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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! New York Attorney General Letitia James was arraigned at a federal court in Norfolk, Virginia, Friday, where she pleaded not guilty to two felony charges of bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution.The charges against James stem from her 2020 purchase of a home in Norfolk, Virginia. Prosecutors allege that James misled a bank about the nature of the residence in order to obtain more favorable loan conditions.The indictment states that James misrepresented the financial institution in claiming it would be her secondary residence, and instead rented it out…

NEED TO KNOW TikTok influencer Mahek Bukhari, 25, and her mother were angry that her married mother’s ex-boyfriend had threatened to release explicit images of her to her husband, prosecutors allegedIn Feb. 2022, they were in one of two cars that chased Saqib Hussain and his friend, both 21, on a U.K. highway, with one of the cars ramming it off the road, authorities saidIn a frantic call to police, Hussein cried, ‘They’ve hit into the back of the car. Very fast! They’re trying to ram us off the road please I’m begging you, I’m gonna die!’ A UK social…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Dashcam video from a deadly California freeway crash involving a suspected illegal immigrant truck driver in a tractor-trailer shows the vehicle plowing through bumper-to-bumper traffic in a wreck that killed three.Jashanpreet Singh, 21, received a California commercial driver’s license in June, according to the federal Department of Transportation.The video shows the truck he is accused of driving rear-ending a row of cars caught in traffic before flames burst out from under the hood, and it veers to the right, crashing into more vehicles and what appear to be utility trucks before coming…

NEED TO KNOW A 15-year-old Utah girl was allegedly shot and killed by her 16-year-old boyfriend early Saturday morningThe shooting allegedly took place inside the girl’s bedroom after her boyfriend showed up at the home around 1 a.m., according to reportsThe teenager’s family is mourning her death, remembering the 15-year-old as “full of life” with “so many dreams ahead of her” A 15-year-old Utah girl is being remembered as “full of life” with “so many dreams ahead of her” this week after she was allegedly shot and killed by her 16-year-old boyfriend in her bedroom early Saturday morning. Local police…

NEED TO KNOW New Jersey teacher Lorri Willis is accused of sending sexual messages to a 13-year-old studentWillis is charged with one count of endangering the welfare of a child and one count of luringAuthorities alleged that the messages were sent over the course of more than a year A New Jersey teacher was arrested after she was accused of sending sexual text messages to her 13-year-old former student. Lorri A. Willis, 45, a teacher at Black River Middle School in Chester Township, N.J., is charged with one count of endangering the welfare of a child and one count of…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Investigators are exploring every possible motive in the early-morning shooting that killed Mark Calcagni, longtime general manager of San Francisco’s famous Condor Club, who was found gunned down near his Santa Rosa home earlier this month.”Everything’s on the table, whether or not this was a targeted attack, assassination or a robbery gone bad,” former LAPD Detective Moses Castillo told Fox News Digital, noting that it’s likely no theory has been ruled out.Castillo, drawing on decades of homicide and organized-crime experience, said authorities are likely examining a wide range of possibilities — from…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Trump administration has ordered the deployment of the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group in the Western Hemisphere as the U.S. continues to target suspected drug smuggling vessels in the Caribbean.  “In support of the President’s directive to dismantle Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs) and counter narco-terrorism in defense of the Homeland, the Secretary of War has directed the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group and embarked carrier air wing to the U.S. Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM) area of responsibility (AOR),” chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement Friday.  “The enhanced…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Basketball Hall of Famer Chauncey Billups, through a statement from his attorney, denied any wrongdoing after being among the more than 30 people arrested Thursday in connection with an FBI investigation into an alleged gambling ring with suspected links to New York crime families.”Anyone who knows Chauncey Billups knows he is a man of integrity; men of integrity do not cheat and defraud others,” a statement from attorney Chris Heywood read. “To believe that Chauncey Billups did what the federal government is accusing him of is to believe that he would risk…

NEED TO KNOW A Michigan babysitter is accused by police of sexually abusing childrenGaila Bennett, 63, is facing a slew of felony chargesShe is being held on $5 million bond A Michigan babysitter is facing a slew of charges after being accused of sexually abusing children, authorities said. Gaila Bennett, 63, of Midland, Mich., was arraigned Monday, Oct. 20 on 24 counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, 12 counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct, and 11 counts of assault with intent to commit sexual penetration, CBS News, WSGW and the Midland Daily News reported. Michigan State Police began investigating Bennett…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A man in Alabama says he was shot 10 times while trying to protect his friends from a gunman who fatally shot Kimber Mills, a high school cheerleader.Mills, 18, was shot early Sunday in Pinson, Alabama, in a heavily wooded area referred to as The Pit, according to AL.com. The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said that the suspect, 27-year-old Steven Tyler Whitehead, showed up at around 12:24 a.m. and fired his gun several times after a verbal and physical fight. WVTM reported the shooting took place at a bonfire.Prosecutors charged Whitehead with…