Author: Jack Bogart

NEED TO KNOW Police said Mitchell Eddins first came across the burned body of 14-year-old Danika Troy, who police said was killed by two classmatesEddins allegedly took a scooter found at the scene before contacting police, according to an arrest reportHe is now charged with petty theft and failure to report a death A man who stumbled upon the body of a 14-year-old girl who authorities said had been lured into the woods and murdered didn’t immediately report what he found — instead, he allegedly stole her scooter. The body of Danika Troy was discovered in the woods near her…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! As violent crime endangers communities across Minnesota, police say they were left stretched thin and underfunded while state leaders directed millions elsewhere, a gap now drawing sharp scrutiny from public-safety experts and police union leaders.That gap is under the microscope as the state deals with a massive fraud scandal involving hundreds of millions of dollars, including allegations of taxpayer money finding its way to terrorist group Al-Shabaab in Somalia, all under the nose of Democratic leaders.Randy Sutton, a police veteran and founder of The Wounded Blue, told Fox News Digital the crisis…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Navy is warning that the United States must treat shipbuilding and weapons production with the urgency of a country preparing for conflict, with Navy Secretary John Phelan declaring that the sea service “cannot afford to stay comfortable” as it confronts submarine delays, supply-chain failures and a shipyard system he says is stuck in another era.Phelan delivered the blunt message as he launched the service’s new Rapid Capabilities Office — an organization he says will slash development timelines, hold programs accountable and inject commercial technology into the fleet far faster than the…

NEED TO KNOW Ohio surgeon, Hassan-James Abbas, was indicted by a Lucas County Grand Jury on six felony charges, including abduction, tampering with evidence and unlawful distribution of an abortion-inducing drug, on Wednesday, Dec. 3The indictment comes nearly one month after the State Medical Board of Ohio issued a summary suspension on Abbas’ medical license on Nov. 5The state medical board claimed in a notice that the surgeon illegally obtained abortion pills and attempted to give them to his pregnant girlfriend while she was asleep An Ohio doctor had his medical license suspended ahead of his hearing before the State…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A former Alaska Airlines pilot who tried to shut down the engines of a packed 2023 flight after taking psychedelic mushrooms forced crews into tense moments captured on dramatic cockpit audio.Joseph Emerson, a pilot at the time, was off-duty on the Oct. 22, 2023, Horizon Air flight from Everett, Washington, to San Francisco when the flight crew subdued him.He was riding in an extra seat in the cockpit aboard Flight 2059, which was carrying 84 people, when audio obtained by KGW Portland captured the moment he reached for the engine controls.”I’m not…

NEED TO KNOW The body of Anna Kepner, 18, was discovered by a housekeeper on the Carnival Horizon just before noon on Nov. 7, as the cruise headed back to the port of Miami, Fla.FBI agents met the cruise ship at the ferry terminal and launched an investigation into the teenager’s death, but after a month, there have still been no arrests made in the caseAnna shared a room with her 14-year-old brother and 16-year-old stepbrother, who became part of the blended family when their parents married in 2024 The autumn sun was bright at the Port of Miami when…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Colorado county clerk convicted in a pro-Trump 2020 election denial scheme was threatened and attacked in prison, her lawyer says.Tina Peters, 70, is serving a nine-year sentence on state charges in Colorado. Her attorney, Peter Ticktin, says she has been violently attacked by fellow inmates on three separate occasions. Ticktin made the claim in a Saturday letter addressed to President Donald Trump, who has expressed keen interest in the case.”About 6 months ago, Mrs. Peters was threatened with harm. Her life was threatened by a group of inmates, to stab her…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A nonprofit claims the U.S. Postal Service mishandled its shipment of hundreds of care packages for American service members and is now calling on President Donald Trump to step in.”I’m really hoping that President Trump can perform a Christmas miracle for us and get these boxes to our troops for Christmas because if we send them U.S. postal mail, they’ll never get there,” Kristen Gauvin, president of Boxes to Boots, said on “Fox & Friends First” Wednesday.The organization sends essential packages to deployed troops who can’t be home for the holidays. They…

NEED TO KNOW Curtis ’50 Cent’ Jackson helped produce the docuseries Sean Combs: The Reckoning, which features never-before-seen footage of Sean CombsThe behind-the-scenes footage shows Combs talking with his legal team days before his September 2024 arrestCombs’ team has slammed Netflix for including the footage The bombshell four-part docuseries Sean Combs: The Reckoning includes never-before-seen footage of Sean “Diddy” Combs just days before his September 2024 arrest. The videos show Combs making several calls to his legal team — including attorney Marc Agnifilo — discussing his legal troubles. Combs hired a videographer at the time to document his life before…

To hear Brooklyn, New York, District Attorney Eric Gonzalez talk, you’d think that the so-called gun “buyback” that he has presided over for the past eight years is a life-saving tool that keeps his constituents safer. In a recent ny1.com report titled “Brooklyn gun buyback draws 160 weapons, officials say,” DA Gonzalez hyped up the recent compensated turn-in like it was the answer to every community’s criminal violence problem. What he didn’t say, however, is that a major study disproves everything he seems so proud of. “There’s so many people who have access to firearms and they don’t know how…