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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…
Christa Pike’s lawyers say she is now walking but remains “foggy” after surviving Tennessee’s failed attempt to execute her by lethal injection. Her attorney Stephen Ferrell, 48, told BBC Radio 4’s Today program on Tuesday that the 49-year-old death row…
The city Parks Department is now accepting bids to operate the Coney Island Cyclone for the next twenty years. The 99-year-old wooden roller coaster, which turns 100 in 2027, has been bleeding money. Between 2022 and 2025, the ride posted…
A Colorado police sergeant is speaking out about how traffickers exploit children’s most basic needs after his department’s new unit recovered dozens of survivors in its first year. Sgt. Joseph Sullivan of the Aurora Police Department said that the work…
Jonathan McKinsey, a transgender the outlet executive allegedly killed by his in-laws last September, once carried a pregnancy that ended in tragedy, with court documents revealing he blamed his estranged wife Candice Jang for the loss. McKinsey, 40, was fatally…
A California McDonald’s worker who shot a female colleague was fatally shot by police after they stormed the restaurant to rescue trapped employees. Jonhatan Anguiano, the armed employee, died at the Lodi McDonald’s on West Lodi Avenue and Church Street…
A jewelry store owner opened fire on masked robbers after they rammed a pickup truck through his storefront in a brazen midday heist attempt. The confrontation erupted shortly after 12:25 p.m. Tuesday at Medina Jewelers in Lynnwood, Washington, when a…
Christa Pike’s lawyer says she woke up “angry and confused” after becoming the first known U.S. Death row inmate to survive a lethal injection. Randy Spivey, her attorney, told reporters Wednesday that Pike, 50, regained consciousness Tuesday at a Nashville…
A 15-year-old former pupil killed a school employee and wounded two others in a knife attack at a Polish school on Thursday, police said. The assault in Leszczydol-Nowiny, a village in Wyszkow County northeast of Warsaw, came just one day…
TSA agents are pushing back after the agency stripped chairs from airport checkpoints nationwide. The removal order, issued by the Transportation Security Administration, bars officers from sitting while checking traveler IDs at podiums across all U.S. Airports. A TSA spokesperson…
The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously Wednesday to prohibit smoke shops and other tobacco retailers from selling or distributing nitrous oxide for recreational use. The 14-0 vote, led by Councilmember Imelda Padilla, targets the so-called “laughing gas” that has…
Kimberly Cabuchola says her family could have forgiven the deputy who struck and killed her 16-year-old niece if the sheriff’s office had simply told the truth from the start. Cabuchola, the aunt of Persephone Berger, told KMOV that law enforcement…
Maricarmen Abascal, the 87-year-old woman whose eviction fueled Spain’s housing protests, has died. The Madrid tenants’ union announced her death on Wednesday, confirming that Abascal had been hospitalized for severe anxiety and exhaustion since police and social workers removed her…
A rare “tale of two coasts” is unfolding this weekend as tropical systems threaten simultaneous impacts on both U.S. Coastlines for the first time in more than 50 years. Hurricane Isaias, the first hurricane of the 2026 Atlantic season, continues…
Alyssa Smith’s mother has issued a public plea for social media users to stop debating her daughter’s disappearance online as the search for the missing Illinois woman enters its second week. Rebecca Smith warned on Wednesday that her daughter, 24,…
An Iowa man told police he “had to kill people today” after allegedly shooting at strangers on a busy interstate during rush-hour traffic. Andrew Darrick Tanaka, 27, of West Des Moines, was arrested Monday afternoon along Interstate 35 in Warren…