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Demonstrators stormed through the streets of Brooklyn, New York, over the weekend, rallying against city plans to build a homeless shelter following what locals call a "bait-and-switch" tactic.On Sunday, hundreds of protestors marched through Sheepshead Bay chanting, "Vote them out," after city officials moved to build a homeless shelter on a site residents originally approved in 2022 as affordable housing. Residents said the change – which occurred after a developer pulled […]

Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman responded to a request for recusal in the resentencing case of convicted murderers Erik and Lyle Menendez, calling the move a "drastic and desperate step."Hochman filed the response on Friday, arguing that the Menendez brothers are trying to force a recusal simply because they're unhappy with the district attorney's overall stance on resentencing."In the opposition, the District Attorney’s Office has argued that in a […]

Law enforcement officials in Pinellas County, Florida, arrested a Kentucky man who, just days after winning the $167 million Powerball jackpot, allegedly kicked a deputy during a fight at a resort.The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office said 50-year-old James Farthing was charged with felony battery on a law enforcement officer, as well as misdemeanor charges of resisting an officer without violence and simple battery.According to an arrest affidavit filed in Pinellas […]

Federal agents are searching for a crew of men who are accused of robbing an armored truck at gunpoint outside a Chicago-area bank in broad daylight.The robbery happened just before 4:30 p.m. Friday in Blue Island, Illinois, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) in Chicago.MISSISSIPPI DELIVERY DRIVER ACCUSED OF TRYING TO STEAL RETIRED DEPUTY'S ORDERThree men, in their late teens to early 20s, were seen in photos carrying […]

A more than 60-year-old cold case out of Wisconsin involving a missing mother has been solved.Audrey Backeberg, now 82, who disappeared at age 20, has been found "alive and well," the Sauk County Sheriff’s Office said in a media release."The Sheriff’s Office is now able to report that Audrey Backeberg is alive and well and currently resides out of State," the sheriff's office said in a media release. "Further investigation […]

A former State Department budget analyst has pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $650,000 from the agency over a two-year span, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington, D.C.Levita Almuete Ferrer, 64, of Maryland, admitted to abusing her signature authority over a State Department checking account between March 2022 and April 2024 in her capacity as a senior budget analyst in the department’s Office of the Chief of Protocol.She […]

Four Mexican nationals illegally living in the U.S. have been charged in an alleged international human smuggling conspiracy that brought hundreds of illegal immigrants each week across the Canadian border to the U.S. for profit.Edgar Sanchez-Solis, 23, Ignacio Diaz-Perez, 35, Samuel Diaz-Perez, 26, and Salvador Diaz-Diaz, 32, were charged with conspiracy to bring aliens to the U.S. and 25 counts of bringing aliens illegally to the U.S. for profit, according […]

Wanda Barzee, who was convicted of kidnapping Elizabeth Smart over 20 years ago, was recently arrested for allegedly violating sex offender restrictions. She was arrested at her Salt Lake City, Utah, home on Thursday after she allegedly visited at least two parks, which she is prohibited from doing as a registered sex offender, according to reports.During her arrest, Barzee said "she was commanded to by the Lord" to go to […]

The California mother who staged her own kidnapping in 2016 is speaking out for the first time since her disappearance nine years ago in a new documentary series.Sherri Papini, dubbed "the perfect wife," pleaded guilty in 2022 to charges related to faking her own kidnapping six years prior, but the California mom of two is insisting that she was, indeed, kidnapped, tortured and branded in the 2016 incident that prosecutors […]