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Families, investigators continue to search for answers in five college student cases

Families, investigators continue to search for answers in five college student cases

Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — On Saturday, May 25, 1996, Kristin Smart, a freshman at Cal Poly State University, walked home from a party at 2 a.m. and was never seen again. She was 19 years old. An arrest would not be made for 25 years. “20/20” takes a […]

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Missing 18-year-old found dead after online date; two people arrested: Police

Missing 18-year-old found dead after online date; two people arrested: Police

Union County Sheriff’s Office (MONROE, N.C.) — Two people have been arrested in connection with the murder of 18-year-old Kierstyn Williamson, a South Carolina native who went missing last week while on a date with someone they had met online. Williamson was reported missing by family on Sunday morning, according […]

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OceanGate suspends all exploration and commercial operations after Titan implosion

OceanGate suspends all exploration and commercial operations after Titan implosion

JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — OceanGate said it is suspending all exploration and commercial operations after five people were killed, including the company’s CEO, during its expedition to the Titanic wreckage last month. The Everett, Washington-based company announced the development in a banner on its websites. OceanGate, […]

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Justice Department moves to block Trump deposition after ex-FBI agent Peter Strzok sues over firing

Justice Department moves to block Trump deposition after ex-FBI agent Peter Strzok sues over firing

Creativeye99/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A week after FBI director Christopher Wray was deposed in a lawsuit over the firing of veteran agent Peter Strzok, the Justice Department is now asking a federal judge to — once and for all — block former President Donald Trump from being deposed in the […]

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Trump aide Walt Nauta pleads not guilty in classified documents case

Trump aide Walt Nauta pleads not guilty in classified documents case

Alon Skuy/Getty Images (MIAMI) — Walt Nauta, the longtime aide to former President Donald Trump who was charged alongside him in the special counsel’s classified documents case, pleaded not guilty to all charges Thursday at his arraignment in Miami. Nauta, who first worked for Trump in the White House before […]

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Texas teen found after eight years had never been missing, police say

Texas teen found after eight years had never been missing, police say

KTRK (HOUSTON) — In a stunning twist, a Texas man who was found outside a church last week, eight years after his mother reported him missing as a teenager, had never been missing in the first place, Houston police announced at a news conference Thursday. Rudy Farias, now 25, had […]

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Reaching ‘drop dead’ deadline, Trump aide Walt Nauta to be arraigned in classified docs case

Reaching ‘drop dead’ deadline, Trump aide Walt Nauta to be arraigned in classified docs case

ftwitty/Getty Images (MIAMI) — Walt Nauta, the longtime aide to former President Donald Trump who was federally charged alongside him last month in the classified documents case brought by special counsel Jack Smith, is scheduled to be arraigned in Miami Thursday morning — marking the third time an arraignment has […]

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Two firefighters die while battling blaze aboard ship in New Jersey

Two firefighters die while battling blaze aboard ship in New Jersey

slobo/Getty Images (NEWARK, N.J.) — Two firefighters died and several more were injured while battling a blaze aboard a cargo ship docked in Newark, New Jersey, on Wednesday night, officials said. Newark Fire Chief Rufus Jackson confirmed the deaths during a press conference early Thursday, a few hours after it […]

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Suspect arrested after stabbing at Levi’s Stadium soccer game

Suspect arrested after stabbing at Levi’s Stadium soccer game

amphotora/Getty Images (SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — Police in Northern California have arrested a man for allegedly stabbing another man during the Mexico-Qatar soccer game on Sunday night. The Santa Clara Police Department (SCPD) and the Sacramento Police Department took the suspect — Alejandro Garcia-Villanueva — into custody at his home in […]

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Criminal charges called for against deputies, officer in alleged assault of two Black men

Criminal charges called for against deputies, officer in alleged assault of two Black men

amphotora/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the investigation involving two Black men allegedly assaulted by one officer and five deputies continues, national activists and Mississippi residents held two press conferences Wednesday urging for criminal charges to be brought against all parties allegedly involved. The men involved, Eddie Terrell Parker and […]

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