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Alex Murdaugh pleads guilty to 22 counts of financial fraud and money laundering

Alex Murdaugh pleads guilty to 22 counts of financial fraud and money laundering

The Island Packet/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Disgraced attorney Alex Murdaugh pleaded guilty to 22 counts of financial fraud and money laundering in federal court on Thursday. “He’s been totally cooperative and apologized to the victims of his theft,” Murdaugh’s lawyer, Dick Harpootlian, told reporters after the hearing. “This is, […]

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Kansas man charged in two cold case murders after DNA links him to crime scenes

Kansas man charged in two cold case murders after DNA links him to crime scenes

Wyandotte County Jail (KANSAS CITY, Kan.) — A Kansas man has been charged in the cold case murders of two women from the 1990s, authorities said. Gary Dion Davis has been arrested for the murders of Pearl Davis, who was killed in 1996, and Christina King, whose body was found […]

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Astronaut Frank Rubio marks one year in space after breaking US mission record

Astronaut Frank Rubio marks one year in space after breaking US mission record

STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — After breaking the record earlier this month for the longest continuous amount of time spent in space by an American, NASA astronaut Frank Rubio on Thursday hit one year of orbiting Earth. Rubio, 47, has been aboard the international Space Station with […]

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Man rescued dangling from California’s highest bridge 700 feet above river

Man rescued dangling from California’s highest bridge 700 feet above river

Facebook / Placer County Sheriff’s Office (NEW YORK) — A 19-year-old man has been rescued dangling approximately 700 feet above a river in California after getting stuck there while his friend filmed the whole ordeal. The incident occurred on Monday just before 6:30 p.m. when authorities from the Placer County […]

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Man dies after swarm of bees attacks him on porch of his own home

Man dies after swarm of bees attacks him on porch of his own home

pablohart/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A 59-year-old man has died after he was attacked and stung by a swarm of bees on the porch of his own home. The incident occurred in Harlan County, Kentucky — located on the southeastern part of the state on the border with Virginia — […]

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Judge sets trial date to decide how much Giuliani owes 2 election workers for defaming them

Judge sets trial date to decide how much Giuliani owes 2 election workers for defaming them

Elijah Nouvelage for The Washington Post via Getty Images (ATLANTA) — A federal judge has ordered a Dec. 11 trial date to determine what damages Rudy Giuliani will have to pay two former Georgia election workers he was found liable for defaming. Judge Beryl Howell last month found Giuliani liable for […]

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Chester County prison officials had ‘concerns about the leadership’ a year before Danelo Cavalcante’s escape

Chester County prison officials had ‘concerns about the leadership’ a year before Danelo Cavalcante’s escape

Mark Makela/Getty Images (WEST CHESTER, Pa.) — Officials in Chester County, Pennsylvania, admitted Wednesday that there were failures in official communications following convicted murderer Danelo Cavalcante’s escape from their county prison on Aug. 31. During the first public meeting of the board that oversees the prison since the two-week manhunt for […]

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Heavy smoke blanketing San Francisco Bay Area

Heavy smoke blanketing San Francisco Bay Area

Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (SAN FRANCISCO) — A smoky haze is currently blanketing the San Francisco Bay Area due to wildfires burning in the northwest, creating unhealthy air quality for sensitive groups. The smoke stemming from multiple wildfires that continue to burn in rural areas of Northwestern California is […]

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Boston College suspends swimming and diving program due to hazing

Boston College suspends swimming and diving program due to hazing

Omar Rawlings/Getty Images (BOSTON) — Boston College has indefinitely suspended its men’s and women’s swimming and diving programs over what it said was hazing, the university announced Wednesday. The suspension comes after university administrators “determined that hazing had occurred within the program,” the Boston College athletics department said in a brief […]

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Judge orders Hunter Biden to appear in person at arraignment on federal gun charges

Judge orders Hunter Biden to appear in person at arraignment on federal gun charges

Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images (WILMINGTON, Del.) — A federal magistrate judge on Wednesday denied Hunter Biden’s effort to avoid appearing in person at his arraignment on federal gun charges, ordering him to appear at a hearing scheduled for Oct. 3. Judge Christopher Burke wrote that the president’s son […]

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