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A retired priest has been sentenced to five years in prison after it was discovered he had made slideshow presentations containing thousands of images of child pornography. The 72-year-old’s arsenal of abusive material was discovered after he left nude images of himself on a church printer, officials said.  The U.S. …

A Connecticut state lawmaker was killed in a wrong-way crash involving two vehicles late Wednesday night, the state’s governor announced. State Rep. Quentin “Q” Williams was 39. “I am in shock,” House Speaker Matt Ritter said in a statement Thursday. “Q was my dear friend and I am scarred by …

Mahina Douglas, who lives in the suburbs of Baltimore, says she loves to socialize. But after the holidays, she’s been thinking about cutting back on alcohol.  “I just felt like my drinking was getting, I guess a little more than I was comfortable with it being,” Douglas said. She decided …

A “Jeopardy!” clue referencing the murder of Gabby Petito and suicide of her then-fiancé and suspected killer, Brian Laundrie, has caused backlash on social media, with the Laundrie family now demanding an apology from the game show.  The controversial clue, which aired during Sunday night’s episode of “Celebrity Jeopardy!” read, …

As people anxiously await to see who will take home the record-breaking $1.9 billion Powerball prize, one lucky person in Delaware had a major win from scratch-offs. Delaware Lottery officials announced that a 70-year-old woman got the prize of a lifetime last month after she won $100,000 from scratch-off tickets — …

A former Wisconsin hospice nurse is facing felony charges after allegedly cutting off a dying man’s foot without his consent or permission from doctors. Mary Brown, 38, faces one count of physical abuse of an elderly person and one count of mayhem. According to a criminal complaint, a Pierce County …

After months of contention between Elon Musk and Twitter executives over his bid to own the company, the Tesla founder was officially given control on Friday. But as the new leader emerged at the helm, the platform saw a massive spike in hate speech, a new study found.  Researchers from …

Police have tracked down the person of interest in the “violent” quadruple murder that left four men dismembered in an Oklahoma river.  On Tuesday, salvage yard owner Joe Kennedy was arrested in Daytona Beach Shores, Florida, in a vehicle that was reported stolen to the Okmulgee County Sheriff’s Office on …

Elon Musk’s legal team is demanding to hear from Twitter’s whistleblowing former security chief, who could help bolster Musk’s case for backing out of a $44 billion deal to buy the social media company. Former Twitter executive Peiter Zatko — also known by his hacker handle “Mudge” — received a …

Texas on Wednesday put to death a man who fatally stabbed a suburban Dallas real estate agent more than 16 years ago, the second execution this year in what has been the nation’s busiest death penalty state. Kosoul Chanthakoummane, 41, received a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville …