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Miramar Police Chief Delrish Moss spoke out Tuesday after the arrest of a convicted felon accused of trying to abduct a 13-year-old girl outside a Florida gas station. Michael Polanco, 32, was denied bond during his first court appearance Tuesday…
Janette MacAusland’s two young children died from a lethal combination of drug intoxication and mechanical asphyxia, coroners revealed this week, deepening the horror surrounding the Massachusetts mother’s first-degree murder indictment. Ella, 6, and Kai, 7, were found dead in their…
Braden Peters, the social media personality known as Clavicular, faces arraignment Thursday in Massachusetts on rape charges. Peters, 20, stands accused of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl at his family’s Cape Cod home in Chatham in May 2025. The accuser…
Rep. Keith Self has vowed he will not back down after a 17-year-old Texas boy allegedly plotted to kill him on behalf of ISIS. The McKinney teen, who authorities say was recently radicalized by online terrorist propaganda, planned to carry…
A new California Post poll shows Mayor Karen Bass trailing challenger Nithya Raman by nearly 8 points with just weeks until the election. The survey of 400 LA general election voters, conducted by McLaughlin & Associates from Oct. 15–18, found…
A 33-year-old e-bike rider was fighting for his life Wednesday after a hit-and-run driver slammed into him on a busy Brooklyn thoroughfare and fled, police said. The crash unfolded around 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the bustling intersection of Nostrand Avenue…
Chuck Kilbride refused to let a stroke keep him from the toy drive he has led for more than three decades. Kilbride, 73, a retired USMC Major and Long Island native, suffered a stroke last October that left him with…
Ebro Ahmed, 27, says ABC’s long-running medical drama taught him to stay calm under pressure. The St. Paul business student was on break from his shift at Ya Bricks Snacks and Tobacco, his family’s store, Monday afternoon when a Battle…
Jorge “George” Ortiz, 57, was arrested Monday after a brief foot chase, ending a week-long manhunt for the suspect in a Bridgeport road rage killing. Bridgeport police charged Ortiz with murder, criminal possession of a pistol and carrying a pistol…
Neil Dutta, a managing director at jeweler Angelic Diamonds with over two decades of design experience, estimated the New York Knicks’ 2026 championship rings could be worth up to $250,000 each in an interview with The Post last week. Dutta…
Edward Villa, 45, was found dead at a coastal Oregon motel Wednesday, one day after three people were discovered shot to death in a suburban Portland home. The North Clackamas School District employee had become the prime suspect in a…
John Patterson says his son had been eager for a chance that finally came too late. The father of TSgt Ian “Patty” Patterson, 33, told WDRB+WAVE that the Air Force sergeant had wanted to perform the Alamodome rappelling stunt last…
Christa Pike is speaking in full sentences more than a month after Tennessee’s first attempt to execute a woman in two centuries went catastrophically wrong. Pike, 50, has shown marked physical gains since Sept. 30, when she became the first…
John Patterson has spoken publicly for the first time since his son, Tech. Sgt. Ian Patterson, fell to his death during a military demonstration at a college football game in San Antonio. The elder Patterson, an Air Force veteran himself,…
Andrew Jimenez, the Glendale firefighter accused of murdering his wife with a pick ax, has been ordered to stand trial after detectives described a blood-soaked bedroom scene where Mayra Jimenez was found decapitated. Detective Jason Haggis testified Wednesday that the…
The parents of a 13-year-old boy killed in an Orange County e-bike crash are now facing criminal charges for allegedly letting him ride the powerful vehicle illegally. Vu Thanh Nguyen, 56, and Hong Cuc Thi Nguyen, 49, both of Santa…