All charges have been dismissed against a deaf Black man with cerebral palsy who was shocked with a Taser and repeatedly punched by Phoenix police officers. Tyron McAlpin, 34, was charged with two counts of aggravated assault and one count of resisting arrest, both felonies, after police accused him of failing to respond to verbal … Read more
The New York Yankees are going to the World Series after beating the Cleveland Guardians 5 to 2 in Game 5 of the American League Championship Series on Saturday. It’s a return to baseball’s biggest stage for the Yankees, who have not played in the World Series since winning it in 2009. While the 15-year … Read more
Seven years ago, the bodies of two teenage girls were discovered near a hiking trail outside the small Indiana town of Delphi. The case remained unsolved for years, and authorities have offered few details publicly about why Richard Allen, a onetime pharmacy employee charged in the murders of Liberty German, 14, and Abigail Williams, 13 … Read more
More younger women are getting breast cancer, and doctors are scrambling to understand why. Rates of breast cancer in women under 50 have increased more than 15% in the last two decades, a rise that is almost entirely driven by an increase in estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer (ER+), a tumor subtype that needs the hormone … Read more
10:47 a.m. Adkins took photos of Mendoza, who died in the flood, walking across the parking lot. Adkins also shot a video of the parking lot, saying: “We have no power at work. This is at Impact Plastics. This is the parking lot. Here are the cars. I mean, it’s flooded.” Zinnia Adkins took a … Read more
A federal judge on Thursday issued a temporary restraining order against Florida’s surgeon general, the latest development in a legal battle over a television ad supporting the state’s abortion rights ballot measure. Earlier this month, the Florida Department of Health sent cease-and-desist letters to multiple broadcast stations that had aired the ad, threatening criminal charges … Read more
A relative of the Boston police officer who died after Karen Read allegedly ran him down in her SUV said her family fully supports retrying Read after her widely publicized murder trial ended with a hung jury earlier this year. Beth, who is in John O’Keefe’s extended family and asked to be identified by only … Read more
Tech billionaire Elon Musk said Friday that all voting should be “in person,” contradicting his own history of voting by mail and the efforts of his pro-Trump super PAC to get others to vote by mail, too. During a wide-ranging town hall event in Oaks, Pennsylvania, where Musk is campaigning for former President Donald Trump, … Read more
Years before Hurricane Helene shut down a critical intravenous fluid facility in North Carolina, sparking concerns in hospitals across the country, many common IV fluids were already in short supply in the U.S. Saline solution, a mixture of sodium chloride and water, has been in shortage since 2018, according to the Food and Drug Administration’s … Read more
Laith Wallschleger looked like a mess. He had just run through an exploding wall — literally — as a stunt double for former NFL star Rob Gronkowski in a Super Bowl commercial and had plaster all over his hair, face and body. But he had a red-eye flight from Los Angeles to New York in … Read more