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Christa Pike has regained consciousness after becoming the first person to survive full doses of lethal injection drugs. Pike, 50, is “conscious and speaking” following the botched execution last Wednesday, September 30, at a Tennessee prison, her attorneys confirmed. She…

A new survey finds 46% of Bay Area residents expect to leave the pricey California region within the next few years. The poll, released this week by Joint Venture Silicon Valley and the Bay Area News Group, surveyed 1,801 adults…

Tennessee’s top lawyer refused to guarantee that Christa Pike, 50, will not be put to death again after two failed lethal injection attempts left her hospitalized. Pike, convicted of the 1995 murder of fellow Job Corps student Colleen Slemmer, had…

Daniel Gomez, 65, was arrested at his Brentwood home Tuesday after Suffolk County detectives tracked him down following a fatal hit-and-run hours earlier. The Long Island motorist allegedly struck and killed Erik Ermanovics, 56, as the homeless man attempted to…

A Fresno-area contractor who appeared in an HGTV pilot has died during a hiking trip on Mount Whitney, the Tulare County Coroner’s Office confirmed. Kalem Peter Kazarian, 52, of Fowler, passed away Monday in Sequoia National Park, officials told The…

A Missouri investigator warned that his office is racing to untangle a killing that already went unreported for nearly a year. Chief Deputy Curtis Hall of the Callaway County Sheriff’s Office spoke two days after the arrest of Jonathan G.…

Christa Pike has spoken her first words since surviving a botched execution attempt in Tennessee. Pike, 50, regained consciousness last Tuesday, six days after prison staff injected her with two doses of the lethal drug pentobarbital on September 30, her…

Christa Pike is conscious and speaking after surviving a botled lethal injection, her legal team revealed Tuesday. Pike, 50, became the first death row inmate believed to have survived lethal injection following the failed execution attempt last week in Tennessee.…

Two illegal migrants wanted for slashing an off-duty NYPD detective during a botched robbery were arrested overnight in a Massachusetts basement. D’Angelo Caraballo, 25, and Sneider Mejia, 24, both from the Dominican Republic, were tracked down by the US Marshals…

Jamaal Howard’s spiritual advisor says the Texas death row inmate responded to news of Christa Pike’s botched execution with a chillingly detached remark. Dr. Jeff Hood, who ministers to Howard, 46, said last week that he broke the news about…

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee is standing firm against demands to spare Christa Pike from a second trip to the death chamber. Pike, 50, has regained consciousness and is speaking after surviving two doses of lethal injection one week ago, a…

The six people aboard a Boston-bound medical jet that vanished over the Atlantic have been identified by authorities. The passengers were Marilyn Lavonne Bean, 66, a Bermudian woman being transported for stroke treatment, and her son, Sergio Wayne Lottimore, who…

Two soldiers from Joint Base Lewis-McChord tackled and disarmed a woman who allegedly stabbed a child after causing a violent rollover crash on Interstate 5. The incident unfolded Monday morning on southbound I-5 near DuPont, Washington, when a 35-year-old woman…

Rom El-Hai, 32, says the world still wants him dead three years after Hamas gunmen stormed the Nova music festival near the Gaza border. The former insurance student, who hid in forest brush while terrorists celebrated nearby and bullets tore…

Matthew Ingalls, a Cornell fraternity brother at the center of the “Cornell 7” gang-rape allegations, claimed in a February 2025 email that the accuser had “sodomized” him while he was incapacitated and accused the Ivy League school of ignoring his…

The US military has scheduled its first execution by firing squad in more than eight decades for December 3. Acting Army Secretary Adam Telle announced the date in a social media post. The execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, 54, will…