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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 […]

(SOLVANG, Calif.) -- The Gifford Fire, a wildfire burning in Central California that has destroyed over 72,000 acres in five days, continues to rage and is now accompanied by two additional fires emerging nearby, according to officials.Since it started on Friday afternoon, the Gifford Fire -- which is situated within the Los Padres National Forest in Solvang, California -- has burned 72,460 acres and has only reached 7% containment, prompting evacuation […]

Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (JACKSON, Tenn.) -- A manhunt for the suspect in the Tennessee killings of four people and the kidnapping of a baby ended Tuesday when he was taken into custody, police said.Austin Robert Drummond, 28, was taken into custody in Jackson by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation after a weeklong manhunt, according to the Jackson, Tennessee, Police Department.Drummond, who had been considered armed and dangerous, is the prime suspect […]

(FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va.) -- A 4-year-old boy who was killed more than 50 years ago has finally been identified thanks to genetic genealogy -- but mysteries surrounding his murder, and what happened to his baby brother, remain.On June 13, 1972, the little boy's body was found under a bridge in Lorton, Virginia, according to Fairfax County police. He died from blunt force trauma and the case was ruled a homicide, […]

Brandon Bell/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) -- The Texas House of Representatives is scheduled to reconvene Tuesday afternoon, although it's unclear whether the body will be able to as several Democratic members have fled the state over a Republican redistricting plan.Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, on Tuesday ordered the Texas Department of Public Safety to find and arrest the Democrats who fled the state, an order Abbott said will remain in effect […]

(NEW YORK) -- Nearly 24 years after the 9/11 attacks, New York lawmakers say the health program created to care for survivors and responders is faltering and they're demanding answers.In a new letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand raised concerns about staffing shortages, frozen research grants and ongoing communication blackouts at the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP), which provides care to […]