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A 93-year-old driver killed one person and injured seven others when she slammed her SUV into a crowded Jersey Shore restaurant patio during Saturday brunch. The crash occurred at Meg’s Grill in Lavallette just after 11 a.m., according to authorities.…
Converse has apologized and pulled a sneaker advertisement after online critics compared its imagery to Ku Klux Klan hoods and lynching scenes. The Nike-owned brand scrubbed the Chuck 70 X promo on Friday, September 18, following a wave of backlash…
Terry Strada is vowing to block Saudi Arabia’s civilian nuclear ambitions until the Kingdom admits complicity in the September 11 attacks. Strada, 58, who chairs 9/11 Families United, lost her husband Thomas Strada, a Cantor Fitzgerald bond trader, when hijackers…
A New Jersey mother has been arrested and charged with obstruction after police discovered her supposedly missing teenage son hiding in a crawl space inside her home. Jennifer Buckley, the mother of a 17-year-old boy, was taken into custody this…
Bianca Robinson walked into Hutchinson Funeral Home last Friday ready to do her mother’s nails and lashes one final time, only to be met with a question that stopped her cold. A mortuary worker looked at the body in the…
A California murder trial collapsed into a mistrial after the defendant’s own attorney was arrested in the courthouse for alleged intoxication, then vanished before the next hearing. Attorney Christopher Loethen, who was representing Kelley Marie Ball, was taken into custody…
A man demanding to speak to President Trump drove his car onto a sidewalk near the White House on Saturday, prompting a major security response in the heart of Washington, D.C. The incident unfolded around noon at the corner of…
Hundreds of mourners packed a Harlem church Saturday to bid farewell to Lovay Williams, the 27-year-old mother beaten to death in front of her young daughter earlier this month. A white horse-drawn carriage bearing her photo carried Williams’ white and…
Nick Reiner’s attorneys say he has been blocked from accessing a family trust worth roughly $1.6 million as he awaits trial in his parents’ killings. The 32-year-old, held without bail at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility in Los Angeles since…
Carnegie Deli has reopened its doors after a decade-long absence from New York City. The legendary deli, now located at 834 Seventh Ave. In West Midtown, began serving customers again this month in the very space that once housed its…
A gunman who flashed a weapon inside a Manhattan smoke shop escaped with $2,000 in cash before vanishing into the subway system Thursday afternoon, police said. The robbery unfolded around 2:24 p.m. At Rainbow Smoke Shop, located at 378 Sixth…
Lily Fletcher says surveillance footage of a silver Prius trailing Dan Markel feels like watching a predator hunt. The ABC News Studios producer, who spent months immersed in the case for the new docuseries “Welcome to the Family: The Murder…
A California judge has ordered Uber to pay $40 million to the parents of a UCLA graduate left to die on a freeway by one of its drivers. Carol Normandin and Ken Parker, whose daughter Emily Normandin-Parker was killed in…
Jacob Waddington, 24, has spoken out about building a two-property portfolio before his mid-twenties through aggressive saving and hands-on renovation work. The Lancashire man started stashing cash the moment he entered full-time work at 18, and his discipline has already…
A federal judge has temporarily barred the University of California from punishing members of a conservative student group for using names or pronouns tied to biological sex rather than gender identity. US District Judge Fred W. Slaughter, sitting in Los…
Demetrius Beatty, 40, has been charged with first-degree felony murder after prosecutors say he beat his girlfriend’s infant daughter to death and attempted to blame the killing on his autistic 6-year-old son. The Washington, D.C. Man was ordered held without…