LOS ANGELES – Authorities say a car slammed into a terminal at Los Angeles International Airport, striking and critically injuring a 9-year-old girl who was on the sidewalk. Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Brian Humphrey says the crash happened just before 5 p.m. Sunday at Terminal 7 on the departures …
Read More »Trial set for stepmother accused in death of Alabama girl forced to run as punishment
GADSDEN, Ala. – A trial date has been set for a woman accused in the death of her stepdaughter, who was forced to run as punishment until she collapsed and later died. Court records show the trial for 30-year-old Jessica Mae Hardin is scheduled for Feb. 22. Nine-year-old Savannah Hardin …
Read More »'Cult mom' Lori Vallow gets glam for Arizona mugshot, faces two more murder charges
Officials have extradited so-called “cult mom” and convicted killer Lori Vallow from Idaho to Arizona to face one first-degree murder charge and one premeditated first-degree murder charge in Maricopa County. Vallow, who was found guilty in May of murdering two of her children and her husband’s first wife in Idaho …
Read More »Jussie Smollett's conviction upheld by Illinois appeals court
An Illinois appeals court upheld actor Jussie Smollett’s conviction for a staged hate crime in an opinion filed Friday. The decision was 2-1, with Justice David Navarro and Justice Mary Ellen Coghlan agreeing. Judge Freddrenna Lyle dissented, according to court documents obtained by Fox News Digital. Smollett’s legal team will …
Read More »Several US cities introduce Native American translations on road signs
A few years back, Sage Brook Carbone was attending a powwow at the Mashantucket Western Pequot reservation in Connecticut when she noticed signs in the Pequot language. Carbone, a citizen of the Northern Narragansett Indian Tribe of Rhode Island, thought back to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she has lived for much …
Read More »Congress launches probe into Osprey aircraft program following series of fatal crashes
A congressional oversight committee has launched an investigation into the U.S. military’s Osprey aircraft program following a deadly crash in Japan last month which killed eight Air Force special operations service members. The tilt-rotor plane – which can fly like a helicopter and a fixed-wing aircraft — has been besieged …
Read More »Bringing Bryan Kohberger jury to Idaho students' home could be 'logistics nightmare' with no payoff: lawyer
The University of Idaho began demolition today of the off-campus rental home where four undergrad students were killed in a home invasion stabbing last year. The house at 1122 King Road is a grim reminder of the slayings, which had been boarded up, fenced in and guarded 24 hours a …
Read More »US states slashed broad-based taxes as budget surpluses soared, but fiscal challenges loom in 2024
Income, sales, property and gas taxes: Almost every U.S. state cut at least one such broad-based tax as budget surpluses soared over the past three years. Some states made permanent tax reductions. Others passed one-time rebates or temporary suspensions. One way or another, whether red or blue, all states save …
Read More »'Angry' woman bites and chews through seat of police cruiser after arrest in North Carolina
A woman detained on an assault charge in North Carolina became so enraged that she chewed through the backseat of a police cruiser. The peculiar incident involving the 32-year-old woman took place on Jan. 2 after she was arrested on an assault charge, according to the Boone Police Department. A …
Read More »Northern California man files claim against police over baton beating captured on video
SALINAS, Calif. – A Northern California man has filed a legal claim over a police baton beating captured on video and posted online. The Monterey Herald (http://tinyurl.com/o8ss7o7 ) reported Thursday that Jose Velasco is demanding unspecified damages from the city of Salinas, California. If the city denies the claim, Velasco …
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