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(FORT STEWART, Ga.) — Five soldiers were shot in an active shooter incident at Fort Stewart in Georgia on Wednesday, the base said. The shooting at the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team area was reported at 10:56 a.m. and a suspect was apprehended at 11:35 a.m., Fort Stewart said. “There is no active threat to […]

(NEW YORK) — Nearly two decades after disguising himself as a firefighter to commit one of the most twisted sex crimes in New York City history, Peter Braunstein is days away from his first parole hearing and the prosecutor who put him in prison contends he’s still a “danger to society.” Braunstein, a 61-year-old former […]

The scene of a deadly medical transport plane crash near the Chinle Airport in Arizona, Aug. 5, 2025. Navajo Police Department (APACHE COUNTY, Ariz.) — Four people were killed when a medical transport plane crashed and caught fire in Arizona, authorities said. The Beechcraft 300 crashed Tuesday afternoon while landing at the Chinle Municipal Airport, […]

(NEW YORK) — Known for the eponymous reptiles that inhabit the nearby swamps, the migrant detention center dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” faces the possibility of being shut down over concerns about some of the area’s lesser-known inhabitants — the Everglades’ bats, panthers, and storks. A federal judge on Wednesday is set to hold an evidentiary hearing […]

Red flag warnings remain in place for parts of Nevada, Utah, Colorado and Wyoming due to very dry conditions, low humidity and gusty winds and fires in these areas may undergo rapid development as new fires could begin quickly. This comes as 741 wildfires continue to burn in Canada, with 304 labeled “out of control” […]

(NEW YORK) — Much of what the Justice Department wants a federal judge to unseal from the Ghislaine Maxwell grand jury investigation is already known and, at least so far, the attorney general is seeking to unseal nothing else, according to a new court filing Tuesday. The Justice Department turned over a version of the […]

(FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va.) — A 4-year-old boy who was killed more than 50 years ago has finally been identified thanks to genetic genealogy — but mysteries surrounding his murder, and what happened to his baby brother, remain. On June 13, 1972, the little boy’s body was found under a bridge in Lorton, Virginia, according to […]

(JACKSON, Tenn.) — A manhunt for the suspect in the Tennessee killings of four people and the kidnapping of a baby ended Tuesday when he was taken into custody, police said. Austin Robert Drummond, 28, was taken into custody in Jackson by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation after a weeklong manhunt, according to the Jackson, Tennessee, Police […]

(NEW YORK) — The U.S. Coast Guard has released its final report on the catastrophic implosion of OceanGate’s Titan submersible, which killed five people on a deep-sea voyage to the Titanic wreckage in June 2023, criticizing the company’s CEO, Stockton Rush, and singling him out as a major reason for the disaster. The 335-page report, released Tuesday, […]

Karen Read. Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty Images (BOSTON) — A woman charged with leaking grand jury material related to the Karen Read murder case has pleaded guilty, the Department of Justice said Tuesday. Jessica Leslie, 34, pleaded guilty in a Boston federal court on Monday to a charge of criminal contempt that accused her of […]