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From upscale waterfront neighborhoods to malls, parks and packed restaurants, viral "teen takeovers" are erupting across the country with police responding to fights, robberies, vandalism and gunfire as massive crowds of juveniles overwhelm public spaces.In recent months, chaotic scenes have unfolded from Washington, D.C.’s Navy Yard to a Georgia beach pier, a downtown Detroit entertainment district, a Wisconsin shopping mall and a packed Chipotle restaurant where screaming teens hurled chairs […]

A disturbing lawsuit accusing California's prestigious Sierra Canyon School of ignoring a student-run "kissing club" involving alleged sexual abuse of children as young as 7 will now move forward publicly after a judge denied the school’s request to handle the case behind closed doors.Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge David B. Gelfound ruled Thursday that Sierra Canyon School could not move the lawsuit into private proceedings, allowing the case to […]

The family of the New Jersey woman who made headlines after she was shot by her Olympic equestrian trainer is condemning the case’s portrayal in a pair of true crime documentaries, alleging the coverage is biased and leans in favor of her attacker. Netflix’s 2026 documentary titled "Untold: The Shooting at Hawthorne Hill" and a 2022 episode of CBS News’ "48 Hours" follows the harrowing story of Lauren Kanarek, a dressage […]

A 6.0 magnitude earthquake rocked Hawaii's Big Island shortly before 10 p.m. Friday night, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.The earthquake came amid USGS monitoring of Kilauea, an active volcano on Hawaii's Big Island that experts expect to erupt again in the coming days after a recent series of eruptions throughout May.Friday night's earthquake occurred about 7 miles south of Hōnaunau-Nāpōʻopoʻo, a town on the southwest coast of Hawaii, according […]

Twenty-five years after a University of California, Davis (UC Davis) student was found dead in his fraternity dorm room with 29 stab wounds, a death officially ruled a suicide, a new true-crime podcast is taking a fresh look at the case and the questions Andrew Wieman’s family says have never been answered.Wieman, a 20-year-old junior and member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity, was found dead inside his locked room Jan. […]

The stranger-than-fiction saga of the Murdaugh family — the Southern legal dynasty unraveled by double murder and massive financial fraud — is heading back to the courtroom for a high-stakes do-over.Alex Murdaugh, the once-powerful South Carolina attorney whose family name carried courthouse weight for generations, was convicted in 2023 of murdering his wife, Margaret "Maggie" Murdaugh, and younger son, Paul Murdaugh, at the family’s Moselle hunting estate in June 2021.But […]

In August 2004, a man was found unconscious behind a Georgia Burger King. Initial reports described him as naked and bloodied. When he woke up, he claimed he had no memory of who he was. Now, two filmmakers are attempting to uncover what happened during the decades when he was missing.On May 25, Investigation Discovery (ID) premieres the four-part docuseries "The Many Lives of Benjaman Kyle," which follows Eric and […]

As states across America prepare to celebrate 250 years as a country, one state is trying to find war heroes to commemorate them.Historians believe around 7,000 Revolutionary War soldiers are buried throughout Ohio. After the American Revolution, thousands of soldiers were paid parcels of land for fighting in the war. Millions of those acres were in what is now, Ohio. As thousands of veterans moved westward for a new beginning, many […]

A California man who brutally murdered his aunt amid tensions over a clogged toilet in their home, and then said the killing reminded him of carving Play-Doh, was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison this week following a courtroom outburst directed at his relatives.In April, Christopher Kaulaity was found guilty of the Dec. 7, 2024, death of Maria Carmen Torrez and to using a deadly weapon during the […]