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Greg Papa, the storied voice of the San Francisco 49ers and one of Bay Area sports radio’s most recognizable figures, gave his first television interview Thursday since being laid off by KNBR earlier this month. The 63-year-old broadcaster sat down…
A National Geographic docuseries reunites six men who escaped a doomed World Trade Center elevator using only a window cleaner’s squeegee. Jan Demczur, a Polish immigrant and window washer, joined fellow survivors John Paczkowski and George Phoenix for the series…
Text messages reveal Martha Nolan-O’Slatarra was being “harassed” by boat owner Chris Durnan days before she died on his Montauk yacht. The 33-year-old Irish-born swimwear designer had blocked Durnan, 61, on her phone for months before the final exchange, according…
A maniac in Houston fatally shot a woman and injured three others after a domestic spat spun out of control early Saturday, police said. The chaos unfolded in a residential home around 2:35 a.m. After the lunatic got into an…
A Manhattan fitness model has sued her luxury apartment building for trying to evict her after a stalker mailed her explicit photos to hundreds of neighbors. Samantha Skolkin, 36, a former professional bodybuilder with more than 500,000 Instagram followers, filed…
A mass shooting at Virginia State University left several people wounded and the campus on lockdown Saturday morning. The gunfire erupted near the Quad Annexes on the Chesterfield County campus at approximately 1:30 a.m., according to the Chesterfield County Police…
Hailie Jade has never given up on her mother, Kim Scott, despite the personal and legal struggles that have complicated their relationship over the years. View this post on Instagram “Hailie has never stopped loving her mom no matter what,”…
Houston police shot and wounded a gunman who opened fire on passing vehicles along Wayside Drive, striking three people including a mother and daughter. The shooting unfolded at about 11 a.m. Friday in northeast Houston, when officers responded to reports…
Kelly Loeffler, 55, has drawn widespread mockery online after posting a TikTok video that viewers found bizarrely staged and awkward. Watch on TikTok The clip, which has racked up nearly 400,000 views since it was posted Thursday, shows the Small…
A quick-thinking Phoenix air traffic controller calmly averted disaster after two American Airlines planes with the same callsign accidentally ended up on the same radio frequency while flying directly toward each other. View this post on Instagram The bizarre mix-up…
DFW Airport scrapped its plan to install Islamic foot-washing stations after Gov. Greg Abbott ordered a review of state grants to Texas airports. Abbott, 67, directed the review on Friday and referred both DFW and Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport…
A 64-year-old grandfather was arrested Friday and charged with homicide after being intoxicated when his motorboat struck a channel marker in Barnegat Bay last month, killing his two young grandchildren. Stephen Schneider of Bayville, New Jersey, faces two counts of…
Shane Ryan Gledhill, 46, of Lompoc, California, now faces 24 felony charges after investigators say he used online casting calls and filmmaking projects to gain access to underage victims. Gledhill, who also worked under the professional names “Shane Ryan” and…
An 18-year-old San Diego-area daredevil was arrested after allegedly turning a rented U-Haul pickup into a sideshow stunt vehicle, racking up over $5,000 in damage and felony charges. The teen, whose name police have not publicly released, was busted Saturday…
CBS News chief correspondent Matt Gutman, 48, has been hit with a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by a former ABC News colleague. View this post on Instagram The suit was filed Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court by Samira Said,…
Millions of people across England and Wales received a blaring emergency alert on their mobile phones on Friday evening as the UK government deployed its most significant use of the national Emergency Alert system in response to an active incident.…