Posts

Photo: LAPD; Gregg DeGuire/Getty Images The man police believe opened fire on Grammy-nominated rapper and activistNipsey Husslehas been charged with murder. Holder entered a plea of not guilty in court on Thursday. The aspiring rapper could face a maximum sentence of life in state prison if convicted. Holder has hired attorney Chris Darden, who famously was part of the prosecution team in O.J. Simpson’s murder trial,according toCBSLA. Hussle was gunned down on Sunday afternoon in front of his Los Angeles clothing store, Marathon Clothing Company....

Photo: CBS On Nov. 7, following a nearly three-year investigation,FBI special agents arrested Ali Elmezayen, 44, of Hawthorne, on federal charges including mail and wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. Prosecutors allege Elmezayen posed as his domestic partner when calling insurance companies in an attempt to defraud the companies, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California says in a news release. On April 9, 2015, after purchasing several accidental death insurance policies worth more than $6 million on himself, his domestic partner and his children, Elmezayen allegedly sped off a wharf at the Port of Los Angeles, plunging his 1998 Honda Civic and its occupants into the waters below, the release states....

Photo: Glencoe Mountain Rescue Team/Facebook Officials in Scotland say a man and his dog have been found dead in a gorge after they went missing while on a hike. Volunteers searching for missing hiker Kyle Sambrookfound the bodiesSaturday “in a deep gorge” above the Fionn Ghleann, according to a statement from the Glencoe Mountain Rescue Team. Police Scotland said the bodiesbelong to 33-year-old Sambrook, of West Yorkshire, andhis Beagle, named Bane, according to the BBC andThe Guardian....

Photo: Joe Sargent/Getty At the time, Stanley was headed home after dropping off his daughter at the Fort Lauderdale Airport. As he attempted to take an off-ramp, Stanley said he noticed two vehicles quickly merge into his lane. That’s when he spotted the man on the road that he thinks may have been Haskins. “What I noticed was a Mack truck, or a big tractor-trailer, with also another vehicle that started moving a little bit to the left,” Stanley told the news station....

Handcuffs.Photo: Getty A Connecticut man is facing charges for allegedly stealing $5,000 in cash from outside a local bank, according to astatementfrom the police department in Trumbull, Conn. Robert Withington, 56, turned himself in on Friday and was charged with larceny after a “lengthy police investigation” regarding the alleged theft that took place on May 30, the statement said. Withington found the bag in a parking lot and would later say it felt like he “hit the lottery,”CT Postreported on Monday....

Photo: Getty/All Canada Photos A brave pet-owner from Michigan went toe-to-toe against a black bear to save his dog’s life — and won. According to a report from theMichigan Department of Natural Resources, an unidentified man walked out of his home just before sunrise in early May and noticed a black bear running toward his beloved pet beagle. As the bear swung its claws at the frantic and barking dog, the man did his best to get his pet to safety—but in the chaos, the beagle’s leash became tangled around a collection of objects outside....

Damien Boschetto (left) and Jean-Marc Veyssieres holding dinosaur skeleton in France.Photo:Courtesy of Damien BoschettoA man in France waited two years to announce that he found a nearly intact skeleton of a 70-million-year-old titanosaurDamien Boschetto was walking with his dog Muffin near his home in Cruzy, a village in the southern part of France, in May 2022 when he made the rare discoveryNow, the approximately 30-foot-long skeleton is on view to the public at the Cruzy MuseumA man in France went to walk his dog and found a nearly intact skeleton of a 70-million-year-old titanosaur!...

Photo: Facebook A man accused of murdering a New York City jogger in 2016 was convicted Monday evening, and now faces life in prison without the possibility for parole when he is sentenced in two weeks, PEOPLE confirms. Jurors rendered their verdict after five hours of deliberation, finding Chanel Lewis, 22, guilty of sexually abusing and then stranglingKarina Vetrano, 30, while she went jogging on a trail in the Howard Beach section of Queens, according to a statement from prosecutors....

Mandarin Oriental hotel in New York City.Photo:Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images A man jumped to his death from the roof of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York City on Thursday night. NYPD spokesman Lt. Thomas Antonetti confirmed to PEOPLE that the incident happened just after 9 p.m. local time at 80 Columbus Circle. “He is seen on video walking into the hotel, then takes the elevator to the top, makes his way to the roof and jumps from the roof,” Antonetti told PEOPLE....

Photo: CBS Los Angeles/Youtube A man was killed in an officer-involved shooting that occurred near the U.S. Open of Surfing in California on Saturday, said authorities. In a statement, the Huntington Beach Police Department said officers were alerted to a suspicious man with a gun at the Central Hub in Huntington Beach on the Pacific Coast Highway at approximately 3:15 p.m. local time,CBS Los Angelesreported. Police stated that the suspect was taken to a hospital, where he was later pronounced dead....

Jordan Thomas lost both his legs about half his life ago — but his passion for helping children overcome similar hardships remains strong. It was Aug. 16, 2005 when an exuberant Thomas, then 16, jumped into turbulent waters during a fishing trip with his parents in the Florida Keys. Big waves came crashing in, pushing him behind the boat. Thinking Jordan was a safe distance away, his mother made the split-second decision to fire up the engines and move the boat — but she’d miscalculated....

Rioters at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.Photo: Samuel Corum/Getty Seven more defendants pleaded guilty on Friday to charges related to theJanuary 6 insurrection on the U.S. Capitol. Among them was Cleveland Meredith Jr., who threatened to shoot House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in text messages sent to a relative. According toCNN, he told the judge at a plea hearing that the threats were “political hyperbole,” before eventually admitting, “I sent the text....

Brian Michael Rini, the man whoimpersonated the long-missing Timmothy Pitzenand got a desperate family’s hopes up, has been sentenced to prison. On Tuesday, the 24-year-old Ohio man wassentencedto two years in prison for aggravated identity theft.Rini pleaded guilty in January, nine months after falsely claiming to the Pitzen family that he was Timmothy. Timmothy, who was 6 years old when he disappeared,remains missing more than nine years later, and authorities continue to follow leads in the case, hoping to locate the boy, who would be 15 now....