Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden is expected to enter a plea of not guilty when he is arraigned on federal gun charges, his attorney wrote in court filings Tuesday. It’s the first official indication of the younger Biden’s plans to fight the charges against him […]
Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto via Getty Images (PHILADELPHIA) — Temple University acting president JoAnne A. Epps died suddenly after falling ill at a memorial service at the university Tuesday afternoon, the school announced. She was 72. Epps became unwell while attending the memorial service for Charles L. Blockson, a curator emeritus of the […]
WIN-Initiative/Neleman/Getty Images (TENNESSEE COLONY, Texas) — A Texas man convicted of murdering two elderly women and suspected of killing nearly two dozen people total was found dead in his prison cell Tuesday following an attack by his cellmate, officials said. Texas Department of Criminal Justice officials found Billy Chemirmir, 50, dead […]
George Family Photo (MONT BELVIEU, Texas) — A Black Texas high school student has been facing an in-school suspension (ISS) for weeks because school officials said that his dreadlocks violated their dress and grooming code. Darryl George, a junior at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu, has been sitting on […]
Thir Sakdi Phu Cxm / EyeEm/Getty Images (ORLANDO) — An Amazon delivery driver was dropping off a package at a Florida home when she was bitten by a highly venomous eastern diamondback rattlesnake, authorities said. The woman was hospitalized in “very serious condition,” the Martin County Sheriff’s Office said. The incident […]
Tamir Kalifa for The Washington Post via Getty Images (LAHAINA, Hawaii) — West Maui, an area devastated by wildfires that ravaged the historic town of Lahaina less than two months ago, is set to reopen for visitors on Oct. 8. Lahaina will remain fully closed to the public until further notice, […]
Birmingham Police Department (BIRMINGHAM, Ala.) — Police have released body camera footage involving the arrest of an Alabama high school band director who was shocked with a stun gun after officers say he refused to comply with orders to stop playing and resisted arrest. The incident occurred Thursday at P.D. Jackson-Olin […]
St. Charles Parish Sheriff’s Office (HAHNVILLE, La.) — A missing kayaker from Louisiana has been arrested for faking his own death by drowning in an apparent bid to dodge rape charges, according to the St. Charles Parish Sheriff’s Office. Melvin Phillip Emde, 41, was arrested by authorities in Georgia over a […]
Jeffrey Grigsby / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — When Tampa Bay Buccaneers linebacker Shaquil Barrett scored his first NFL career touchdown Sunday against the Chicago Bears, he was seen on camera blowing a kiss to the sky. The kiss, Barrett later said, was for his 2-year-old daughter Arrayah, who died […]
nazarethman/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A kilogram of fentanyl was stored on top of children’s play mats used for napping at the New York City day care where a 1-year-old boy died from exposure to the drug, according to a new federal criminal complaint. Day care operator Grei Mendez and […]
