A Los Angeles woman was robbed of about $100,000 earlier this month after an armed man followed her into a gated underground parking garage in the exclusive Hancock Park neighborhood, according to a local report. Surveillance video released this week shows the woman driving her car into the garage under …
Read More »University of Maryland surgeons perform second pig heart transplant in attempt to save dying man
Surgeons have transplanted a pig’s heart into a dying man in a bid to prolong his life – only the second patient to ever undergo such an experimental feat. Two days later, the man was cracking jokes and able to sit in a chair, Maryland doctors said Friday. The 58-year-old …
Read More »'You're a nobody:' Victim pens indignant open letter to Boston Marathon bomber
BOSTON – A survivor of the Boston Marathon attacks has written an indignant open letter to the admitted bomber. Rebekah Gregory lost a leg in the 2013 bombings and wrote the letter to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR’ tsahr-NEYE’-ehv) on her Facebook page after she testified in his federal death penalty trial …
Read More »For second consecutive year, deep winter freeze covers most of Great Lakes with icy blanket
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. – For the second consecutive winter, bitter weather threatens to turn the surface of the Great Lakes into a vast frozen plain. The federal Great Lakes research laboratory in Ann Arbor reports Friday that nearly 81 percent of the five lakes’ surface area is ice-covered. On Thursday, …
Read More »US court grants porn publisher Larry Flynt's push for records on Missouri's execution methods
ST. LOUIS – An appeals court says porn publisher Larry Flynt can join a lawsuit seeking to force Missouri to disclose more details of its execution methods. A three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis issued the ruling Tuesday. It reverses a lower court …
Read More »Washington state chiropractor and husband allegedly killed by tenant who was about to be evicted: officials
A well-known chiropractor in Washington state and her husband were possibly killed by a tenant who was about to be evicted, according to officials. Karen Koep and her husband, Davido, were both missing since at least Nov. 13, according to the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office. After responding to a welfare …
Read More »Los Angeles-area boy, 4, shot and killed in road rage incident, 2 suspects arrested
Authorities in Los Angeles County identified a 4-year-old boy who was killed last week in a deadly road rage incident while with his family. Gor Adamyan was with his family in a vehicle as they were on their way to purchase groceries Friday evening in the Los Angeles suburb of …
Read More »Colorado to adopt its 6th area code in 2026
Move over 303. Colorado is set to introduce its sixth area code in 2026. On Monday, the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies Public Utility Commission announced that starting in the first quarter of 2026, anyone living in northern and western Colorado could be assigned the new 748 area code. According …
Read More »California authorities arrest traveling carnival worker accused of sexually abusing children: police
California authorities announced Friday that they arrested a traveling carnival worker accused of molesting children. Suspect James Donnelly was arrested on Dec. 23. In a statement released on Facebook, San Bernardino Police Department explained that officers were dispatched to a victim’s residence after learning about the sexual abuse allegations. After …
Read More »Decapitated body discovered near Nashville Waffle House
Decapitated human remains found in a wooded area near a Nashville Waffle House and McDonald’s have police searching for clues as to what happened. The discovery was made by a woman who called authorities on Friday morning, according to reports. Police told local station WZTV that the skull was found …
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