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The daughter of confessed Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann broke down in tears in a Long Island court when her sadistic father admitted to strangling and discarding the bodies of eight women Wednesday.
Jeff Shell is out as president of Paramount Skydance less than a year into the job, marking a stunning second downfall for the embattled media executive amid a bombshell lawsuit accusing him of leaking corporate secrets.
A decades-long saga came to an end in a Suffolk County courtroom on Wednesday, as a six-foot-four man dressed in a black suit and blue tie stood across from a judge and confessed to the gruesome details of murdering eight women.
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco speaks at a news conference in Lake Elsinore, Calif., Feb. 7, 2023, as officials announced that the closure of poppy fields at Walker Canyon until the wildflower bloom subsides. (Watchara Phomicinda/The Orange County Register via AP, File)
Rex A. Heuermann has pleaded guilty to murdering seven women and admitted he killed an eighth in a string of long-unsolved crimes known as the Gilgo Beach killings. (AP: James Carbone/Newsday)
A former San Francisco human rights boss accused of squandering city funds to pay for personal projects and her son’s tuition is still collecting a taxpayer-backed check as she faces a battery of criminal charges in court.
A longtime Rangers fan and Madison Square Garden staple known as “Dancing Larry” is accused of inappropriate behavior during his recurring act in a new lawsuit.
Matthew Perry’s mother and stepfather arrived at a Los Angeles court for the sentencing of “Ketamine Queen” Jasveen Sangha, who supplied the drugs that tragically killed the “Friends” star.
Rex A. Heuermann, pleads guilty to murdering seven women and admitted he killed an eighth in a string of long-unsolved crimes known as the Gilgo Beach killings, at a court hearing in Suffolk County Court in Riverhead, N.Y., Wednesday, April 8, 2026. (James Carbone/Newsday via AP, Pool)
WATCH closely how China’s embassy operates in Manila and you will see something straight out of a police procedural. While one officer sits smiling at the table — offering coffee, a road map and the language of peace — his angry partner stalks just outside the door, bursting in regularly to insult and intimidate the…
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The Digital Realty Innovation Lab lets companies test liquid cooling, which is not yet mainstream in Japan. (Photo by Akitoshi Sugiura)
Ethiopian police said they arrested a "dangerous international human trafficker" and nine accomplices accused of smuggling over 3,000 people to Libya, where they were held hostage and, in some cases, tortured, raped, or killed.
President Donald Trump has claimed that Lebanon was not included in the ceasefire between the United States and Iran, contradicting the assertion of Pakistan, which mediated the truce.
Na Alemanha, não há catracas e nem ao menos a figura do cobrador no transporte público. Mas quem arrisca viajar sem pagar passagem está cometendo um crime passível de prisão. O tema, que há anos é motivo de debate no país, voltou às discussões nesta terça-feira (07/04), após a ministra da Justiça alemã, Stefanie Hub…
Nothing was going right for Daniil Medvedev on Wednesday, and he threw a whopper of an on-court tantrum.
Australian federal police say they are working with tiny nation to respond to threat of online scam centres
Anecdotal evidence of an increase in fuel theft and drive-offs is on the rise, but police data remains unclear
Media outlets defended their reporting as true on the balance of probabilities, but prosecutors in criminal cases need to meet a higher burden of proof
ISTANBUL — Turkish authorities have detained nine people as part of an investigation into an attack on police outside a building housing the Israeli Consulate in Istanbul that left one assailant dead, Turkey’s state-run news agency reported Wednesday.
In Netflix’s Trust Me: The False Prophet, documentarians in disguise help bring down a cult leader now serving a 50-year sentence
Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat‘s initial eight episode drop is unfortunately over, but with 3,600 hours of Rockin’ Grandma’s retreat footage, there’s thankfully more to come!
A man who died after being stabbed on Primrose Hill has been named as Finbar Sullivan by the Metropolitan Police.
The historic Plas Glynllifon mansion has been raided by police searching for drugs.
PARIS — French Member of the European Parliament Rima Hassan has filed a complaint after details of her arrest were leaked to the media while she was in custody last week.
The China Animal Agriculture Association said that in 2024 duck and goose production was down 10% from 2019
A man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a prominent Leeds businessman more than 20 years ago.
Daniil Medvedev has previously said he does not judge players "who like to be on the dirt like a dog" on clay courts
A judge in St. Petersburg on Wednesday sentenced six former members of the democratic youth organization Vesna to prison sentences of varying lengths after they were found guilty of charges including extremism and spreading “war fakes.”
A subway conductor was spit on and severely beaten by an outraged passenger he had ordered off a train in the Bronx, according to police.
To curb China’s dominance in the sector, Manila has to cut red tape and fight corruption to draw US and Japanese investors
To curb China’s dominance in the sector, Manila has to cut red tape and fight corruption to draw US and Japanese investors
Bicol Saro Partylist Rep. Terry Ridon calls the move of the camp of Vice President Sara Duterte to file a petition at the Supreme Court as a 'deception,' stressing that it is the plenary at the House of Representatives that moved the complaints to the justice committee for investigation. Duterte filed a petition for…
Turkish police secure the area after a gunmen attack at a building housing the Israeli Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, April 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
The gunman who killed two people and wounded six others at Florida State University last year may have used ChatGPT to help plan the mass shooting, according to one of the victim’s attorneys planning to file a lawsuit against the chatbot’s maker, OpenAI.
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Ronnie Ortiz-Magro’s girlfriend, Kirsten, called the police to the “Jersey Shore” star’s Miami home for a “domestic dispute” last month.
Indonesia has deported UK fugitive Steven Lyons, who was arrested on the resort island of Bali last month for alleged transnational drug trafficking and money laundering in Spain, immigration officials said Wednesday.
A man has been fined $300 (£223) by a Thai court after breaking into the enclosure of Moo Deng, an endangered baby pygmy hippo and internet sensation, the zoo's director said.
Rapper Cardi B says she has been the victim of credit card fraud, and wants the perpetrators who apparently spent $60,000 (£45,000) on designer clothes and Apple goods to be sent to jail.
O Banco Master pagou R$ 80 milhões ao escritório de advocacia de Viviane Barci de Moraes, esposa de Alexandre de Moraes, ministro do Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF), entre 2024 e 2025. É o que indicam dados da Receita Federal enviados à CPI do Crime Organizado e citados pela imprensa brasileira.
FILE -A boy steps over pictures of Syrian President Bashar Assad and his late father, Hafez Assad, right, Salamiyah, east of Hama, Syria, Dec. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed, File)
Prosecutors have argued Jasveen Sangha should receive a 15-year sentence for her role in the actor’s death
A court on Wednesday dismissed an injunction request by North Jeolla Gov. Kim Kwan-young to suspend his expulsion by the ruling Democratic Party.
The second instalment of Amazon’s hoax comedy show stars an unsuspecting Anthony Norman, who believed he was working a temp job and ended up heroically saving the day
The second instalment of Amazon’s hoax comedy show stars an unsuspecting Anthony Norman, who believed he was working a temp job and ended up heroically saving the day
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