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An Australian artist who spent two weeks in a medically induced coma has described the vivid sinking-boat hallucinations he endured and the dramatic shift in outlook that followed. Rob, who posts on YouTube as Rob-so-far-so-good, said that the experience stripped…
Timothy Walters has spoken out about the months he spent secretly living inside the Albany middle school where he worked, insisting he “had nowhere else to go.” Walters, 36, told The Post that his decision to turn a fourth-floor storage…
Heston James Cobb pleaded guilty to criminal impersonation Friday for orchestrating fake employee takeovers at Arizona businesses. Cobb, 25, who posts under the name “Heston James,” was arrested in July 2025 after Tempe police accused him and accomplices of entering…
A Georgia police department’s Facebook appeal to identify a man who pocketed $30 from a Walmart floor drew widespread ridicule online before the cash was eventually returned. The Albany Police Department posted a surveillance image on August 18 of an…
A 662-page dossier of stomach-churning public health complaints against LA street vendors has surfaced just as Mayor Karen Bass orders police to stop criminally citing un-permitted food carts. The records, spanning 2023 through early 2026, document 9,746 complaints filed with…
Dave Daniel says he is “incredibly humble and thankful” after surviving a brutal shark attack that left him bleeding on a Florida beach and facing death. Daniel, 43, a Florida exterminator, was fishing in shallow water at a sandbar in…
A neighbor who heard an elderly man’s final screams has spoken out after the 68-year-old was fatally mauled by a pack of dogs on an Illinois street. James L. Gibson, 68, suffered bite wounds to his face, torso, arms, and…
An 18-year-old suspect was arrested in Temecula after a witness reported seeing a Flock Safety camera being chopped down and loaded into a vehicle. Deputies in Riverside County were flagged down Tuesday night by the witness, who also provided the…
A Yavapai County camper is recovering at home after deputies coordinated a helicopter rescue when a rattlesnake bite sent him into convulsions in a remote Arizona area. The man, whose name was not released, had already been suffering for roughly…
A new true-crime podcast is forcing fresh scrutiny on the closed 2020 death of Georgia mother Natalie Jones after her family raised alarms about evidence they say contradicts the official overdose theory. Jones, 27, vanished after leaving a friend’s lake…
Nyla Craft has spoken out about the emotional moment she heard all three of her newborn sons crying together for the first time. The South Los Angeles mother, whose age was not reported, delivered triplets Elio, Elias and Enzo on…
A New Jersey man now faces federal charges after investigators discovered an alleged homemade bomb lab inside his suburban home. Joseph Rizos, 37, of Denville, was charged Wednesday with unlawful receipt of explosive materials, unlawful storage of explosive material and…
UVB-76, the enigmatic Russian radio station known as “the Buzzer,” broke its decades-long drone with a flurry of coded voice transmissions over four days this week. The station, which has emitted a steady buzzing tone on 4625 kHz since at…
New York’s highway signs honoring Dolly Parton may have violated federal safety guidelines meant to keep drivers focused on the road. Gov. Kathy Hochul, 66, approved the digital message boards that lit up across the state last Thursday and Friday,…
A Washington father’s self-written obituary has gone viral after his death last month, with readers online calling it the “best obituary ever.” Michael De Simone, 51, of Olympia, Wash., died from a cardiac event on Aug. 21 following a stroke…
Akhilesh Jah shouted down angry Woodland Hills residents at a Los Angeles planning hearing over his senior housing proposal. The aerospace engineer-turned-developer, whose plan would replace a single-family home with a 71-unit facility, clashed Thursday with neighbors at the Los…