Flags are flying at half-staff on the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater campus on Tuesday in honor of senior gymnast Kara Welsh, who was shot and killed in her apartment Friday evening. Welsh, 21, was a national champion and two-time All-American, according to a statement from the university. She was found by police with multiple gunshot wounds,...
A Brazilian man living in the United States illegally has been charged with raping an underage Massachusetts person, federal officials said Tuesday. Warley Neto, 24, was arrested on Aug. 23 and is charged with five counts of rape, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said. “Warley Neto allegedly repeatedly assaulted a Massachusetts child and represents...
Police are urging the public in West Los Angeles to stay vigilant as detectives hunt for an apparent organized burglary crew that uses Wi-Fi jammers and other sophisticated techniques to ransack high-end valuables from homes across numerous upscale neighborhoods. The warning from the Los Angeles Police Department, which has sent out a community alert to...
A former doctor from Arizona who was charged with manslaughter after allegedly helping a woman commit suicide in an upstate New York motel room has pleaded guilty to the charge. Stephen Miller, 85, of Tucson was arrested this year for second-degree manslaughter. A provision of New York law allows individuals to face the charge if...
Four people were shot to death on a Chicago-area train on Monday morning, according to Illinois authorities. Authorities were called to a train station in Forest Park, a village in Cook County, at around 5:30 a.m. on Monday. The shooting occurred on a Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) Blue Line train. Three people were pronounced dead...
A plaque commemorating Aaron Judge’s historic 62nd home run of the 2022 season at Globe Life Field in Texas was stolen for the second time, and now will not be replaced again, according to WFAN’s Justin Shackil. Judge famously broke the American League single-season home run record against the Texas Rangers at Globe Life Field...
Venezuelan authorities on Monday sought an arrest warrant for the opposition’s former presidential candidate Edmundo González, just over a month after election officials declared President Nicolás Maduro the winner of the disputed election that his opponents say he lost. US SEIZES VENEZUELAN LEADER MADURO’S PLANE IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC The prosecutor seeking the warrant in...
A New Jersey woman who was arrested and spent two weeks behind bars over a mistaken identity cannot sue the U.S. marshals who arrested her because they are protected by qualified immunity, a court ruled. Judith Maureen Henry was booked into the Essex County Correctional Facility in Newark in 2019 after the marshals detained her,...
A previously deported illegal immigrant from Honduras was arrested Sunday, authorities said, following an intense manhunt in Indiana after he was deemed a person of interest in the random stabbing of a teen girl at a baseball game. The manhunt for Dimas Gabriel Yanez, 26, began Saturday after a 14-year-old girl was stabbed in the...
Vice President Kamala Harris is campaigning on what she characterizes as a record of a tough former prosecutor. But a White House office she has “overseen” may have focused less on gun crimes and more on targeting a legal gun manufacturer. The House Oversight and Accountability Committee says the Biden-Harris administration is stonewalling an investigation...
