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A Charlotte man indicted on five felony counts for allegedly threatening mass shootings at five public schools was released from jail three days before students returned to class. Drew Andres Owens, 33, walked out of the Mecklenburg County Jail at…
Jeff Metcalf says he feels sorry for his son’s killer Karmelo Anthony and revealed when he forgave him. Jeff Metcalf, 56, spoke out in an interview broadcast Tuesday, offering a stunning emotional response to the man convicted of murdering his…
Alyshia Rushing, the TikTok parenting influencer known as Mama A, has died in a two-vehicle crash on an Alabama interstate. Rushing, 26, was killed on I-85 in Montgomery at around 2:15 a.m. Saturday, according to WAKA Action 8 News. The…
Houston police are investigating three more bodies found in city bayous over the past month, deepening public anxiety despite repeated official denials of a serial killer. The discoveries bring fresh scrutiny to a grim pattern that saw 34 bodies recovered…
Lindsay Clancy’s Apple Watch data took center stage as prosecutors rested their case in her triple murder trial. The 36-year-old Massachusetts mother is facing three counts of first degree murder for the January 24, 2023, deaths of her children Cora,…
Target has apologized and pulled a children’s Halloween costume from shelves after social media users denounced its resemblance to racist minstrel imagery. The retail giant, headquartered in Minneapolis, issued its mea culpa on Monday, August 24, following a viral backlash…
Emilia Pustkowska says she begged a judge to jail her son weeks before he died in the M9 wrong-way crash. Pustkowska, from Limerick, told the Irish Mail that her son Kamil Pustkowski, 17, had pleaded guilty to car offences but…
Isaac Melendez-Carranza, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, was arrested last week on fentanyl distribution charges tied to student overdoses at a Virginia high school. Melendez-Carranza, 31, was taken into custody on Aug. 20 and charged with distributing fentanyl within…
Authorities have identified the five victims of a rural Oregon murder-suicide as the killer’s girlfriend and three generations of her family, plus two close friends. The suspect, Benjamin Charles Parker, 36, died of an apparent suicide inside a car in…
Four New Jersey teens allegedly stole a $220,000 luxury SUV and led police on a predawn chase that ended in a head-on crash killing a grandmother and her longtime partner. Nayshaun Brown, 18, and three unnamed minors swiped a 2024…
An Uber Eats delivery driver was removed from the platform after attacking a Barstool Sports security guard in a caught-on-camera brawl at the company’s Manhattan headquarters. Dave Portnoy, 47, the founder and president of Barstool Sports, posted footage of the…
Two climbers were airlifted to safety after a helicopter crew spotted them stranded 600 feet below a Big Sur roadway. The rescue unfolded near Hurricane Point on Aug. 22, just north of Big Sur, according to the California Highway Patrol…
Outraged parents in Central California are demanding answers from a local high school district after kids as young as 14 were shown content featuring a bloody abortion and men wearing strap-on genitalia. Sanger High School students ages 14 to 18…
Glenn “Bubba” Pysher’s mother is speaking out after her unarmed son was fatally shot by Pennsylvania police while trying to enter the wrong house following a night of drinking. Erin Pysher, the mother of the 22-year-old New Jersey college athlete,…
Kids as young as 11 are working as illegal vendors on the Brooklyn Bridge, peddling goods to tourists in a chaotic scene that has returned despite a prior crackdown. Sergio, 11, told The Post on Monday that he earns between…
A professional lip reader claims to have decoded an intense exchange between Donald and Melania Trump at a weekend IndyCar race. Nicola Hickling, a deaf lip reading expert with more than two decades of experience, said she believes the First…