A stolen vehicle rammed by Torrance, California, police during a pursuit struck a woman as she crossed the street. Maria Salazar was carrying grocery bags and walking in a crosswalk at Vermont Avenue and Sepulveda Boulevard in Los Angeles’ Harbor City area Thursday when she was hit, NBC Los Angeles reported. “I was crossing the … Read more
Hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman, who recently fought a high-profile battle against Harvard University, said Friday that he’s starting an activist organization to fight antisemitism and reform higher education. “It’s going to be a ‘think-and-do tank.’ It’s going to be an activist,” Ackman said in an interview with CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin on “Squawk Box.” “I’m … Read more
At least eight people have been diagnosed with measles in an outbreak that started last month in the Philadelphia area. The most recent two cases were confirmed on Monday. The outbreak began after a child who’d recently spent time in another country was admitted to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) with an infection, which … Read more
Bill Belichick and New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft announced Thursday that they’d mutually agreed to part ways after a remarkable six-title run. Belichick was a successful assistant coach and had a five-season stint in charge of the Cleveland Browns before leading New England to unprecedented success. 1979: He started a 12-year run working for … Read more
EBay will pay $3 million to resolve criminal charges stemming from several of its former employees’ sending live spiders, cockroaches and a fetal pig to a Massachusetts couple who wrote a newsletter critical of the company in 2019, officials said Thursday. The online auction giant was charged criminally with two counts of stalking through interstate … Read more
Mucarsell-Powell was born in Guayaquil and arrived in the U.S. with her mother and sisters when she was 14 in the 1970s, when military dictators ruled the country. When she was 24, her father was killed by criminal gun violence in Ecuador. Despite witnessing tanks in the streets when she was growing up, “I have … Read more
LOS ANGELES — A 71-year-old man who spent more than half his life in prison for robbing banks before his release three years ago is at it again, police said Wednesday. Bruce Edward Bell was arrested after the holdup at a bank in Sun Valley, a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley, on Dec. 21, … Read more
President Joe Biden and his national security adviser met Wednesday with the sister of Paul Whelan, a businessman and former Marine who the U.S. government says has been wrongfully held in a Russian prison, the White House said. Whelan was arrested in Russia in December 2018 and was later convicted of espionage, allegations he and … Read more
A New Hampshire man pleaded guilty Wednesday for his role in a “series of extortionate bomb threats” against Harvard University in April, the Justice Department announced. William Giordani, 55, pleaded guilty in federal court in Boston to a count of concealing a federal felony. He was arrested in May and indicted by a federal grand … Read more
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The family of a second inmate who died while incarcerated in Alabama’s prison system is alleging that his body was also returned to them with missing organs. The family of Brandon Clay Dotson, who died in a state prison in November, filed a federal lawsuit last month against the Alabama Department of … Read more