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A violent nor’easter killed a 56-year-old Brooklyn man Saturday as it hammered the New York City region with pounding rain and dangerous winds. The unidentified victim suffered “trauma throughout his body” when a tree toppled onto him on Euclid Avenue…
Chris Hillyard is using drones to search hiking trails his wife Amy favored as the six-month mark of her disappearance passes without answers. Amy Hillyard, 52, co-owner of Farley’s Coffee in San Francisco, vanished on March 25 while walking her…
Three people were hospitalized late Friday after a fight turned violent at a Fresno house party, authorities said. The victims arrived at a hospital around 11 p.m., prompting police to trace their injuries back to a residence on the 4600…
Christa Pike, 50, has requested an all-female lethal injection team for her scheduled Sept. 30 execution, citing past sexual trauma as her reason for refusing male executioners. The condemned Tennessee inmate, who became the first woman sentenced to death in…
Surveillance cameras inside a South Los Angeles assisted-living facility recorded a maintenance worker pulling a handgun from a shopping cart and shooting three co-workers in the lobby Monday morning. Darryl Arnette Barnes, 60, had reportedly spoken four words immediately before…
Brenda Cervantes has revealed that her son, a 19-year-old former high school football captain, is not expected to walk again after a stray bullet severed his spine while he was on break at a California Five Guys. Jonathan “JJ” Vasquez…
Domonique Hayes has filed a lawsuit accusing New Jersey rapper Keyon Hart of sexually assaulting her in a Brooklyn hotel room on July 4. Hayes, 40, a former web radio host, names Hart, 45, who performs as Snake IIz, in…
Brandon Liggons’ family is demanding accountability after the 42-year-old homeless man died three weeks following a brutal gas station assault by three teens. Liggons, 42, was sitting outside an Oklahoma City metro gas station when the group swarmed him, shoved…
Jonathan Pierce, the chief communications officer for Alpha Epsilon Pi, has pledged full cooperation with authorities after Madison police discovered approximately 30 partially-clothed young men in the sweltering basement of the fraternity’s Wisconsin chapter. Pierce said in a statement that…
Two elderly Cuban nationals are being held in a Miami jail on armed drug-trafficking charges after an undercover sting operation uncovered cocaine, marijuana, stolen firearms and thousands in cash at their shared residence. Cesar Valdes, 89, and Magdaleno Medina, 73,…
Peter Grubb is speaking out after his mother and two young children drowned when their car sank into a Maine pond while driving back from his wedding. The grieving father, whose nuptials turned to horror last Saturday night, told Portland…
A Riverside mother has been arrested more than 16 months after her newborn was found abandoned in the rain beside a dumpster. Astrid Nohemi Lopez Ramos, 26, was taken into custody Thursday at her Riverside home and booked into the…
Christa Pike’s legal team is pressing forward with emergency appeals after Tennessee’s highest court refused to halt her execution. Pike, now 49, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on September 30 for the 1995 murder of fellow Job Corps…
Caleb Flynn’s two daughters asked why their father did not love their mother as much as she loved him after learning of his alleged affair, their aunt testified in court. Kayla Keyt, the sister of slain wife Ashley Flynn, 37,…
Christa Pike, 50, has broken her long silence through prison letters that trace her emotional collapse and unlikely romance with a New York pen pal. Pike, the only woman on Tennessee’s death row, wrote to a man known only as…
A baseball-wielding attacker sent three people to the hospital during a broad-daylight melee that police say erupted from a traffic dispute in Fresno. The violence broke out around 5:30 p.m. Friday on the 2500 block of East Lewis Avenue, near…