Three South Carolina police officers have been criminally charged for making fake calls to 911 about dead bodies found in four small towns last week. State officials announced on Monday that the three Chesterfield County deputies were arrested. According to court documents, First Sergeant Justin Tyler Reichard, 28, Sergeant Darien Myles Roseau, 25, and Deputy […]
A 12-year-old who emailed multiple bombs threats to different Maryland schools recently was fully aware that, due to recent legislation, he or she could not be prosecuted because of their young age, police said. “They understood that they could not be charged under current Maryland statutes,” Montgomery County Police Chief Marcus Jones said in a […]
BRYAN, Texas—Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes entered Texas prison where she could spend the next 11 years for overseeing a blood-testing hoax that became a parable about greed and hubris in Silicon Valley. Holmes, 39, on Tuesday entered a federal women’s prison camp located in Bryan, Texas—where the federal judge who sentenced Holmes in November recommended […]
BOSTON—A former Northeastern University employee who said he was injured when a package he was opening on the Boston campus exploded last month was charged Tuesday with fabricating the incident. Jason Duhaime, formerly the new technology manager and director of the university’s Immersive Media Lab, was charged with “conveying false and misleading information related to […]
Former President Donald Trump said reports that the FBI was allegedly searching for documents on nuclear weapons at his Mar-a-Lago residence is a “hoax” and likened it to years-long claims that he was a Russian agent. “Nuclear weapons issue is a Hoax, just like Russia, Russia, Russia was a Hoax, two Impeachments were a Hoax, […]
Former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett, who is accused of lying about an alleged hate crime, took the stand in his own trial on Monday. Smollett, 39, was charged with six counts of disorderly conduct on suspicion of making false reports to police over an alleged race-based attack that occurred in the winter of 2019 in […]
On a frigid Chicago night in January 2019, actor Jussie Smollett, a star on the TV drama “Empire,” reported that he was the victim of a hate-motivated street attack, but police later accused him of staging the whole affair as a publicity stunt. The case went to trial on Monday in Cook County Circuit Court, […]
Actor Jussie Smollett, lashed back at a post in social media that was comparing him to a schoolgirl who claimed she was held to the ground by 3 white boys and had her dreadlocks cut off.
Another “Empire” actor has been arrested in Chicago, but this time on a traffic-related offense.
Police spokeswoman Karie James said on June 17 that Bryshere Gray, who plays a younger brother of Jussie Smollett’s character on the Chicago-based Fox TV show, was pulled over Thursday because a temporary license plate didn’t match the 2014 Rolls Royce he was driving. She says he was arrested on a misdemeanor registration charge and ticketed for driving an uninsured vehicle and failure to carry a driver’s license.
An Illinois judge ordered the case file for actor Jussie Smollet’s alleged hate crime hoax to be unsealed. The judge made the decision on May 23. “There is no way to secrete the fact of Jussie Smollett’s arrest. At this point it is widely and publicly known from here to Helsinki and back,” said Natalie […]
AURORA—Eight years after an Illinois boy disappeared, his family began to think that their nightmare might be over at last. A young man found wandering the streets of a Kentucky town claimed he had just escaped from two men in the Cincinnati area who held him captive for seven years. The boy told police his […]
Commentary As he had repeatedly hinted he would, President Donald Trump on Sept. 17 ordered the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the Department of Justice (DOJ), and the FBI to declassify many documents related to the “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation and release them to the public—fully unredacted. These documents are The FISA court application […]
