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The mayor of a North Carolina town says he’s not going anywhere despite town commissioners urging him to resign. Chris Carney, the mayor of Mooresville, is in the spotlight over an alleged incident caught on surveillance video inside the town hall in 2024. The incident, according to an IT employee who reported it, involved a man believed to be Carney entering the town hall with a woman described as a town communications consultant. The IT employee said the footage later showed Carney walking through the building without pants. The incident has since led to three lawsuits against the town, with...

While preparing to write today’s stories for NRL News Today, I ran across “Please Laugh About My Abortion With Me” which ran in 2022. And while Alison Leiby wasn’t kidding, I wondered what the audience’s response was to her one-woman “comedy.” Prior to the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision overturning Roe, Alison Leiby tells us that “When I started performing the show at a tiny theater in Queens and at bars around the city, there were a lot of bombs and uncomfortable silences. Just saying the word ‘abortion’ can quiet a room. I saw crossed arms and scowls when I would...

A 22-year-old woman and her unborn baby were shot to death in a restaurant parking lot in Kentucky after she honked her horn at a man. Ava Woodcock died at University of Louisville Hospital on Tuesday after she was critically injured during a shooting the day before, which killed her unborn baby, according to the Glasgow Police Department, cited by Fox 10. Brandon Bond, 24, was arrested for allegedly shooting the pregnant woman. He was charged with murder, first-degree fetal homicide, and first-degree fleeing or evading police. Woodcock, who was the mother of a one-year-old, pulled into Annie's Restaurant parking...

An entitled Oregon shoplifter has sued a grocery store after a clerk beat him up for stealing a cart full of corn dogs and cookies. Joshua Merkel is asking for $10,000 to cover the medical expenses and mental anguish he claims was inflicted during the foiled heist in southwest Portland. Merkel has sued Albertson's grocery store and cashier Matthew Cooper for allegedly attacking him outside the store, leaving him with a black eye and a shattered jaw. The incident happened two years ago, but Merkel filed a civil lawsuit, seen by The Oregonian, last month in Multnomah County Circuit Court....

BREAKING: Jonathan Richardson, a man pretending to be a woman, who m*rdered his 11-month-old stepdaughter, has been RELEASED from prison 30 YEARS EARLY. Last year, a judge ordered the Indiana Department of Corrections to arrange urgent "gender-affirming surgery" for Richardson. Now he's somehow walking free. How is this trans child m*rderer allowed back on the streets???

Mamdani’s New York. Eslam Alsaedi has been arrested and faces charges including making a terroristic threat, aggravated harassment, and issuing a threat of mass harm.snip Mamdani, who was already under fire during his mayoral campaign for his anti-Israel views, caused an uproar on his first day in office when he cancelled executive orders related to Israel, which were issued by his predecessor, Eric Adams. Another executive order which was cancelled prohibited mayoral appointees and agency staff from boycotting and disinvesting from Israel. A New York City teenager has been arrested and charged with hate crime and aggravated harassment, making terrorist...

He snatched the youngster while delivering a Barbie to her home that was to be one of her main festive gifts. Horner told investigators that he accidentally hit the girl with his truck, 'panicked,' grabbed her, and put her in his vehicle. Fearing what would happen if he told Strand's parents, he said strangled her inside the truck and dumped her body seven miles from her home, beside a country road. Her body was found two days later.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A man who stabbed a young girl while she was waiting at an Albuquerque restaurant pleaded guilty on Friday, according to the Bernalillo County district attorney. Nicholas San Souci pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree child abuse and one count of third-degree child abuse in connection with the April 25 attack at Saggios restaurant on Cornell Drive near Central Avenue.

A woman detained by police in Michigan, USA, pulled off a Houdini-like escape, slipping out of a patrol car and vanishing from custody in an incident captured on video that has since spread widely online. The escape took place in Muskegon County, authorities said. Arrest during a routine check During a routine check police officers from the Muskegon Heights Police Department approached a vehicle parked outside an abandoned business at about 3:30 p.m. Saturday. Officers were initially unable to identify the woman, but a fingerprint scan confirmed her identity and revealed an active warrant for a parole violation. They arrested...

The heir to a Texas oil fortune has been ordered to pay $1.1 billion in a landmark ruling after he violently beat his 2-year-old stepson nearly to death — leaving the child bedridden in a wheelchair and requiring 24-hour care, according to a court. Charles Brooks Jr. will have to pay the hefty fee after a jury ruled in favor of ex-wife Madison Ball, whose son suffered a severe brain injury at the hands of the now 34-year-old felon, Buzbee Law Firm, which represents the parents, said Thursday. Brooks, an unemployed trust-fund baby and the great-grandson of Humble Oil founding...

BREAKING: Delaware Judge Kathaleen McCormick has officially announced that she will no longer preside over multiple lawsuits involving @elonmusk and his companies after Elon's lawyers alleged she had shown bias against him after ruling against him in high-profile cases. Last week, Elon's attorneys wrote to the court pointing to a LinkedIn screenshot that they said shows she supported a post on the network celebrating Elon's defeat in a California civil fraud trial. In the past, Judge McCormick ruled against Elon with his $56B Tesla pay package case and the Twitter lawsuit. Here is Judge Kathaleen McCormick's full letter that she...

A $167.3 million Kentucky Powerball winner who went from career criminal to multi-millionaire overnight is accused of stealing a comparatively minuscule $12,000 cash during a head-scratching home burglary over the weekend. James Farthing, 51, was arrested on second-degree burglary and marijuana possession charges Saturday after security footage allegedly captured him breaking into a Lexington residence that evening, according to Lex18. Farthing allegedly snatched $12,000 in cash from the home and fled the scene in his black Porsche Passenger — before police caught him and spotted a marijuana blunt in plain view and found more bud during a search of his...

FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - A Fargo man has been sentenced to prison for a 2025 assault in which he punched a stranger at random in downtown Fargo. Royal Rockefeller was found guilty of aggravated assault and sentenced Thursday to five years in the custody of the North Dakota Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. He must serve a minimum of three years before becoming eligible for release.

An 83-year-old veteran who was allegedly shoved onto subway tracks in New York City by an illegal immigrant with a long criminal history has died from his injuries, the Department of Homeland Security said Thursday. Richard Williams, a retired Air Force pilot, died March 17 after he and another man were allegedly pushed onto the tracks at the Lexington Avenue-63rd Station days earlier. The alleged attacker, Honduran national Bairon Posada-Hernandez, 34, was arrested March 10 and faces a murder charge. John Pena, 30, the other man allegedly pushed onto the tracks, helped pull Williams back onto the platform moments before...

A former Los Angeles Unified School District employee has been charged in what prosecutors described as a pay-to-play scheme that directed more than $22 million in contracts to a single technology company, making it one of the largest money laundering schemes in the district’s history. Officials with the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office allege that between 2018 and 2022, 53-year-old Pasadena resident, Hong “Grace” Peng, who worked as a technical project manager for LAUSD, of illegally awarding Innive, a Texas-based tech company, millions of dollars worth of contracts for work on the district’s My Integrated Student Information System (MiSiS)....

A former middle school teacher in New Jersey was arrested on Thursday following allegations she had had a sexual relationship with a student. Ashley Fisler, 36, of Washington Township in Gloucester County, was charged with six counts of first-degree sexual assault of a minor, one count of second-degree endangering the welfare of a child and one count of second-degree official misconduct, according to Fox 29. Each first-degree charge carries a maximum of 20 years in prison, and each second-degree charge carries a maximum of 10 years.

An ex-security staffer for President Joe Biden who posed for pics with former VP Kamala Harris in front of a presidential jet was arrested for a chilling murder in San Francisco. Nation Wood, 25, was arrested Wednesday, just 24 hours after he allegedly shot and killed Samantha Emge, 22, a 2025 graduate of San Francisco State University, at a home in San Francisco’s Sunset District. Wood identified himself as a part-time security staffer for Biden’s White House Secret Service team starting in November 2023 on his LinkedIn profile. He worked at the White House through July 2025, finishing out his...

COBB COUNTY, Ga. — Surveillance video captured thieves pocketing merchandise inside a Home Depot in California – part of a group investigators say is linked to more than $10 million in stolen merchandise. That includes arrests made right here metro Atlanta, Channel 2’s Michael Seiden reports. Investigators say this operation stretched across the country with millions in stolen goods. The man caught on surveillance stuffed his jacket with electrical breakers, each one worth about $100. During the same visit, he used a long pole to pull down boxes of electrical equipment from high shelves. When those items are locked up,...

The “extraordinarily low” six-month sentence handed to a trans illegal immigrant who admitted to sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy in Manhattan sparked outrage Wednesday from a victims’ rights group and left even former prosecutors in shock. Legal eagles were baffled by the slap-on-the-wrist plea deal the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office struck with Nicol Alexandra Contreras-Suarez, a 31-year-old transgender woman from Colombia, in the vicious 2025 assault of a 14-year-old boy in East Harlem. “I didn’t know you could get six months on this,” said Seth Zuckerman, a former prosecutor in the Brooklyn DA’s Office and current criminal defense lawyer. “It’s...

A twisted Welsh teen obsessed with serial killers bludgeoned his mom to death with a sledgehammer after asking an AI bot, “What is a better weapon for murder?” Tristan Roberts, 18, deliberately waited until he was an adult before buying tools used to kill his mom, teaching assistant Angela Shellis, 45, blaming it on his “hatred for women” and a need for “revenge, justice and vengeance,” it emerged Wednesday as he was sentenced to at least 22 years in prison. He planned her killing for three weeks — spewing vile hatred online before turning to the Chinese AI bot Deepseek...