Month: May 2019

iStock/South_agency(NEW YORK) — CrossFit, the popular fitness and lifestyle program with a cult-like following, broke up with Facebook and Instagram on Friday, citing security and privacy concerns. CrossFit, Inc., which boasts 15,000 affiliates and millions [Read More…]

DNY59/iStock(GORDON, Wis.) — Jayme Closs vowed to never let her kidnapper take her freedom or her spirit from her in a powerful statement read at the sentencing hearing of Jake Patterson, the 21-year-old Wisconsin man [Read More…]

iStock/Zzvet(NEW YORK) —  A total of five people have died this week on Mount Everest, as crowds of climbers experienced bottlenecks as they rushed to take advantage of a short window of good weather to [Read More…]

DNY59/iStock(GORDON, Wis.) —  Relatives of 13-year-old Jayme Closs spoke movingly at Friday’s sentencing hearing for Jake Patterson, the Wisconsin man who pleaded guilty to abducting Closs, killing her parents and then holding her captive until [Read More…]

iStock/Hydromet(NEW YORK) — Almost 40% of American adults wouldn’t be able to cover a $400 emergency with cash, savings or a credit-card charge that they could quickly pay off, a Federal Reserve survey finds. About [Read More…]

WXYZ(DETROIT) — Calls to a tip line led to the arrests of five former Michigan priests over allegations of sexual misconduct. Michigan’s attorney general announced the arrests Friday and detailed the charges against the men, [Read More…]

WXYZ(DETROIT) — Calls to a tip line led to the arrests of five former Michigan priests over allegations of sexual misconduct. Michigan’s attorney general announced the arrests Friday and detailed the charges against the men, [Read More…]

iStock/Graffizone(NEW YORK) — A few days before beverage magnate Gregory Abbott pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge in connection with the college admissions cheating scam, police say he was beaten up by one of his [Read More…]

iStock/Graffizone(NEW YORK) — A few days before beverage magnate Gregory Abbott pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge in connection with the college admissions cheating scam, police say he was beaten up by one of his [Read More…]

midesi69/Twitter(LYON, France) — An explosion in the French city of Lyon on Friday left eight people with minor injuries, local officials said on social media. The blast occurred at the corner of Victor Hugo Street [Read More…]

Teller County Sheriff via KMGH(WOODLAND PARK, Colo.) — Patrick Frazee, the Colorado man accused of killing his fiancé, Kelsey Berreth, in a vicious assault in her home, pleaded not guilty on Friday. At Friday’s court [Read More…]

DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP/Getty Images(LONDON) — Julian Assange has always been a lightning-rod for controversy, but the latest charges against him have journalism watchdog groups crying foul. Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, was charged by U.S. authorities Thursday [Read More…]