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Month: January 2025

Man wanted for killing woman, kidnapping their 2 daughters may have fled to Mexico: Sheriff

Man wanted for killing woman, kidnapping their 2 daughters may have fled to Mexico: Sheriff

Kings County Sheriff’s Office (CALIFORNIA) — Authorities in California are searching for a man who allegedly gunned down his daughters’ mother and kidnapped the two young girls. The suspect, 23-year-old Jonathan Alexis Maldonado-Cruz, may have fled to Mexico, the Kings County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday. The case began Tuesday afternoon […]

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Former Sen. Bob Menendez sentenced to 11 years in prison on corruption charges

Former Sen. Bob Menendez sentenced to 11 years in prison on corruption charges

Alex Kent/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A federal judge sentenced a tearful former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez to 11 years in prison Wednesday on corruption charges after being convicted of abusing the power of his office in exchange for bribes in the form of gold bars, a luxury car and other […]

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Former Sen. Bob Menendez set to be sentenced on corruption charges

Former Sen. Bob Menendez set to be sentenced on corruption charges

Alex Kent/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez is set to be sentenced Wednesday on corruption charges after being convicted of abusing the power of his office in exchange for bribes in the form of gold bars, a luxury car and other items. Ahead of his […]

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Utah Towns Among Safest In America

Utah Towns Among Safest In America

(Saratoga Springs, UT) — More than half a dozen of Utah’s small towns are among the safest in the U.S. Home security system brand Vivint recently did research to find the safest small towns in the country, using FBI property crime data to come up with the top 425 towns. […]

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Transgender Dorm Bill Advances

Transgender Dorm Bill Advances

(Salt Lake City, UT) — A bill that would require those living in student housing at Utah’s public universities to stay in gender-assigned areas is advancing. The measure would mean those in dorms would have to live only in areas designated for the sex they were assigned at birth. That […]

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Why experts say California is the best-equipped state to deal with wildfires

Why experts say California is the best-equipped state to deal with wildfires

Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — California has just experienced one of its worst wildfire seasons in years, despite the Golden State’s ample resources to combat the blazes once they spark. The Palisades and Eaton fires, while both mostly contained as of Wednesday, are still active in Los Angeles County […]

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Trump hires new lawyers, files notice of appeal for hush money conviction

Trump hires new lawyers, files notice of appeal for hush money conviction

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Top white shoe law firm Sullivan & Cromwell will represent President Donald Trump as he appeals his criminal hush money conviction in New York, according to court filings Wednesday. The new attorneys filed a notice of appeal Wednesday, signaling their intention to appeal Trump’s conviction […]

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Amid mass deportations, a boat packed with migrants intercepted trying to get into the US

Amid mass deportations, a boat packed with migrants intercepted trying to get into the US

Kevin Carter/Getty Images (SAN DIEGO) — Even as the Trump administration’s mass deportation of undocumented migrants was unfolding, the U.S. Coast Guard announced it had intercepted a boat packed with migrants off the California coast. A 40-foot panga-style boat attempting to smuggle migrants into the United States was stopped by two Coast […]

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Harvey Weinstein begs to get out of Rikers Island ‘hell hole’ in court

Harvey Weinstein begs to get out of Rikers Island ‘hell hole’ in court

Alec Tabak/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Harvey Weinstein begged a Manhattan judge on Wednesday to put him on trial earlier than planned, saying he isn’t sure he will live until the spring while incarcerated in the “hell hole” that is the New York City jail […]

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Civil rights attorney Ben Crump speaks to Trump’s DOJ directives

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump speaks to Trump’s DOJ directives

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Officials in the Trump Justice Department have ordered a temporary freeze on any ongoing cases being litigated by the Civil Rights Division, according to a new directive reviewed by ABC News. The memo to the current acting head of the Civil Rights Division, Kathleen Wolfe, says […]

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