Author: Jack Bogart

NEED TO KNOW Sherri Papini was born the younger of two girls to her parents, Richard and Loretta GraeffAfter she went missing in November 2016, Papini’s parents helped lead the search for herIn ID’s May 2025 docuseries, Sherri Papini: Caught in the Lie, her parents said that they didn’t believe her latest claims that she was actually kidnapped Sherri Papini vanished from her home in Redding, Calif., on Nov. 2, 2016. Her parents, Richard Graeff and Loretta Graeff, were in the middle of organizing a balloon release in her honor when they learned that she had been found. “My friend…

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NEED TO KNOW On Saturday, May 24, two hikers called 911 to report that the third member of their hiking party on New York’s Adirondack High Peaks had died, per a press release from the New York Department of Environmental ConservationThe two hikers who made the 911 call were in an “altered mental state” and had ingested “hallucinogenic mushrooms,” per the press releaseThe third friend was not injured Two friends had the trip of a lifetime on New York’s Adirondack High Peaks over Memorial Day Weekend. According to a news release from the New York Department of Environmental Conservation, Forest…

The Justice Department accused a small city in northern Idaho of religious discrimination after it denied a zoning permit to a local evangelical church seeking to hold worship services.The DOJ announced on May 20 it had filed a lawsuit alleging the city of Troy, Idaho, violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) after it denied a conditional use permit to Christ Church to hold services in its downtown C-1 zoning district, where nonreligious assembly uses such as clubs, museums, auditoriums, and art galleries were allowed.The RLUIPA is federal legislation passed in 2000 that’s intended to “protect individuals,…

NEED TO KNOW A former stylist testified that Diddy threatened to send Cassie’s sex tapes to her parents’ workplacesHe said Diddy also threatened to beat Cassie and not release her musicThe stylist said the alleged threats drove Cassie “crazy” Deonte Nash, a stylist who worked with both Sean “Diddy” Combs and Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, testified at Combs’ federal sex trafficking trial Wednesday, May 28, that he once heard the music mogul threaten to release videos of her participating in sexual encounters known as “freak offs” at her parents’ jobs. Nash, who worked for Combs from 2008 to 2018, said Combs…

NEED TO KNOW Officers from the Lenoir Police Department were called to a daycare facility shortly before 3 p.m. on Monday, May 19 in response to a report of an infant in cardiac arrestThe girl later died at a nearby hospitalAlexandra Coffey, 29, is facing a charge of involuntary manslaughter A North Carolina woman was arrested in connection with the death of a 16-month-old child who died at a daycare facility. Alexandra Coffey, 29, is facing a charge of involuntary manslaughter in the death of the girl. Officers from the Lenoir Police Department were called to Creative Beginnings shortly before…

Karen Read’s defense team looked to chip away at a crash expert’s credibility by pointing to eye-watering expenditures and alleged inconsistencies in experiments as the state enters the 11th hour of testimony in their case. Read is accused of killing her then-boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe, by striking him with her Lexus SUV outside a house party at 34 Fairview Road and leaving him to die in frigid temperatures shortly after midnight on Jan. 29, 2022. The state’s expected final witness, Dr. Judson Welcher, a crash reconstructionist with Texas-based Aperture LLC, held firm on his findings that Read’s vehicle allegedly struck…

NEED TO KNOW A former stylist testified that Cassie Ventura once considered jumping off a hotel balcony to escape Sean “Diddy” CombsDeonte Nash said Cassie fled to the hotel after Diddy allegedly pushed her and Nash out of her apartment in a rageWhen Cassie learned Diddy was at the hotel, Nash said she panicked and talked about climbing over the balcony to avoid him Deonte Nash, who worked as a stylist for Casandra “Cassie” Ventura and befriended her, testified at Sean “Diddy” Combs’ federal sex trafficking and racketeering trial on Wednesday, May 28, that Ventura was once so desperate to…

President Donald Trump on Wednesday commuted the 12-year sentence of a major political donor who was serving time for a number of offenses, including obstructing an investigation into Trump’s 2017 inaugural committee, the White House confirmed with Fox News Digital.Imaad Zuberi, 54, was a major Democrat supporter before he backed Trump following his 2016 election victory, The New York Times reported. Before pivoting to Trump on election night, he served as a bundler for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, including stints on both of their campaign finance committees.Zuberi donated more than $1.1 million to committees associated with Trump and the…

NEED TO KNOW Josh Duggar filed a request for a court-appointed attorney on Tuesday, May 27, amid his fight to overturn his child pornography convictionDuggar claimed in documents obtained by PEOPLE that he cannot afford to hire his own legal counsel to potentially help him file a motion to vacate his convictionIn 2022, Duggar was sentenced to more than 12 years in federal prison on charges of receipt and possession of child pornography Josh Duggar is hoping to pursue another attempt at overturning his conviction. On Tuesday, May 27, the 37-year-old wrote a letter to the judge presiding over his…