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The legal battle over the fate of Erik and Lyle Menendez just took another sharp turn, and California’s top law enforcement official is making his stance clear. Attorney General Rob Bonta is pushing back against a motion to remove the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office from the brothers’ resentencing case, calling the request weak […]

I wish I could say this story caught everyone off guard. But if I’m being honest — and maybe you’ve felt this too — it almost feels like the warning signs have been blinking for a while now. A quiet home daycare in Cape Cod is now closed, and not because of paperwork or licensing […]

Two decades after helping to carry out one of the most notorious child kidnappings in modern American history, Wanda Barzee is back in the headlines — and this time, for a disturbing smile. The 79-year-old woman, convicted in connection with the abduction of then-14-year-old Elizabeth Smart, is now facing new legal trouble. Barzee, who remains […]

I’m not sure how many times a city can be shaken before people stop feeling it. But this time, even for Minneapolis, something hit harder. In just one day, six people were killed and five more were injured in separate shootings — not over a week or a month, but in a 24-hour window. It’s […]

It happened in the open. Middle of the day. Broad daylight. And still — they vanished. On Friday afternoon, just before 4:30 p.m., a crew of armed men robbed an armored truck right outside a bank in Blue Island, Illinois — a quiet suburb just outside Chicago. The whole thing unfolded fast, but not so […]

It’s hard not to feel blindsided when something you were promised turns into something completely different — especially when no one really tells you it’s happening. That’s more or less what’s been playing out in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, where hundreds of residents took to the streets after a planned affordable housing site suddenly shifted toward […]

It’s something that almost doesn’t feel real until you see the footage. A red van, stopped completely still in the middle of Interstate 71 in Ohio, set off a multi-car wreck — and then just… drove away. Not even a glance back. One Missed Exit, Four Cars, and a Chain Reaction The video, released by […]

There are certain things you expect on a flight—delays, cramped seats, maybe even a crying baby. What absolutely should not be on that list is a former California Highway Patrol captain allegedly drinking himself unconscious and flashing passengers. But that’s what prosecutors say happened on a JetBlue flight from Florida to Los Angeles. One Bottle, […]