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Bryan Seaver is asking a judge to postpone the restraining order hearing filed against him by Dolly Parton’s estate. Seaver, who served as the late country star’s head of security for more than two decades before being fired in September,…
Gov. Kathy Hochul appointed a special prosecutor to take over the criminal probe of seven Cornell fraternity brothers accused of gang-raping a female student. The move strips Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten of the case after he declined…
LAUSD is under pressure to explain thousands of annual campus fights after a Franklin High School senior died following a bullying attack. Xavier Nungaray, 17, jumped from the fourth floor of a school building this week after a classmate verbally…
Thomas Crooks exchanged cryptic electronic messages with unidentified contacts about 3D-printed firearm parts and traded mysterious “gifts” in the months before he attempted to assassinate Donald Trump, newly released FBI documents show. The communications were among records obtained by Judicial…
A Queens deli has christened a turkey hero after Republican gubernatorial hopeful Bruce Blakeman as the candidate campaigns on slashing everyday costs. Blakeman, whose team staged the Friday media event at Mario’s Meats & Gourmet Deli in Flushing, pledged to…
Two NYPD officers reunited with the mother and baby they rescued from a choking emergency in the Bronx, one week after the frantic roadside save. Officers Julio Arias and Karolin Abreu Garcia, both assigned to the South Bronx, were driving…
The Portland Trail Blazers fired Braiden Bell on Thursday night just hours after unveiling him as their new play-by-play television voice. Bell, 29, had been introduced earlier that same day as the replacement for departing veteran Kevin Calabro. The swift…
Christa Pike’s attorneys say the 50-year-old Tennessee death row inmate remains critically ill on a ventilator after surviving a botched execution that involved two doses of lethal drugs and at least seven needle insertion attempts. Pike’s lawyers detailed her condition…
Christa Pike’s attorneys say the death row inmate remains unconscious and on a ventilator nearly two days after her botched execution. Pike, 49, is still hospitalized as medical staff work to clear the pentobarbital from her system following two failed…
Ken Urker’s final hours were marked by public silence and private despair. The 34-year-old Louisiana man, who became known as Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s fiancé, was found dead in his Raceland bedroom Thursday evening after his boss reported him missing from…
A Cornell student told investigators she was repeatedly assaulted in a closet while drifting in and out of consciousness during an October fraternity party, according to the university’s Title IX findings. Jane Doe, then a 20-year-old sophomore, reported that two…
Ken Urker was found with drug paraphernalia and a handgun at the time of his death, police in Louisiana confirmed. The 34-year-old, who was engaged to Gypsy Rose Blanchard, died on October 1 at his residence in Raceland, Lafourche Parish.…
Donald Trump, 80, has been analyzed by a professional body language expert who decoded his signature stage entrance as a deliberate projection of savior-like authority mixed with concealed anxiety. Inbaal Honigman, a body language specialist speaking on behalf of Online…
Firerose is speaking out against what she calls an “aggressive smear campaign” as she prepares to release her first new music since her explosive split from Billy Ray Cyrus. The Australian singer, 37, said that the country star, 65, kept…
Christa Pike, 50, predicted her own botched execution in a prison recording made just weeks before Tennessee officials failed twice to administer lethal injection drugs to her. Pike voiced specific fears about her physical condition and the medical team’s competence…
Gypsy Rose Blanchard has posted never-before-seen family photos of Ken Urker and their infant daughter following his death. Blanchard, 35, shared the emotional carousel on Instagram Friday alongside a tribute calling Urker her “greatest love story.” The upload came days…