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A Japanese scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is facing felony charges after allegedly admitting to an April poisoning attempt on a colleague in the school's Influenza Research Institute (IRI), according to court documents obtained by Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR).Investigators said 41-year-old Makoto Kuroda felt slighted after his friend received a promotion, and Kuroda felt he started treating him differently. It ended with Kuroda allegedly tainting his former friend's water […]

An illegal immigrant from Cuba with multiple prior convictions is in federal custody after spending decades evading deportation due to relaxed sanctuary city policies, federal authorities announced Tuesday. Eledoro Valenzuela Rodriguez was taken into custody from the Miami-Dade Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Florida last month, according to officials.At the time, Rodriguez was awaiting trial on charges of cocaine possession with intent to […]

Federal prosecutors are trying to put accused teen killer T.H., 16, behind bars as his case in the cruise ship death of 18-year-old Anna Kepner.In a filing last week reviewed by Fox News Digital, prosecutors asked a judge to revisit the teenager's release and either jail him before trial or tighten the rules of his release, arguing the case has changed now that he is being prosecuted as an adult.The […]

A car exploded amid an alleged street takeover on Chicago's South Side over the weekend, with no arrests made.Video taken from Chicago's Gresham neighborhood over the weekend shows a large group of people surrounding a totaled car on fire, according to ABC 7 News. One individual was seen throwing an object into the car, engulfed in flames, which exploded seconds later.Chicago police told Fox News Digital that once officers responded […]

Tybee Island’s controversial Orange Crush weekend ended with 26 arrests and five firearms seized, including one weapon police say had been converted into a makeshift machine gun capable of fully automatic fire.Between Friday, April 17, and Sunday, April 19, the Tybee Island Police Department and Georgia State Patrol made a total of 26 arrests during the annual beach bash, according to preliminary figures provided to Fox News Digital by Tybee […]

A "planned" fight involving several young people that escalated into a shooting near a North Carolina middle school left two dead Monday and several others wounded, authorities said. Shots rang out just after 9:50 a.m. amid a planned fight between two juveniles in Leinbach Park, near Jefferson Middle School in Winston-Salem. STUDENT CHARGED, WEAPON RECOVERED AFTER 3 TEENS TARGETED IN INCIDENT LINKED TO HIGH SCHOOL TRADITION: POLICE"When the individuals met at the […]

A Washington man has pleaded guilty in connection with two decades-old cold cases after investigators reportedly linked him to both crimes using a clever ruse and just a piece of gum.  Mitchell Gaff, 68, entered the pleas Thursday in Snohomish County Superior Court, where he admitted to the rapes and murders of Judith "Judy" Weaver and Susan Vesey, according to the Everett Police Department. Gaff – a diagnosed "sexual sadist" and self-proclaimed […]

A bartender who served the missing American woman in the Bahamas one day before she vanished revealed one detail that got his attention.A bartender at the Abaco Inn, identified as Ken, 38, told the New York Post that Brian and Lynette Hooker were at the hotel's pool during the early evening hours of April 3 drinking rum and Cokes. One day later, the couple took a small dinghy from Hope […]

A high school game turned dangerous in Massachusetts when teens playing a viral "Senior Assassin" game allegedly opened fire with gel projectiles on unsuspecting students, leaving two minors struck and a suspect now facing charges, police said.Three high school-aged teens were running together Thursday afternoon when they were targeted and shot at with what appeared to be BB-style or gel projectiles, the Lawrence Police Department said.Two of the victims were […]