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Police questioned serial rape suspect Matthew Nilo about sexual assault during 2008 marijuana arrest: DA’s office
Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via Getty Images (BOSTON) — Authorities questioned serial rape suspect Matthew Nilo back in July of 2008 about a suspected sexual assault after he was arrested for marijuana possession in Boston’s North [Read More…]

SAG-AFTRA national board orders strike
Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — The national board of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) voted Thursday to go on strike, summoning its 160,000 members to hit the picket [Read More…]

2 Birmingham firefighters shot in potentially targeted attack, suspect at large: Police
FILE photo — Tim Kitchen/Getty Images (BIRMINGHAM, Ala.) — Two firefighters were shot inside a Birmingham, Alabama, fire station Wednesday in what police say may be a targeted attack. Firefighter Jordan Melton was hospitalized in critical [Read More…]

Kushner, Hicks among former Trump White House officials who met with Jan. 6 grand jury: Sources
Marco Bello/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Multiple former senior Trump White House officials have testified before a federal grand jury in the special counsel’s investigation into the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and efforts [Read More…]

Official describes video of Michael Burham’s prison escape: ‘Like a spider’
Jamestown Police Department (WARREN, Pa.) — As the manhunt for suspected murderer and “self-taught survivalist,” Michael Burham stretched into its seventh day Thursday in the northeast Pennsylvania woods, an official who viewed surveillance video of the [Read More…]

Serial rape suspect Matthew Nilo ordered to pay $50,000 additional bail
Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via Getty Images (BOSTON) — Manhattan attorney Matthew Nilo — who is accused of a string of sexual assaults against women in Boston 15 years ago — was ordered to pay [Read More…]

SAG-AFTRA national board votes to approve strike
Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — The national board of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) voted Thursday to go on strike, summoning its 160,000 members to hit the picket [Read More…]

DOJ launches probe into Fulton County jails in Georgia amid allegations of inmate abuse, neglect
YinYang/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Thursday that it has launched a civil investigation into the Fulton County, Georgia, jail system following a series of reports of inmate abuse and neglect, [Read More…]

Pittsburgh Tree of Life synagogue mass shooting: Jury reaches verdict in death penalty phase
Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (PITTSBURGH) — Convicted Pittsburgh synagogue mass shooter Robert Bowers is eligible for the death penalty, a federal jury decided Thursday. The trial will now move forward into a final phase in which [Read More…]

Tornadoes touch down in Midwest amid flooding in Northeast and extreme heat in Southwest
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Severe storms spawned multiple tornadoes across northern Illinois on Wednesday evening that knocked down trees, ripped off roofs and disrupted hundreds of flights in the Chicago area. There were at [Read More…]

Three ‘heavily decomposed’ bodies discovered at remote wilderness campsite
Sheila Paras/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Three “heavily decomposed” people have been discovered at a remote campsite in the Colorado wilderness and authorities are trying to figure out who they are and how long they [Read More…]

Two suspects sought after alleged abduction attempt of 14-year-old at Pennsylvania mall, police say
Abington Township Police Department (NEW YORK) — Authorities in Pennsylvania are searching for two suspects after an alleged attempted kidnapping of a 14-year-old took place at the Willow Grove Mall in Montgomery County Wednesday evening. [Read More…]

Demolition of Idaho murders home paused amid discovery of asbestos and lead, objections from families
David Ryder/Getty Images, FILE (MOSCOW, Idaho) — Asbestos and lead — in addition to objections from some of the victims’ families — have delayed the process of tearing down the Idaho home where four college [Read More…]

Loved ones of Buffalo mass shooting victims sue social media, gun and body armor companies
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (BUFFALO, N.Y.) — Loved ones of those murdered in the 2022 racially motivated mass shooting at a Buffalo, New York, grocery store filed what their lawyers described as a “landmark” lawsuit Wednesday, [Read More…]

1 killed, 1 injured in hit-and-run near National Mall
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Secret Service and other Washington D.C., law enforcement agencies are looking for a hit-and-run driver, who killed a man and injured a teenager Wednesday after the suspect allegedly ran [Read More…]

Dinosaur fossils expected to garner up to $6 million at Sotheby’s auction
Courtesy of Sotheby’s (NEW YORK) — A pair of dinosaur fossils of species that roamed the Earth millions of years ago are expected to garner millions in an upcoming auction. The pterandon, described as one of [Read More…]

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center facing federal probe over treatment of Black mothers
Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — The federal government has launched a civil rights investigation into how Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles treats Black women who give birth at the hospital, [Read More…]

Woman who dated the dentist who was accused of killing his wife speaks out
ABC News (NEW YORK) — The woman who was dating a Colorado dentist at the time he was allegedly poisoning his wife to death spoke exclusively to ABC News about the case and maintains she had [Read More…]

Vermont grapples with historic flooding as more rainstorms head for Northeast
Photography by Keith Getter (all rights reserved)/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Flood-ravaged areas in the Northeast could see even more rainfall on Thursday as communities in Vermont and New York try to recover from a [Read More…]

Two Birmingham firefighters shot in potentially targeted attack, suspect at large: Police
FILE photo — Tim Kitchen/Getty Images (BIRMINGHAM, Ala.) — Two firefighters have been shot inside a Birmingham, Alabama, fire station in what police say may be a targeted attack. Both firefighters were hospitalized in serious [Read More…]