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Two police officers are in the hospital after exchanging gunfire with a suspect during a traffic stop on Wednesday in Fairfax County, Virginia.The shooting happened at about 3 p.m. in the 4000 block of Majestic Lane, according to the Fairfax County Police Department (FCPD). The location is near Greenbriar Town Center, a popular shopping destination with dozens of retailers in Chantilly.Two officers, who have not yet been publicly identified, were […]

New York authorities on Wednesday announced the identification of a woman previously only known as "Peaches" and her toddler, whose deaths have been looked at in connection to the Gilgo Beach serial killings case on Long Island.Authorities identified the mother as Tanya Denise Jackson — previously only known as "Peaches" because of her distinctive peach tattoo — and the baby as Tatiana Marie Dykes. Police located Jackson's torso in Hempstead […]

Princeton University and its Department of Public Safety are searching for a 23-year-old student who vanished on April 19 after he was last seen near a campus library.Lauren Blackburn, 23, of Indiana, was spotted near the Firestone Library around 6 p.m. Saturday before his disappearance. The student is a former staff writer for the university's newspaper, The Daily Princetonian.Vice President for Student Life W. Rochelle Calhoun said in an email to […]

The Texas Lottery Commission's executive director, Ryan Mindell, resigned Monday, according to a media release.Mindell's exit comes as the agency faces at least two investigations ordered by Gov. Greg Abbott and state Attorney General Ken Paxton into the integrity of the lottery prizes, and how the state handled the introduction of courier companies that buy and send tickets on behalf of customers online."Lottery couriers are unregulated service providers that take […]

An illegal immigrant in Maryland was charged with murdering his girlfriend after her body was found in a forest outside of Washington, D.C.The Charles County Sheriff's Office in Maryland announced Monday that 24-year-old Keycy Robinson Alexi Barrera-Rosa was charged with murder in the killing of his girlfriend, Lesbia Mileth Ramirez Guerra, 23, who was reported missing on March 31. Rosa's uncle, Rolvin Eduardo Barrera-Barrera, 37, was charged as an accessory.Deputies […]

Amid backlash from residents, leaders in a Virginia town voted Tuesday to keep Purcellville's police force a week after they tried to eliminate it to save more than $3 million, according to reports. The town of Purcellville, located in Loudoun County, Virginia, has found itself around $50 million in the red following the construction of a major wastewater treatment facility, and the council sought to tighten the town’s budget by disbanding […]

Climate change vandals spray-painted a Tesla car dealership in Manhattan on Tuesday to protest Elon Musk’s work with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), but as police arrived, the activists could be seen cleaning off some of the vulgar writing. The showroom is the latest Tesla location to be targeted by anti-Musk and anti-DOGE protesters since the billionaire CEO of the company began leading the cost-cutting agency. The incident also coincides […]

Federal authorities said Harvard's Kseniia Petrova "knowingly broke the law" amid their ongoing push to deport the Russian scientist.Petrova, a bioinformatician at the Kirschner Lab at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Boston Logan International Airport on Feb. 16 as she returned from a trip to Paris.Her attorney, Gregory Romanovsky, told Fox News that Petrova was bringing back frog embryos at the request of a professor at a French lab with […]

A New York woman and two young children were seen narrowly avoiding a manhole explosion in a dramatic incident captured on video. Lisa Davis just missed the blast on Saturday in Poughkeepsie as she and her two grandchildren were walking on a sidewalk after an Easter egg hunt, according to ABC News. "I was like, 'Oh my God, I don't know.' I didn't know where to go," she told the station. "I […]