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Eliana Moreno’s family has announced a scholarship at her alma mater to honor the pioneering helicopter reporter killed in a September crash. The Chapman University memorial fund, revealed Wednesday, will support aspiring journalists at the Orange County school where Moreno,…
A 39-year-old Turlock man has been arraigned on murder charges in the killing of a California DoorDash driver whose body was found in the trunk of a Tesla. Manuel Salceda entered a Merced County Superior Court courtroom on Oct. 20…
Halima Salman took the witness stand this week to deny she ever backed the terror group that trained her to fire an AK-47. The Brooklyn-born woman, 27, testified Monday that her ISIS-supporting father forced her into an arranged marriage at…
Alexus Fiordilino has broken her silence about the day doctors pronounced her toddler dead only for him to be found alive hours later in a hospital morgue. The Gilbert, Arizona mother, whose 18-month-old son Vincent was discovered face down in…
A Massachusetts judge has shut down Lindsay Clancy’s attorney in his bid to investigate the holdout juror whose refusal to convict forced a mistrial in the former nurse’s triple-murder case. Judge William F. Sullivan ruled Wednesday that any evaluation of…
Joshua Ward is demanding answers from Los Angeles water officials after his household received a $10,395 bill he traces to botched fire hydrant repairs. Ward, a plumber whose family has occupied the Sunland-Tujunga home near Sunland Boulevard and Wornom Avenue…
A suspected child predator returned to the same Southern California discount store the day after allegedly groping a 9-year-old girl in the toy aisle, according to Santa Ana police. The brazen reappearance has intensified a manhunt that began Sept. 26…
A retired NYPD detective was arrested Wednesday in the fatal shooting of a father of two during rush-hour traffic on the George Washington Bridge. The suspect, who left the force roughly 25 years ago, was taken into custody less than…
Americans who vote appear to live longer regardless of whether their preferred candidate wins or loses, according to new research. The study, published in May in the Journals of Gerontology, analyzed data from more than 7,700 participants in the Wisconsin…
The Mississippi Attorney General’s Office has ruled that a police officer’s fatal shooting of a 1-year-old boy during a Walmart parking lot confrontation was justified. The finding, announced Monday, came one day before the release of body camera footage showing…
Electronic Arts is cutting roughly 400 jobs and shutting down BioWare after 31 years, a leaked internal memo confirmed Wednesday. Cam Weber, 51, president and chief studios officer, and David Tinson, president and COO, signed the memo that surfaced publicly…
Bell Gardens High School was placed on lockdown Wednesday morning after reports of a student armed with a handgun on campus. Officers with the Bell Gardens Police Department descended on the LA County school around 10 a.m. Following the weapon…
The New York City Council is expected to vote Thursday on legislation that would end the city’s horse-drawn carriage industry and send roughly 160 working horses into permanent retirement. If Romanch’s Law passes as pledged, the animals would be phased…
Tens of thousands of California state workers walked off the job Wednesday in an unprecedented one-day strike that threatened to disrupt DMV offices and other government services across the state. SEIU Local 1000, the union representing 100,000 government employees, staged…
President Vladimir Putin announced the release of American citizen Stephen Hubbard from Russian detention on Wednesday, at the start of talks with US special envoy Steve Witkoff. Hubbard, 74, a retired schoolteacher from Big Rapids, Michigan, had spent roughly four…
Police have identified the motorist gunned down during Tuesday evening’s rush-hour chaos on the George Washington Bridge as a 46-year-old utility worker from Rockland County. Koran Irvine, a Valley Cottage resident and Con Edison employee, was fatally shot around 7:15…