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A Pennsylvania priest is facing charges after prosecutors say he stole more than $740,000 from churches, church affiliates – and his own mother.Gregory Allen Madeya, 69, was arrested last month in Vero Beach, Florida and was later extradited back to Pennsylvania.Investigators say he is a former Ukrainian Catholic priest whose crimes started in 2018.MINNESOTA NONPROFIT ACCUSED OF SIPHONING $6.5M TO FUND VEGAS TRIPS, LUXURY CARS, PRIVATE LIQUOR STOREHe served at […]

An Alabama woman accused of causing a deadly crash while driving a school bus experienced a medical crisis during the accident, her supporters reportedly said.Theresa McCloud, 75, faces charges of vehicular homicide and criminal negligence for the Nov. 18, 2025 crash in Auburn.McCloud was driving a bus for Auburn City Schools when she struck a vehicle. Jennifer Leigh Cooper, 42, a well-known local bakery owner, was killed in the collision, […]

A Miami steakhouse manager allegedly emerged from his luxury apartment covered in blood and clutching a knife before telling police he had acted in self-defense after his mother was found stabbed to death inside.Stefano Eduardo Cremasco-Cicero, 36, told officers, "I was defending myself," after Miami police were called to the Brickell high-rise early Friday, according to an arrest report obtained by WPLG.Cremasco-Cicero is charged with second-degree murder with a weapon, […]

Two men died within roughly 24 hours at Burning Man as tens of thousands of "burners" gathered in the Nevada desert for the final days of the famed festival.One of the men, identified as 60-year-old Craigh Mann, was found dead by campmates Saturday afternoon, festival organizers said. Another participant in his mid-50s died after suffering a medical emergency a day earlier.Mann was found at his camp in Black Rock City […]

A 22-year-old Singapore man accused of helping steal more than $240 million in Bitcoin from a single victim and splurging the proceeds on luxury cars, private jets, mansions and wild nights out is expected to plead guilty this week in one of the largest cryptocurrency thefts in U.S. history.Malone Lam, an eighth-grade dropout from Singapore whom prosecutors have identified as a suspected ringleader of the sprawling cryptocurrency scheme, is scheduled […]

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier says his office will seek the death penalty for the two adults who allegedly confined four children to the cab of a tractor-trailer, some for more than six years, and sexually abused them.Keisha Monique Epps, 51, and Tamra Marshon Stewart, 37, have been charged with sexual battery, molestation and neglect of two girls and two boys — two 5-year-olds, a 6-year-old and a 9-year-old, Uthmeier […]

A trio of novice hikers who turned to AI to help plan their climb up California’s Mount Shasta ended up stranded overnight in a steep canyon after their trek went dangerously off course, authorities said.The three young men from Roseville told a Siskiyou County sheriff’s deputy after their rescue that they had relied heavily on Google Gemini for information about the route and what to pack for the trip.That proved […]

A Missouri foster mother accused of trading a teenage girl for a monkey avoided prison time, even as a judge condemned her as reprehensible and apologized to her alleged victims for a foster care system he said had failed them.Brenda Deutsch, 70, was sentenced to seven years in prison for child endangerment, but a Lincoln County judge suspended execution of the sentence and placed her on three years of probation, […]

An East Texas sheriff’s deputy got the scare of his life when a deer he thought was dead suddenly sprang to its feet, sending the startled lawman screaming back toward his cruiser in a moment caught on camera that quickly went viral online.The wild encounter was captured on the deputy’s dashcam and shared on Facebook by Trinity County Sheriff Woody Wallace, who joked that sometimes things can "scare the heck […]