We extend our deepest condolences to his family, friends, and colleagues, and ask the media to respect their privacy at this time," Worcester County District Attorney Joseph Early, Jr. said in a press release.
The European Commission has condemned the reported spread of explicit, child-like content on social media platform X, calling the material appalling and disgusting. European Union digital affairs spokesman Thomas Regnier made the comments to reporters on Monday following weeks of complaints over a new feature on X's integrated AI chatbot Grok used to generate pornographic content, including depicting children.
Authorities have detained a suspect who allegedly smashed the windows of Vice President JD Vance's home, the U.S. Secret Service revealed on Monday. The suspect was taken into custody by Secret Service personnel just after midnight on suspicion of property damage to Vance's Cincinnati residence. Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said the suspect was detained after causing property damage, including breaking windows on the exterior of a personal residence associated with Vance on Sunday.
After a shark attack injured one of their own nearly three years ago, members of the Kelp Krawlers who swim weekly around Lovers Point in Monterey County began searching for something that might make the open ocean feel safer. They turned to wearable shark deterrents, including magnetic ankle bands designed to overwhelm a shark's electroreceptors the sensitive sixth sense pores the predators use to detect the faint electrical heartbeats of nearby prey.
Investigators said Friday that they believe sparkling candles atop Champagne bottles ignited a fatal fire at a Swiss ski resort when they came too close to the ceiling of a bar crowded with New Year's Eve revelers. Authorities planned to look into whether sound-dampening material on the ceiling conformed with regulations and whether the candles, which give off a stream of upward-shooting sparks, were permitted for use in the bar.
A senior Russian general has been "assassinated" in car bomb in Moscow on Monday morning. Lt General Fanil Sarvarov, the head of the operational training directorate of Russia 's armed forces was one of Vladimir Putin's senior officials died from injuries sustained in the successful car bomb attack. An explosive device exploded from underneath his car as he was travelling to work, Russia's Investigative Committee said.
A Los Angeles County resident is still looking for her missing cat after an Amazon delivery driver was seen on surveillance video appearing to take the animal from her home earlier this month. After the incident, the driver is no longer working for Amazon, according to the company, which called it a "horrible act." In footage posted to Facebook, someone wearing a vest can be seen placing a package on the porch of a Lakewood home Thursday night. Afterward, the individual moves into the home's front yard, kneels on the ground and tries to pick up the cat, which the post said is named Piper.
Fifty-five minutes before he allegedly shot and killed right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk, Tyler Robinson was bragging about his success playing the online puzzle game Wordle. It was the morning of Sept. 10. Robinson had guessed the answer - "pouty" - on his third attempt. He sent his results and a celebratory meme to a friend, who responded with a meme of his own and conceded that it had taken him five tries.
Six teenagers were injured in a shooting early Sunday morning outside a party venue in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn, according to police. Officers responded at approximately 1:15 a.m. to a 911 call reporting multiple people shot outside 2929 Atlantic Ave., an NYPD spokesperson said. When police officers arrived, they found six victims ranging in age from 15 to 17. A 15-year-old girl was shot in the chest, hip and leg, while another 15-year-old girl was shot in the right leg.
"Your trusted Dublin 6 agents," goes the tagline on a new advertisement for Sherry FitzGerald that we spotted in Ranelagh last week. Dublin 6 is also home to ­Mullery O'Gara estate agents, the subject of a recent investigation by the Irish Independent which revealed that the firm got a UK businessman to pretend to be the owner of a house it was selling.
The Metropolitan Police has said it will "take no further action" over claims Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor asked his police protection officer for information on accuser Virginia Giuffre. The allegations, first reported in the Mail on Sunday in October, said the then-prince gave the officer Ms Giuffre's date of birth and social security number, just before the paper published a photo of the pair meeting in February 2011.
Fire crews are still on the scene of a home explosion that happened near Hayward on Thursday, sifting through the rubble and debris. Three people were seriously hurt in that explosion, while three others suffered minor injuries. There are still questions to be answered, including why PG&E and emergency crews did not evacuate the area when they learned of a gas leak there. PG&E crews brought in fencing on Friday to close off the home that exploded and the ones next to it.
"The City of Saline Police Department assisted in locating and detaining former University of Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore," the department said in a statement released to ESPN. "Mr. Moore was turned over to the Pittsfield Township Police Department for investigation into potential charges."
