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Stock image of police lights. Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (SHEARON HARRIS LAKE, N.C.) -- A 10-year-old girl is dead and a woman suffered "critical injury" after a drunken boater struck swimmers in a North Carolina lake over the weekend, according to officials.Quinten Gregory Kight, 40, has been charged with felony operating a motor vessel while under the influence, unintentionally causing serious injury to another person, in the incident on Shearon Harris […]

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 willfully disobeying court rules against disclosure of grand jury information, the DOJ said.Leslie had served on […]

(PITTSTOWN, N.J.) -- A New Jersey State Police sergeant, who once served on Gov. Phil Murphy's security detail, is suspected of killing his former girlfriend and the volunteer firefighter she was dating in a house in Franklin Township before dying by suicide, authorities said.Following Sunday's double homicide, police discovered Sgt. 1st Class Ricardo Jorge Santos dead in a Mercedes SUV from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot in Johnson Park in Piscataway, New Jersey, […]

(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, comes nearly a year after the Coast Guard's Marine Board of Investigation held a two-week hearing […]