Police say a 24-year-old central New York man who admitted to being involved in about 100 thefts has been arrested again after robbing a woman. Auburn police say Kenneth Lafler was arrested after he jumped into a woman’s car Monday night and stole her purse. Officers say the victim recognized… Read More
Freak of nature! Spontaneous snowballs form in Idaho
Thousands of snowballs rolled in a flat central Idaho field look like the work of hundreds of ambitious kids — except there are no human tracks. A rare weather event caused the spontaneous snowballs at the Nature Conservancy’s Silver Creek Preserve and surrounding fields near the tiny town of Picabo…. Read More
Famous racecar driver turns scam artist, arrested
Professional racecar driver Scott Tucker has been charged in a payday lending operation offering quick cash over the Internet to desperate people. Authorities said Tucker was arrested Wednesday in Kansas City, Kansas, on charges in an indictment unsealed in federal court in New York City. The indictment says Tucker and… Read More
Rubio prepares for more aggressive approach
Facing the biggest test of his presidential bid, Marco Rubio promised a more aggressive approach in what his team expects to become an extended Republican nomination fight that could result in a brokered national convention. “I don’t need to start these fights, but if someone starts one in the future… Read More
56 years later, arrest made in beauty queen murder
For more than half a century, the unsolved killing of a young schoolteacher and beauty queen who was last seen at church haunted the Texas city of McAllen. But now, nearly 56 years after the bludgeoned body of 25-year-old Irene Garza was pulled from an irrigation canal, police have arrested… Read More
No more living on the edge. CA cliff dwellers start to move
Sonja Thompson lives so close to the edge of an 80-foot bluff above the Pacific Ocean that when paragliders fly by “you can almost high-five them.” Having the Pacific as your backyard has its benefits, and its dangers. Crumbling cliffs have forced dozens to leave their homes and others like… Read More
Clinton, Sanders square off tonight. Here’s what to watch for…
Grudge match. Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders get back in the debate ring Thursday night with an increasingly bitter family score to settle. The debate comes just 48 hours after Sanders’ victory over Clinton in the New Hampshire primary by 22 percentage points, a jagged pill made… Read More
Christie expected to drop out of presidential race
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is expected to drop out of the 2016 presidential race as soon as today, according to ABC News. Christie recently cancelled an event in South Carolina on the heels of his disappointing finish in the New Hampshire GOP primary, and told a crowd of supporters… Read More
Rigged! Hillary secretly STOLE New Hampshire
It’s the headline on every newspaper and website around the country: Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders won a resounding victory over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in yesterday’s New Hampshire Democratic primary. But there’s another story the media has been much slower to pick up on. Because despite his 22-point… Read More
State sets killer free without a trial
It was an unprovoked attack, according to prosecutors. A man kicked in the door and brutally stabbed an elderly Georgia woman to death while she lay in her bed at a senior citizen home. And on Monday, the murdered victim’s daughter pleaded with the Georgia Supreme Court not to let… Read More