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Joe Evermore is defending his family’s approach to adventure after critics reported him to child welfare authorities over his young son’s record-setting climb. The Colorado Springs father, whose 7-year-old son Joey Danger Evermore became the youngest person on record to…
California’s unclaimed property program faces a federal court challenge accusing officials of fabricating addresses to seize assets from foreign investors. The lawsuit names state Controller Malia Cohen, 47, and two private contractors — Kroll LLC and Kelmar Associates LLC —…
High school students and their supporters stormed France’s historic Place de la Bastille on Thursday in a violent clash with police that left protest leaders dismissing the government’s reform promises as empty rhetoric. The confrontation marked the third week of…
Bellamy Dawkins-Morris’s family is seeking legal counsel after the 5-year-old was crushed to death by a falling digital display at his Florida elementary school. The boy, who was on the autism spectrum, died Wednesday at a local hospital after a…
A 2-year-old boy survived a fall from a third-story Queens building Thursday afternoon with only minor injuries, according to police. The toddler, who has not been publicly identified, landed on the ground outside 102-10 Queens Boulevard in Forest Hills shortly…
A California teenager returned home to find his mother bloodied, unrecognizable, and left soiled on the floor after his father beat her through the night while drunk, authorities said. Roy Anthony Lopez, 37, of Morgan Hill, drove Jasmyne Garcia, 34,…
Police arrested a Bronx man at his home Wednesday for the December hit-and-run death of a beloved philanthropist cyclist on Manhattan’s Riverside Drive. Lesnier Ortega Varona, 38, was taken into custody by NYPD officers at his Bronx residence in connection…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced that convicted mass murderer Nidal Hasan will face a public execution by firing squad at Fort Hood, the same Texas Army base where he killed 13 people in 2009. Hegseth, 44, revealed the plans…
Gypsy Rose Blanchard will attend Ken Urker’s Texas funeral despite public feuding with his sister, a source confirmed. The insider, close to the late bartender, said exclusively that Blanchard, 35, “plans to go” to the family’s memorial service. She has…
The attorney for the woman at the center of the Cornell gang-rape allegations says she was kept in the dark about the true status of the criminal investigation into her claims. Thomas Giuffra, who represents the student identified in court…
Workers at the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago announced Wednesday they are organizing to form a union, circulating a letter that cited benefit cuts, frozen pay, and swelling workloads at the $900 million complex. The letter, distributed to staff, accused…
A coroner has ruled that three sisters who drowned off Brighton beach in May died by suicide. Senior coroner Penelope Schofield concluded Thursday that Jane Adetoro, 36, Christina Walter, 32, and Rebecca Walter, 31, entered the sea near Madeira Drive…
Charles Bronson could walk free by Christmas if his November parole hearing succeeds. The 73-year-old, one of Britain’s longest-serving prisoners, is set for a two-day oral hearing starting November 2 that will determine whether he can safely be released into…
Brandon McGirl landed a bluefin tuna so massive it shattered a New Hampshire record that had held firm since 2013. The fisherman, aboard the Out of Line out of Rye Harbor on the New Hampshire Seacoast, was wrapping up an…
A White House appearance by tech billionaire Michael Dell and his wife Susan Dell sent social media into a frenzy over Susan’s demeanor, with viewers calling the scene “one of the weirdest things” they had ever seen. The Dells, both…
Carrie Ross says her family felt a surge of hope when they learned Christa Pike had survived the executioner’s needle. Ross, Pike’s aunt, said that relatives were watching and waiting as the state of Tennessee tried to carry out the…