In September 2015, Gayle Newland stood trial accused of sex by deception. It was alleged that she created an online identity as a man and used this character, Kye Fortune, to lure another woman into a sexual relationship, which was consummated repeatedly with the assistance of a blindfold and a prosthetic penis. The woman believed she was having sex with Kye until one day her ring caught on his hat and she felt long hair.
Merrill voluntarily dropped her claims against one of the former colleagues, both of whom are Black, in October. Merrill, who left her role in 2024 after nearly two decades at the station, claims she that she was discriminated against on the basis of her gender and race and that she was defamed after she was accused of racist remarks and demoted.
LA QUINTA, Calif. -- Scottie Scheffler started his season as though nothing had changed, running off four birdies in a six-hole stretch Sunday to blow past 18-year-old Blades Brown and the rest of the field. He closed with a 6-under 66 for a four-shot victory in The American Express.
Sugano signed a one-year, $13MM deal with Baltimore last offseason. He posted a 4.64 ERA across 30 outings. The righty got off to a solid start, putting up a 3.04 ERA through a dozen appearances, before falling off as the season went on. Sugano had an xFIP and a SIERA in the mid-4.00s during that stretch, so regression was coming.
Danelo Cavalcante, a 34-year-old convicted murderer, was spotted just south of the original search area on Monday evening, when security footage captured him at a popular botanical gardens site, CNN reported. Pennsylvania State Police Lt. Col. George Bivens said the search team is now shifting its radius and that the prisoner is still considered extremely dangerous. Cavalcante, who was convicted of killing his former girlfriend, 33-year-old Deborah Brandão, was sentenced to life without parole on Aug. 16.
Shortly after Lawrence police began their investigation in September and continuing throughout the fall, Whitman said the school's Division of Intercollegiate Athletics knew little about the allegations against Shannon. Any information relayed from Lawrence investigators to athletics officials via the University of Illinois Police Department was "verbal, unsubstantiated and vague," he would later say in a court filing, and "not sufficient to trigger" a student-athlete discipline policy.
"There's a pall that has been cast over the city. You can feel it, and a lot of people are suffering. Obviously, loss of life is the No. 1 concern. Those families will never get their family members back. And you know, when all the unrest settles down, whenever that is, those family members won't be returning home, and that's devastating."
I'm shocked and deeply saddened that one of my colleagues was murdered in cold blood by modern-day Gestapo this morning," said Steven Koster, an ICU Nurse in San Francisco.
Two men were killed and two more were injured Saturday night in a shooting at a Carver social club, according to law enforcement officials. Nicholas Meuse, 23, was taken into custody as a suspect in the shooting, Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz and Carver Police Chief Marc Duphily said in a statement. He is scheduled to be arraigned in Wareham District Court on two counts each of murder, armed assault with intent to murder, and multiple gun charges.
Ohio State is finalizing a deal to make former Pittsburgh Steelers play-caller Arthur Smith its offensive coordinator, a source told ESPN's Adam Schefter. Smith will replace Brian Hartline, who recently was named head coach at South Florida. Smith spent the last two seasons with the Steelers under coach Mike Tomlin. Before that, he was the head coach for the Atlanta Falcons, compiling a record of 21-30 over three seasons.
Investigators believe Montgomery beat his daughter to death "on or about December 7, 2019? in the city of Manchester. Officials have not revealed whether a body has been discovered.
Joliet Mayor Terry D'Arcy is promoting a fundraiser for survivors of seven relatives killed last week in a shooting spree that cast a "reign of terror" over the southwest suburban community. Authorities believe suspect gunman Romeo Nance shot seven of his relatives, including two teenage girls, to death in two homes Jan. 21 as well as an eighth, unrelated man.
Federal immigration officers shot a third person in Minneapolis in as many weeks, according to video posted to social media and confirmed by Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara. O'Hara said federal agents killed a 37-year-old man whom officials believe is a U.S. citizen who lives in Minneapolis. He said he had no information about what led up to the shooting but said the man, who officials have not identified yet, was a lawful gun owner with a permit to carry. O'Hara says police have not interacted with the deceased other than a few traffic tickets.
Another chaotic confrontation between protesters and federal law enforcement officers turned deadly in Minneapolis on Saturday morning when CBP agents subdued and then suddenly opened fire on an apparently armed 37-year-old U.S. citizen who appeared to have been filming an immigration enforcement operation just moments before.
Ryan Wedding, a former Canadian Olympian turned alleged drug kingpin who has drawn comparisons to Pablo Escobar and El Chapo, was taken into custody after a 17-month pursuit and more than a decade at large, federal authorities announced Friday. In two indictments, prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California laid out how Wedding, 44, and his associates allegedly trafficked more than $1 billion in cocaine across the U.S. and Canada and orchestrated multiple murders, including the assassination of a key government witness.
Combat rarely unfolds as a sequence of clean, deliberate actions. For Navy SEALs, engagements are defined by seconds-long windows where decisions about movement, fire, and restraint must be made instantly and under extreme pressure. These choices are not improvised in the moment, but trained relentlessly until judgment becomes automatic. Here, 24/7 Wall St. is taking a closer look at the split-second decisions that Navy SEALs have to make.
One of the main reasons that cops flock to communities and stay there is directly tied to the amount of support that community gives them. I'm not sure how many of you were almost murdered at work yesterday. But I know one of my guys was,
On TikTok, a wave of recent videos under the "bankruptcy" hashtag shows young people framing their personal bankruptcy filings as life-changing wins, drawing hundreds of thousands of views. In clips viewed by Business Insider, individuals touted their bankruptcy filings as the "greatest" and "best" decision they've ever made, saying it allowed them to wipe out massive amounts of debt - sometimes tens of thousands of dollars - in just a few months.
WESTON, MASS. - Governor Maura Healey and the members of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation are urging residents to stay off the roads ahead of Sunday's snowstorm. Yesterday, Healey activated the state's emergency operation center and declared Monday a "work from home day." "Stay indoors as much as you can if you got to go outdoors, make sure you don't have any exposed skin," she said. "Make sure today you have everything that you need."
