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Carter Eslick was sentenced to two months in jail Wednesday for his role in a hazing ritual that killed an 18-year-old pledge. Eslick, 20, the former pledge master of Northern Arizona University’s Delta Tau Delta chapter, received the jail term…
Ivanna Ortiz wanted Rihanna dead and viewed everyone else in the singer’s orbit as disposable, prosecutors said Wednesday after a grand jury indicted the accused shooter on 14 felony counts. Ortiz, 36, pleaded not guilty through her attorney during a…
Captain Smit Machchhar has been identified as the pilot stabbed during a mid-air attack on a Flydubai flight bound for Israel. Machchhar, 32, an Indian national with nearly 10,000 flying hours, was attacked by his co-pilot approximately two and a…
San Marcos High School Principal Dare Holdren addressed parents in writing this past Friday, confirming that four students at the Santa Barbara campus “portrayed blackface” in a social media post and that the school has “instituted consequences” for their actions.…
The US Supreme Court has lifted a last-minute stay of execution for Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike, clearing the path for her to become the first woman put to death in the state in two centuries. Pike, 50, had…
Attorneys for the lone holdout juror in Lindsay Clancy’s deadlocked murder trial are preparing to file a professional ethics complaint against her defense lawyer, Kevin Reddington. The legal team representing Michael Desronvil, 48, announced they will ask the Massachusetts bar…
Christa Pike, 50, is alive and receiving medical care after Tennessee officials failed to execute her despite administering two doses of lethal drugs. Pike had spent three decades on death row for a killing she committed at age 18, and…
An air ambulance helicopter plunged into the ocean off Catalina Island Wednesday night moments after lifting off from Avalon, triggering a multi-agency rescue scramble for five people on board. The REACH aircraft departed at 7:46 p.m. And reached only 175…
A suspect was taken into custody Wednesday evening after a fatal stabbing aboard a Queens subway train during rush hour. The victim, a 59-year-old man whose name was being withheld pending family notification, was pronounced dead at Jamaica Hospital Medical…
Christa Pike’s attorneys say the condemned inmate survived two lethal injection doses after the U.S. Supreme Court cleared her execution to proceed. Pike, 50, remained alive and breathing inside the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville after executioners pushed two…
Dame Esther Rantzen has died at 86 following a public battle with stage four lung cancer. The veteran British broadcaster and charity founder passed away on Tuesday, her family confirmed in an emotional statement. Rantzen, 86, had spent her final…
The Supreme Court has dissolved a last-minute stay and cleared Tennessee to execute Christa Pike, the only woman on the state’s death row. Justice Brett Kavanaugh granted the application to vacate the injunction on Wednesday evening, overturning an emergency ruling…
Nina Pacchia is speaking out about her husband, firefighting pilot Ryan Cutter, after he was killed battling a Yosemite wildfire. Cutter, a Utah helicopter pilot, and Greg King, an Alaskan pilot, both died when their aircraft crashed while fighting the…
T.J. Maxx has permanently closed its longtime Ellsworth Place location in Downtown Silver Spring, Maryland, after roughly a decade in operation. The 24,000-square-foot storefront on Colesville Road first opened in late 2015 and had served as a key foot-traffic anchor…
The U.S. Supreme Court overturned a last-minute stay and allowed Tennessee to proceed with executing Christa Pike. Pike, 50, had been scheduled to die by lethal injection at 10 a.m. CDT Wednesday at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville.…
A student died Wednesday after falling from a fourth-floor building at Benjamin Franklin High School in Los Angeles, police said. The boy’s fatal plunge was reported around 1 p.m. At the Highland Park campus, according to the Los Angeles Police…