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Alleged serial killer Rex A. Heuermann appears inside Judge Tim Mazzei's courtroom with his attorney Michael Brown at Suffolk County Court in Riverhead for a frye hearing on July 17, 2025 in Riverhead, New York. (Photo by James Carbone-Pool/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) -- Accused Gilgo Beach, New York, serial killer Rex Heuermann admitted to the murders of eight women in court on Wednesday as he changed his plea to guilty.Heuermann, a New […]

Alleged serial killer Rex A. Heuermann appears inside Judge Tim Mazzei's courtroom with his attorney Michael Brown at Suffolk County Court in Riverhead for a frye hearing on July 17, 2025 in Riverhead, New York. (Photo by James Carbone-Pool/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) -- Accused Gilgo Beach, New York, serial killer Rex Heuermann might change his plea to guilty and admit to the murders at his scheduled court appearance on Wednesday, […]

(NEW YORK) -- The woman reportedly known as the "Ketamine Queen" is set to be sentenced on Wednesday for providing the ketamine that killed Matthew Perry.Jasveen Sangha admitted in a plea agreement to working with another dealer to provide the "Friends" actor with dozens of vials of ketamine, including the dose that led to his fatal overdose in October 2023 at the age of 54.Sangha pleaded guilty last year to […]

(OAHU, Hawaii) -- Closing arguments are underway in the trial of a Hawaii doctor accused of trying to kill his wife on a hiking trail.Dr. Gerhardt Konig, 47, has pleaded not guilty to second-degree attempted murder. Prosecutors allege the anesthesiologist attacked his wife, Arielle Konig, near a cliff while on the Pali Puka Trail on Oahu on March 24, 2025, by pushing her near the edge and then beating her multiple times with a […]

(WASHINGTON) -- Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche used his first news conference Tuesday to shrug off any suggestion that he would use the Justice Department to more aggressively target perceived enemies of President Donald Trump, as he heaped praise on his ousted predecessor Pam Bondi. "First of all, we have thousands of ongoing investigations and prosecutions going on in this country right now, and it is true that some of them involve men […]

(WASHINGTON) -- The world's largest association of historians is suing the Trump administration over a recent effort to justify the president keeping his official records rather than turning them over to the National Archives.The American Historical Association and a second organization, American Oversight, filed the suit in Washington, D.C., District Court Monday, describing the case as an attempt to "preserve the historical record that belongs to the American people, before it is […]

Mountains outside Patterson, California. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images) (PATTERSON, Calif.) -- The FBI is at the scene of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement-involved shooting that happened in Patterson, California, on Tuesday near the I-5, Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said in a statement.According to Lyons, ICE officers were attempting to arrest a man they claimed was an 18th Street gang member when he “weaponized his vehicle” and attempted […]

(MIAMI COUNTY, Ind.) -- A Vietnamese immigrant died in government custody last week, according to a notification sent to lawmakers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, marking the latest detainee death during the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.Tuan Van Bui, a 55-year-old immigrant, died at the Miami Correctional Center in Indiana.He is the 46th person to die in federal custody during the current Trump administration.In its notification, ICE said that "onsite staff […]

(NEW YORK) -- American journalist Shelly Kittleson, who was kidnapped in Baghdad, Iraq, on March 31, has been released by her abductors, according to the Iraqi militia group Hezbollah Brigades.This is a developing story. Please check back for updates. Copyright © 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.