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Shocking allegations about Matt Lauer reportedly revealed in an upcoming book by Ronan Farrow drew a sharp and somber reaction from the disgraced anchor’s former colleagues on NBC’s “Today” show Wednesday. Lauer, who was fired from NBC News for sexual misconduct in 2017, is accused of new sex crimes. Described in graphic detail by Variety, it is […]
Dallas police say they have arrested one suspect and have warrants for two others connected to the shooting death of Joshua Brown last Friday. Despite rumors that his death was linked to testimony in the trial of Amber Guyger, police now say it was because of a drug deal gone wrong. The 28-year-old was a key […]
Aimee Stephens finally mustered the courage back in 2013 to tell her co-workers about something that she had struggled with her entire life: her gender identity. “I have known many of you for some time now,” Stephens explained in a letter. Then she told them she had decided to have sex reassignment surgery and reject […]
Joshua Brown, who was killed Friday night in Dallas, was a key witness in the murder trial of former police officer Amber Guyger because he was able to provide testimony about events the night his neighbor, Botham Jean, was fatally shot in his apartment. Dallas police were still looking Sunday for a suspect and a […]
A scorned man hacked his ex-wife to death with a machete in the Bronx Thursday — after his attempt to run her over failed, police said. The heartless ex-hubby showed up outside the 58-year-old victim’s home on Ellsworth Ave. near Schley Ave. in Throgs Neck around 7 a.m., with violence on his mind, cops said. […]
A woman says she found a bed bug at a Northgate movie theater in the seat of a chair. She said she and her boyfriend discovered it at the Xscape Theatres in Colerain Township. “We sat down, we started watching the movie, and all of a sudden, he starts itching his elbow. I look at […]
The staff at a Chicago elementary school made a young male student leave the building on a cold March day, coatless and in short sleeves. They then lied about what happened, according to a lawsuit, that alleges a pattern of abuse and harassment by the staff and the boy’s classmates. The fourth-grader had been bullied […]
Former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger was found guilty of murder Tuesday in last year’s fatal shooting of her upstairs neighbor in his apartment. Guyger, who was fired after the shooting, said that she mistook Botham Jean’s apartment for her own after parking on the wrong floor at the complex on Sept. 6, 2018. The […]
The family of a 75-year-old woman who was allegedly killed in her Florida home last month by a man who delivered a washer and dryer she bought from a Best Buy store has filed a negligence lawsuit against the retail chain. Boca Raton police say Jorge Lachazo, 21, smashed Evelyn “Evy” Udell in the head […]
Two Muslim men are asking the Department of Transportation to investigate American Airlines and regional carrier Mesa Airlines after crew members on a Dallas-bound flight called the FBI on them. The offense? According to Issam Abdallah, one of the men accusing the airlines of discrimination, crew members became suspicious of him after he “went to […]
Decades before Colin Kaepernick was taking a knee on the football gridiron to protest racial injustice, Olympic sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos were raising a fist on the winners’ stand at the 1968 Olympics. Much like Kaepernick, Smith and Carlos were expelled for their actions. Now, it looks like the Olympics is prepared to […]
Leslie Edwards, a member of the history-making, segregation-defying Tuskegee Airmen, died Monday afternoon at the Cincinnati VA Medical Center. He was 95 years old. Edwards arrived in the Air Force as a World War II draftee, missing his wife and mourning his plan to start a family. He told WCPO in February, he and other black […]