Tonya Harding’s legendary tale captures her rise to fame and abrupt fall from grace. Known for being the first American woman to land a triple axel in competition, she is considered one of the most controversial ice skaters in American history, according to her biography on olympics.com. Harding’s notoriety is established in the scandal involving...
A mob of migrants accused of attacking New York City police officers outside a Queens hotel being used as a shelter as they were checking on the welfare of three unattended children have been indicted, prosecutors said Tuesday. The six suspects were each charged with attempted assault in the first degree, attempted gang assault in...
Three days after a Florida deputy was released from the hospital after being run over by a suspect’s vehicle, the sheriff announced three people have been arrested as a result of the investigation. “I’m incensed that any human being would inflict this type of violence against another human being in our wonderful, special Tampa Bay...
An illegal immigrant from Colombia, wanted in Spain for drug trafficking charges, has been arrested in Massachusetts, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The 25-year-old fugitive, who has not been named, was apprehended by Massachusetts State Police in the city of Revere on June 29 after authorities said he was driving an unregistered...
The City of Sacramento, California’s legal department threatened to fine a popular retail store for public nuisance over numerous calls to police after thieves stole from its Land Park location multiple times, according to a report. The Sacramento Bee reported that a person with knowledge of the warning, who wanted to remain anonymous out of...
An armed California homeowner shot at a group of would-be burglars who broke into his house in a Los Angeles neighborhood Monday, police say. Police say that at least two suspects entered a home in the San Fernando Valley neighborhood of Valley Village at around 3 p.m. when they were confronted by the homeowner who...
A security guard was shot and killed at a Mississippi convenience store Monday morning, according to police. Two 17-year-old boys and a 16-year-old boy were charged with capital murder in connection with the incident. Roy Love, 60, was working security at M&M Food Express at 516 Cooper Road in Jackson, Mississippi, when he was shot...
A former reporter for a Kansas newspaper has accepted $235,000 to settle part of her federal lawsuit over a police raid on the local newspaper that made national headlines for concerns about press freedom violations. Former Marion County Record reporter Deb Gruver reached the settlement on June 25 following her lawsuit against former Marion Police...
The Richard Nixon Foundation, and many conservatives on social media, are firing back at Chicago’s Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson after he seemingly placed partial blame on former President Richard Nixon, who died 30 years ago, for Chicago’s weekend of gun violence. “What we’ve experienced over the weekend is unacceptable and we didn’t get here overnight....
A Russian court on Monday convicted a theater director and a playwright of terrorism charges and sentenced them to six years each in prison, the latest in an unrelenting crackdown on dissent across the country that has reached new heights since Moscow sent troops into Ukraine. Zhenya Berkovich, a prominent independent theater director, and playwright...
