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A man with a long history of arrests is now accused of killing a woman during a home invasion in a quiet San Francisco neighborhood, a case that is renewing scrutiny of California’s mental-health diversion system.Cassidy Wyatt Allen, 45, appeared in court Wednesday to face special-circumstance murder and first-degree burglary charges in the death of 38-year-old Jessica Alejandra Sanchez Landaverde. The San Francisco District Attorney’s Office announced the charges in […]

An Arkansas county jail has become one of America’s busiest hubs for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), with hundreds of people arrested this year.More than 450 people have been detained from Jan. 1 through Oct. 15 at the Benton County Jail, according to ICE arrest data from the University of California Berkeley Deportation Data Project reviewed by the Associated Press, a rate of roughly 1.5 arrests per day in a […]

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Wednesday announced ICE had detained a Harvard Law School professor accused in a shooting outside a synagogue in October. Carlos Portugal Gouvêa, a Brazilian national, was arrested Oct. 2 after he allegedly fired a BB gun outside a Boston area synagogue the day before Yom Kippur. Gouvêa told authorities at the time he was "hunting rats." He pleaded guilty Nov. 13 to illegal use of the […]

Newly released video shows a group of suspects using a stolen truck to drag an ATM from a Washington state Walgreens before abandoning it as deputies arrived in what investigators describe as a coordinated burglary attempt.Video of the attempted heist, posted by the Pierce County Sheriff's Office, shows the stolen truck repeatedly ramming into the storefront, smashing through a security gate before two suspects jump out and attach a chain […]

A New Orleans city council meeting descended into chaos Thursday when anti-ICE protesters stormed council chambers, shouting down officials and clashing with police over the launch of a major federal immigration enforcement surge now underway across southeast Louisiana.The outburst came one day after the Department of Homeland Security announced Operation Catahoula Crunch, a two-month federal initiative deploying 250 Border Patrol agents to New Orleans and surrounding areas. The operation, referred […]

The accused assassin charged in the ambush shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson claimed he was homeless after showing police a fake driver's license when they found him five days after the murder, according to testimony Thursday on the third day of a suppression hearing. Luigi Mangione's defense team hopes to have key evidence tossed before trial.Although police testified Mangione appeared nervous at first, after more than a dozen officers arrived, […]

A former Kansas high school art teacher accused of having sex with a student, including multiple times in the backseat of her Jeep, will stand trial. Nicole Hernandez, 30, also known as Nikki Baird, appeared in court Tuesday, when a judge ruled she will be tried on four counts of unlawful sexual relations with a student, KAKE.com reported. Baird allegedly groomed the then-17-year-old student in middle school before both moved on to […]

The student government at Loyola University on Wednesday night denied a chapter of Turning Point USA from becoming a registered student organization (RSO) for the second time.The decision was handed down after the Turning Point students won an appeal by the school's court of review, and the case was remanded back to the student government, which first denied the chapter in October. The student government has not yet provided a […]

Texas officials have confirmed that the mysterious death of Texas A&M student Brianna Aguilera has been ruled a suicide, with evidence of a deleted suicide note on her phone, despite her family’s assertion that the college student’s death was "not accidental." Aguilera’s body was found at an Austin apartment mere hours after she attended a Texas A&M vs. University of Texas football tailgate at around 12:50 a.m. on Saturday, according to […]