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A New Mexico judge threw out an indictment accusing actor Timothy Busfield of criminal sexual contact with a child, faulting prosecutors for misconduct that tainted the grand jury. State District Judge Joseph Montano granted the defense motion in a decision…
New York City lawmakers have formally demanded Amazon remove a Halloween animatronic that pairs a witch with a Star of David spell book. The City Council’s “Antisemitism Task Force” sent a complaint letter October 14 calling the $219 six-foot decoration…
Amazon has warned it may shutter more than a dozen warehouses and relocate thousands of workers out of New York City if Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Delivery Protection Act becomes law. The bill, first introduced by Queens Council Member Tiffany Cabán…
John J. Griffin II’s mother broke down Friday as she spoke about the son who had carried out one of Oregon’s deadliest school shootings. Shauntai Nickerson was seen on the porch of her second-story home smoking a cigarette and crying…
A 26-year-old man stopped for speeding on a rural Nevada highway now faces federal drug-trafficking charges after authorities say they found more than 700 pounds of suspected narcotics in his pickup. Francisco Joel Garcia Farias was pulled over Oct. 13…
The desperate search for a San Diego uncle and his 12-year-old nephew has now stretched into its sixth day after the pair vanished during a fishing trip off Mexico’s Baja California coast. Oscar Ulloa, 40, and Adrian Caro Villares, 12,…
John J. Griffin II has been publicly photographed for the first time since the Oregon elementary school shooting that left four dead. The 16-year-old gunman appears sullen and glaring in a Facebook image his mother, Shauntai May Nickerson, posted on…
Federal authorities have sued a California ticket brokerage and three of its executives over an alleged billion-dollar scheme to hoard concert tickets for resale at inflated prices. The Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission filed suit Thursday in San…
A Santa Clarita homeowner is speaking out after his doorbell camera captured a man dumping an unconscious woman on a residential street and speeding away in a white pickup truck. Dan Villa told Fox 11 he was aghast when he…
Carole Radziwill is embracing her tabloid turn with open arms. The “Real Housewives of New York City” star, 61, celebrated her Friday the outlet cover on Instagram by posting a photo of the print edition and declaring the moment a…
President Trump said Friday he is urging Katie Zacharia to reconsider her new role as White House press secretary after less than a week on the job. Trump, 78, spoke to reporters outside the White House before departing for a…
Rhoam Summer’s father has spoken publicly after the five-year-old was killed in an Oregon elementary school shooting. Kelik Summer, the boy’s father, confirmed in a Facebook post on a community group that his son died Thursday at Silver Rail Elementary…
A Cornell graduate was suspended from his job after internet sleuths falsely linked him to fraternity group chats about an alleged gang rape that occurred after he had already left campus. The man, identified only as B in a New…
John J. Griffin, 16, has been identified as the gunman who killed four people at an Oregon elementary school before a bystander fatally shot him. Griffin opened fire inside Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, on Thursday just after…
Jake Lloyd broke his silence with a rare video message to Star Wars fans, more than three years after the former child actor’s public psychotic break. The 37-year-old, who played young Anakin Skywalker in 1999’s “The Phantom Menace,” appeared alongside…
Dyna Mitte is speaking out about finding her son dead after urging him for months to seek therapy. The mother of RJ Mitte, 34, said that the “Breaking Bad” actor had spent the weekend with family and friends before his…