A man “escalating his violent behavior” — and linked to at least three slayings in Oklahoma and Alabama — was arrested in Arkansas on Thursday, authorities said. Morrilton police and Arkansas State Police found and arrested Stacy Lee Drake, 50, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said in a statement. Stacy Lee Drake, 50, was … Read more
A University of Southern California student will not be charged in the fatal stabbing of a suspected car burglar near campus, prosecutors said Thursday. Ivan Gallegos, 19, of Los Angeles, was booked into jail on suspicion of murder early Tuesday and held on $2 million bail following the Monday night attack, police said. The victim, … Read more
A man who may have been sexually assaulting a woman in Las Vegas was fatally stabbed after a group of people intervened to help the victim, authorities said Wednesday. The incident occurred Tuesday afternoon in a shed southeast of downtown Las Vegas, the city’s police department said in a news release. Homicide detectives learned that … Read more
The piercing scream, like a sound from a horror film, triggered taekwondo instructor Simon An to draw on his years of martial arts training. Around 4 p.m. Tuesday, shortly after the doors of his family-owned and -operated studio in Texas opened for evening classes, An and his father, his mother, his older sister and his … Read more
Two people were injured when five masked men attacked them after a high school graduation ceremony Wednesday in New York, slashing one person in the ear and another in the leg, school officials said. The attack outside a sports complex at Hofstra University on Long Island occurred as graduates from Hempstead and Uniondale high schools … Read more
A second death was reported Wednesday in a pair of wildfires in New Mexico that have forced the evacuations of thousands of people in and around the town of Ruidoso and destroyed around 1,400 structures. Both bodies were found Tuesday, a day after the fires broke out and spread quickly, New Mexico State Police spokesperson … Read more
MOSCOW— A court in Russia’s far eastern city of Vladivostok on Wednesday sentenced an American soldier arrested earlier this year to three years and nine months in prison on charges of stealing and threats of murder, Russian news reports said. Staff Sgt. Gordon Black, 34, flew to Vladivostok, a Pacific port city, to see his … Read more
A group of U.S. lawmakers met with Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama in India on Wednesday, a move likely to anger China. The visit came as President Joe Biden appears poised to sign a bill pressuring Beijing to resolve tensions with Tibet and protect the region’s native Buddhist culture. The bipartisan delegation of seven … Read more
Now a rising junior at the University of Michigan, where he trains and competes, he’s on the precipice of fulfilling a dream shared by many young athletes. “I want to enter the Olympics with the whole country knowing, like, that’s Frederick Richard, like this man is going to do it,” he said. The Olympics has … Read more
Former NBA star Nate Robinson, who was diagnosed with kidney disease 18 years ago, said he knows he will die if he doesn’t find a kidney donor soon. “I gotta stick around. I want to stay alive for the next 40 years: be a grandpa, see my kids’ kids, take them to the gym, tell … Read more