Author: Jack Bogart

The daughters of slain civil rights leader Malcolm X are suing the FBI, CIA and New York Police Department, accusing all three agencies of having roles in the 1965 assassination of their father.The $100 million lawsuit, filed Friday in Manhattan federal court, claims the agencies were aware of and failed to stop the killing. Attorney Ben Crump, who represents the daughters and the Malcolm X estate, said the federal government and various agencies all conspired to kill the civil rights leader. The lawsuit alleges there was a “corrupt, unlawful, and unconstitutional” relationship between law enforcement and “ruthless killers that went unchecked…

Two male high school teachers were arrested for alleged sexual abuse, and the school’s principal and superintendent were put on administrative leave due to how the school handled the investigation, according to St. Helens School District press release. Eric Stearns and Mark Collins were both arrested on Tuesday, Nov. 12, for alleged sexual abuse. The school board put Principal Dr. Katy Wagner and Superintendent Scot Stockwell on administrative leave on Thursday, Nov. 14, and Friday, Nov. 15, respectively. Stearns, 46, is currently a choir teacher at St. Helens High School, and Collins, 64, previously worked as a math teacher there…

A computer programmer who helped operate one of the largest illegal television streaming services in the United States was convicted by a Nevada jury, federal prosecutors said Friday. Yoany Vaillant, 43, a permanent U.S. resident, worked as a computer programmer for Jetflicks, an online, subscription-based service in Las Vegas that allowed users to stream and download copyrighted television episodes without the permission of its owners, the Justice Department said. He was convicted of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement and is the eighth and final defendant to be convicted in the case.JERRY SEINFELD DECLARES THE MOVIE BUSINESS ‘IS OVER’, NOT THE ‘PINNACLE’…

Jason “Sundance” Head accidentally shot himself at his ranch in Texas on Friday, Nov. 15. The country singer’s agent, Trey Newman, tells PEOPLE Head was hunting in the woods by himself when he received one bullet to the stomach around 4-4:30 p.m. local time.  The season 11 winner of NBC’s The Voice, 46, was airlifted to a hospital by helicopter. TMZ was first to report the news.  After arriving at the hospital, the singer’s wife Misty shared an update via Head’s Facebook account, saying she finally “physically put my eyes on him and heard his sweet voice.” “He’s in good…

Members of a nudist resort outside of Los Angeles said their once idyllic community has dissolved into a “nightmare” after the neighbor of a California couple was charged in their murder.”It’s a nightmare,” Tony Wiley, 69, told People. “You hear stuff like this on the news, but you never imagine in a lifetime that it would be one of your friends, and in such a bizarre way.”Laurie Riffel, 69, told the outlet residents feel “on guard” following the double murder.”There’s a dark cloud over us,” she said. “There’s just a feeling of being on guard all the time, an apprehension…

A 65-year-old American tourist was arrested in Japan for allegedly defacing the entrance to a famous shrine in Tokyo, according to reports. On Wednesday, Nov. 13, Steven Lee Hayes was arrested on suspicion of property damage, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department confirmed to NBC News. The day before, Hayes allegedly “carved alphabet letters” into a wooden pillar of the entrance – a traditional Japanese torii gate – of the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo’s Shibuya ward, police said, NBC News reports. A shrine employee allegedly noticed the carving and called police, according to the Tokyo Reporter. After that, police viewed surveillance…

Attorneys for Bryan Kohberger, the man accused in the brutal stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students, are challenging an array of evidence in an effort to prevent prosecutors from presenting it at trial. A filing posted Friday totaled more than 160 pages and included the legal justification for blocking a variety of materials that Kohberger’s lawyers say were improperly obtained, the Idaho Statesman reported. Some of the evidence defense lawyers want suppressed is Kohberger’s genetic information, which they argue was “illegally gathered by law enforcement,” citing the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable searches and seizures, according to the newspaper. BRYAN…

Teresa Collar still remembers getting the haunting call about her daughter’s murder in October 2020. Her daughter, 24-year-old Alyssa Burkett, was killed on Oct. 2, 2020, by ex-boyfriend Andrew Beard. As Burkett sat in her car outside her work, Beard approached her, wearing Blackface, and shot her. He began to leave the scene and Burkett staggered out of the car, but Beard came back and stabbed her 13 times, killing her. At the time, the two were in a bitter custody dispute over their 1-year-old daughter: Willow Ann. But Beard didn’t act alone. The murder was the culmination of an…

The man accused in the February killing of Georgia college student Laken Riley was “hunting” for women on the day of the attack, prosecutors alleged on the first day of his trial.  Riley, a 22-year-old Augusta University student, disappeared during a jog on Feb. 22 on the University of Georgia campus before she was found dead. Investigators arrested 26-year-old Jose Ibarra in connection with her death. On Friday, Nov. 15, prosecutors alleged in an Athens County, Ga., court that Ibarra was out “hunting for females” on University of Georgia’s campus on the day of Riley’s killing, per the Los Angeles…

New York City Mayor Eric Adams responded to claims he was buttering up President-elect Donald Trump in an attempt to get “a pardon” for his recent criminal indictment on ABC’s “The View” Friday.The Democratic mayor faces a five-count indictment on fraud, bribery and corruption charges, stemming from a campaign corruption investigation. Adams pleaded not guilty to the criminal charges in a federal court appearance in September.Co-host Sunny Hostin asked Adams about allegations he had recently “embraced” Trump in an attempt to get the charges dropped, referring to comments Adams made ahead of the election, scolding the media for calling Trump…