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(TUSKEGEE, Ala.) -- The president of Tuskegee University in Alabama announced Monday that the school is being closed to outsiders and that its security chief has been fired in the wake of a mass shooting Sunday on campus.The barrage of gunfire left a teenager dead and injured 16 other people attending an unsanctioned homecoming event, officials said.Mark Brown, president and CEO of the historically black university, announced the changes as […]

(YEMASSEE, S.C.) -- More than half of the rhesus macaque monkeys that escaped from a South Carolina lab have been recovered.As of Monday evening, 30 of the 43 furry runaways, that broke loose Wednesday from the Alpha Genesis Primate Research Center in Yemasee, have now successfully been captured."Efforts to safely capture the remaining primates will continue throughout the evening and as long as necessary, " a spokesperson for the Yemassee […]

(PALM BEACH, Fla.) -- Kai Trump, President-elect Donald Trump's 17-year-old granddaughter, released an "Election Night Vlog" on her YouTube channel Monday afternoon, where she took viewers behind the scenes into her family's experience awaiting results on election night."I'm ready to party it up tonight, and hopefully we can catch a dub," Kai Trump said, tapping into Gen-Z slang.She provided an inside look into the viral family photo taken in Mar-a-Lago […]

(NEW YORK) -- Many teenagers and college students reported being among those who received racist text messages sent to phone numbers across the U.S. last week.The texts, which tell the user they're going to be taken to a plantation to "pick cotton," have been reported in at least 24 states, plus Washington, D.C, and primarily appeared to target Black users from teenagers to adults, according to investigators in several states.Most […]

(COLUMBIA, S.C.) -- A suspect who allegedly killed a man and made the death appear to have happened in a fall from a cliff -- all in a bid to steal the victim's identity -- has been captured following a weekslong manhunt, authorities said.Nicholas Wayne Hamlett, 45, was taken into custody on Sunday in Columbia, South Carolina, authorities said.Hamlett had been sought following the death of a man on a […]