Month: May 2025

A screening of the latest ‘Final Destination’ movie took a scary turn, mimicking a scene straight out of the franchise, when the theater’s roof collapsed on viewers in Argentina.  The incident occurred on May 19, when the ceiling collapsed during a showing of “Final Destination: Bloodlines,” at Cinema Ocho in La Plata in Buenos Aires, […]

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President Donald Trump on Monday announced that he will pardon a former Virginia sheriff convicted of taking more than $75,000 in bribes in exchange for appointing businessmen as auxiliary deputy sheriffs within his department.  In a Truth Social post, Trump said Scott Howard Jenkins, 53, of Culpeper, Virginia, was supposed to report to jail Tuesday […]

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Bindi Irwin is on the road to recovery and taking the time to heal after suffering a ruptured appendix earlier this month. Irwin, the daughter of late animal advocate Steve Irwin, was forced to miss an annual gala in honor of her father due to emergency surgery. While the surgery was initially intended to address […]

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John Haliburton is expected to have a bird’s eye view of his son Tyrese Haliburton and the rest of the Indiana Pacers for Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals. The elder Haliburton will return to Gainbridge Fieldhouse on Tuesday and watch from a luxury suite as the Pacers take on the New York Knicks […]

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Police arrested the driver of a minivan on Monday after authorities say he plowed into a crowd of Liverpool, United Kingdom, soccer fans, injuring dozens who were celebrating the city’s soccer team’s Premier League Championship. Police identified the driver as a 53-year-old British man from the Liverpool area. Police also said they believe this was […]

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A truck that unexpectedly exploded in a suburban Chicago neighborhood over the holiday weekend damaged several homes and injured the driver, authorities said.  Investigators in Addison, 20 miles west of Chicago, said the incident has been ruled an accident due to a leaking propane tank inside the box truck rental. The Addison Fire Protection District […]

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Chicago Public Schools (CPS) officials are debating whether their grading policy is too lenient, with one principal arguing that leniency in grading won’t translate into success in the real world for students, according to a report. “When students graduate and are working in jobs, what they experience around grace and flexibility at school is not […]

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More than 7 million viewers tuned in to watch Alex Palou win the first Indianapolis 500 of his career over the weekend, FOX Sports announced on Monday. The race garnered 7.05 million viewers, FOX Sports said, citing Nielsen fast national ratings. The company added that it had 8.4 million viewers at its peak between 4 […]

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President Donald Trump honored fallen American heroes and praised God during a Memorial Day address at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia on Monday, vowing to “fix” the republic founded nearly 250 years ago.  “We gathered today to honor the incredible service members who rest in glory in this cemetery and burial grounds around the world, […]

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Sean “Diddy” Combs’ federal trial received a brief break Monday as New York City courthouses honored Memorial Day. Diddy, 55, will spend the holiday behind bars at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC), where the fallen music mogul has been incarcerated since his September arrest. While the “Last Night” rapper received a brief respite from testimony […]

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