New York City, NY

Chicago, IL

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Clarisa Figueroa, a 51-year-old woman from Chicago, has been sentenced to 50 years in prison after pleading guilty to the horrific murder of 19-year-old Marlen Ochoa-Lopez and the subsequent removal of her unborn child from her womb. The ghastly crime, which shocked the nation, unfolded in April 2019 and has left a lasting scar on the community.

Woman sentenced for cutting baby from teen's woman, killing both

Orange County, CA

Santa Ana, CA

NewSantaAna

On Thursday, May 2, 2024, at 4:27 p.m., Santa Ana Police Department Communications received a call from a female who reported that her boyfriend stabbed her and her uncle, according to the SAPD .

A boyfriend fatally stabbed his girlfriend and her uncle at a Santa Ana business

Massachusetts State

Panama City, FL

Alyne Farrell, a former Mowat Middle School who protested a schoolwide ban against a select number of novels in 1986, at her home in Ventura, Calif., April 4, 2024. “The Chocolate War,” published 50 years ago, became one of the country’s most challenged books. Its author, Robert Cormier, spent years fighting attempts to ban it — like many authors today. (Peyton Fulford/The New York Times)

His book was repeatedly banned. Fighting for it shaped his life.

Kansas City, MO

Cats of Kansas City

Many people have lost faith in the news and question truth from all comers. The idea of a universal truth, outside of the sky being blue and that one plus one equals two, seems to be more and more elusive. One thing that everyone can agree on, however, is that cats are the world's greatest pets. Dogs are fine, sure, but they aren't cats. Fish are kind of fun to look at...for like five minutes. Cats though? No fact check needed. They're the best.

Six great cats you can welcome into your home right now

Wisconsin State

Rockland, ME

ROCKLAND, ME.- Whenever a worthy cause needs help in Rockland, Maine, this town of 7,000 overlooking Penobscot Bay, people reach out to Bruce Gamage Jr., an auctioneer who runs an antiques shop downtown. Regularly, he drops what he’s doing to drum up bidding at charity auctions organized for, say, the...

It was the biggest job of his life. Was he on target, or off by half?

San Antonio, TX

Robert Randolph, Scene design for Trapper's Cabin in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, ca. 1982. Gouache, pastel, and graphite on paper. Collection of the McNay Art Museum, Gift of Robert L. B. Tobin, TL1999.278. SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Embark on an international journey with “Around the World in 80 Designs,” on...

Inspiring set designs from 'Around the World' on view in summer exhibition

Orlando, FL

Jim O’Rear

Former First Lady Melania Trump hosted the Log Cabin Republicans, an LGBT group, for a fundraising event at Mar-a-Lago in South Florida, at which Mrs. Trump was the guest of honor and addressed the room. The event was held on Saturday, the day after the jury was impaneled for former President Donald J. Trump’s hush-money trial in New York.

Melania Trump Hosts Fundraiser With Gay Organization In Florida.

Natalie Frank, Ph.D.

Sandra Kolalou found guilty of 2022 murder of Frances Walker. In a harrowing case that shook the Arcadia Terrace neighborhood of Chicago, Sandra Kolalou has been found guilty of the first-degree murder of her landlord, Frances Walker, in 2022. Kolalou, who was accused of killing Walker before dismembering her body, faced multiple charges, including the gruesome act of body mutilation.

Chicago Woman Convicted of Murdering, Dismembering Landlord After Receiving Eviction Notice

Los Angeles, CA

Irvine, CA

Last week, members of the Irvine Police Department’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU) and the Orange County Human Trafficking Task Force (OCHTTF) conducted an undercover operation at a local hotel after receiving information about an adult female potentially being trafficked for commercial sex work.

L.A. pimp busted in Irvine and a human trafficking victim was rescued

Iowa State

San Francisco, CA

NEW YORK, NY.- The gray Bay Bridge, the region’s workhorse bridge connecting San Francisco with Oakland, has never gotten as much acclaim as its splashy red neighbor to the northwest. But lately, it’s been even more muted than usual. For the past 14 months, the bridge’s Bay Lights...

After a long stretch of darkness, the Bay Bridge lights are returning

From left, Joel Conarroe, the president emeritus of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation; Robert A. Caro, a historian and biographer; and Louise Mirrer, the president and chief executive of the New-York Historical Society, at the History Makers Gala at the New-York Historical Society in Manhattan, Oct. 15, 2008. Conarroe, a celebrated arts administrator and professor who headed the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for nearly two decades and served as a friend and confidante to a pride of literary lions, including his close friend Philip Roth, died on April 28, 2024, in New York. He was 89. (Nicholas Roberts/The New York Times)

Joel Conarroe, 'hub of the New York literary wheel,' dies at 89

Brooklyn, NY

Jersey City, NJ

Hoboken, NJ

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Steve Carell as the 50-year-old loser in a comic 'Uncle Vanya'

NEW YORK, NY.- Why is it called “Uncle Vanya”? All the man does is mope, mope harder, try to do something other than moping, fail miserably...

Steve Carell as the 50-year-old loser in a comic 'Uncle Vanya'

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