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The U.S. military said on Monday it struck three more alleged drug boats in the Eastern Pacific, leaving eight dead. (U.S. Southern Command) (NEW YORK) -- The U.S. military said on Monday it struck three more alleged drug boats in the Eastern Pacific, leaving eight dead.In a post on X, the military's Southern Command said the strikes were made at the direction of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Joint […]

(LOS ANGELES) -- The second of two doctors who were convicted in connection with Matthew Perry's ketamine death is set to be sentenced on Tuesday.Mark Chavez is one of five people charged and convicted in connection with the "Friends" actor's 2023 overdose death. He pleaded guilty last year to one count of conspiracy to distribute ketamine, admitting to selling fraudulently obtained ketamine to another doctor, Salvador Plasencia, that was then […]

Image of the person described as an unknown suspect in the Brown University Shooting. (FBI) (NEW YORK) -- The FBI issued a reward of up to $50,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the alleged gunman in Saturday’s fatal mass shooting at Brown University, as members of the bureau's Boston Division aided the Providence Police Department in their search for the assailant.The FBI released a poster with […]

(NEW YORK) -- New security video released on Monday by the Rhode Island police showed a person of interest wanted for questioning in the deadly mass shooting that erupted over the weekend on the campus of Brown University.The video was taken shortly after Saturday's shooting and shows a figure dressed in black walking along Waterman Street, which appears to be about three blocks north of the Brown campus, according to […]

(LOS ANGELES) -- Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Monday that the FBI disrupted a "massive and horrific terror plot" by an anti-government extremist group allegedly planning a series of bombings against multiple targets in Orange County and Los Angeles, California, beginning on New Years Eve.Bondi said the plot by the so-called "Turtle Island Liberation Front," which she described in the announcement as a "far-left, pro-Palestine, anti-government and anti-capitalist group," also […]

(NEW YORK) -- The anxiety level among Rhode Islanders "has risen" since a person of interest was released from custody amid a manhunt for an assailant who fatally shot two Brown University students on Saturday, Providence Mayor Brett Smiley said.As the investigation to identify a suspect stretched into its third day, the person initially detained in connection with the Brown University mass shooting has been "effectively cleared," the Rhode Island […]

(DEDHAM, Mass.) -- Brian Walshe, a Massachusetts man accused of killing and dismembering his wife, the mother of their three children, has been found guilty of first-degree murder.His wife, Ana Walshe, went missing on Jan. 1, 2023, at the age of 39. Brian Walshe pleaded guilty last month, ahead of the trial, to lying to police following her disappearance and improperly disposing of her body, though he denies he killed his wife […]

Person holding Powerball ticket ((Photo by John Carl D'Annibale/Albany Times Union via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) -- A $1.1 billion Powerball jackpot could provide someone with plenty of spending money just 10 days before Christmas.The total would be the sixth-largest jackpot in the game's history, and the 12th-largest in U.S. lotto history including Mega Millions. The drawing will be just before 11 p.m. ET on Monday.While the annual payment is worth $1.1 […]

(NEW YORK) -- One of the victims killed in Saturday’s shooting at Brown University has been identified as Ella Cook, a Brown student and a parishioner at the Cathedral Church of the Advent in Birmingham, Alabama.The church’s Rev. Craig Smalley announced Cook’s death in his service on Sunday morning, calling Cook “incredibly grounded and generous and faithful” and a “bright light” in the church and in her community.“Many of you […]