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(AUSTIN, Texas) -- In an 11th-hour turn of events, Robert Roberson, the first person set to be executed in the U.S. based on the largely discredited "shaken baby syndrome" hypothesis, was granted a temporary hold on his death sentence.Late Thursday evening, the Texas Supreme Court issued a temporary stay in the case, delaying the looming execution and capping, for now, a back-and-forth series of legal maneuvers, including an earlier decision […]

(GALLATIN COUNTY, MT) -- Investigators are asking for help solving a "vicious" murder that was so brutal a 911 caller had reported it as a possible bear attack, according to the Gallatin County Sheriff's Office.A friend found 35-year-old Dustin Kjersem dead in a tent on Saturday morning about 2.5 miles up Moose Creek Road, in a fairly remote camping area in Montana, according to Gallatin County Sheriff Dan Springer.Kjersem was […]

(MIAMI, FLORIDA) -- As Election Day nears, Donald Trump is continuing his long-standing effort to recast the violent events of Jan. 6, 2021, now calling it a "day of love" even as he tries to distance himself from what happened.A Republican audience member, during a Univision town hall on Wednesday, pressed Trump on his actions that day as thousands of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, temporarily disrupting the congressional […]

(NEW YORK) -- The Federal Communications Commission unanimously voted Thursday to approve new rules requiring all wireless carriers to implement georouting for calls to the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline in a move it says will help "save more lives.""Time and again, across many different communities, I have heard stories of how important the 988 Lifeline is for individuals in need of support," Commissioner Anna Gomez said during the FCC's […]

(BURLINGTON, Vt.) Residents of parts of upstate New York and Vermont awoke to winter-like weather Thursday morning, including the earliest a foot of snow has fallen in the higher elevations of the Green Mountain state in 14 years.The overnight snowfall brought 12 inches to Mount Mansfield, the highest peak in Vermont, and 15 inches to the summit of Whiteface Mountain in New York's Adirondack Mountains.The snowy weather ties 2010 as the earliest […]

(NEW YORK) -- A man was arrested Wednesday for threatening utility workers who were restoring power in Hillsborough County, Florida, following mass outages caused by Hurricane Milton, according to officials.Crews were working on a road repair when the man allegedly verbally threatened them and drove his vehicle toward them in an intimidating manner.The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office has identified the suspect as 57-year-old Kenneth Ray Velasco.When the incident occurred, a […]

(WASHINGTON) -- The fate of two U.S. Navy pilots remained a mystery Wednesday, a day after their fighter jet crashed during a routine training flight and search-and-rescue crews reported finding no sign of them in the rugged landscape of northeast Washington.Wreckage of the EA-18G Growler jet was located Wednesday afternoon but the search continues for the two-person crew, military officials said in an update on Wednesday. The crash site is […]

Royalty-free/Getty Images (SIMPSON COUNTY, Miss.) -- A Mississippi bridge set to be demolished collapsed in a deadly accident on Wednesday, officials said.The Mississippi Department of Transportation confirmed there were fatalities, though it did not specify how many people died."[We] extend our deepest condolences to the families who have lost loved ones," the Mississippi Department of Transportation said in a statement.An inspector with the Mississippi Department of Transportation who was at […]

(NEW YORK) -- The husband of the owner of a New York City day care where a 1-year-old child died of fentanyl poisoning was sentenced Wednesday to 45 years in prison.Felix Herrera Garcia, 35, pleaded guilty in June to federal drug charges for trafficking fentanyl out of the day care center.In September 2023, a 1-year-old boy attending the day care, Nicholas Dominici, died, and three other children, ranging in age […]