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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A 52-year-old man killed his wife and teenage daughter before taking his own life in a shooting inside a Los Angeles County home Thursday morning, authorities said.Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies responded around 8 a.m. to a report of an assault with a deadly weapon at a home in Lakewood, a city about 20 miles southeast of Los Angeles. A caller told dispatchers her father had fired a gun at her and was lying unconscious nearby, deputies said.When deputies arrived, they met the caller, a 19-year-old woman, outside the home. She was…

NEED TO KNOW Donald Trump granted clemency to Rep. Steve Womack’s son on Thursday, Jan. 15The president commuted James Phillip Womack’s eight-year federal prison sentence for distributing methamphetamineThe Republican congressman thanked Trump for the commutation in a statement President Donald Trump has granted clemency to a Republican congressman’s son, who was behind bars for distributing methamphetamine. Trump, 79, officially commuted the federal sentence of James Phillip Womack, the son of Rep. Steve Womack, on Thursday, Jan. 15, according to the Office of the Pardon Attorney. An official Executive Grant of Clemency issued by the U.S. Department of Justice formally announced…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Texas couple has pleaded guilty to federal charges after prosecutors revealed they used social media to defraud dozens of homeowners out of nearly $5 million under the guise of custom homes and renovations. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas, Christopher and Raquelle Judge, a married couple from Fort Worth, admitted to carrying out an elaborate scheme to deceive customers through their home renovation business, Judge DFW LLC, between August 2020 and January 2023. The pair billed themselves as a one-stop shop for custom architecture, interior design and…

NEED TO KNOW Michael McKee was indicted by a grand jury in Franklin County, Ohio on four counts of aggravated murder on Friday, Jan. 16He is also facing an additional charge of aggravated burglary for allegedly breaking into the home of ex-wife Monique Tepe and her husband Spencer TepeMcKee is accused of murdering the couple, and prosecutors allege he used a firearm with a muffler Michael McKee, the vascular surgeon accused of murdering his ex-wife Monique Tepe and her dentist husband Spencer, is facing new charges ahead of his extradition from Illinois to Ohio. A grand jury in Franklin County…

Americans collectively own more firearms than ever before. According to new estimates from the National Shooting Sports Foundation, civilian gun ownership in the United States has surpassed the 500 million mark, reaching an estimated 506.1 million firearms currently in private hands. That figure is based on a review of federal manufacturing and import data compiled from 1990 through 2023 using records from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The estimate accounts for firearms manufactured domestically and sold within the United States, as well as firearms imported for the commercial market. The data also sheds light on the continued…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! An 81-year-old Florida woman was arrested Friday after allegedly trying to hire someone to commit a murder, detailing the plot to an undercover law enforcement officer, authorities said.Elouise Ruth Leland, of Hernando, was taken into custody after detectives received confidential information earlier this month indicating she was actively seeking someone to carry out a killing, the Citrus County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.Detectives launched an investigation and arranged for Leland to meet with an undercover law enforcement officer posing as a hitman.During the meeting on Friday, authorities said Leland discussed…

NEED TO KNOW Alejandro Rosales Castillo, one of the FBI’s “10 Most Wanted” criminals, was captured in Mexico on Jan. 16He is wanted for the 2016 murder of his 23-year-old coworker, Truc Quan “Sandy” Ly Le”Sadly, Sandy’s family began another new year without her. We hope knowing her accused killer is in custody will provide some level of solace now,” FBI Charlotte Special Agent in Charge James C. Barnacle Jr. said One of the FBI’s “10 Most Wanted” criminals has been captured after a decade on the run. Alejandro Rosales Castillo, wanted for the 2016 murder of his 23-year-old co-worker,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Mary Jo Buttafuoco was shot in the head on the front porch of her home by her husband’s 17-year-old mistress, Amy Fisher, who was later dubbed the “Long Island Lolita.”Nearly 34 years after her husband’s affair almost turned fatal, the suburban mom at the center of the scandal is telling her story in the Lifetime biopic “I Am Mary Jo Buttafuoco,” starring Chloe Lanier as her younger self.”I’m as recovered as I’m going to get,” Buttafuoco, now 70 and a grandmother, told Fox News Digital. “I still have the effects of this…

NEED TO KNOW Helle Crafts was a 39-year-old Pan Am flight attendant and mother of threeProsecutors said her husband Richard B. Crafts destroyed her body using a wood chipperRichard B. Crafts was convicted in Connecticut’s first murder case without a body Helle Crafts disappeared from her Connecticut home in 1986, and prosecutors later alleged her husband killed her and fed her dismembered body through a wood chipper — leaving investigators to prove a murder without a body. The 39-year-old flight attendant, who was born in Denmark and worked for Pan American World Airways, was last seen after returning home from…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! In the eight years between his divorce and his arrest, Michael McKee built a medical career that spanned four states, even as the woman he is now accused of killing built a new life and family in Ohio.McKee, a 39-year-old vascular surgeon, was indicted Friday on four counts of aggravated murder, each with firearm specifications, according to an indictment filed in Franklin County Common Pleas Court.Three of the aggravated murder counts include specifications alleging the use or display of an automatic firearm or silencer, while the fourth alleges a firearm was displayed…