Author: Jack Bogart

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Utah taxpayers are on the hook for Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin’s defense team, which has the potential to reach eight figures, criminal defense attorneys told Fox News Digital.After the shooting on Sept. 10 at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, Kirk was taken to a hospital in critical condition, where he died, officials said. Tyler Robinson was charged with aggravated murder, two counts of obstruction of justice and felony discharge of a firearm causing serious bodily injury, two counts of witness tampering and commission of a violent offense in the presence of…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Multiple police union leaders have requested or supported federal law enforcement assistance to counter rising rates of violent crime in their cities, including in Charlotte, where the fatal stabbing of Iryna Zarutska drew national attention. But, at least one union leader reversed course after city officials rejected the idea as illegal and unnecessary. On Thursday, the Fraternal Order of Police in Charlotte’s Mecklenburg County became the latest police union to invite the National Guard, having sent a letter to city leaders requesting federal law enforcement assistance after the city faced 15 murders in…

NEED TO KNOW Sean “Diddy” Combs has speaking gigs lined up for next week in Miami, prosecutors said, suggesting that he believes he will be given a light sentenceProsecutors called the booked speaking engagements the “height of hubris”Judge Subramanian said he agreed with federal sentencing guidelines that recommend a sentence of 70 to 87 months Sean “Diddy” Combs has speaking gigs booked as early as next week, possibly suggesting he believes he is going to be given a light sentence and perhaps released, prosecutors said during the music mogul’s sentencing hearing. “He has booked speaking engagements in Miami for next…

NEED TO KNOW A 60-year-old man died of a suspected bear attack at a campground in ArkansasThe man, whose name has not yet been released, was reported missing after his son had not heard from him “for a couple days”The man had sent a photo of a “young male bear” at the campgrounds to his family two days before he was found dead A man was found dead at a campsite in Arkansas following a suspected bear attack. Authorities responded to a welfare check request at Sam’s Throne Campground on Thursday, Oct. 2, per a press release from the Newton…

NEED TO KNOW Sophie Roske, 29, has received an eight-year prison sentence for the attempted murder of Brett KavanaughShe called authorities on herself in June 2022, telling a 911 dispatcher that she had thoughts of harming the Associate Justice of the Supreme Court and herselfRoske’s attorneys alleged their client had a history of mental health issues A woman has been sentenced for attempting to assassinate U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. On Friday, Oct. 3, U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman sentenced Sophie Roske, 29, to 97 months — eight years and one month — in prison for the June 2022…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! PROVO, Utah — Newly released surveillance video obtained by Fox News Digital shows Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin at a Utah gas station one day after the conservative influencer was gunned down while speaking at a Turning Point USA event at Utah Valley University.Local authorities were initially called to a Maverik gas station in Cedar City, roughly 215 miles from where Kirk was shot, after Utah state officials alerted police that alleged shooter Tyler Robinson, 22, may have dumped evidence in a nearby trash can. Officers subsequently responded to the tip, where they uncovered…

NEED TO KNOW Sean “Diddy” Combs was sentenced to more than four years in prison on Friday, Oct. 3The sentencing came following a nearly two-month federal trial After the news, Casandra “Cassie” Ventura’s lawyers spoke out in a statement Casandra “Cassie” Ventura’s lawyers are speaking out after Sean “Diddy” Combs was sentenced to 50 months in prison. On Friday, Oct. 3, the former music mogul was sentenced to more than four years in prison following a nearly two-month federal trial that ended with him being convicted on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution in July. He was acquitted of…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The death of a 13-year-old girl with epilepsy has reportedly been ruled a homicide after authorities said she had been kept in a “makeshift cage” inside her grandmother’s Arizona home.Melony Granados, who suffered from a rare form of epilepsy and cognitive impairments that left her functioning at the level of a 3-year-old, had been in the care of her grandmother, Virginia Lujan. Lujan, 55, was charged in February with child abuse and related offenses in the teen’s death, prosecutors said.The Maricopa County Medical Examiner’s Office recently confirmed Granados’ death was ruled a homicide,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein on Friday signed “Iryna’s Law,” which increases checks on criminals getting out on bail and prohibits cashless bail for some violent crimes and most repeat offenders following the stabbing death of a Ukrainian refugee on a Charlotte light-rail train in August. Stein, a Democrat, has said he doesn’t like every part of the bill that was passed by the Republican-controlled state Legislature, which also looks to restart executions in North Carolina, but he signed it because it “alerts the judiciary to take a special look at people who…

NEED TO KNOW Ronald Exantus fatally stabbed 6-year-old Logan Tipton as the boy slept in his family’s Versailles, Ky., homeA 2018 jury found Exantus not guilty by reason of insanity for murder, but he was also found guilty but mentally ill for assaults involving Logan’s familyExantus is now on parole after serving about 7 years of a 20-year sentence for the attack that killed Logan  A Kentucky man who broke into a family’s home in 2015, took a knife from their kitchen and fatally stabbed 6-year-old Logan Tipton as he slept has been released on parole after serving about 7…