(NEW YORK) -- The summer season in New York City is informally marked each year by the hoisting of Pride flags on The People's Beach, a queer haven tucked away on the far eastern corner of the city's Jacob Riis Park in Queens."When I was a runaway, when I had…
(NEW YORK) -- A gigantic fish measuring 6 feet long and weighing 220 pounds has been caught in the Hudson River in New York during an environmental survey, officials said.The catch happened last week during an Atlantic sturgeon survey when staff from the Hudson River Estuary Program captured the enormous…
(UVALDE, Texas.) -- Former Uvalde School District Police Chief Pete Arredondo has been indicted in connection with the investigation into the 2022 mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, court records show.Arredondo was charged with 10 counts of abandoning and endangering a child in connection with 10 of…
(CHICAGO) -- The search has expanded for a Chicago woman who went missing while on a yoga retreat in the Bahamas last week, police said.Taylor Casey, 41, was last seen on June 19 in Paradise Island at the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat, which reported her missing the following day when…
(MOSCOW, Idaho.) -- A trial date of June 2, 2025, has been set for Bryan Kohberger, the man accused of killing four University of Idaho students in an off-campus house.The trial is expected to run until Aug. 29, 2025, precluding Juneteenth and the Fourth of July.The defense still wants a…
(BEND, Ore.) -- A wind-driven wildfire threatening homes and causing evacuations in Central Oregon has grown to 3,889 acres, officials said Thursday.The Darlene 3 Fire, which started around 2 p.m. Tuesday in Deschutes County, remained 30% contained Thursday for the second consecutive day. Between Wednesday night and Thursday afternoon, an…
(ALTON PARK, Ill.) -- A massive, 100-foot-wide sinkhole left a soccer field in southern Illinois partially collapsed, according to officials.The sinkhole formed at approximately 9:15 a.m. Wednesday at Gordon Moore Park in Alton, Illinois, which lies over a limestone mine operated by New Frontier Materials, the company said in a…
(NEW YORK) -- The federal judge overseeing Donald Trump's classified documents case on Thursday ordered an additional hearing to determine whether prosecutors improperly used evidence protected by attorney-client privilege to secure their indictment against the former president.In an 11-page ruling issued Thursday, Judge Aileen Cannon wrote that an additional hearing…
(CHICAGO) -- One 17-year-old was found dead and two others were rescued in Lake Michigan after they became distressed in the water while swimming.A possible drowning incident in Lake Michigan was reported to the Milwaukee County 911 Dispatch Center at around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday. The Milwaukee County Sheriff's Department responded…
(NEW YORK) -- Few modern-day structural mysteries have garnered as much international fascination as the tall, mirrored monolith columns that have appeared in seemingly random locations since 2020.Reminiscent of the prehistoric Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England, but rooted in Millennium-era fictional lore, monoliths are long vertical metal slabs, each approximately 10…
