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(LOS ANGELES) -- Nick Reiner, who is accused of killing his parents, renowned Hollywood director Rob Reiner and wife Michele Singer Reiner, made a brief first appearance in court on Wednesday.Nick Reiner, 32, appeared quiet and calm, and sat behind the glass and behind his attorney, Alan Jackson -- who helped defend Karen Read in Massachusetts.He waived the right to a speedy arraignment. The arraignment is set for Jan. 7.Nick Reiner was charged […]

(LOS ANGELES) -- New videos appear to show the moments leading up to the arrest of Nick Reiner for the murders of his parents, renowned Hollywood director Rob Reiner and wife Michele Singer Reiner. One of the videos appears to show Nick Reiner, 32, moments before his Sunday night arrest near the University of Southern California. In the video, he's wearing jeans, a striped jacket and a baseball cap. He's seen with a […]

(NEW YORK) -- Federal prosecutors in New York unsealed criminal charges Wednesday in connection with the collapse of subprime auto lender and used car retailer Tricolor Holdings, which went bankrupt earlier this year.Founder and CEO Daniel Chu, COO Daniel Goodgame, and former Tricolor executives Jerome Kollar and Ameryn Seibold, were charged with conspiracy, bank fraud and running a continuing financial crimes enterprise, according to the indictment from the U.S. Attorney's Office for […]

Purchased Powerball tickets ((Photo by Lori Van Buren/Albany Times Union via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) -- A $1.25 billion Powerball jackpot prize is up for grabs Wednesday night, with a cash value of $572.1 million, after no winners were selected Monday.This is the game's sixth largest prize ever, according to Powerball. The largest prize ever was $2.04 billion won on Nov. 7, 2022.The Powerball jackpot last rolled Monday night, when no ticket […]

(NEW YORK) -- When Alyssa Burkett arrived at her Texas workplace one fall morning in 2020, the 24-year-old mother of one didn't know a deadly plan against her was already unfolding.On the morning of Oct. 2 that year, Burkett pulled into the parking lot of the Greentree Apartments in Carrollton, where she worked as an assistant office manager, right before tragedy struck.A new "20/20" episode, "Ride or Die," airing Wednesday, […]

(WASHINGTON) -- The federal government released two major economic reports this week, easing a backlog of data pent up by the 43-day government shutdown.The data flashed some warning signs, showing the unemployment rate had ticked up to its highest level in four years and retail sales had stalled at the outset of the holiday season, some analysts told ABC News. Even so, the reports offered bright spots and elicited a […]

(NEW YORK) -- The FBI released a video timeline on Tuesday in the investigation of the mass shooting at Brown University that shows the individual wanted for questioning walking near police just moments after the deadly attack.Just after the shooting, which the FBI said occurred at 4:03 p.m. local time, a security video captured the individual emerging onto Hope Street from what investigators described as "lot 42" on the Brown campus. As […]

(LOS ANGELES) -- The second of two doctors who were convicted in connection with Matthew Perry's ketamine death was sentenced on Tuesday to eight months of home confinement for his role in a conspiracy to illegally distribute ketamine to the "Friends" actor.Mark Chavez is one of five people charged and convicted in connection with Perry's 2023 overdose death. He pleaded guilty last year to one count of conspiracy to distribute ketamine, admitting […]

(NEW YORK) -- The Manhattan district attorney's office signaled Tuesday it would exclude statements that accused CEO killer Luigi Mangione made while in custody at the Altoona, Pennsylvania, Police Department following his following his arrest on Dec. 9, 2024. Mangione was in a New York City courtroom Tuesday for the eighth day of an evidence suppression hearing that will determine what evidence will used against him when he goes on trial on charges […]