthouse Tuesday as opening statements began in a landmark trial over the company’s alleged role in hooking children on social media. Mary Rodee, whose 15-year-old son Riley Basford died by suicide in…
Members of Tupac Shakur’s family walked out of a Las Vegas courtroom Tuesday when prosecutors displayed graphic autopsy photographs during the murder trial of Duane “Keffe D” Davis. The emotional exits came on the second day of testimony at Clark…
Salman Ahmed Elmi, a Minnesota refugee once honored by the state, was charged last week with eight counts of aiding and abetting theft in a $4.5 million Medicaid fraud and sex trafficking scheme. Elmi, an immigrant from Somalia, was one…
Three sisters from Carlow remain in critical condition with catastrophic injuries after a black BMW drove the wrong way down Ireland’s M9 motorway and slammed into their family car. Alma Kinsella, Niamh Kinsella, both in their 30s, and their sister…
A young San Diego lifeguard’s mother says her son is doing a little better after a devastating spinal cord injury during ocean training. Finn, a participant in the San Diego Junior Lifeguard program, was injured July 31 when he ran…
A 19-year-old man was found dead with suspicious injuries inside his Staten Island home Tuesday morning in a case investigators are treating as a suspected homicide, sources told The Post. Police were called to a New Springville residence on Elmwood…
A Utah father charged with killing his infant daughter alternately vaped and wailed at police after the baby died in his drug-littered basement, court records show. Neal English Colby, 32, of Murray, Utah, faces first-degree felony charges of reckless child…
A former inmate claims Luigi Mangione grinned with pride when UnitedHealthcare’s stock dipped after he murdered CEO Brian Thompson. Linus Fu, 32, who was held at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center from January 2025 to July 2026, told Courthouse News he…
A Florida death row inmate insisted his estranged wife’s fatal shooting was “an accident” moments before he was put to death by lethal injection. William Frances Silvia, 61, was pronounced dead at 6:11 p.m. Tuesday at Florida State Prison near…
Fuming homeowners and real estate industry members testified Tuesday that Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s botched rollout of the new pied-à-terre tax left them flailing for answers. Roughly 30 homeowners packed a three-hour City Council oversight hearing where pols had hoped to…