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October 20, 2024

Connecticut man gets 33 years in prison for stray-bullet killing of Olympian’s mother
WATERBURY, Conn. — A Connecticut man was sentenced to 33 years in prison on Tuesday for the stray-bullet killing of a Puerto Rican Olympic athlete’s mother. Jasper Greene, 23, of New Haven, was one of three men charged in the death of Mabel Martinez Antongiorgi on April 9, 2022. The 56-year-old woman was sewing in…
California teen ID’d as suspect in teacher’s 1978 fatal stabbing
A teenager suspected of fatally stabbing a teacher in a California high school more than four decades ago was identified after a relative told authorities about a decades-old confession made immediately after the murder, officials said. Harry Nickerson, who was 16 when the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office said he killed Diane Peterson at…
‘We are better than this.’
BOULDER, Colo. — The 88-year-old Holocaust survivor who was burned during an attack by a man armed with a “makeshift flamethrower” had a message on Tuesday for the rest of America: “We are better than this.” In her first words spoken publicly since Sunday’s gruesome attack on a group of demonstrators advocating for the return…
TikTok can’t get enough of ‘Pretty Little Baby,’ a Connie Francis song from the 60s
TikTok often popularizes songs from music’s biggest and buzziest artists. But one of the most viral songs right now was recorded in 1961. More than six decades ago, singer Connie Francis recorded enough music to fill three albums. Buried on the back of one of those records was the song “Pretty Little Baby.” It wasn’t…
New searches underway in Portugal near where toddler Madeleine McCann disappeared in 2007
LAGOS, Portugal — Police investigating the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann searched near an abandoned rural building in southern Portugal on Tuesday as they launched fresh probes near the holiday resort where she was last seen 18 years ago. The case received worldwide interest for several years, with reports of sightings of McCann occurring…
Santa Ono rejected as University of Florida president after conservative backlash
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — In a surprise twist, the state of Florida’s top higher education board on Tuesday voted against a contract for Santa Ono, who was set to be the next president of the University of Florida. The decision came after growing opposition on the right to Ono’s past statements on, among other things, diversity,…
Hotel security officer testifies Diddy paid $100K to suppress assault video
This is a free article for Diddy on Trial newsletter subscribers. Sign up to get exclusive reporting and analysis throughout Sean Combs’ federal trial. Much of today’s testimony was spent revisiting Diddy’s March 2016 assault on Casandra Ventura, an incident at the InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles that was captured on security video and shown…
Pentagon taps China expert John Noh as Indo-Pacific point person
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Defense Department has picked former congressional staffer John Noh to be assistant secret of defense for Indo-Pacific security affairs, making him the top official for the region if confirmed. In nominations sent to Congress on Monday, the Pentagon also presented Alexander Velez-Green, known as a “prioritizer” and former national security adviser to Sen.…
Chinese couple charged with smuggling a biological pathogen into the U.S.
A Chinese researcher in Michigan and her boyfriend have been charged with smuggling a biological pathogen that “can cause devastating diseases in crops” into the United States, according to federal charging documents unsealed Tuesday. Yunqing Jian, 33, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan, and her boyfriend, Zunyong Liu, 34, were charged with multiple…