The California Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco to stop his investigation into alleged fraud in last November's special election, directing him to preserve more than 650,000 ballots his office had already seized from local election officials. The order freezes a…
Chris Taylor, a former Democratic state legislator running as an independent, defeated Republican-endorsed Maria Lazar on Tuesday night to claim a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, the Associated Press projects. Taylor took 60.8% of the vote to Lazar's 39.1%, a margin that wasn't close…
Rex Heuermann, the 62-year-old Long Island architect who led a double life for decades, pleaded guilty Wednesday to seven counts of murder and admitted responsibility for an eighth uncharged killing, ending one of the most haunting serial murder cases in modern American history before it…
Two young men from Pennsylvania plotted to kill as many as 60 people in an ISIS-inspired bombing outside the New York City mayor's residence, federal prosecutors alleged in an indictment released Tuesday. The charges describe a chilling, premeditated attempt at domestic terrorism that failed only…
Bodycam footage played in a Fort Worth, Texas, courtroom Wednesday captured the moment Tanner Horner, the FedEx driver who abducted and killed seven-year-old Athena Strand, told officers he could lead them to the child, and then described how he disposed of her body. "She wasn't…
A federal judge sentenced Jasveen Sangha, the drug dealer known as "the Ketamine Queen", to 15 years in prison for supplying the ketamine that killed actor Matthew Perry. United States District Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett handed down the sentence, matching the term prosecutors had recommended.…
California's first partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom told an audience in San Francisco late last month that she and Governor Gavin Newsom are pursuing legislation aimed at tech companies, because boys, including their own son, are moving to the political right after spending time online. The…
Four seventeen-year-olds face aggravated kidnapping charges in Travis County after they allegedly lured a former high school classmate to a garage, held a gun to his head, bound him with duct tape, and beat him with aluminum bats, all because he had talked to one…
A federal judge denied Minnesota's emergency bid to unfreeze more than $243 million in Medicaid funds this week, ruling that the state filed its lawsuit prematurely and that the Trump administration's deferral of payments likely complies with federal regulations. The decision hands the administration a…
Vice President JD Vance tried to patch President Donald Trump into a rally in Hungary by speakerphone. The first attempt went straight to voicemail. The crowd of roughly 5,000 watched Vance hold the phone to his ear, wait, and then try again, this time with…
Shelly Kittleson, the 49-year-old American freelance journalist kidnapped in Baghdad last week, was released Tuesday afternoon after days of tense negotiations between Iraqi authorities and the Iran-backed militia group Kataib Hezbollah, an Iraqi official with direct knowledge of the situation told the Associated Press. The…
An 11-year-old boy in Centennial, Colorado, sits in a youth detention facility charged with first-degree murder in the death of his 5-year-old brother, a charge so severe that a veteran juvenile defense attorney says prosecutors would not have brought it "unless something about this case…
Federal immigration officers shot a man they say tried to run them down with his vehicle during an arrest attempt Tuesday in Patterson, California, sending the suspect to a local hospital and drawing the FBI to the scene near Interstate 5. Acting ICE Director Todd…
Hamideh Soleimani Afshar, the 47-year-old niece of former Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Gen. Qasem Soleimani, called a former romantic interest from an ICE detention facility in Pearsall, Texas, on Monday. The man, a 68-year-old Los Angeles retiree named Maziar Aflaki, declined to accept the…
