Thinkstock Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Camden County, Georgia, Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday released the dashboard camera and body camera footage of the fatal police shooting of 53-year-old Leonard Allan Cure. Cure was wrongfully convicted of armed robbery in 2003 and was exonerated in 2020 after spending 16 years […]
Matei Brancoveanu/500px/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Douglass Mackey, the social media influencer known as “Ricky Vaughn,” was sentenced Wednesday to seven months in prison for falsely assuring supporters of Hillary Clinton they could cast their vote in the 2016 presidential election through text messages or social media posts. Mackey was prosecuted […]
ABC News (TULSA, Okla.) — More than 100 years after many of Tulsa’s Black residents were killed and their businesses were destroyed by white rioters, the community, including a woman who survived the massacre, is still finding ways to rebuild and seek justice. Between May 31 and June 1, 1921, white […]
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (NEW ORLEANS) — Three children were killed in a house fire in New Orleans early Wednesday morning that was allegedly set by their father following an apparent domestic dispute, police said. The father — identified by police as Joseph Washington Sr., 29 — was apprehended following a manhunt […]
Alejandro Cegarra/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Law enforcement around the country remain “very concerned” about the threat of a “lone wolf” actor attempting to exploit the conflict between Israel and Hamas, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told Jewish leaders. “We remain very concerned about the lone wolf, the […]
John Moore/Getty Images (AUSTIN, Texas) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered the state’s National Guard to install a barrier in some parts along the Texas/New Mexico state line. Officials say guard members have been placing concertina wire in an area close to Sunland Park, New Mexico, which shares a border […]
Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A court employee was arrested Wednesday after she tried to approach former President Donald Trump while he was seated in the courtroom during his civil trial in lower Manhattan. As the trial was taking place, the woman “disrupted the proceedings by standing up and walking […]
ftwitty/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump is on trial in New York in a $250 million lawsuit that could alter the personal fortune and real estate empire that helped propel Trump to the White House. Trump, his sons Eric and Don Jr., and Trump Organization executives are […]
(St. George, UT) — The Red Cliffs Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will begin welcoming visitors for open house tours ahead of its dedication. Tours will begin Thursday, February 1st, and run every day through Saturday, March 2, excluding Sundays. Reservations are recommended and can […]
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Joran van der Sloot, the main suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway, pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal extortion charges related to the Alabama teenager’s disappearance and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. As a part of the plea deal, van der Sloot […]
