Another alleged victim has come forward publicly regarding the former Michigan State University medical resident who has been charged with sexually assaulting two women during their appointments at an MSU health care facility.

East Lansing attorney Mike Nichols filed a notice of intent in the Michigan Court of Claims on Friday, Oct. 9, on ...Read more

A former Macalester College professor faces a felony charge for allegedly urinating around the St. Paul campus, including on a student’s backpack.

Paul Jerome Fischer, 56, of St. Paul, was charged Wednesday in Ramsey County District Court with first-degree property damage in connection with the acts that spanned more than a year until ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. -- Hurricane Isaias sliced through the Gulf of Mexico Friday afternoon — hundreds of miles from Tampa Bay — on its way toward the northern Gulf Coast, where it’s hours away from making landfall as a treacherous storm.

Isaias ( pronounced ees-ah-EE-ahs ) is likely to remain a dangerous hurricane at landfall Friday night, and ...Read more

The once-enthusiastic MAGA donor who told the Wall Street Journal about Kimberly Guilfoyle’s alleged efforts to hit him up for $100,000 to pay off her American Express bill has shared the reasons he decided to cooperate with the Journal’s bombshell report about her, which could threaten her job as U.S. ambassador to Greece and her standing ...Read more

NEW YORK — Oscar Belgal, the undocumented immigrant shot by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in a car on a crowded New York City street Thursday, had been arrested twice over the last three years and was free on supervised release after being charged with selling fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine to an undercover narcotics detective last...Read more

A former Cornell University student’s allegations of gang rape in 2024 have renewed attention on a difficult area of sexual assault law.

A person can be awake, responsive and even able to move during a sexual encounter while still being so intoxicated or impaired that they cannot understand what is happening or make an informed decision about...Read more

President Donald Trump said Russian leader Vladimir Putin had agreed to release diesel supplies into the global market, as the administration looks to tame price hikes for the critical fuel.

Trump said Friday in a social media post that “it was agreed that Russia will immediately supply over 300,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel to the American and ...Read more

CHICAGO — Shortly before she stabbed a 7-year-old girl in an unprovoked, daytime attack, Shavon Gayden first threatened to kill someone in a nearby store, Cook County prosecutors alleged Friday.

Gayden is charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of Eddimar Hernandez-Chacon on Oct. 3 as the girl walked down a busy South Side ...Read more

A cadre of elite techies, financiers, and high-level Trump administration officials have spent a year quietly charting an extraordinary and rapid campaign to persuade Americans to use apps and other artificial intelligence-powered tools to manage their healthcare and medical records.

As that campaign has unfolded, administration officials have ...Read more

BALTIMORE — When 10-year-old Alex Thomas spotted a tiny kitten on the side of Heaps School Road last week, his bus driver, Cynthia Morgan, pulled over on the rural road and told him to go get it. Alex, the only child on the bus, held the kitten all the way to North Harford Elementary School, then left it with Morgan.

Soon after, Harford ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. -- After days of rain across the Tampa Bay area, local officials are ramping up efforts against an unprecedented rise in cases of dengue fever this year.

As of Oct. 1, Hillsborough has seen 223 confirmed dengue fever cases, the most in the state. But that number is likely much higher, Florida Department of Health officer Carla Fry ...Read more

The federal judge considering potential sanctions in the controversial “Broadview Six” made her first formal discovery requests to the U.S. attorney’s office on Friday, demanding any written communications with anyone outside the office regarding “investigatory or charging decisions” as well as an email sent to U.S. Attorney Andrew ...Read more

It’s 9:15 in the morning. The wind is roaring at 110 miles per hour (177 kph); the sound is deafening. Dust swirls through the air. We are watching a single-wide manufactured home rock back and forth, as it is pounded by turbulent wind.

Then, in an instant, the screws shear off and the entire unit tumbles backward, rolling two full ...Read more

You have probably noticed it on a hot summer day: A basement feels cool even when the air outside is baking. The ground does not heat up and cool down as fast as the air does. A few hundred feet down, it stays close to the local yearly average all year, which can be around 50 degrees Fahrenheit (10 Celsius).

In Verona, Wisconsin, the ...Read more

Surrogacy arrangements – agreements for someone to carry a pregnancy for the intended parents – have existed for millennia, and modern surrogacy contracts for half a century.

These contracts typically address parental rights, the possibility of abortion, medical instructions, health insurance and payment of expenses, each side ...Read more

Every autumn, homeowners and gardeners tend to engage in a familiar ritual. As trees shed their leaves, people drag out rakes, leaf blowers and lawn bags to strip their yards bare before winter arrives.

It is a tidy habit rooted in aesthetics, but ecologically, clearing away fallen leaves strips the very foundation of local ecosystems...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Recent bursts of gunfire have shattered the peace in these typically placid suburban Twin Cities settings: A high school homecoming game, a church basketball court, a middle class residential street.

Police are sounding the alarm about the recent shootings, saying they’re believed to be connected, and the result of a new kind ...Read more

Over the course of two years, Flock cameras have popped up across the nation, and multiple groups are organizing to ban them across Texas.

Flock cameras are automated license plate readers used by law enforcement. Any law enforcement agency with a Flock contract can plug in a license plate number and their reason for search to detect where that...Read more