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One-time beauty influencer Olivia Jade Giannulli is speaking out about her role in the college admissions scandal in her first interview since her parents, actor Lori Loughlin and fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, reported to prison in recent weeks. “There is no justifying or excusing what happened, because what happened was wrong,” Olivia Jade Giannulli said. […]

A Hartford, Connecticut, police detective is facing disciplinary actions after he sent a text message proposing a wager about where the first homicide of 2021 would occur. Police Chief Jason Thody said the message was sent to a group of other officers and court officials, but no actual betting took place. “This represents an appalling […]

Amanda Schottmuller sat quietly during her criminal court hearing on June 29, understanding little about what was happening. She didn’t know why a judge was trying to determine if she was dangerous. “It didn’t make any sense,” Schottmuller, a 37-year-old former nurse who has struggled with depression, bipolar disorder and substance abuse for the past […]

Chuck Yeager, a former U.S. Air Force officer who became the first pilot to break the speed of sound, died Monday. He was 97. NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine called his death “a tremendous loss to our nation.” “Gen. Yeager’s pioneering and innovative spirit advanced America’s abilities in the sky and set our nation’s dreams soaring […]

A San Francisco grand jury indicted a police officer whose actions led to a leg amputation for a burglary suspect after the man allegedly attacked officers with a liquor bottle last year, authorities said Monday. The suspect, Jamaica Hampton, 25, was also indicted, though San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin did not say what charges […]

On his first day leading the country’s largest district attorney’s office, the top prosecutor in Los Angeles County announced a series of sweeping criminal justice reforms aimed at “permanently” changing the course of California’s criminal justice system. George Gascón, who was elected last month as a reformer, unseating the county’s first Black district attorney, said […]

David Simmons, 30, and Janae Larson, 23, have been missing since last week’s landslide in Haines, and it is unsafe to explore the slope on foot. Alaska State Troopers are suspending active searches for two people missing after a landslide last week swept through the area where they lived, the agency said Monday. More landslides […]