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Thomas Gigler’s family is speaking out after the 56-year-old father of three went overboard from a Carnival cruise ship during what should have been a celebration of 15 years of marriage. Gigler and his wife Michelle, 48, were sailing with…
Jackson police arrested a second suspect late Tuesday in the killing of a Black woman whose body was found hanging from a tree in August. Earnest Lloyd Jr., 25, was taken into custody in connection with the death of Tasia…
Harvey Weinstein received a 15-year prison sentence Wednesday in his New York sexual assault retrial. The 74-year-old former film mogul learned his fate in a downtown Manhattan courtroom, where he appeared in a wheelchair with his hands reportedly cuffed to…
Harvey Weinstein begged a Manhattan judge for mercy before being sentenced to 15 years in prison Wednesday. The 74-year-old former Miramax boss, who was wheeled into court in a wheelchair, told Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Curtis Farber that he was…
Italy’s Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli ordered the Colosseum closed for one day on Wednesday after a worker fell to his death overnight inside the ancient arena. Andrea Moretti, 22, a technician, died after plunging several meters while installing a new…
A 16-year-old boy was killed and his 14-year-old sister was seriously injured when a hit-and-run driver plowed into them as they crossed a Los Angeles street with their mother. The crash happened around 9:35 p.m. Tuesday on 60th Street in…
Robert Barrientos has broken his silence one week after his fiancée perished in an NBC Los Angeles helicopter crash. The grieving partner, a former radio anchor originally from Kankakee, Illinois, posted a lengthy tribute to Eliana Moreno on Instagram late…
Sunny Hostin revealed on Tuesday’s broadcast that she single-handedly prevented the conviction of New York’s infamous “Butcher of Tompkins Square Park.” Hostin, 57, stunned her cohosts during a panel discussion about Lindsay Clancy’s insanity defense by disclosing she had served…
Dr. Shawnboda Mead, vice chancellor for student affairs at the University of Mississippi, has urged the Oxford campus community to refrain from spreading unconfirmed details about two student deaths that occurred on Monday. “The University is heartbroken by the recent…
Hayden Panettiere secretly entered a Malibu rehab facility in the weeks before her fatal overdose, according to newly released coroner’s documents. The Greenville County Coroner’s Office report, obtained Wednesday, reveals that either Brian Hickerson or his brother Zach told investigators…
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday blocked the parole of a convicted double-killer whose early release under California’s Elderly Parole Program had drawn fierce backlash from victims’ families. Joseph Tidwell, 57, will remain behind bars after the governor reversed a June…
A fresh analysis of private-school enrollment has put new numbers behind a long-running debate about how wealthy black families navigate education for their children. The data, drawn from a February survey of 23,000 families nationwide, shows that nearly 30 percent…
Hurricane Polo exploded from a Category 1 to a Category 5 storm in roughly 24 hours, prompting emergency measures along Mexico’s Pacific coast. The cyclone, which meteorologists had initially expected to remain relatively weak as it tracked near Mexico’s southwestern…
Nadim Kashouh, 62, proclaimed his innocence through a spokesperson after appearing in court Monday on charges that could send him to prison for life. Kashouh, the owner of Nadim’s Downtown Mediterranean Grill in Springfield, Massachusetts, faces two counts of assault…
Mita and Hemant Parikh have spoken out about surviving the Nepal floods that killed more than 1,000 people. The Suwanee, Georgia, couple, who had spent 15 years planning a spiritual pilgrimage to Mount Kailash in Tibet, were part of a…
McKenna West’s emergency plea to the U.S. Supreme Court has been turned down, leaving custody of the baby she carried with his biological parents. Justice Elena Kagan rejected the Alaska nurse’s bid for the nation’s highest court to review the…