Former New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison for Bribery
NEW YORK — Former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez was sentenced Wednesday to 11 years in prison for accepting bribes of gold and cash and acting as an agent of Egypt...
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With Rihanna looking on, ASAP Rocky accuser describes alleged Hollywood shooting
Rihanna made her first appearance in court during ASAP Rocky’s assault trial Wednesday, with the singer seated in the gallery as the downtown Los Angeles court heard key testimony about...
‘Smallville’ star Tom Welling arrested on suspicion of DUI in Northern California
Actor Tom Welling, who played a young Clark Kent in the CW’s long-running Superman origin series “Smallville,” was arrested in Northern California over the weekend. According to TMZ and USA...
Attempted murder suspect escapes through jail’s ventilation system
An inmate escaped over the weekend from a jail in North Carolina, fleeing through the building’s ventilation system, authorities said. Law enforcement agencies across the state launched a manhunt once...
Column: Trump pardoned a lot of bad apples. Now he and Republicans own the barrelful
Politics often entails angles and illusion, dodges and diversions. Navigating the space between hope and reality is one of its requisite skills. But sometimes events demand a straightforward response. To...
NYC residents praise ICE raids after violent gang member captured
Immigration officials have been busy this week removing criminal illegal migrants off New York City streets, with many residents hailing the sweeps as making the Big Apple a safer place...
A judge tosses social media star Yashar Ali’s defamation case against LA Magazine
Journalist and social media influencer Yashar Ali referred to a 2021 Los Angeles Magazine profile piece about him as “defamatory” and accused the publisher and article’s author as engaging in...
Women met him in an L.A. rave’s ‘drug room.’ He says their deaths weren’t his fault
When David Pearce found two women unconscious in his apartment around 5 a.m., their prone forms near empty liquor bottles and a powdery substance, he said, at first he didn’t...
St. John Bosco coach Jason Negro embezzled money, paid football players’ tuition in cash, lawsuit alleges
A lawsuit filed by three former employees of Bellflower St. John Bosco alleges that highly decorated football coach Jason Negro embezzled money from the Catholic school for years and had...
San Francisco tech founder and wife arrested for allegedly defrauding investors out of millions
San Francisco tech founder Alex Beckman and his wife, Valerie Lau, were arrested last week after prosecutors accused the couple of defrauding investors out of more than $60 million. Beckman...
