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A Bexar County detention deputy was fired Monday after photos surfaced of her posing with jail inmates, including one image in which both she and a prisoner flipped off the camera. Karla Beltran, who had started with the Texas sheriff’s…

William Chapman’s family has revealed the 23-year-old suffered from “significant mental illness” and was on strong medication before he jumped into a tiger enclosure at Yorkshire Wildlife Park. The family issued their first statement Tuesday, three days after the former…

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin have struck a deal to ban horse-drawn carriages across New York City. The legislation, set for a council-wide vote on Oct. 22, would make the centuries-old Central Park tradition illegal in…

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin have struck a deal to ban horse-drawn carriages across New York City. The agreement, announced Tuesday, would make operating the iconic Central Park rides illegal in all five boroughs starting June…

Around 100 Jewish educators from the US and Israel have canceled a study trip to Italy after being told to sign a statement condemning Israel, according to a report. The teachers had planned to travel to the Reggio Emilia region…

Jurors in Boston recoiled Tuesday as gruesome death-scene photos of Sandra Birchmore were displayed at the federal murder trial of ex-cop Matthew Farwell. The images showed Birchmore, 23 and heavily pregnant, with her exposed belly bruised and discolored, her face…

Russell Brand’s rape trial opened Wednesday in London with prosecutors set to lay out their case against the comedian and actor. Brand, 51, appeared at Southwark Crown Court in Central London for the start of proceedings that could stretch 6-10…

Luis Moncada has revealed he saw warning signs in RJ Mitte’s final days and tried to intervene before the actor’s death. Moncada, 49, who played Marco Salamanca on AMC’s “Breaking Bad,” said Live on Tuesday that he reunited with Mitte,…

The family of William Chapman has broken their silence after the 20-something died inside a tiger enclosure at Yorkshire Wildlife Park, releasing a statement that described him as “bright, warm and engaging” while revealing he had battled significant mental illness…

Collin Gosselin is speaking out about the alleged “small holding cell” his mother Kate kept him in for two years. In his new memoir “In the Shadow of Eight: Surviving the Reality of My Childhood,” Collin, 22, describes being moved…

Chase Ryan Klinedinst has been charged with DUI and child neglect after allegedly driving her SUV off a cliff with her two young children strapped inside. The 28-year-old Tennessee mother was arrested following the Sept. 7 crash at Coffey’s Cliff,…

A massive crack has opened in the bluff below Pacific Coast Highway near Laguna Beach, prompting an emergency lane closure and warnings that part of the iconic coastal road could collapse into the ocean. Caltrans shut one southbound lane of…

James Robertson, 63, was executed by lethal injection Tuesday at Florida State Prison after spending nearly 18 years on death row for a murder he committed specifically to secure that sentence. The prisoner declined to offer any last words before…

A California climber who had just summited a 13,000-foot peak sent a final text message saying he was heading down before he suffered what rescuers called an “unsurvivable” fall. View this post on Facebook Brian Seibert, 53, transmitted the message…

Duane “Keffe D” Davis was sentenced to 40 years to life in prison for masterminding the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur. The sentence came Tuesday in a Las Vegas courtroom, capping a case that stretched nearly three decades and made…

The Picklr has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after promising rent coverage for dozens of franchise owners overwhelmed the indoor pickleball company’s finances. Jorge Barragan, the 2021 founder of the franchise chain, told Sports Business Journal that corporate lease guarantees…