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As the investigation unfolded, authorities arrested Maiben on charges of larceny over $1,200, tampering with evidence, and obstruction. He was later charged with Pringle's murder and pleaded not guilty. In a pretrial motion, prosecutors suggested Pringle was upset with Maiben and planning to end their relationship. According to the court filing, Pringle sent one of her friends a series of text messages shortly before she died
BRASELTON, Ga. -- Charlie Woods now shares one honor with Tiger Woods, as the son of the 15-time major champion was named first-team All-America by the American Junior Golf Association on Wednesday. Charlie Woods, a junior at The Benjamin School in South Florida, was among 12 boys named to the first team of the AJGA's annual list. Miles Russell, the 17-year-old who was an alternate at the Walker Cup this summer, was selected player of the year for the second time.
The Mega Millions jackpot jumped to an estimated $843 million after no winning numbers were drawn on Tuesday night. The cash option on that prize comes out to more than $391 million dollars. It is now the longest streak without a winner since the game started more than 20 years ago. The big prize has been growing ever since late June when a Virginia winner hit for $348 million. A whopping $843 million dollars is up for grabs in Friday night's drawing.
BANGKOK Prosecutors in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore seized hundreds of millions of dollars in assets belonging to a Cambodian businessman whom the U.S. accuses of heading a global scam syndicate. It's the latest in a string of investigations and asset seizures that began when American prosecutors charged Chen Zhi, the founder of Cambodia's Prince Holding Group, with running a large-scale cyber-scam network whose operations span countries including the U.S., the U.K. and Palau.
The measure, called Proposition 50, will replace lines drawn by an independent commission with a map that could net Democrats as many as five new seats in next year's U.S. House elections. The AP called the race just as polls closed in California. The result caps a strong election night for Democrats, who also pocketed notable wins in Virginia and New Jersey.
On June 27, 1980, Jose Artiga was 23 and two semesters shy of an engineering degree when his family received word that far-right death squads were coming for him and four other college students in his hometown of San Martin, El Salvador. Leer en espanol El Salvador was a year into a civil war that pitted the paramilitary death squads, funded in part by the U.S. government, against Marxist-Leninist guerilla forces and the civilians who supported them.
Each winter, fine particle pollution reaches dangerous levels, with residential wood burning responsible for up to 34% of emissions. This is a serious public health threat. Low-income families and communities of color already bear the greatest burden of polluted air, suffering higher rates of asthma and heart disease. The need for cleaner air is urgent, and limiting wood burning is a reasonable, science-based solution. Cleaner winter air means fewer emergency room visits and lives saved.
A woman died at Walt Disney World Sunday, marking the fourth death at the Orlando park over just three weeks. On Nov. 2, a woman in her 40s was transported to Hospital, where she passed away, the Orange County Sheriff's Office confirmed to the Daily News. There were no signs of foul play. It's unclear where the woman was on the property when authorities were called as well as whether she was guest or employee.
The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday imposed sanctions against eight individuals and two entities within North Korea's global financial network for laundering money for various illicit schemes, including cybercrime and information technology (IT) worker fraud. "North Korean state-sponsored hackers steal and launder money to fund the regime's nuclear weapons program," said Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence John K. Hurley.
Driving the news: UPS flight 2976 was scheduled to fly from Louisville to Honolulu when it went down around 5:15 p.m. local time, the FAA said on X. The Louisville Metro Police Department originally issued a shelter-in-place order for all locations within five miles of the airport. The order has since been expanded to all areas north of the airport to the Ohio River.
Dean Herrington said he has been let go as football coach at St. Francis after five seasons during which his teams won three league championships and made two Southern Section finals. The team went 2-8 this season and failed to make the playoffs in a season in which there were numerous injuries at the quarterback position. St. Francis ended the regular season with a stunning 28-21 win over Cathedral.
Brooklyn's Jewish community wakes up to two swastikas at Magen David Yeshiva in Gravesend. While @NYPDHateCrimes investigates, the Mayor-elect must unequivocally condemn this hateful graffiti...Time to represent and protect ALL New Yorkers. pic.twitter.com/tT01SbJq6K - Nicole Malliotakis (@NMalliotakis) November 5, 2025
Olympians are extremely disciplined when it comes to training for their respective sports - it comes with the territory of being an elite athlete with the hopes of landing on the podium. The training's not done quite yet, though, as the stars gearing up for the 2026 Winter Olympics taking place in Milan and Cortina, prepare to take the global stage.
Scott Stafford, of Dublin, was charged with contacting a minor with intent to commit a sex crime. He was arrested in late September after an undercover sting by a San Ramon officer who posed as a boy on Grindr, a dating application geared toward LGTBQ individuals, according to court records. At the time of his arrest, Stafford was working as a delivery driver for UPS, authorities said.
Long-range drone ships could transform Pacific warfare, expanding a navy's reach while keeping sailors out of harm's way. An American company building these kinds of ships with the Navy's needs in mind says it has successfully tested its technology in the water, bringing the innovative vessel a major step closer to becoming reality. Blue Water Autonomy is the first to test larger, long-range interchangeable ship-scale systems in an iterative way on the water, its leadership told Business Insider.
Boys and girls harmonize together as their music teacher Tenzin Nordel leads them through a Tibetan song in a classroom overlooking an alpine forest. Theater kids practice Tibetan operas in the school hall. Even as they shoot hoops, teenage boys wear traditional shirts that button to one side, under the shoulder. For decades, this is how the Tibetan Children's Village imparted Tibetan students with their language, culture and faith in their de facto capital in exile in the northern Indian city of Dharamshala.
Search engines are often the first place people go when they have health questions," says Daniel Eisenkraft Klein, a research fellow at the Program on Regulation, Therapeutics and Law at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital. "Pharmaceutical companies have figured out how to game that system with pay-per-click ads, which are essentially their way of buying their way to the top of search results," he added.
Teen Vogue covered fashion and celebrity, but also took in-depth looks at politics and social justice issues. Their writers have tackled everything from climate change to political pressures on universities, celebrity style to Billie Eilish's recent comments about billionaires. According to a statement posted on X from Conde United, a bargaining unit of the union the NewsGuild of New York, six of its members who worked for Teen Vogue are being laid off.
