Crime

Britney Spears voluntarily entered a substance abuse treatment facility weeks after California Highway Patrol officers arrested her on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs, her representative confirmed Sunday. The 44-year-old pop star was pulled over on U.S. 101 in Ventura County after officers received a report of a BMW driving fast […]

An Indiana couple faces murder and neglect charges after police say their two-year-old son starved to death in a home so squalid the boy had been eating his own diapers and pieces of drywall, while the parents’ bedroom was kept tidy and clean. Trevor Reichard-Hayes, 39, and Katherine Carter, 31, were arrested in connection with […]

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has referred allegations against Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., to Department of Homeland Security law enforcement for investigation, confirming that federal authorities are now probing whether the congressman violated immigration and employment laws by keeping a Brazilian national employed as his family’s live-in nanny while she lacked work authorization. The referral […]

A 17-year-old girl died Tuesday after a massive wooden beam collapsed and struck her inside a temple in Tanjong Sepat, Malaysia, where she had arrived just minutes earlier to help her mother with cleaning duties. Police said they were alerted at 8:35 p.m. local time and have ruled out foul play, calling the death an […]

A neighbor in a small French village heard something no one else had noticed for more than a year, the sounds of a child coming from inside a parked utility van. Police forced the vehicle open and found a nine-year-old boy curled naked in a fetal position, lying on a mound of trash near human […]

A 44-year-old man armed with a machete slashed three elderly people inside one of New York City’s busiest transit hubs Saturday morning before NYPD officers shot and killed him on the platform, police said. The suspect, identified as Anthony Griffin, allegedly ignored more than 20 commands to drop his weapon, told officers he was “Lucifer,” […]

Hunter Biden, the son of former President Joe Biden, is apparently living overseas in South Africa while his former attorneys sue him for unpaid legal bills, part of what they claim is a staggering $17 million debt load, as Breitbart reported. The man who once commanded millions in foreign business deals and art sales now […]

Thomas LeGro, a 48-year-old former deputy director of video at The Washington Post, pleaded guilty Friday to one count of child pornography possession, the office of U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro in Washington, D.C., announced. The guilty plea caps a case that began with an FBI raid on LeGro’s home in June, where agents found 11 […]

Gandi Mohamed is expected to become the sixth member of a single Minnesota family to plead guilty in the sprawling Feeding Our Future fraud scandal, a case that has exposed how a tight-knit group allegedly siphoned $14 million from a federal child nutrition program by claiming to serve millions of meals that were never delivered. […]

A parking garage under construction in South Philadelphia partially collapsed Wednesday afternoon, killing at least one person and leaving two others unaccounted for as rescue crews worked through the night and into Thursday to reach them. The collapse struck near 30th Street and Grays Ferry Avenue at a construction site tied to the Children’s Hospital […]