Crime

The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Escanaba spotted a suspicious go-fast vessel during a routine patrol, launched a boat crew to investigate, and recovered 47 bales of suspected marijuana weighing more than a ton, an estimated street value north of $2.4 million. Four people aboard the vessel were detained, and the Joint Interagency Task […]

Federal agents arrested a 40-year-old LGBT podcaster and former Christian reality television host in Los Angeles on Thursday after a grand jury indicted him on charges of cyberstalking, making harassing interstate calls, and threatening to kill President Donald Trump. Benjamin Azariah Southworth now faces multiple federal counts tied to what prosecutors describe as a campaign […]

A gunman opened fire in a downtown Minneapolis high-rise Wednesday afternoon, killing two people and wounding at least five others, including police officers who walked into active gunfire, before the shooter himself ended up dead. The city declared the area secure by evening, but not before a massive multi-agency response locked down part of the […]

Nearly thirty years after a gunman in a white Cadillac opened fire on the Las Vegas Strip and ended the life of 25-year-old rapper Tupac Shakur, a Clark County jury delivered the verdict his family had waited decades to hear. Duane “Keffe D” Davis, 63, a former Crips gang leader, was found guilty of first-degree […]

A woman armed with a knife stabbed two people in the heart of Times Square on Sunday afternoon, killing a female victim before fleeing toward an NYPD substation, where officers confronted her and ended the attack with fatal gunfire roughly sixty seconds after it began. The stabbings occurred at 4:26 p.m. in one of the […]

A federal grand jury has issued a subpoena to Daniel Richman, the longtime friend, legal adviser, and former attorney of ex-FBI Director James Comey, as the Department of Justice presses forward with a fresh investigation into whether Comey leaked classified information to the New York Times. The move marks a sharp escalation in a case […]

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin announced the emergency shutdown of 270 commercial driver’s license schools on Sunday in Detroit, citing English proficiency violations, fraudulent training operations, and a trail of fatal crashes on American highways. The federal action, split between 110 schools permanently removed from the federal Training […]

After more than a quarter-century on the run, Alexis Flores, a Honduran national once listed among the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, has been extradited to U.S. custody in connection with the alleged 2000 rape and murder of five-year-old Iriana DeJesus in Philadelphia. FBI Director Kash Patel announced the extradition Monday, calling Flores a “high […]

Maine’s Democratic state auditor, now running for Congress, released a report earlier this year admitting that the internal watchdog charged with policing the state’s Medicaid program could not even document how it picks cases for review. The finding landed as federal investigators revealed that Maine had paid out at least $45.6 million in improper Medicaid […]

In a sharp turnaround for New York City politics, Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration has filed a lawsuit to halt the RESPECT Check Act, a City Council-backed law that would deliver up to a $10,000 bonus to the city’s education paraprofessionals. The move has pitted Mamdani against the United Federation of Teachers (UFT), a union that […]