Author: Jack Bogart

NEED TO KNOW Sean “Diddy” Combs’ criminal trial is in its second weekDavid James, a former personal assistant to Combs, testified that taking the lie detector test was “very intimidating”James said he didn’t feel like he could refuse the tests David James, a former personal assistant to Sean “Diddy” Combs, took the witness stand Tuesday morning in the federal case against the hip-hop mogul.  Assistant U.S. Attorney Christy Slavik asked James about his employment with Combs, which went from May 2007 to 2009. James said he was originally hired as a “personal liaison” and later became Combs’ personal assistant. James…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – A man accused of killing a father of three in a 2024 road-rage shooting in Lake Norman, North Carolina – a popular vacation town north of Charlotte – is seeking a reduced bond, according to court documents and local news.Terrell Eugene Giddens, 75, is accused of fatally shooting Jeffrey Michael Guida, 40, on Oct. 12, 2024, just before 5 p.m., while Guida was driving with his three daughters, ages 2, 11 and 13, in the back of a Jeep Wagoneer, according to the Catawba County Sheriff’s Office.Eyewitnesses told authorities at the time that they saw both men…

The Department of Justice has accused Rep. LaMonica McIver of assaulting two federal agents at the Delaney Hall Detention Facility in New Jersey last month, according to a new charging document.The document cites bodycam footage from law enforcement officers who recorded events as McIver and two other New Jersey lawmakers stormed the ICE facility. Prosecutors say the first officer McIver allegedly assaulted was a Homeland Security Investigations agent and the second was an ICE agent.The DOJ accuses McIver of having “slammed her forearm into the body of a uniformed HSI agent and reached out and tried to restrain the agent…

NEED TO KNOW Wellness influencer Bobbi Vargas has been accused of stealing more than $2.3 million from entrepreneurs Grant and Elena CardoneShe allegedly made payments to her own business totaling more than $800,000Vargas is also accused of using five different credit cards belonging to the Cardones to purchase $450,000 in items from Amazon, including items like a brick pizza oven Bobbi Vargas is in legal trouble.  The wellness influencer is at the center of a multimillion-dollar theft case, charged with allegedly stealing over $2.3 million from entrepreneurs Grant and Elena Cardone, according to a Las Vegas Metro police report obtained by KLAS.  Per the…

NEED TO KNOW Larisha Sharell Thompson, 40, was murdered while driving in her car just before midnight on May 2 in Lancaster, S.C.After a 10-day investigation the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office announced three individuals had been arrested and three minors had been detained for the crimeFive of the six taken into custody are teenagers, with the youngest being just 13 years old Authorities investigating the murder of a South Carolina mother earlier this month have taken six individuals into custody — including five teenagers. Larisha Sharell Thompson, 40, was shot dead in the front seat of her car while out driving…

Scammers are always coming up with new tricks. Just when you start feeling confident about spotting phishing emails, suspicious links and fake banking apps, they find a new angle. Lately, they have been getting more creative, turning to the built-in features of our phones to pull off their schemes. One of the latest targets is NFC, the technology behind tap-to-pay. It might seem harmless, but a new scam is using it in ways most people would never expect. An Android malware called SuperCard goes beyond just stealing your card details. It gives attackers the ability to use your card remotely for…

NEED TO KNOW Alyssa Rose Wiest, 25, was discovered facedown on the sidewalk near her home in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania with gunshot wounds to her torsoDetectives determined after an initial investigation that she fled from her killer after they opened fire inside her home. She made it halfway down the block before being fatally struckA warrant was issued for Wiest’s boyfriend of two years, Michael Dutkiewicz, who turned himself into police less than 12 hours later A Pennsylvania woman is dead and her boyfriend is in police custody following a fatal shooting early Sunday morning. Alyssa Rose Wiest, 25, was found facedown…

NEED TO KNOW Colleen Stan was abducted 48 years ago while hitchhikingHer captors, Cameron and Janice Hooker, kept her in a box for seven years giving her kidnapping the moniker ‘Girl in the Box’Stan finally escaped and has gone on to tell her story The harrowing story of Colleen Stan’s “Girl in the Box” kidnapping captivated the country in the 1980s when she escaped and named her abductors, Cameron and Janice Hooker. On May 19, 1977, 20-year-old Colleen was hitchhiking on the way from her Eugene, Ore., home to a friend’s birthday party when she was picked up by a…

It has been 20 years since Mary Kay Letourneau married her former student, Vili Fualaau, on May 20, 2005, less than a year after her release from prison. In 1997, it was revealed that Letourneau had raped one of her students, Fualaau, who was 12 years old at the time. “The incident was a late night, and it didn’t stop with a kiss,” Letourneau recounted in a 2015 sit-down interview with Barbara Walters on 20/20. “And I thought that it would, and it didn’t.” The story of Letourneau’s sexual abuse drew more than just the ire of the millions who…

FIRST ON FOX: In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital at the annual Jerusalem Post Conference in New York, Special Envoy for Hostage Response Adam Boehler responded to a Washington Post report that claimed President Donald Trump threatened to abandon Israel unless the war ended as “fake news.” “That sounds like fake news to me,” he said. “I think the president has maintained a very high degree of support for Israel.” He added, “He may be saying, ‘Hey, listen, let’s try to end the war,’ he might speak strongly, but I think American president, in particular, this president’s support, President…