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(SOUTH CAROLINA) — The viewing service for Cyrus Carmack-Belton, who was allegedly shot and killed by a South Carolina gas station owner, is being held Friday, according to Leevy’s Funeral Home. His funeral is planned for Saturday. Rick Chow, 58, was arrested and charged with murder in connection to 14-year-old Cyrus’s death, the Richland County […]

(KANSAS CITY, Mo.) — A judge on Thursday set preliminary hearing dates for Aug. 31 and Sept. 1, 2023 in Lester’s case, according to ABC affiliate in Kansas City, KMBC. The hearing came one day after a Clay County judge agreed to partially seal the case in response to a protective order filed by Lester’s […]

(NEW YORK) — Payton Washington, one of two Texas cheerleaders shot in April after her friend accidentally opened the door of the wrong car, is speaking out for the first time since the attack that left her in critical condition. “My spleen was shattered. My stomach had two holes in it. And my diaphragm had […]

Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images (OXON HILL, Md.) — Dev Shah hoisted the coveted Scripps Cup after correctly spelling the word psammophile — an organism that prefers or thrives in sandy areas — to win the 2023 Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday. “It felt good knowing that I accomplished something I worked hard for,” Shah […]

(NEW YORK) — North Carolina’s Fort Bragg, named after Confederate Army Gen. Braxton Bragg, was officially redesignated to Fort Liberty on Friday. The renaming ceremony Friday was part of a national campaign to change the names of nine U.S. Army installations, as recommended by the Department of Defense’s Naming Commission to erase symbols that commemorate […]

(NEW YORK) — A settlement has been approved in the wrongful death suit filed by Matthew Hutchins and his son following the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the film set of Rust. The cinematographer died in October 2021 after allegedly being shot by a prop gun that Alec Baldwin, also a producer for the […]

KGO-TV (NEW YORK) — Three people have been killed and three others injured in a Northern California crime spree, the motive for which authorities say remains under investigation. The suspect, whose name was not released, was taken into custody following the Thursday afternoon attacks. The spree began at about 3:11 p.m. when the attacker stabbed […]

The Great Plains Zoo (SIOUX FALLS, S.D.) — A zoo in South Dakota has welcomed a litter of critically endangered red wolf pups — a litter vital to the existence of the species with only an estimated two dozen left existing in the wild. The Great Plains Zoo in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, said that […]

(DAVENPORT, Iowa) — An elite task force with dogs trained to smell death is combing through a partially collapsed building in eastern Iowa as three people remain missing. Iowa Task Force 1, a Cedar Rapids-based urban search and rescue team trained and equipped by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, arrived in the city of Davenport […]

(DAVENPORT, Iowa) — The city government of Davenport, Iowa, has released dozens of documents in connection with an apartment building that partially collapsed as three residents remain missing and the community demands answers. The documents were published Wednesday evening on the city’s website. Three of the files were reports by a structural engineer who inspected […]