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, …
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Sri Lankan authorities have seized nearly 60 kilograms of potent synthetic cannabis that foreigners tried to smuggle in this month in three separate cases, a customs official said Saturday. The majority of the drugs were reportedly seized from a former flight attendant from England who authorties say had over 100 …
Read More »Idaho student murders case defense lawyers will argue evidence was planted, prosecutors say
Prosecutors say Bryan Kohberger’s defense team will argue at his murder trial that someone else could have planted a knife sheath with Kohberger’s DNA at the home where four University of Idaho students were killed in 2022. Latah County Prosecutor Bill Thompson made the claim in a motion filed in …
Read More »Former doctor accused of poisoning wife may have identified as widower on Bumble before her death, warrant says
ROCHESTER, Minn. — A former Mayo Clinic resident accused of fatally poisoning his wife last year may have been identifying as a widower before she even died, a new warrant reveals. Connor Bowman, 31, is facing charges of second- and first-degree murder for the death of 32-year-old Betty Bowman on Aug. …
Read More »Kansas man charged with capital murder in rape and killing of 5
A 25-year-old man was charged Thursday in the rape and killing of a 5-year-old Kansas girl who died despite firefighters’ efforts to save her life in a gas station parking lot. Mickel Cherry faces one count of capital murder – which would allow prosecutors to seek the death penalty – …
Read More »Ruby Franke, popular Utah YouTuber, arrested on suspicion of child abuse after malnourished son escapes home, authorities say
A Utah woman who gave online parenting advice via a once popular YouTube channel has been arrested on suspicion of aggravated child abuse after her malnourished son escaped out a window and ran to a nearby house for help, authorities said. Ruby Franke, whose now defunct channel “8 Passengers” followed …
Read More »A serial killer said he killed a woman in Texas. Four decades later her remains have been identified.
More than four decades since law enforcement found the remains of a young woman on the side of a Texas highway, her remains have been identified, Bastrop County Sheriff’s Office announced at a news conference on Thursday. The woman was found in Elgin, Texas, when law enforcement was driving by. …
Read More »What we know about Rex Heuermann, suspect in Gilgo Beach murders that shook Long Island more than a decade ago
Rex Heuermann was arrested in 2023 in connection with the unsolved serial killings of women found along a New York beach highway more than a decade ago. Heuermann, 59, of Massapequa, Long Island, was charged in July with three counts of first-degree murder and three counts of second-degree murder for the …
Read More »3 dead, 8 wounded in shooting in Fort Worth, Texas parking lot
Officers responding to reports of gunfire late Monday night found 11 shooting victims in a parking lot in Fort Worth, Texas, police said. One was pronounced dead at the scene and two others died in hospitals. The other eight were also hospitalized and their conditions weren’t known, police said. Some …
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