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More than 8,200 rapes were reported at American colleges and universities in 2024, with the University of Utah recording the highest single-campus total in the nation. The 36,894-student public school in Salt Lake City logged 146 rape accusations last year,…

Fresno’s Tower District is flooding the streets with officers after a deadly weekend shooting capped a month of gun violence around its bars and clubs. The stepped-up patrols follow the killing of Tyrone Miles, 28, who was shot near Olive…

President Donald Trump declared an Israeli plumber who helped stop an attempted plane hijacking “can be my plumber” in a new video message Saturday. Trump, 78, filmed the taped remarks in the Oval Office for his Truth Social account, praising…

Oakland police are not searching for any suspect after a prominent fashion executive and his wife were found fatally shot outside their Berkeley hillside home. Bryan Walker, 61, and Michelle Walker, 63, were discovered with gunshot wounds Friday morning on…

Justine Marie May, 31, waived her right to a bond hearing Wednesday and remains jailed after being charged with two counts of homicide by child abuse. The Ladson, South Carolina, mother was arrested Tuesday when officers responding to a welfare…

Justin Caiazzo, 29, has filed a lawsuit against Passaic County Community College, professor Gladys Harris, and dean Peter Hynes, alleging his First Amendment rights were violated during a July 2021 online class when Harris spotted a Trump flag in his…

Tennessee Department of Correction Commissioner Frank Strada has resigned following the botched execution of death row inmate Christa Pike. Strada, who oversaw the state’s prison system, submitted his resignation to Republican Gov. Bill Lee on Oct. 3, according to reports.…

A New York City principal has been fined $7,500 after investigators found she used her position to funnel overtime pay and job protections to her live-in partner. Bridget Garzaniti, 47, principal of the High School of Arts and Technology on…

Ryan Anderson says he was in shock when he learned that Ken Urker had died. Anderson, who was married to Gypsy Rose Blanchard from July 2022 until her divorce filing in December 2023, addressed Urker’s passing during an appearance on…

New York Governor Kathy Hochul stripped the local district attorney of authority over an alleged Cornell gang rape case and handed it to state Attorney General Letitia James after discovering the accuser’s explicit rape claim never reached prosecutors. Hochul, 66,…

Christa Pike told medical staff she feared her arm would “burst open” during Tennessee’s failed attempt to execute her by lethal injection, according to a court filing by her attorneys. Pike, 50, remains unconscious and on a ventilator after the…

A toxicology chemist testified Thursday that Lynlee Pollis had a blood alcohol concentration of 0.294% after the 2023 crash that killed an SMU student, a level nearly four times Texas’s legal driving limit. Pollis, 27, is on trial in…

A North Texas barber turned over $128,510 in cash to police after discovering it abandoned on a bank ATM last month. The 37-year-old man, who has not publicly identified himself, was with a 42-year-old woman at a Lewisville ATM when…

Yaniv Hayoun had a direct message for Donald Trump when he met Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday. “Tell Trump that I love him,” the Israeli plumber asked the prime minister during their embrace in Netanyahu’s office, still wearing the blood-soaked clothes…

NYPD bodycam and drone footage released Friday shows the fatal shooting of a knife-wielding man after an hour-long standoff atop the Brooklyn Bridge last month. Chaun Bottom, 41, was spotted walking along the bridge cables around 3:30 a.m. On Sept.…

Thirty-four missing children and teens were located across Queens and Long Island in a sweeping 72-hour rescue operation that concluded Thursday, officials announced Friday. The “Long Island Children Rescue Operation,” run from a command center in Garden City, Nassau County,…