A 33-year-old man was arrested on Monday after allegedly jumping into one of the reflecting pools at the 9/11 Memorial in New York City. Police told NBC New York that the incident occurred around 1:30 p.m. local time. The man was found injured inside the north pool — one of two memorial pools that mark
A viral video that captured a woman’s xenophobic rant against a group of German tourists has resulted in her getting fired from her job. Brianna Pinnix, 30, was filmed on a New Jersey Transit train yelling at a group of German men and telling them to “get the f–k out of our country.”The video was
Republican Kevin McCarthy became the first U.S. House Speaker to be removed from office Tuesday thanks to a handful of rebellious party members. McCarthy – who served in the job nine months after an intense 15-round struggle to get it in January – said after the vote he would not run for the position again.The
A 62-year-old grandfather has been arrested for child abuse after he accidentally shot his own grandson in the shoulder while officiating a wedding, local police say. Michael Gardner of Odessa, Texas, was in Denton, Neb., with family members for a wedding on Saturday afternoon when he “decided to gain everyone’s attention and start the wedding
A nine-year-old girl abducted during a family camping trip in upstate New York was found “safe and in good health” Monday night after investigators lifted a fingerprint from a ransom note dropped off at the family’s home, police said. Charlotte Sena’s disappearance kick-started a massive two-day search involving more than 400 forest rangers, police officers
Gypsy Rose Blanchard, who in 2016 pleaded guilty to murdering her mother, will be out of prison before 2024. On Thursday, the Missouri Department of Corrections granted her parole three years before her scheduled release, the Springfield News-Leader reported.She will be released on Dec. 28, 2023, though her original 10-year sentence would have seen her
UPDATE: Baltimore police have announced the arrest of Jason Dean Billingsley, 32, who is accused of murdering 26-year-old start-up founder Pava LaPere on Monday. Billingsley was located and surrounded by a SWAT team and taken into custody “without incident.” In a Thursday press conference, Baltimore acting police commissioner Richard Worley revealed that Billingsley had been on
A two-year-old girl who wandered away from her home in a remote and heavily wooded area of Michigan was found safe and sound hours later, guarded by her family’s two dogs: an English Springer named Hartley and a Rottweiler named Buddy. The toddler, Thea Chase, was reported missing by her mother Brooke Chase after she
Ten years after the body of an unidentified newborn was found abandoned in an Oregon recycling centre, police have charged the baby’s father in connection with her death. On Thursday, the Portland Police Bureau announced an update in the decade-old cold case of “Baby Precious,” as the infant was called.Baby Precious, whose real name was
Texas prisoner Billy Chemirmir, who was convicted of killing two women and accused of murdering many more, has been killed by his cellmate this week while serving a life sentence, prison officials confirmed. Chemirmir, 50, was found guilty last year of killing two women. He was caught after a 91-year-old woman, Mary Bartel, survived an