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Doujon Griffiths, 26, is on trial in Orlando for the 2021 killings of a young mother and her baby daughter after more than two years as a fugitive. The defendant faces two murder counts and one attempted murder charge stemming…
A Queens man who allegedly stabbed his girlfriend to death survived a seven-story plunge from his building’s roof Wednesday after panicked neighbors watched him teeter on the ledge and fall. Pheona Premraji, 31, was discovered slashed across her face, neck…
Olivier Martinez has filed for a temporary restraining order against Halle Berry, accusing the actress of choking their 12-year-old son, Maceo. The filing, submitted by Martinez, 59, alleges the incident occurred on Sept. 26 and that Berry’s fiancé, musician Van…
Michael Burry has sued a California city over a housing development he warns could become a wildfire death trap. The “Big Short” investor, 54, is taking on Saratoga through his nonprofit Citizens for Responsible and Equitable Development, which filed a…
Gillio Lopes’ attorney acknowledged on Megyn Kelly’s podcast Thursday that her client had sex with his accuser but insisted the encounter was fully consensual. Tara Davis, who represents the Cornell University student, appeared on “The Megyn Kelly Show” and answered…
Tamya Staten, 21, has been formally charged after allegedly pulling a handgun on workers at an Indianapolis children’s resale shop. The Marion County prosecution, filed Tuesday, accuses the young mother of felony intimidation with a deadly weapon and pointing a…
Judge William Sullivan denied a motion to dismiss three first-degree murder charges against Lindsay Clancy on Thursday, marking the fourth failed attempt by her defense to have the case thrown out. Kevin Reddington, 75, argued the motion in court Tuesday…
The Biden administration approved more than 99% of sponsor applications for unaccompanied migrant children in fiscal year 2024, according to a newly obtained internal memo. The Department of Health and Human Services processed nearly half a million migrant kids between…
A Florida mother stood silent in court as a judge excoriated her for allegedly abandoning four young children, including an infant, to take a three-day cruise to the Bahamas. Nathalie Belizaire, 29, appeared before Miami-Dade bond court Judge Mindy Glazer…
Hayden Panettiere’s inner circle grew so worried about her silence that police were sent to her West Hollywood apartment one week before her death, according to a newly obtained sheriff’s report. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department received a welfare-check…
Jonathan Robles admitted to beating a 63-year-old Central Park artist more than 20 times with a stick, telling police he struck her until she could no longer fight back. Robles, 36, made the confession after turning himself in following the…
Richard Scott, 15, of Pennsylvania, has a blunt warning for classmates tempted by the AI button on their school laptops: “It slowed my thinking down.” Scott told The Wall Street Journal that his algebra scores cratered after he started leaning…
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee has suspended every execution still on the calendar this year and ordered an outside investigation after death row inmate Christa Pike survived two lethal injections. Pike, 50, was set to become the first woman executed in…
An Ohio Army veteran has filed a lawsuit after waking from surgery to discover surgeons had amputated the wrong leg. Sharon Jacks, 74, of Ohio, entered Selby General Hospital in September 2025 facing a difficult but planned procedure: the amputation…
Christa Pike’s attorneys revealed she likely got her all-female execution team wish before the procedure went catastrophically wrong. The Tennessee death row inmate’s legal team held a Zoom press conference Thursday afternoon, with lawyer Randy Spivey confirming what he observed…
Christa Pike’s lawyers say the Tennessee death row inmate survived two botched lethal injection attempts and remains in critical condition. Pike, 49, spent more than an hour strapped to the execution gurney Wednesday night at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution…