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Four teenagers have been arrested for the drive-by killing of a 16-year-old Nashville high school student as he left a football game with his younger brother. Jon’quavous Johns-Collins, 18, Marcelle Stem Jr., 17, Lil Tay Webster, 17, and Zachkeius Brown,…
Debris from a vanished medical transport plane has been found floating in the ocean off the Massachusetts coast. The discovery was confirmed by the US Coast Guard late Saturday, hours after the Boston-bound aircraft carrying six people disappeared from radar…
NYPD Officer Grant Pulgarin was honored Thursday for tackling a suspected terrorist during an ISIS-inspired attack outside Gracie Mansion. The ceremony, held at Russo’s on the Bay in Howard Beach, Queens, drew roughly 150 attendees for the Police Benevolent Association’s…
Barack and Michelle Obama publicly reaffirmed their marriage on their 34th anniversary amid persistent divorce speculation. View this post on Instagram The former president, 65, posted a photo of the couple embracing on Instagram Saturday, gazing lovingly at his wife…
Paul Min says his sister Michelle tried to save her husband even after he secretly gambled away more than $100 million of their fortune. The 58-year-old brother of Michelle Min, the wife of slain fashion CEO Bryan Walker, told The…
Women are flooding social media with the hashtag #IamJaneDoe to shield the identity of a Cornell University student whose gang-rape lawsuit has triggered a doxxing campaign and a reopened criminal investigation. The pseudonymous accuser, who was 20 at the time…
A North Texas mother allegedly shot her two sons in the head before turning a blade on herself, leaving both boys dead and the 42-year-old jailed on capital murder charges. Ellis County Sheriff’s deputies found Colleen Lemmon drenched in blood…
Cornell University President Michael Kotlikoff issued a video statement Saturday acknowledging administrative failures in the school’s handling of an alleged 2024 gang rape. Kotlikoff, 69, called the case “a defining moment” in the university’s history and admitted that he and…
Autumn Urker says her family is “disgusted” with Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s public statements following Ken Urker’s death. Autumn, 31, Ken’s sister, said in an interview published Saturday that Blanchard has not reached out to the family directly. “We are disgusted…
Gregory Kraus was ambushed in his own classroom and marched to the school gym, where hundreds of students were waiting to scream his name. Kraus, 47, an automotive technology teacher at Amistad High School in Indio, California, had no warning…
David Mora, 29, turned himself in to Oxnard police and was booked on two felony counts of murder. The Santa Paula resident surrendered Friday at 8 p.m., eight days after the eight-vehicle pileup that killed two men and sent four…
New York City has become the first U.S. Municipality to legally mandate that canceling a subscription must be as easy as signing up for one. The “Click to Cancel” rule took effect Thursday, October 1, under Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration,…
A medical transfer plane carrying six people vanished off the coast of Nantucket after a rapid descent of more than 12,000 feet, triggering a sweeping Coast Guard search operation. The Gulfstream G100, operated by Latitude Air Ambulance, was bound for…
President Trump announced Friday that more than 20 million seniors will receive $90 checks this month to offset Medicare Part B premiums. The one-time payments will reach eligible enrollees through direct deposit or physical check, drawn from the Medicare Improvement…
A CUNY senior director accused of exposing himself and groping a subordinate after an office happy hour has denied the allegations through a brief phone statement. Krafins Valcin, the senior director of academic collaboration technology, told a reporter who reached…
Michigan State Police have publicly refuted claims that convicted sex offender Larry Nassar was among roughly 20,000 people removed from the state’s sex offender registry. The dispute began after the Eaton County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office posted on Facebook about a…