Al Seib/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images (GRAND RAPIDS, Minn.) — A federal grand jury indicted a Minnesota man on Tuesday for allegedly stealing a pair of the ruby slippers that actress Judy Garland famously wore playing Dorothy in “The Wizard of Oz.” Federal prosecutors allege that Terry Martin stole the […]
Probal Rashid/LightRocket via Getty Images (NEW ORLEANS) — A federal appeals court in New Orleans on Wednesday heard arguments in a high-stakes bid to invalidate FDA approval of the most widely used abortion medication in the country more than two decades after it hit the market and despite its safe use […]
Obtained by ABC News (WASHINGTON) — The Army National Guardsman charged with leaking a trove of military secrets was twice admonished by his superiors last year over “concerning actions” he took with regards to classified information, federal prosecutors said in a court filing on Wednesday. Jack Teixeira, who is set to […]
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (SCHOHARIE, N.Y.) — A limousine company operator was found guilty of second-degree manslaughter for a 2018 crash in upstate New York that left 20 people dead. Nauman Hussain was in charge of the day-to-day operations of Prestige Limousine when the company rented the stretch Ford Excursion SUV to […]
Selcuk Acar/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Police sources are countering a claim by Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, that they were involved in a “near catastrophic car chase” while being pursued by paparazzi in Manhattan on Tuesday night. A spokesperson for the couple, who […]
Daniel Garrido/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — U.S. airlines are gearing up for the busiest Memorial Day holiday since before the pandemic. United Airlines said it’s preparing for its busiest Memorial Day in over a decade, expecting to carry nearly 2.9 million passengers from Thursday May 25 to Tuesday May 30. The […]
Richard Baker/In Pictures via Getty Images (TALLHASSEE, Fla.) — PEN America, a nonprofit dedicated to protecting free expression, and Penguin Random House, one of the country’s largest book publishers, filed a lawsuit Wednesday targeting a Florida school district for removing certain books from the shelves of public school libraries. Authors and […]
Spencer Platt/Getty Images, FILE (NEW YORK) — Sayfullo Saipov, the ISIS-inspired attacker who was convicted of killing eight people earlier this year, was sentenced to eight consecutive life sentences on Wednesday. Saipov was convicted in January of all 28 counts he faced in connection with carrying out the deadly attack along […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — The president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints — Russell Nelson — is addressing concerns about his age and his health in a social media post. Nelson — who’s 98 years old — says he expects to have what he calls ‘little […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — The Utah State Legislature is set to spend roughly 40-million dollars on flood relief. Governor Spencer Cox called a special session on Wednesday, which will shuffle money around to help. Roughly 20-million of it will go to snow removal and avalanche control, with five-million addressing […]
