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A transgender Colorado teenager who admitted to plotting mass shootings targeting at least three schools — and who had penned a chilling manifesto praising infamous killers — has been sentenced to six years in prison. Lilly Whitworth, 19, born William, learned her fate in an Elbert County courtroom Tuesday. She was given credit of 306 days for time served from the time of her arrest in March 2023. Given Whitworth’s transgender status, it was not immediately clear whether she would be sent to a women’s prison or a men’s facility. A spokesperson for the 18th Judicial District’s Attorney’s Office, which...

This story isn’t making national headlines. Four women were injured in a stabbing spree at Louisiana Tech University on Monday morning.

A janitor at a New Jersey elementary school has been arrested over accusations he laced the food in the canteen with bleach, urine, saliva and feces. Giovanni Impellizzeri, 25, has been charged with child endangerment, aggravated assault and tampering with the food at Elizabeth Moore School in the Upper Deerfield School District. School authorities contacted the police on Monday after receiving a tip about posts on social media in which Impellizzeri was allegedly performing sex acts with 'inanimate objects' in the building. Investigators claim he contaminated the food and utensils in the school cafeteria with bodily fluids which included urine,...

Republicans warn that if Ukraine joins NATO, it could send the U.S. into war with Russia. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., is facing rebuke from Republicans in the House and Senate after he touted his effort to pass a bipartisan resolution pushing for Ukraine to be admitted into NATO amid its war with Russia. Discussing the effort in a tweet, Graham said he believes there's "overwhelming" support for the proposal in the Senate and claimed that Ukrainian membership in NATO is "vital to the future security of Europe and the world." "I will be working with Republicans and Democrats in the...

The unhinged Manhattan college professor who went viral for cursing out anti-abortion students shockingly held a machete to a Post reporter’s neck Tuesday — and made wild threats that she was going to “chop” him up. Shellyne Rodriguez spewed the menacing remarks when The Post knocked on the door of her Bronx apartment Tuesday morning — a day after she made headlines for flipping out on pro-life students at Hunter College. “Get the - away from my door, or I’m gonna chop you up with this machete!” the manic adjunct art professor shouted from behind her closed door just moments...

Hale planned the attack for months, but her “manifesto,” in the hands of the FBI, has yet to be released.On Monday, March 27, as the April 1 “Trans Day of Vengeance” approached, Audrey Hale, a woman who thinks she’s a man, shot open a locked door and entered the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee.In 14 minutes, Hale fired 152 rounds from an AR-15–style rifle and 9mm Kel-Tec SUB2000. Hale shot dead Evelyn Dieckhaus, 9, Mike Hill, 61, William Kinney, 9, Katherine Koonce, 60, Cynthia Peak, 61, and Hallie Scruggs. That nine-year-old was the daughter of Chad Scruggs, senior pastor at...

Former White House press secretary and MSNBC host Jen Psaki said Monday on CBS’s “The Late Show” that Fox News host Tucker Carlson treats his audience “like they are stupid.” Colbert said, “Let’s talk about the people who clearly had a cozy relationship with power, and that’s Fox News.” Psaki said, “I heard there are some developments.” Colbert said, “We are learning more about what is going on behind the scenes there. It’s not surprising, but it is unsettling to hear about.” Psaki said, “It’s a little bit more than unsettling, wouldn’t you say? I’ve watched you — I know...

A 10-year-old boy who is charged with fatally shooting his mother for refusing to buy him a VR headset seems more preoccupied with his gadgets than the murder as he faces trial, family members say. The Milwaukee boy is charged as an adult with first-degree reckless homicide in the November 21 killing of Quiana Mann, 44, who was shot in the face in their home. The boy's aunt Rhonda Reid told WTMJ-TV on Tuesday that when she talks to him in custody, he claims not to remember the shooting and quickly shifts the conversation to his favorite topic. 'When he...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The alleged shooter facing possible hate crime charges in the fatal shooting of five people at a Colorado Springs gay nightclub is nonbinary, the suspect’s defense team says in court filings. In several standard motions filed on behalf of Anderson Lee Aldrich on Tuesday, public defenders refer to the suspect as “Mx. Aldrich,” noting in footnotes that Aldrich, 22, is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns. The motions deal with issues like unsealing documents and evidence gathering, not Aldrich’s identity and there was no elaboration about it.

Mitchell Willetts Sun, August 28, 2022 at 10:07 AM Four people are dead after an armed Texas man set fire to several homes and ambushed residents as they ran outside to escape the flames, according to Houston police. The Houston Fire Department responded to a call around 1:07 a.m. Aug. 28, from an address on the 8000 block of Dunlap Street, on the city’s southwest side, police Chief Troy Finner said at a press briefing. But as soon as they arrived, gunshots rang out, forcing firefighters to run for cover. In a parking lot across the street, a 40-year-old man...

The suspect allegedly behind a shooting at an Alabama church that saw two seniors killed was a regular attendee at the house of worship, cops have revealed. Speaking to the press Friday, police said the gunman was in attendance at he Alabama Episcopalian church at the time of the shooting Thursday, at a meeting billed as a 'Boomers' Potluck.' The suspect, identified as a 71-year-old white male and an 'occasional attendee of the church' Friday, pulled out the firearm roughly an hour into 5pm event, and shot three attendees, two fatally. The gunman had reportedly concealed the gun, a pistol,...

The U.S. Marshals Lone Star Fugitive Task Force is searching for Kaitlin Marie Armstrong, 34, who is wanted for the May 11 murder of 25-year-old cyclist Moriah "Mo" Wilson. The Austin Police Department (APD) issued a warrant on May 17 for Armstrong's arrest. The 34-year-old resident of Austin, Texas, is suspected of killing Wilson, who is originally from Vermont but traveled frequently and was in Austin for a bike race at the time of her death. Police responded to a 911 call from an East Austin residence on the 1700 block of Maple Avenue last week. The caller said her...

Journalist and videographer Drew Hernandez captured a number of rather disturbing sights and sounds at Planned Parenthood's "Bans Off Our Bodies" Day of Action in Phoenix over the weekend — the kind of stuff that one commenter called "sick and disgusting" and that local news outlets seem to have left off their broadcasts. 'Fetus = Good Snack' First up is an image of one demonstrator holding a sign that reads "Fetus = Good Snack," which Hernandez posted to his Twitter page Saturday:

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Scott Charmoli's patients' teeth were just fine, but fine wasn't making him enough money. So the dentist in Jackson, Wis., drilled into and broke his patients' teeth in order to charge them for fixing the damage he'd caused, according to federal prosecutors. By doing so, Charmoli went from pulling in $1.4 million and affixing 434 crowns in 2014 to raking in $2.5 million and performing more than 1,000 crown procedures a year later.

One day after Ottawa's police chief resigned in the midst of historic civil unrest, city council voted to overhaul the police board and remove chair Diane Deans in a meeting full of high drama and vitriolic accusations.The surprise move was labelled as a way to "restore public trust" nearly three weeks into protests that have rocked the capital. (snip)At the heart of the dispute — one of the ugliest seen during this term of council — was the leaked news that the board had swiftly hired an interim police chief from outside the city without a competition, and without telling...

The White House accused Joe Manchin on Sunday for breaking his word after the Democrat publicly said he is a 'no' on President Joe Biden's Build Back Better initiative following months of negotiations over the social spending legislation. 'Senator Manchin promised to continue conversations in the days ahead, and to work with us to reach that common ground,' White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement on his latest comments. 'If his comments on Fox and written statement indicate an end to that effort, they represent a sudden and inexplicable reversal in his position,' she added, 'and a...

Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller is in a military jail for denouncing the US over its Afghanistan pullout. Pro-Trump entities have shared their support for Scheller, including by raising over $2 million. Scheller, however, has said he'd rather "sit in jail" than accept support from Donald Trump. See more stories on Insider's business page. The MAGA community has raised more than $2 million for a Marine officer who went viral for criticizing the US withdrawal from Afghanistan and saying he wanted to "bring the whole fucking system down." The officer in question, however, has spoken out against former President Donald Trump....

Bandy Lee, the psychiatrist who repeatedly diagnosed Trump as mentally unfit and dangerous, without ever even having met him, has apparently been fired by Yale University. What a shame. At one point, Lee’s frequent long-distance diagnoses extended to Professor Alan Dershowitz. He wrote a strongly worded letter to Yale, which apparently played a role. This all began unfolding last spring, but we’re just finding out now. Yale Daily News reports: Former professor says Yale fired her over tweet on Trump, Dershowitz... Bandy Lee MED ’94 DIV ’95, a formerly Yale-affiliated faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry in School of...

A former psychiatry professor at Yale University is suing the Ivy League school, alleging that she was fired because of her mental health diagnosis of President Donald Trump, whom she had never met. Dr. Bandy Lee, who previously worked as an affiliated faculty member in the psychiatry department of Yale’s medical school, on Monday filed a First Amendment lawsuit against the university, reported student newspaper the Yale Daily News. She demands reinstatement and compensation for damages, including “economic losses” and “emotional distress.” Lee has been questioning the mental health of Trump since 2017, when she became the editor of “The...