Author: Jack Bogart

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump threatened a full “Federal takeover of” the nation’s capital, accusing Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser of disseminating “inaccurate crime figures.” In an early Friday morning post on Truth Social, the president declared, “Washington, D.C. is SAFE AGAIN! The crowds are coming back, the spirit is high, and our D.C. National Guard and Police are doing a fantastic job. They are out in force, and are NOT PLAYING GAMES!!! As bad as it sounds to say, there were no murders this week for the first time in memory. “Mayor Muriel Bowser must…

NEED TO KNOW Aimee Betro, a Wisconsin woman who traveled to the United Kingdom to assassinate a man on behalf of someone that she had met on a dating app, was sentenced to 30 years in prisonJudge Simon Drew KC told Betro that she “went beyond simply reaching an agreement to kill and, in reality, [she] did intend to kill” the man her lover had a dispute with, before handing down his decisionShe was convicted of conspiracy to murder and two firearms charges last week A Wisconsin woman who traveled to abroad and attempted to assassinate a man on behalf…

NEED TO KNOW Austin Drummond is charged in connection with the killings of four family members in JulyAdrianna Williams, James M. Wilson, Cortney Rose and Braydon Williams were found slain in rural Tennessee on July 29Adrianna and James’ 7-month-old baby was found abandoned in someone’s front yard earlier the same day The man charged in connection with the killing of four family members — and leaving an infant alive but abandoned — is speaking out.  Austin Drummond, 28, was arrested on Aug. 5, just a week after the 7-month-old baby was found abandoned in a front yard in Dyer County,…

NEED TO KNOW A Washington couple was sentenced to prison after their 17-year-old was brutally attacked outside her high school last OctoberThe couple’s daughter emotionally confronted her parents in court Monday, Aug. 18, telling her father she hopes he stays in jail and diesThe judge presiding over the case also reprimanded the couple, while telling the victim she still has “power” and “strength” despite the assault A Washington woman emotionally confronted her parents as they were sentenced Monday, Aug. 18, after the father brutally attacked her last October while the mother stood by and watched. Ihsan and Zahraa Ali were…

NEED TO KNOW Bryan Kohberger, 30, is accusing the staff at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution of denying him food replacements with his meals He does not provide examples but is a vegan, and wrote in a July 31 complaint “the nutritional standard is not being upheld unless I receive my full tray”Kohberger has filed five formal complaints in his three weeks in prison, claiming he is being sexually harassed and threatened, and requesting transfer to a new cell block Bryan Kohberger filed two complaints in his first two days in the J-Block at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution. The…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Colorado park ranger who claimed to have been attacked and stabbed has been arrested after investigators determined his story was allegedly part of a hoax that prompted authorities to launch a search and lock down several schools.Callum Heskett, 26, was taken into custody Thursday and charged with attempting to influence a public servant and tampering with evidence, both felonies. He also faces misdemeanor charges of false reporting to authorities, reckless endangerment, obstructing government operations and second-degree official misconduct.Investigators said inconsistencies in his story began to emerge during a probe of the…

NEED TO KNOW A New Hampshire mother fatally shot her husband and two of her children before turning the gun on herself and dying by suicide, but left her youngest child unharmedThe surviving toddler is reportedly in the care of familyPrior to her death by suicide, Emily Long detailed her struggle with depression on her TikTok page The New Hampshire toddler who was left unharmed after his parents and two siblings died in an apparent murder-suicide is in the care of family following the shocking incident. Emily Long, 34, fatally shot her husband, Ryan Long, 48, her son, Parker, 8,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! SAN DIEGO — Erik Menendez, one of the two brothers convicted in the 1989 shotgun slayings of their parents in Beverly Hills, has been denied parole by a California review board, officials confirmed.The California Board of Parole Hearings’ denial of parole marks a significant development in the decades-long case that drew international attention, with the brothers’ televised trial becoming one of the most infamous of the 1990s. Erik, now 54, has spent more than 30 years behind bars.MENENDEZ BROTHERS’ JUNE HEARING CONVERTED FROM CLEMENCY TO PAROLE AS DECISION LOOMS FOR GOV. NEWSOM In…

An active shooter situation at Villanova University that caused chaos during the Pennsylvania school’s orientation week was a “cruel hoax,” the school wrote in a letter to community members. Just before 5 p.m., police in Radnor Township, where the school is located, posted that they were responding to an active shooter on the university’s campus and urged students and nearby residents to shelter in place and barricade and lock their doors. The warning sent first-year students attending their orientation on campus running for their lives. But at around 6 p.m., Villanova president Peter Donohue sent a letter to students calling…

NEED TO KNOW Erik and Lyle Menendez were sentenced in 1996 to life in prison for fatally shooting their parents, José Menendez and Kitty Menendez, in 1989 in their Beverly Hills mansionThe brothers have said they endured years of sexual abuse from their fatherThey became eligible for parole in May A California parole board denied Erik Menendez release on Thursday, Aug. 21, more than 36 years after he and his brother, Lyle, killed their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion — crimes for which they were initially sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Erik, now 54,…