Police in Vermont have launched a large-scale search for a missing senior, 21-year-old Lia Purcell Smith, at the prestigious Middlebury College campus, authorities said. “We have been in touch with the student’s family and friends to offer support and learn all we can about the student’s recent activities and whereabouts,” …
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The U.S. government is aware of the kidnapping of an American Christian missionary in the West African nation of Niger, U.S. official sources told Fox News. The sources told Fox News that they suspect that the missionary has been taken north to Islamic State-controlled areas where an offshoot of ISIS …
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A teenager in New Jersey has filed a major lawsuit against the company behind an artificial intelligence (AI) “clothes removal” tool that allegedly created a fake nude image of her. The case has drawn national attention because it shows how AI can invade privacy in harmful ways. The lawsuit was …
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A body has been found during the search for a missing Vermont college student who was last seen on campus about a week ago. Lia Smith, 21, was last seen on Middlebury College’s campus on the night of Oct. 17 and was reported missing that Sunday, the school announced. Smith, …
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Two men have been charged with murder more than a year after a college student was killed by a stray bullet as she was working at a bar in south Georgia, authorities said while announcing multiple other related arrests in a wide-ranging indictment of alleged gang members. Tsion Clayton, 23, …
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A toddler is believed to have fatally shot his mother in their California apartment, police in Fresno said on Monday. The 2-and-a-half-year-old boy was at home with his 18-month-old sibling, his 22-year-old mother and his mother’s boyfriend when he got ahold of a gun, Lt. Paul Cervantes said during a …
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The fourth of six Mississippi former law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to subjecting two Black men to racially motivated torture in January 2023 was sentenced to decades in prison on Wednesday. Christian Dedmon, a former Rankin County sheriff’s deputy, was sentenced to 40 years in prison for his role in torturing …
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For years, South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh looked his anguished clients in the eyes and promised to help them with their medical bills, their suffering or simply to survive. Then he stole some, if not all, of what he won for many of them. Those clients got to look Murdaugh …
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A teenage driver was in custody Wednesday on suspicion of striking three bicyclists, killing one, in a Southern California beach city last weekend, in what police called a “series of intentional hit-and-run incidents.” In the first hit-and-run collision, a bicyclist said a black Toyota sideswiped him around 10:30 p.m Sunday night in …
Read More »Police in Northern California have solved a gruesome cold case murder more than three decades after it happened. Vicki Johnson was killed on Jan. 3, 1991 in Seaside, a city previously known as East Monterey. Johnson’s body was found near a playground in the city’s Sabado Park neighborhood after she …
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