Author: Jack Bogart

NEED TO KNOW A 10-month-old girl has been found by police in North Carolina after an alleged kidnappingPolice allege that family member Michelle Hemphill and her boyfriend Timothy Lee Smith Jr. took Nalaya CrewThe child was “located unharmed and has been reunited with her mother,” police said A 10-month-old girl has been found after she was allegedly kidnapped by a family member and their significant other in North Carolina. An Amber alert was previously issued for Nalaya Crew, who the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) said was abducted at around 7 p.m. local time in Charlotte on Saturday, Nov. 15. In…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Next time your dog begs for a treat, you might want to give it to him. In Pennsylvania, a dog reportedly wounded his owner with a shotgun left on the bed, while in North Carolina, a dog was caught on camera setting a house (of the assistant fire chief no less) on fire with a damaged lithium battery. Since I just finished teaching my torts students about animal liability (and strict liability for dog bites), these cases offer a teachable moment for humans and canines alike.Dog bite cases have long been a…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: U.S. troops trying to combat al Qaeda and ISIS jihadist fighters in Niger and some other West African countries in the terror-ridden Sahel region are reportedly ‘completely blind’, following what a former senior State Department official has told Fox News Digital was a policy proposal developed by the Biden administration. A U.S. military source who spoke exclusively to Fox News Digital, claimed that now the Pentagon, when trying to react to serious incidents such as the Oct. 21 kidnapping of a U.S. citizen, is faced with ‘a black hole’. The U.S. had…

NEED TO KNOW Two people, including a 10-year-old boy, were killed in a mass shooting in Newark, N.J., on Nov. 15The second individual who died was a 21-year-old woman, and three others were injuredMayor Ras Baraka called the incident “a dark and devastating day in Newark” Two people were killed in a mass shooting in New Jersey this weekend. A 10-year-old boy and a 21-year-old woman were killed at the 300 block of Chancellor Avenue in Newark, N.J., at around 7:00 p.m. local time on Saturday, Nov. 15, according to the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office. The two victims were pronounced…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The O.J. Simpson estate has taken a key step toward paying Fred Goldman nearly $58 million—nearly three decades after Goldman won a wrongful death judgment in a civil case against Simpson, according to a report.Malcolm LaVergne, executor of Simpson’s estate, has accepted Goldman’s creditor claim for $57,997,858.12, plus 30 years of accumulated interest, TMZ first reported Saturday.Goldman’s son, Ron, was killed alongside Nicole Brown Simpson—O.J. Simpson’s ex-wife—on June 12, 1994. Simpson was acquitted of the murders in what became known as the “Trial of the Century.”Simpson was later found liable in civil…

NEED TO KNOW Blanca Turrubiate was devastated when her boss and good friend, Maggie Murdaugh, and her son, Paul, were shot and killed in June 2021She describes the close bond they shared and how difficult it was after Maggie’s death when she saw reminders of her slain friendShe was shocked when she found a lock of Maggie’s hair at the kennels, where her friend had been fatally shot five times — by her husband, Alex In the days and weeks after Maggie Murdaugh and her son, Paul Murdaugh, were shot and killed on the sprawling property of their Lowcountry, S.C.,…

The Supreme Court’s new term has been dominated by high-profile battles over presidential authority. But beneath those headline cases sits another trend that TTAG readers will care about a lot more: the justices are lining up a series of gun-rights fights that could reshape how lower courts handle the Second Amendment after Bruen. We’re only a few months into the 2025–26 session, and the court has already taken two major gun cases. Several more are waiting in the wings. If the justices keep granting petitions at this pace, this term may become one of the most significant for gun rights…

NEED TO KNOW James Schwalm initially told authorities that his wife, Ashley Schwalm, had gone for a hike, before her body was found in a burned carHowever, police later discovered several inconsistencies in his version of events and determined that James had strangled Ashley before attempting to cover it up with arsonThe murder, which happened in Dateline correspondent Andrea Canning’s hometown, was covered by the crime show on Nov. 14 James Schwalm is a former firefighter who was arrested for killing his wife, Ashley Schwalm, and attempting to cover it up by putting her body in a car and setting…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! U.S. Marines protecting the American embassy in Haiti exchanged gunfire with suspected gang members last week, a Marine spokesman said.Capt. Steven J. Keenan told Fox News Digital in an emailed statement Sunday that Marines supporting embassy security operations were fired upon by suspected gang members in the capital of Port-au-Prince and returned fire on the evening of Nov. 13.”U.S. Marines are committed to the safety and security of U.S. embassies worldwide and respond to all threats with professionalism and swift, disciplined action,” Keenan said.No service members were injured in the incident, which…

NEED TO KNOW Warren Glowatski and Kelly Ellard both received sentences relating to the murder of Reena Virk, a British Columbia teenagerGlowatski was 16 years old at the time of the crime, and spent 10 years in prisonHe was released on parole in 2010 with the support of Virk’s parents Warren Glowatski was one of two teenagers who went to jail for the murder of Reena Virk. Ten years later, he was granted parole — with the help of his victim’s parents. In 1997, a group of teenagers beat 14-year-old Reena under a bridge near Saanich, British Columbia, Canada. After…