Courtesy of Laquonda Green, Tay McGee, and Michele Williams, and ABC News (NEW YORK) — A powerful Mexican cartel has allegedly taken responsibility for the kidnapping of four U.S. citizens, and killing of two of them, in the Mexican border city of Matamoros. Five men were found tied up near […]
Jason Marz/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Prosecutors in the criminal trial against Alec Baldwin and the armorer involved in the shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins refuted claims by the defense that the gun used in the incident was destroyed. Baldwin’s lawyer, Alex Spiro, told the court during a status conference […]
Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office (EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio) — More than a third of the East Cleveland, Ohio, police department is now under indictment after prosecutors charged 11 more current and former members of the troubled law enforcement agency with public corruption and civil rights violations, alleging some of their abuse […]
Joshua Boucher/The State/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Alex Murdaugh’s attorneys have filed a notice of appeal for the former lawyer’s convictions and sentences, a week after he was found guilty of murdering his wife and younger son, court records show. The notice was filed in the […]
Senior Airman Leon Redfern/USAF (ABILENE, Texas) — An Air Force pilot has made history by becoming one of the first Air Force service members to fly a supersonic aircraft while pregnant. Maj. Lauren Olme, assistant director of operations for the 77th Weapons Squadron at Dyess Air Force Base near Abilene, […]
MPI/Getty Images (NEWARK, N.J.) — A new monument honoring Underground Railroad conductor Harriet Tubman was unveiled Thursday in downtown Newark, New Jersey. “Shadow of a Face” sits in the town’s newly created Arts and Education District, replacing a statue of Christopher Columbus. Newark Mayor Ras Baraka told ABC News that […]
Ari Perilstein/Getty Images, FILE (NEW YORK) — White supremacist propaganda, including the mass distribution of flyers containing hateful language and images, projections on buildings and in-person gatherings, reached a record high in the United States in 2022, according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The organization’s yearly assessment of propaganda activity […]
OGDEN, Utah-Thursday, Weber State men’s basketball head coach Eric Duft was named as a finalist for the Joe B. Hall Award. This award, named in honor of the former Regis (Colo.) and Kentucky head coach, is presented to the top first time head coach in Division I men’s basketball annually. […]
FBI (NEW YORK) — An 8-year-old girl from Washington state who had been missing for over four years following a kidnapping by her biological mother was recently found in Mexico, federal authorities said. Aranza Maria Ochoa Lopez was safely returned to the U.S. in February after being located by local […]
Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the FBI offered up to $50,000 in new rewards for information on those responsible for sabotaging three North Carolina power plants in December and January, the sheriff in the county where two of the shooting attacks occurred accused a local utility […]
