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Shouyong Zhang and Shili Chen, both 77, were arraigned Wednesday on murder charges for the killing of their transgender son-in-law, the outlet technology executive. The Alameda County District Attorney’s office filed special circumstance allegations against the elderly couple, including murder…
Attorneys for the family of a slain 10-year-old Minneapolis girl announced plans to sue YouTube and a video game studio over missed warning signs from the transgender gunman who killed her. Bakari Sellers and Greg Francis, the lawyers representing Harper…
Sai De Silva has pinpointed the exact moment she knew her marriage to David Craig was finished. The “Real Housewives of New York City” star, 45, told her aunt Sufia on Tuesday’s episode of the Bravo series that the breaking…
Miranda Flores has spoken out after a Placer County jury ordered Sacramento Kings minority owner Phil Oates to pay $15.8 million for killing her husband in a motorcycle crash. Flores, whose husband Patrick Seamus Mulderrig was 59 when he died…
Guy Kapulnik, an actor and flight instructor, has been identified as one of two people killed in a single-engine plane crash in Southern California. Kapulnik, an Israeli national who lived in Los Angeles, died Thursday morning when his Aeronca Champion…
A federal appeals court halted Christa Pike’s execution roughly one hour before Tennessee planned to put her to death. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued the stay on September 30, blocking what would have been the…
May Martinez has traveled from Florida to Nashville to watch her daughter’s killer die by lethal injection. The grieving mother, whose 19-year-old daughter Colleen Slemmer was tortured and murdered in January 1995, plans to hold up a photograph of the…
Two off-duty pilots stepped in to land a Tel Aviv-bound jet after its co-pilot allegedly stabbed the captain mid-flight, passengers said. The Boeing 737 Max, carrying 174 people, had departed Dubai for Israel when the violence erupted roughly two-and-a-half hours…
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have condemned international paparazzi after two photographers were allegedly caught peering into their children’s school grounds. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, 40 and 43, issued a blistering statement through a spokesperson last week after…
A Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia after a violent cockpit confrontation sent the plane plunging more than 17,000 feet in under two minutes. Flight FZ1073, carrying roughly 150 passengers, most of…
A Kansas State University junior is recovering after falling 70 feet from a highway overpass while dodging a truck during a multi-vehicle crash. Kyra Kinnison, 21, an animal science major at the Manhattan, Kansas, school, was driving near Ogden on…
Elijah Hemingway, 32, now faces rape and robbery charges from an alleged Wilkinsburg assault that preceded a fatal home invasion by mere hours. The Allegheny County Police Department announced the additional charges Saturday in a Facebook post, detailing how detectives…
Christa Pike has broken her silence days before she is set to become the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than two centuries. The 50-year-old death row inmate, scheduled to die by lethal injection on Wednesday, shared a final…
Taylor Gosnell spoke quickly and appeared to be in distress when deputies confronted her after the stabbing of her two young children. Gosnell, 35, returned to her Spartanburg, South Carolina, home Saturday afternoon shortly after investigators arrived for a welfare…
A 17-year-old boy has been arrested after three teenagers died when an Audi plunged into the River Wear in Sunderland. The black Audi A3 came off the road near Wearmouth Bridge and entered the water at around 1.30pm, Northumbria Police…
Christa Pike spent her final full day alive under round-the-clock deathwatch inside a sparse isolation cell steps from Tennessee’s execution chamber. Pike, 50, had her last routine privileges stripped away at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville on Tuesday, where…