Author: Jack Bogart

NEED TO KNOW Virginia Giuffre recounted meeting Ghislaine Maxwell while working at the Mar-a-Lago spa as a teenagerThe excerpt appears in her forthcoming memoir Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for JusticeGiuffre, who died by suicide earlier this year, wrote, “From the start, they manipulated me into participating in behaviors that ate away at me” Virginia Giuffre opened up about the day she met Ghislaine Maxwell — a moment that marked the beginning of what Giuffre calls the darkest chapter of her life. In an excerpt from her forthcoming memoir Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The family of a woman who was killed in a hit-and-run crash in Miami Gardens, Florida, is fuming after the driver refused to apologize in court.Sharon Cox, 65, was sentenced on Tuesday after she pleaded guilty to a 2023 hit-and-run crash that left Patricia Garner dead and two others injured, according to NBC 6. She was sentenced to four years in prison after Garner’s family members pressured prosecutors to reconsider an earlier plea deal that amounted to significantly less jail time.According to prosecutors, Cox hit the three people in a Miami Gardens…

NEED TO KNOW The Marion County Sheriff’s Office alleged that Caden Speight, 17, elaborately staged a crime scene to make it appear as though he had been abductedDeputies were able to track down the teen within 24 hours after pouring a vast amount of resources and manpower into search effortsSpeight, who allegedly shot himself in the leg to try and support his alleged hoax kidnapping, was arrested on multiple charges by the MCSO on Oct. 15 Local authorities have announced the arrest of a Florida teenager who allegedly went to elaborate lengths to stage his own abduction. The Marion County…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A 42-year-old man who was violently attacked at a Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) light rail station in San Jose has died from his injuries — and the suspect is also being looked at in a second attack at another transit stop, authorities said.The victim, a San Jose resident, was pronounced dead at a hospital on Wednesday, Oct. 8. He had been hospitalized with critical head injuries since the Sept. 29 assault at the Gish VTA Light Rail Station, according to the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office.”We regret to report that the victim…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A federal judge has temporarily blocked key parts of Texas’ new law limiting expression on campuses after dark, preventing the University of Texas System from enforcing a ban on overnight expression as well as restrictions on inviting outside speakers and using amplified sounds during the last two weeks of a semester.U.S. District Judge David A. Ezra said on Tuesday that the student groups who brought the lawsuit are likely to succeed in their claims that the law violates their First Amendment rights to free speech.”The First Amendment does not have a bedtime…

NEED TO KNOW Alex Murdaugh is part of the Murdaugh family, which was previously known in South Carolina for their legal careersThe Murdaugh family can be traced back to Randolph Murdaugh Sr., who was born in the 1880sToday, Alex is serving time for the murders of his wife, Maggie Murdaugh, and son, Paul Murdaugh Alex Murdaugh became a household name during his 2023 murder trial, for which he was convicted of killing his wife and son. His trial garnered widespread media attention, but even before that, the Murdaughs were a prominent and well-known family in South Carolina. For nearly a…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! California Gov. Gavin Newsom has reversed a parole board’s decision to release Patricia Krenwinkel, a former follower of cult leader Charles Manson and one of the perpetrators of the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders.In a decision issued Oct. 13 and obtained by Fox News, Newsom wrote that Krenwinkel, now 77, “lacks the requisite insight she needs to be safely released.””Ms. Krenwinkel has engaged in productive introspection,” the governor’s order says, quoting the psychologist who evaluated her, “but she exhibits some deficits in self-awareness, such as a tendency to externalize blame for her prior transgressions.”Newsom…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A federal judge in Oregon on Wednesday extended an emergency order blocking President Donald Trump from immediately deploying some 200 National Guard troops into Portland, delivering a blow, if only temporarily, to Trump’s federalization push.U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, issued the 14-day extension to keep in place her earlier temporary order, which was slated to expire this weekend.That order blocked Trump from immediately deploying Oregon National Guard troops into the city despite the objections of local officials, who have argued that Trump’s description of the violence in Portland is…

NEED TO KNOW A New York man has been accused by prosecutors of raping and killing a 16-year-old girl in 1984The victim, 16-year-old Theresa Fusco, was found dead near the roller rink where she worked on Long IslandProsecutors claim Richard Bilodeau, 63, was recently linked to DNA taken from Fusco’s body at the time A New York man has been charged in connection with the rape and murder of a teenage girl on Long Island in 1984 — and he allegedly gave a cryptic response when confronted by police. Richard Bilodeau, 63, was arraigned Wednesday, Oct. 15 on a second-degree…

The head of the National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) is calling upon Congress to get to work to pass a measure that would ensure concealed carry reciprocity on a national basis. In an Op-Ed posted at thehill.com, NRA-ILA Executive Director John Commerford said the work President Donald Trump has done to curtail crime in Washington, D.C., has been very effective. And part of that effort was to streamline approval of concealed carry permits, which have tended to lag in the District. “Thankfully, part of the president’s initiative to make D.C. safe again is to ‘collaborate with appropriate…