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A homeless woman staying at Sam Brannan Park threatened to use wire cutters on any fence the city installs. Terri Arnold, who has been staying at the 8-acre park in Yuba City, California, told KCRA 3 she is “madder than…
A Missouri judge issued an arrest warrant for Jill Stein after the three-time presidential candidate failed to appear for a scheduled court date. Stein, 76, had been ordered to appear Monday before St. Louis Associate Circuit Judge Karma Johnson on…
Camilla Fuentes’ family is speaking out after the 18-year-old vanished days before her college move-in. The Texas teen, who graduated high school this spring, was last seen Thursday around 4:30 p.m. When relatives believed she had left for her job…
Hil Davis, the CEO of Digital Brands Group, has bluntly declared that “doing business in the state of California sucks” as his company completes a 1,300-mile relocation to Texas. Davis, a California businessman, delivered the frank assessment to Fox News…
An Illinois mother of three drowned after jumping into a river to save her seven-year-old son during a family fishing trip. Angelina Khalimendik, 31, of Hinsdale, Illinois, entered the Des Plaines River at Independence Grove Forest Preserve near Libertyville just…
IPO filings by OpenAI and Anthropic could unlock an estimated $430 billion in charitable giving, sparking comparisons to the Gilded Age. Nick Allardice, who leads the charity GiveDirectly, told The Economist that the windfall represents a singular opportunity for global…
Hayden Panettiere kept friends “in the dark” about her apparent reunion with convicted abuser Brian Hickerson before her sudden death. The “Heroes” star, 36, had reconnected with Hickerson in the months before she died Sunday in Greenville, South Carolina, but…
A Philippine grade 9 student livestreamed a fatal school shooting on Facebook Live before killing himself on Tuesday. Mohammad Mael Jalani, a grade 9 student at Ateneo de Zamboanga University in the southern port city of Zamboanga, carried two pistols…
Laura Overdeck has been barred from testifying in her record-breaking New Jersey divorce case after a judge found she hacked her husband’s email, stole his mail, and destroyed evidence. New Jersey Family Court Judge Bruce Buechler determined that Laura Overdeck,…
Two passenger planes suffered tire blowouts within three hours after landing at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport on Monday. American Airlines Flight 386, a Boeing 737-800 that had departed from LaGuardia Airport in New York, landed safely at O’Hare just after…
A Virginia man found not guilty by reason of insanity in a 2019 killing fled the United States during an approved 48-hour pass from a state mental health facility. Abdulloi Toshpulodzoda, who had been committed to the Northern Virginia Mental…
Brent Jindra, 48, is speaking out after his wife was detained by ICE at a California airport. Galina Bobreneva, 40, was taken from her husband at an airport in California in July and transported to a holding cell in downtown…
Neighbors say Alan “Skip” Panettiere was only beginning to heal from one child’s death when he lost another. Skip Panettiere, a well-known figure in Piermont, New York, had “retreated” after his son Jansen, 28, died in February 2023 from an…
Portland mother Allison Roberts filed a federal lawsuit against Portland Public Schools after being barred from her child’s graduation over her protests of gender-identity curriculum. Roberts, a Christian mother of children at Meriwether Lewis Elementary School, retained the Liberty Justice…
Brian Hickerson’s bid to reduce his felony domestic violence charges was denied by a judge just three days before Hayden Panettiere died. Judge Olivia Rosales denied the motion last Thursday, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office confirmed Monday. Hickerson,…
A missing jet skier who vanished off the Long Beach coast overnight was found alive Monday morning after more than 12 hours in the water. Paul Anthony Carbullido, 53, was located roughly 2.5 miles offshore from the Seal Beach Pier…