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(DEXTER, Kan.) -- Class is out early for one Kansas school this holiday season.Dexter Schools USD #471 announced Monday that they dismissed students and staff three days early for winter break due to widespread illness. Classes are scheduled to resume Monday, Jan. 5."We are going through a tremendous amount of sickness right now and it seems to be spreading at a very high rate," the Facebook announcement reads, in part."Not […]

In an aerial view, a person stands atop of property engulfed by floodwater on December 14, 2025 in Snohomish, Washington. Brandon Bell/Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- At least one person is dead in Washington as flash flooding hits the state, prompting evacuation orders in some areas, officials saidA 33-year-old male driver was removed from a vehicle that was "completely submerged in water" at around 1:30 a.m. Tuesday, according to Snohomish […]

Luigi Mangione appears for a suppression of evidence hearing in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan Criminal Court on December 9, 2025 in New York City. Curtis Means-Pool/Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- Security camera footage of accused CEO killer Luigi Mangione using a laptop at a Best Buy appliance store was among the evidence turned over to the NYPD following his arrest, according to testimony Tuesday on the eighth […]

(LOS ANGELES) -- Nick Reiner, the 32-year-old son of renowned director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer, is accused of killing his parents, and the case against him will be presented to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office for filing consideration on Tuesday, according to police.The Reiners' daughter found her parents stabbed to death in their Brentwood home on Sunday, sources told ABC News.Nick Reiner had been living […]

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 […]