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Wedding was previously indicted in Los Angeles federal court on multiple federal charges, including running a continuing criminal enterprise, committing murder in connection with a continuing criminal enterprise and assorted drug crimes. A superseding indictment was filed in November, alleging that Wedding ordered the killing of a witness who was set to testify against him in a federal drug trafficking case, according to the Justice Department.

It took more than 33 years and 8 months for justice to be meted out against a Virginia man in the cold-case murder of a teenage girl in Far Rockaway that shook the borough. In the end, it took a jury in Queens Supreme Court less than three hours of deliberation on Friday, Jan. 23 before convicting 61-year-old Jerry Lewis at trial of murder in the second degree for strangling 15-year-old Nadine Slade to death in May 1992.

An uprising broke out at an immigrant jail in southern Texas on Saturday, with around 1,000 immigrants detained in the facility - many of them children - chanting "Libertad" and "Let us go," according to an attorney who witnessed the event. The protest took place at South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, which closed in 2024 but was reopened by the Trump administration this year to detain immigrant families.

A company that helps passengers receive compensation for flight cancellations and delays, AirHelp, has come out with a ranking of U.S. airports most afflicted by disruptions in 2025. It shows that New Jersey continues to earn its reputation as the travel wasteland of the East Coast, whereas surprise! California is doing pretty dang good. Last year, 248 million U.S. passengers ran up against flight disruptions, according to AirHelp.

The illusion of affordable wealth is the lure used to drain the economic resources of potential targets, the report highlights, adding that the information gathered reveals a worrying ecosystem in which unregulated investment platforms, cryptocurrency scams, and currency trading schemes proliferate unchecked. The patterns uncovered here should sound alarms not only for Latino communities but also for U.S. regulators, law enforcement agencies, and financial institutions.

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.

The estranged husband of a Newport Beach woman whose body was found down an embankment near Highway 138 in Crestline in November has been arrested on suspicion of her murder, authorities said Saturday, Jan. 24. Gordon Abas Goodarzi, 66, of Rolling Hills, was arrested Friday, Jan. 23, in connection with the death of Aryan Papoli, 58, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said in a news release.

Those long-rumored cuts now appear to be close, with staffers expecting the ax to drop in early February though nothing is certain. Inside the Post, staffers have tossed around estimates of potential cuts, with most exceeding 100, which would represent more than 10% of the newsroom but no one really knows how widespread the cuts will be or in fact if they will happen at all.

At a glance, Navy SEALs don't appear to use radically different weapons than conventional infantry units. The difference is not the rifle or the optic, but how those weapons are trained and judged under pressure. SEAL missions rarely allow clean sight pictures or predictable engagements, and their training reflects that reality. Here, 24/7 Wall St. is taking a closer look at how Navy SEAL weapons training differs from conventional infantry.

Markets were closed on Monday for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, compressing the week's activity into four sessions. Early in the week, stocks fell sharply after renewed concerns about a potential global trade conflict. Investor sentiment weakened following comments from President Donald Trump about imposing tariffs on certain European nations in connection with negotiations over Greenland. However, midweek optimism returned when the president signalled a softer stance and postponed the planned tariffs.

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.

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."