An 88-year-old Democratic congressional delegate for Washington, D.C., was scammed out of more than $4,000 Thursday when suspects showed up at her home claiming to be a “cleaning crew,” Fox News Digital has confirmed. The suspects accessed Eleanor Holmes Norton’s credit card after they were let inside her D.C. home. …
Read More »Vermont police search for student who vanished from Middlebury College
Police in Vermont have launched a large-scale search for a missing senior, 21-year-old Lia Purcell Smith, at the prestigious Middlebury College campus, authorities said. “We have been in touch with the student’s family and friends to offer support and learn all we can about the student’s recent activities and whereabouts,” …
Read More »American missionary kidnapped in Niger by suspected Islamist militants, sources say
The U.S. government is aware of the kidnapping of an American Christian missionary in the West African nation of Niger, U.S. official sources told Fox News. The sources told Fox News that they suspect that the missionary has been taken north to Islamic State-controlled areas where an offshoot of ISIS …
Read More »Teen sues AI tool maker over fake nude images
A teenager in New Jersey has filed a major lawsuit against the company behind an artificial intelligence (AI) “clothes removal” tool that allegedly created a fake nude image of her. The case has drawn national attention because it shows how AI can invade privacy in harmful ways. The lawsuit was …
Read More »Body found during search for missing Vermont college student Lia Smith near Middlebury campus
A body has been found during the search for a missing Vermont college student who was last seen on campus about a week ago. Lia Smith, 21, was last seen on Middlebury College’s campus on the night of Oct. 17 and was reported missing that Sunday, the school announced. Smith, …
Read More »Porn website owner, once one of FBI’s most wanted fugitives, pleads guilty to sex trafficking
Porn website owner Michael Pratt, the mastermind behind the GirlsDoPorn sex trafficking ring and who was placed on the FBI’s notorious “10 Most Wanted Fugitives” list, pleaded guilty Thursday to multiple counts of sex trafficking. Pratt, who also co-owned GirlsDoToys, conspired with his co-defendants to use force, fraud and coercion …
Read More »Former Salvadoran army officers convicted in 1982 killing of 4 Dutch TV journalists
Three former Salvadoran military officers were convicted by a five-person jury late Tuesday for the 1982 killings of four Dutch journalists during the Central American nation’s civil war. They received 15-year prison sentences. A jury made up of five women convicted the three men of murder in a lightning trial …
Read More »Pennsylvania man charged after 3
An eastern Pennsylvania man has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of a 3-year-old boy who authorities say shot himself with a handgun left unattended, marking the latest in a string of accidental shootings involving young children. Jose Hilario Abreu, 28, of Allentown was arraigned Friday on the …
Read More »Minnesota grocery worker impaled in the torso with a golf club, police say; man arrested
MINNEAPOLIS — Minneapolis police are investigating a stabbing that left a grocery store employee dead. Police arrived at a grocery store in Loring Park around 1 p.m. on Friday, according to a news release from the Minneapolis Police Department. The Associated Press reported that the man worked at Oak Street …
Read More »Prosecutor refiles murder case against Missouri woman in killing that inspired TV miniseries
A Missouri prosecutor has dropped and refiled the murder case against Pamela Hupp, a killing that inspired a TV miniseries. Lincoln County Prosecuting Attorney Mike Wood charged Hupp with first-degree murder in July 2021, accusing her of killing her friend, Betsy Faria, a decade earlier. Faria’s husband, Russ, spent time …
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