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Lorin LaFave is speaking out again as a new documentary revisits the murder of her 14-year-old son. The grieving mother, whose teenager Breck Bednar was killed in 2014 after being groomed through online gaming, gave a fresh interview ahead of…
Vice President JD Vance acknowledged during a CBS News town hall in Michigan that he might not run for president in 2028. Vance, 40, who is widely viewed as the early Republican frontrunner to succeed Donald Trump, said his wife…
More than 200 firefighters saved a historic Staten Island church immortalized in “The Godfather” from a wind-whipped four-alarm blaze Saturday evening. The destructive fire erupted around 5:45 p.m. Inside an empty warehouse on the Mount Loretto grounds, FDNY chief of…
A Queens community coalition demanded Sunday that a brothel operating inside the notorious “Market of Sweethearts” be permanently closed after reopening mere hours following an NYPD raid. The Restore Roosevelt Avenue Coalition rallied outside the 75th Street sex shop in…
A California judge has secretly sealed every court record in the murder case against an elderly couple accused of killing their transgender son-in-law. Shouyong Zhang and Shili Chen, both 77, are charged with murder and lying in wait in the…
A Stanford graduate has publicly accused the university of letting her rapist remain eligible to finish his degree this fall, four years after she reported the attack. The woman, who has kept her identity private, laid out her allegations in…
The driver who plowed her Chevrolet pickup through a crowded youth soccer field in Wichita, killing two spectators, walked out of police custody without charges as authorities await lab results. Wichita Police announced Sunday that the 34-year-old woman has been…
Christopher Dodge Smith’s 5-year-old daughter told police her father had just killed her girlfriend. Smith, 40, allegedly gunned down Jessica Antolini, 30, outside a Safety Harbor, Florida bar on Oct. 13 before running over her body as he fled with…
A 70-year-old retired postal worker walked out of a Brooklyn courtroom without posting bail early Sunday after being arraigned on felony charges that he slashed a woman across the face in a subway station. Eric McCoy appeared before Judge Christopher…
A jealous 68-year-old man opened fire on his girlfriend and her younger lover during a violent standoff with police in the Bronx, authorities said. The shooter, whose name has not been released, found his 70-year-old girlfriend with her 60-year-old boyfriend…
Eric Dane’s youngest daughter pulled him from the ocean after ALS stripped away his ability to swim. The “Grey’s Anatomy” alum, 53, was vacationing in Antigua sometime after his 2025 amyotrophic lateral sclerosis diagnosis when he jumped into the water…
Dennis Poulsen, 84, has accused Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson of abandoning oceanfront residents after Tropical Storm Rachel destroyed multimillion-dollar beachfront homes along the city’s peninsula. Poulsen, who built his Ocean Boulevard mansion 21 years ago, said that “just a…
A 16-month-old toddler was injured in a coyote encounter in Los Angeles’ Atwater Village on Friday, prompting wildlife officers to euthanize an animal found nearby that same evening. The child was hurt on the 3300 block of Glenhurst Avenue, the…
Steve Goncalves says his slain daughter’s phone holds the last trace of her life, and authorities still refuse to give it back. The father of Kaylee Goncalves, 21, appeared on NewsNation Prime on Saturday to detail the family’s four-year struggle…
General Sir Roly Walker has issued a stark warning that Britons must prepare to make sacrifices and “play a part” in defending the country during what he called a “very dangerous time.” The Chief of the General Staff delivered his…
An Air Force commando remains in critical condition after plunging from a fast-rope demonstration at a UTSA football game in San Antonio. The unnamed airman, part of a four-person military stunt team, lost control and plummeted dozens of feet onto…