Jamel Martinez, 18, set a fire in his 10th-floor apartment at NYCHA’s East River Houses at 105 E Street around 4:40 p.m. before jumping from the roof and dying, police sources said. The fire was put out by the FDNY, police said.
A UK teenager was hospitalized for emergency surgery after a USB cable got stuck in his penis, after several unsuccessful attempts to remove it himself, he went to the emergency department of his local hospital.
Three people were arrested for allegedly assaulting the hostess of a New York restaurant Thursday after she asked a group of diners visiting from Texas to show proof that they had been vaccinated before seating them.
Thousands of Haitian migrants have congregated under and around a bridge in a small Texas border town, presenting a chaotic new challenge Friday to the Biden administration as it tries to manage the large number of asylum seekers who have arrived on U.S. soil.
A 15-year-old Texas boy murders his mother, father, sister and two dogs before posting graphic photos of their bodies on social media, warning that he would commit a school shooting and then commit suicide when police swooped in.
Young rapper Spotemgottem is recovering in a Florida clinic after being shot several times in a road rage incident in Miami. Apparently, a vehicle started shooting while the rapper was in his car. The driver was also injured.
This time it is no exception and aims to study whether higher budget movies are scarier than lower budget ones. To do so, they are looking for a “horror lover” to watch 13 movies of this film genre in a span of 10 days.
An Alabama mother was arrested on assault and other charges after she got into a fight with an 11-year-old boy on a Jefferson County school bus.
A man who operated an anonymous web hosting service that allowed pedophiles around the world to share millions of images of abused, tortured and sexually humiliated children was sentenced to 27 years in prison Wednesday, eight years after his arrest in Ireland, U.S. authorities said.
A prominent South Carolina lawyer whose wife and son were murdered in June and who allegedly plotted with a man to shoot himself to death so the surviving son could collect a $10 million insurance policy will turn himself in to authorities, local media reported.
Former President Donald Trump claimed Tuesday that the United States will come to an end in the next three years, without explaining what that might mean in practice.
A woman was locked up in a Lancaster County jail on $300,000 bail after the 31-year-old mother of three fed a 4-year-old boy hot sauce. The tortured child was the woman’s stepson.
Two minors, a two-year-old girl and a three-month-old baby boy, were found alone on the banks of the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass in Texas, the U.S. Border Patrol said in a statement Tuesday.
The boyfriend of Gabrielle Petito, who went missing on Long Island, New York, has been identified as a person of interest in her disappearance, Florida authorities announced Wednesday during a news conference.
A San Francisco woman died Monday after a train dragged her when the doors closed between her and her dog. “It was pretty traumatic,” said a witness who witnessed the incident.
