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A UC Berkeley junior is speaking out after surveillance cameras captured a homeless man scaling her apartment gate and chasing her inside the building. Eden Winograd, a 21-year-old student, said Bay Area she had just returned from walking her dog…
A judge cut loose a repeat transit offender who had just allegedly chomped into a police sergeant’s arm during a violent arrest fight. Derrick Daniels, 23, of New Jersey, was already wanted on a bench warrant when two officers spotted…
Nichole Schmidt is urging social media users to pause and share missing-person flyers, five years after her daughter’s killing drew national attention. Schmidt, 45, said on Friday that a single share can create a “ripple effect” that leads to someone…
A NORAD fighter jet intercepted an aircraft that violated restricted airspace over Camp David on Saturday while President Trump was staying at the Maryland retreat. The First Air Force, part of US Northern Command, disclosed the incident in a post…
The transit workers union is demanding judges be removed from the bench after accused assailants walked free without bail. John Chiarello, president of TWU Local 100, is “mad as hell” over two cases where men who attacked on-duty employees were…
A Brazilian high school student is facing possible confinement after she allegedly stabbed her math teacher in a classroom attack captured on video. The 17-year-old, whose name has been withheld because she is a minor, was arrested Sept. 11 at…
Christa Pike’s legal team has formally requested that only female corrections staff be present if her September 30 execution proceeds. Pike, 50, has spent nearly three decades on Tennessee’s death row after she was convicted of the 1995 murder of…
Olga Adcock learned her missing son was safe during a live press conference she had joined to beg for his return. The St. Johns County, Florida mother stood beside Sheriff Robert A. Hardwick on Monday, September 15, pleading for help…
Patrick Clancy has broken his silence on living with the aftermath of his ex-wife’s killings. Clancy, the father whose three young children were murdered by Lindsay Clancy in January 2023, spoke with Ross Douthat for a “60 Minutes” interview airing…
Prince Harry has broken his silence on his family’s rocky return to Britain. The Duke of Sussex, 40, spoke publicly for the first time since relocating from California with Meghan Markle, 43, and their children Archie, 5, and Lilibet, 3,…
Stella Wilson is pleading with families to wait for help rather than risk dangerous roads after flash flooding on the Navajo Nation killed her mother, niece, and her mother’s best friend. Wilson’s mother, Elsie Begay, was driving home to Newcomb,…
Bert Atienza’s widow is speaking out after her husband was beaten to death inside a Virginia Walmart. Josephine Atienza, 72, told WTKR that the 77-year-old was still conscious when she reached his side after the June 7 attack at the…
The Los Angeles Police Protective League dropped a 30-second attack ad Thursday targeting mayoral candidate Nithya Raman over her record on homeless encampments near schools. The spot, titled “Nithya Raman Won’t Keep Our Kids Safe,” opens with a young girl…
Carrot Top’s Friday night show at the Luxor was abruptly canceled after the comedian was hospitalized. Scott Thompson, 61, the prop comic known professionally as Carrot Top, was taken to a local Las Vegas hospital following an attempted suicide in…
A 15-year-old girl was killed and her 13-year-old companion hospitalized after an excavation truck struck the pair as they shared an electric CitiBike in Manhattan on Friday night. The collision occurred at approximately 9 p.m. At the intersection of East…
Steven Kolb has resigned as CEO and president of the Council of Fashion Designers of America. Kolb, who led the CFDA for two decades, announced his departure Friday in a statement published via Substack. The move came less than a…