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HuffPostSuspected Proud Boys Yelling Slurs At California LGBTQ Bar Get Pepper-Sprayed
The bar was hosting a drag show Thursday when about 10 people showed up to yell about “pedophiles” and harass bar operators and patrons.
- INSIDER
Chip and Joanna Gaines' dream to fix up Waco is pushing it out of locals' reach
An Insider reporter traveled to Waco, Texas, and found the reality was different from the version shown on Chip and Joanna Gaines' TV shows.
- Associated Press
3 police officers killed in Kentucky by suspect with rifle
Three law enforcement officers were killed and five wounded in eastern Kentucky when a man with a rifle opened fire on police attempting to serve a warrant, authorities said. Police took 49-year-old Lance Storz into custody late Thursday night after an hourslong standoff at a home in Allen, a small town in the hills of Appalachia. The responding officers encountered “pure hell” when they arrived on the scene, Floyd County Sheriff John Hunt told reporters Friday afternoon.
- The Daily Beast
Feds Detail Frantic Texts Between Driver and Organizer of Doomed Migrant Truck
Anderson County Sheriff's OfficeA 28-year-old Texas man accused of orchestrating the horrific smuggling operation that killed 53 migrants this week frantically texted the driver when the truck went off the radar and later admitted to a confidential informant he had no idea the air conditioning had failed in the sweltering big rig, the feds say.Christian Martinez, 28, was arrested Tuesday on a trafficking charge involving death that could result in life in prison or the death penalty after migran
- BuzzFeed
Here's The History Of 8 Different Sayings You Probably Use, But Have No Idea Why
Some of these are actually pretty dark.View Entire Post ›
- INSIDER
A 4-year-old Black girl became the poster child for a pro life anti-abortion group. Her mom had no idea until she saw the billboard.
Tricia Fraser was outraged when her child's photo appeared on an anti-abortion ad in 2011 without her consent. After Roe v. Wade's reversal, she's madder.
- LA Times
No Fourth of July fireworks? California cities cancel pyrotechnics shows amid investigation
Lancaster, Palmdale, La Puente and Lynwood were forced to cancel or revise their shows after the state fire marshal raided a vendor's warehouse.
- NextShark
Japan’s 87-year-old ‘Naked Hermit’ returns to remote island for a final farewell
After returning to civilization in 2018, Japan’s "Naked Hermit" went back to the remote island he once called home for nearly three decades to give it a proper farewell. In a June 16 blog post, Cerezo provided insight into the life of the voluntary castaway after he was “rescued” from the island and returned to civilization in 2018.
- USA TODAY Opinion
Alito's America: Where 'eminent' jurists believe in witches but women are the hysterics
When the abortion ruling came June 24, the first name I searched for was Sir Matthew Hale, believer of witches, and cited by Justice Alito.
- LA Times
This L.A. restaurant was excited to open. Then the graffiti and protests happened
Dunsmoor, an upscale new restaurant in L.A.'s Glassell Park neighborhood, was hit with protests and "Gentrification Is Genocide" graffiti on opening night.
- Associated Press
Texas inmate asks to delay execution for kidney donation
A Texas inmate who is set to be put to death in less than two weeks asked that his execution be delayed so he can donate a kidney. Ramiro Gonzales is scheduled to receive a lethal injection on July 13 for fatally shooting 18-year-old Bridget Townsend, a southwest Texas woman whose remains were found nearly two years after she vanished in 2001. In a letter sent Wednesday, Gonzales’ lawyers, Thea Posel and Raoul Schonemann, asked Republican Gov. Greg Abbott to grant a 30-day reprieve so the inmate can be considered a living donor “to someone who is in urgent need of a kidney transplant.”
- LA Times
The 53 migrants who died in Texas included this college-educated Honduran couple
Economic prospects in Central America have grown so dim that even the college-educated are attempting the perilous journey to the United States.
- Kansas City Star
Ice cream shop won’t serve police officers wearing body armor, calling it ‘disturbing’
The owner of the Michigan ice cream shop defended the controversial post.
- WPXI
Humane Animal Rescue gives positive update on dog that was neglected, abandoned
The Humane Animal Rescue of Pittsburgh provided a positive update on a dog who was abandoned and nearly starved in Crescent Township.
- KTVU
Suspects sought from attempted homicide at San Jose convenience store
The people seen in this surveillance footage from a San Jose convenience store are wanted for their alleged involvement in an incident in which one of the men fired a gun at the head of the store clerk who had stopped him from stealing a case of beer.
- USA TODAY
10,000 hippies and one (illegal) gathering in a remote Colorado forest: Meet the Rainbow Family
About 10,000 members of the Rainbow Family of Living Light are expected to gather in a remote Colorado forest under the watchful eye of authorities.
- KTVU
Suspects arrested in San Jose after elderly couple bound with belts, toddler held at gunpoint
San Jose police have arrested four suspects following a violent string of home invasions, including occasions where several men bound an elderly couple with belts before stealing their bank cards and jewelry and then continued on to hold a father and toddler at gunpoint.
- People
Julie Chrisley Calls Life After Financial Crime Convictions a 'Telling Time for Us as a Family'
The Chrisley Knows Best matriarch has noticed "people who have reached out ... people who haven't reached out" recently as she and husband Todd were tried and convicted for tax evasion and bank fraud
- KIRO
Bellevue police arrest prolific shoplifter
Detectives who worked closely with Fred Meyer loss prevention agents apprehended the 43-year-old Bellevue man when he showed up to an arranged meeting to sell stolen merchandise.
- Oxygen
North Carolina Woman Who Claimed Husband Died By Suicide Now Charged With His Murder
A woman in North Carolina who claimed her husband died by suicide is now being charged with his murder. Heather Hicks Auman, 37, was arrested Wednesday for the murder of her husband, Mishael James “MJ” Auman, 37, according to a statement from the Randolph County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies responded to the couple’s Seagrove home on Saturday after receiving 911 calls reporting “an alleged self-inflicted gunshot wound.” Responders found Mishael Auman clinging to life at the Ridge Road address, acco