A Missouri woman was held captive in a basement room for a month and repeatedly raped before she escaped while wearing a dog collar, authorities said. Timothy M. Haslett of Excelsior Springs, a suburb of Kansas City, was arrested Friday and appeared in court Tuesday where a judge entered a not-guilty plea on his behalf….
Multiple children at a Pennsylvania day care were sickened Tuesday morning after carbon monoxide leaked in the building, officials said. Fire trucks and ambulances responded to Happy Smiles Learning Center in Allentown just before 7 a.m. Lehigh Valley Hospital – Cedar Crest is treating 14 children and one adult, all of whom were in stable…
The fallout of racist remarks captured in leaked audio between Los Angeles Latino leadership prompted another resignation after City Council President Nury Martinez stepped down from the helm Monday. According to the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles County Federation of Labor President Ron Herrera offered his resignation during a Monday night meeting with the federation’s…
A piece of American history has emerged from the receding waters of Shasta Lake in California. The U.S. Forest Service Shasta Trinity Unit said the Higgins Boat, known as “The Ghost Boat” from World War II surfaced in the lake as its water dried up. The boat surfaced in the fall of 2021. The Forest…
Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez is facing calls to step down after leaked audio revealed her making openly racist remarks, including those about a White colleague’s young Black son. The Los Angeles Times first reported about the audio recording on Sunday of a conversation that happened back in October 2021 between Martinez, Councilmembers…
The Blue Angels’ scheduled show in San Francisco for Fleet Week was canceled Sunday due to weather conditions, and a Democrat city council member suggested the planes not be permitted in the city’s skies. District 5 Supervisor Dean Preston, a self-described Democratic socialist, said the planes should be banned from the city’s airspace. “The Blue…
The two teens shot outside Rep. Lee Zeldin’s home while the Republican candidate for governor of New York’s twin daughters were home alone have been identified, according to a report. The New York Post first identified the teen victims Monday as Joel Murphy and Elijah Robinson, both 17-year-olds from Mastic, on New York’s Long Island….
“Fake heiress” Anna Sorokin, who was released late last week from U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, described in her first public interview her efforts to remain in the U.S. instead of being deported to her home country of Germany. Sorokin, whose case became the basis for the series “Inventing Anna” on Netflix, was released Friday from…
Rescue divers in Arizona recovered the body of a California man who went missing Saturday after he jumped into Lake Havasu and never resurfaced, authorities said Sunday. Responding deputies immediately deployed divers into the water, but the searchers were unable to locate the victim, the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office said. Officials described conditions as difficult…
Georgia police and the FBI are intensifying their search for missing toddler Quinton Simon, as the child’s caretaker recalled to local news reporters an “odd” message she received before he disappeared. Twenty-month-old Quinton Simon was allegedly last seen at his Savannah home around 6 a.m. Wednesday and was reported missing around 9:40 a.m., the Chatham…