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USA TODAYHe kidnapped a school bus of children and buried them alive. This week, he was granted parole.
Frederick Woods, now 70, was 24 when he and two other men kidnapped 26 school children and their bus driver in Northern California and buried them.
- Fox News
Portland families forced to sell their homes as concerns mount over homeless camps
Residents of North Portland, Oregon, are putting their homes up for sale in recent days due to homeless camps that have grown along the Peninsula Crossing Trail.
- The Daily Beast
Woman Charged With Murder After Kiss With Inmate During Visitation Goes Horribly Wrong
Tennessee Department of CorrectionA woman who shared a kiss with a prisoner during a visitation in Tennessee has been charged with murder after the inmate died shortly after their exchange.Rachel Dollard was taken into custody over the weekend by special agents from the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) and the Dickson County Sheriff’s Department, the TDOC confirmed in a statement on Tuesday. She is accused of smuggling drugs into the Turney Center Industrial Complex.Dollard is facing ch
- Chicago Tribune
R. Kelly’s former goddaughter and alleged victim takes witness stand at his federal trial in Chicago, telling jury she had sex with singer ‘innumerable times’ while a minor
For the first time after two decades of swirling allegations, R. Kelly’s former goddaughter has taken the stand as a prosecution witness in a case against the disgraced singer. Dressed in a white blazer with her hair in long braids, the woman, now 37 and testifying at Kelly’s federal trial in Chicago under the pseudonym “Jane,” told the jury she had sexual contact with Kelly for the first time ...
- KABC – Los Angeles
Naked man steps out of truck after crash in Van Nuys, walks away
A bystander's video shows a man stepping out of a pickup truck after a crash in Van Nuys and calmly walking away from the scene.
- Women's Health
Charity Navigator Gave Dorit's Cause, Homeless Not Toothless, A Failing Grade
All about Homeless Not Toothless, the charity that Dorit Kemsley supports on 'RHOBH.' It was founded by Jay Grossman. Sharon Stone and Dorit serve on the board.
- INSIDER
Vanessa Bryant learned that the LA Sheriff's Department deleted graphic photos of the crash that killed Kobe and Gianna from an LA Times story, chief testifies
A former media relations captain testified that the sheriff's department never reached out to Vanessa Bryant or other victims' families about the photos.
- The Daily Beast
Paralyzed Highland Park Shooting Victim, 8, Is ‘Hopeless’ and ‘in Constant Pain,’ Family Says
via GoFundMeIn the wake of the Highland Park Fourth of July parade mass shooting, the story of 8-year-old Cooper Roberts’ survival was embraced by many following updates on the boy’s recovery.And more than a month after the massacre, Roberts is long out of intensive care—but his family says he is now in “constant pain” and “hopeless, sad, and angry” at the realization he is paralyzed.In a sobering and gut-wrenching statement released Tuesday, the Roberts family said they want people to see the u
- Miami Herald
Woman fakes being stranded, then kills Florida college student who stopped, AL cops say
“Yesterday my world ended.”
- Associated Press
In Mexico resort, squatters make a stand against developers
Unchecked development has hit this once laid back beach town on Mexico’s Caribbean coast so hard that developers are now eager — even desperate — to build condominiums and hotels in a shantytown. While police are trying to evict squatters so towering condos can be built next to wood and tarpaper shacks, residents are fighting back, saying they are tired of foreign investors excluding local people from their own coast. In the latest clash on July 27, police accompanying a backhoe fired tear gas and tried to knock down some squatters’ homes in the shadow of a new, balconied condo building.
- KTTV
Video shows man fighting teen in Valencia, prompting sheriff's department investigation
A video of a man fighting with a teen in Valencia has gone viral and the LA County Sheriff Santa Clarita Valley Station is investigating.
- Los Angeles Times Opinion
Editorial: NIMBY cities, watch out. California is cracking down on housing scofflaws
The Newsom administration's first target is San Francisco, the super-liberal city that may be the NIMBYist of them all.
- People
'Doesn't Seem Real': Family, Friends Grieve 2 Brothers Who Jumped from ' Jaws Bridge'
One brother's body has been recovered, while the other remains missing, per multiple reports
- People
Chicago Mom Loses Both of Her Feet After Boating Accident at Lake Michigan 'Playpen'
Lana Batochir, 34, was on a raft with friends when a larger boat reversed into them, police said, dragging Batochir and another with it
- Foster's Daily Democrat
'They deserve not to die in the woods': Rochester joins Tri-City pact to help the homeless
The Rochester City Council Tuesday unanimously approved supporting the Willand Warming Center for the upcoming winter for seasonal use only, not as a residential center.
- Yahoo Entertainment
'Deadliest Catch' fleet witnesses unusual rocket launch: 'Did Russia shoot a missile, dude?'
Tuesday’s Deadliest Catch was intense as the fishing fleet near the U.S.-Russian border witnessed what appeared to be a missile launch.
- KIRO
Seattle to clean up stretch of Interurban Trail filled with encampments, trash
Neighbors told KIRO 7 that people have changed their walking patterns to avoid the area.
- NextShark
Japanese hikers survive 10 days lost in the wilderness — immediately apologize for ‘causing trouble’ upon rescue
Two Japanese women who spent 10 days lost in the mountains immediately apologized to emergency responders for “causing trouble” after being rescued. The two unnamed hikers, a 61-year-old from Nagoya and a 69-year-old from Ichinomiya, were climbing the 1,895-meter-tall (approximately 6,217 feet) Mount Misen in central Japan, reported The Asahi Shumbun. Both women survived 10 days in the mountain by rationing chocolate and cookies and drinking stream water.
- BuzzFeed News
The Only Way For Some People To Stay in San Francisco Is To Steal
As San Francisco’s wealthy residents panic over property crime, some of the city’s less privileged can’t find ways to make ends meet.View Entire Post ›
- Associated Press
Salman Rushdie attacker 'surprised' the author survived
The man charged with stabbing Salman Rushdie on a lecture stage in western New York said in an interview that he was surprised to learn the accomplished author had survived the attack. Speaking to the New York Post from jail, Hadi Matar said he decided to see Rushdie at the Chautauqua Institution after he saw a tweet last winter about the writer's planned appearance. Matar, 24, said he considered late Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini “a great person” but wouldn't say whether he was following a fatwa, or edict, issued by Khomeini in Iran in 1989 that called for Rushdie’s death after the author published “The Satanic Verses.”