A teenager in New Jersey has filed a major lawsuit against the company behind an artificial intelligence (AI) “clothes removal” tool that allegedly created a fake nude image of her. The case has drawn national attention because it shows how AI can invade privacy in harmful ways. The lawsuit was …
Read More »Body found during search for missing Vermont college student Lia Smith near Middlebury campus
A body has been found during the search for a missing Vermont college student who was last seen on campus about a week ago. Lia Smith, 21, was last seen on Middlebury College’s campus on the night of Oct. 17 and was reported missing that Sunday, the school announced. Smith, …
Read More »Japan executes man dubbed the “Twitter killer,” convicted serial killer who murdered and dismembered 9 people
Japan on Friday executed a man dubbed the “Twitter killer” who murdered and dismembered nine people he met online, in the nation’s first enactment of the death penalty since 2022. Takahiro Shiraishi, 34, was hanged for killing his young victims, all but one of whom were women, after contacting them …
Read More »A former police chief known as the “Devil in the Ozarks” escaped prison in Arkansas. Here’s what to know.
Officials have been scouring Arkansas’ rugged Ozark Mountains for a former police chief and convicted killer who escaped from prison over the weekend. Grant Hardin, who briefly served as police chief for the small town of Gateway, near the Arkansas-Missouri border, was serving a decadeslong sentence for murder and rape. …
Read More »Idaho murders suspect’s selfie puts focus on evidence citing “bushy eyebrows”
A flurry of court documents filed this week in the case of Bryan Kohberger, the man charged in the killings of four University of Idaho students in late 2022, offers new details about how the case against him is shaping up. Among those documents revealed by prosecutors is what appears …
Read More »Arrests made after 12
Two men who were seen on surveillance footage with a 12-year-old girl before her body was found in a Houston creek earlier this week were arrested Thursday in her death, police said. One of the suspects tried to jump off a balcony and escape before officers caught him, a neighbor …
Read More »Police arrest man exactly 41 years after he allegedly shot, killed 24
Detectives arrested a 61-year-old man Tuesday, exactly 41 years after he allegedly shot and killed a 24-year-old man in Indiana, officials said. Ronald J. Anderson allegedly shot Clifford Smith in the head on Oct. 31, 1982, Indiana State Police said. Smith’s wife reported him missing on Nov. 4. Two animal …
Read More »Javier Loya, minority owner of the Houston Texans, is facing a rape charge in Kentucky
Javier Loya, a minority owner of the Houston Texans, is facing a rape charge in Kentucky, according to court records. Loya has been charged with one count of first-degree rape, five counts of first-degree sexual abuse and one count of third-degree sexual abuse in Jefferson County, Kentucky. He’s accused of …
Read More »Accused Pentagon leaker appeals pretrial detention order, citing Trump’s release
The former Massachusetts Air National Guardsman accused of stealing and disseminating classified Pentagon records online is asking a federal judge to set him free and reverse a previous ruling that he remain in pretrial detention. The filing draws a direct comparison to former President Donald Trump, who remains free pending …
Read More »Michigan murder suspect Chadwick Mobley captured after escaping at gas station in Montana
Authorities in western Montana have captured a Michigan slaying suspect who escaped custody over the weekend by removing his handcuffs and shackles at a gas station while being transported to face charges. Chadwick Shane Mobley was taken into custody at about 6:10 p.m. Monday in the town of Plains, the …
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