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The person before the parole panel in June 2019 was tall and slim, in far better shape than 81 years of life might have suggested. Mild and polite, the supplicant seemed nothing like the murderer who had spent decades in prison, first for shooting a girlfriend dead in 1963, and then for stabbing another in 1985, stuffing her corpse into a bag and leaving it in Central Park. “I’m no longer that person,” the inmate told the parole board commissioners. Despite misgivings, they would rule in favor of release. Two and a half years after leaving Cayuga Correctional Facility, Marceline...

Congress's website was hacked for around an hour Thursday evening as a Russia-aligned hacktivist group took credit for turning the text of the site entirely into Russian. The pro-Russian hacker group Killnet claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement on its Telegram channel. In its message announcing the action, translated by Polina Tyntareva, a Russian university student, the hacker group gave an encyclopedic definition of Congress before it said, "So they have money for weapons for the whole world, but not for their own defense." As seen in a video posted along with the message, Congress's homepage was changed...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Even after two men were found dead in his California apartment, Ed Buck did not stop injecting gay men with walloping doses of methamphetamine. Federal prosecutors said Buck's unrelenting fervor to satisfy a fetish by preying on vulnerable men, often young and Black, is reason enough to keep him behind bars for the rest of his life. Buck, 67, a big dollar donor to Democratic, LGBTQ and animal rights causes, faces sentencing Thursday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles for providing fatal doses of drugs, operating a drug den and enticing men to travel for...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC) — A convicted cop killer—invited to speak at a local college. That's a claim going around on social media. But is that really true? That's tonight's Fact Check. Jalil Muntaqim, also known as Anthony Bottom, lives in Brighton. Back in 1971, he killed two New York City Police officers. He was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. But now he's out on parole, and next month he's scheduled to speak at SUNY Brockport. According to the posting on Brockport's events calendar, it will be "an intellectual conversation on his time with the Black Panthers and...

Alec Baldwin responded to the lawsuits seeking to hold him accountable for last year’s fatal shooting on the set of the indie western Rust, claiming he is being targeted because he is wealthy. The Boss Baby and Saturday Night Live star made the comments during a public event at the Boulder International Film Festival in Colorado on Saturday. “What you have is a certain group of people, litigants and whatever, on whatever side, who their attitude is, ‘well the people who likely seem negligent have no money and the people who have money are not negligent,’ ” Baldwin said, according...

Recent statements by Santa Fe’s Democrat D.A. Mary Carmack-Altwies seems to point to good news for Alec Baldwin in the Rust shooting that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in October. According to Vanity Fair, D.A. Carmack-Altwies seems open to accepting Baldwin’s claim that he didn’t pull the trigger on the gun that killed Hutchins and wounded the film’s director, Joel Souza. In a December 2 interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, Baldwin claimed he didn’t actually fire the gun he was given and that it seemed to go off by itself. “I didn’t pull the trigger,” Alec Baldwin told Stephanopoulos. “I would...

Former U.S. Secretary of State and twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will receive the inaugural Forbes International Women’s Day Lifetime Achievement Award next month. The honor is being granted, according to Forbes, for “her leadership and influential voice on the global stage in advancing the cause of women and fighting for gender equity.”

The Wisconsin man accused of fatally plowing his SUV through a crowd at the Waukesha Christmas parade pleaded not guilty to dozens of criminal charges Friday. Darrell Brooks Jr., 39, is facing 77 charges for the vehicular rampage Nov. 21 that left six people dead and dozens more injured.

A tragic story about a careless drunk driving incident involving an illegal invader motorist in Texas that resulted in a young American woman’s death has exposed the horrifying truth about Democrat Joe Biden’s plans for America’s future. Apparently, he plans to let the country be invaded by people who don’t have to follow our laws.“Biden administration RESCINDS deportation of Mexican illegal immigrant who crashed into and killed a 19-year-old woman while drunk as part of their bid to reduce the number of removals,” The Daily Mail reported on Tuesday. Here is the horrifying story in detail:Heriberto Fuerte-Padilla was driving drunk...

The mother of a New York City man accused of gunning down two NYPD officers before a third returned fire told local media Monday that her son had "a fixation on guns," suffered from mental illness and lost vision in his left eye after a brawl with gang members as a younger man. She also said she regretted phoning in the domestic violence altercation that dispatched police to her Harlem home. Shirley Sourzes called 911 Friday to report a domestic incident involving her 47-year-old son, Lashawn McNeil.

A New Jersey man and serial killer responsible for the rapes and murders of three women was sentenced to 160 years in prison on Wednesday. Khalil Wheeler-Weaver, 25, was largely silent during his sentencing proceedings in front of Essex County Court Judge Mark S. Ali. According to the Associated Press, the convicted murderer kept quiet as the court handed down a sentence that will keep him behind bars for the rest of his life. He similarly made no noise while victim impact statements were read by surviving family members of two of his victims. Wheeler-Weaver reportedly only spoke briefly, just...

At long last the Zodiac Killer -- perhaps Northern California's most infamous serial killer -- has been identified, but he's already dead ... according to an independent team of investigators

The man convicted of killing nine neighbors in separate arsons has dodged the death penalty. Jurors recommended life behind bars on Friday for Stanley Ford, 62, for murdering a couple, and a family of seven by setting house fires at their homes in Summit County, Ohio, according to local media outlets. A jury of Ford’s peers found him guilty on Sept. 21 for killing Lindell Lewis, 65, and Gloria Jean Hart, 66, in an April 18, 2016 arson, and for killing Angela Boggs, 38, and Dennis Huggins, 35, and their children Cameron Huggins, 1, Alivia Huggins, 3, Kyle Huggins, 5,...

EXCLUSIVE - The former U.S. Army major and self-described “soldier of Allah” behind the deadly 2009 massacre at Fort Hood cheered the resurgent Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan in a letter obtained exclusively by the Washington Examiner. Writing from death row at Fort Leavenworth, Nidal Hasan boasted “We Have Won” and congratulated the Taliban. Hasan, who gunned down 14 people and wounded 43 more, urged the nascent terrorist government to implement its brand of brutal oppression under the guise of religion. “Congratulations on your victory over those who hate for the Laws of All-Mighty God to be supreme on the land,”...

The jury in the federal trial of political donor Ed Buck is set to begin deliberations on Tuesday. Buck faces charges of supplying methamphetamine that killed two men, years apart, who were at his apartment in West Hollywood. That includes 26-year-old Gemmel Moore, who died from a meth overdose in 2017. At the time, his death was ruled an accident. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies investigated the case and gave then-District Attorney Jackie Lacey several possible charges to file against Buck. She chose not to pursue charges, saying there wasn’t enough evidence. Community activists argued Buck was responsible for the...

Rodney Alcala, a convicted serial killer who was on California's death row, has died, authorities said Saturday. Alcala, 77, died of natural causes at 1:43 a.m. Saturday at a hospital in the community near Corcoran State Prison, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a statement. Alcala was known as "The Dating Game" killer for his appearance as a winning contestant on the television game show in 1978. After representing himself in Orange County court, he was sentenced to death in 2010 for the 1979 murder of 12-year-old Robin Samsoe and the murders of four other women --...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The trial of wealthy Democratic donor Ed Buck, who is charged in connection with the overdose deaths of two men at his West Hollywood apartment, got underway Tuesday. Nearly two years after he was arrested and charged by federal prosecutors, Buck is going on trial for providing the fatal doses to those two men, running a drug den and persuading others to travel for prostitution. The 66-year-old has pleaded not guilty to nine felony charges that could put him in prison for life if he's convicted. The arrest of Buck in 2019 marked a turning point...

Biden has violated fundamental Catholic teaching at least 32 times, report to bishops saysThe Biden administration has violated core Church teaching on at least 32 occasions in less than five months, the Catholic League found in a new report sent to all American bishops.June 10, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – A new report by the Catholic League has identified at least 32 times that Joe Biden has violated fundamental Catholic moral teaching since being inaugurated.The report, which was sent to the U.S. bishops, “outlines many instances where [Biden’s] decision-making on important moral issues is at variance with established Catholic teachings,” Catholic League...

The rioters who attacked police officers with Molotov cocktails and fireworks and torched numerous buildings in Kenosha, Wisconsin, for about a week included members of the same pro-China communist group that “sparked” the May riots in Minneapolis after the police-involved killing of George Floyd. Maoist activists from the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) can take most, if not all, of the credit for inciting the recent rioting in Kenosha. The town of 100,000 people has been torn apart, businesses and cars have been razed, multiple people have been arrested, and two people have died—yet no one seems to want to...

Keith Gibson, a 39-year-old man arrested Tuesday in connection to a violent robbery in Wilmington, is facing murder and related charges in the shooting death of a Dunkin' manager in Philadelphia over the weekend, prosecutors said Wednesday. Philadelphia Police Department Chief Inspector Frank Vanore said 41-year-old Christine Lugo was opening the Dunkin' on the 500 block of Lehigh Avenue shortly before 6 a.m. when Gibson entered the store and stole about $300. Before leaving Vanore said Gibson allegedly shot Lugo once in the head. Shortly after police released surveillance footage of the Dunkin' homicide, authorities in Delaware noticed the suspect...