Day: January 23, 2025

Illegal immigrant suspect in fatal hit-and-run arrested 800 miles from crime scene on bus headed to Mexico

9:32 pm January 23, 2025

U.S. Marshals have located and detained the suspect in a fatal Illinois hit-and-run in a Texas town south of Dallas. Juan Jahaziel Saenz-Suarez, a 27-year-old Mexican national who lived in Urbana, Illinois, is accused of hitting Chloe Polzin, 21, and Katherine Abraham, 20, in a crash in Urbana on Jan. 19 just before 2 a.m. […]

Los Angeles wildfires: Veteran first responder says ‘cool dad moment’ with rookie son was years in the making

9:30 pm January 23, 2025

A Fresno-area fire captain in California who is helping battle the Los Angeles wildfires got an unexpected moment of joy when he bumped into his son while on a call. “It was just a happenstance, really. We were on the same dirt road out in the middle of nowhere, and I just kind of took […]

Ricki Lake says rebuilding after LA fires destroyed her home is ‘exhausting and paralyzing’

9:18 pm January 23, 2025

Ricki Lake is determined to rebuild her dream home. The “Hairspray” actress vowed that she and her husband, Ross Burningham, wouldn’t sell their land in Malibu after their home burned down earlier this month in the Palisades Fire. The 56-year-old revealed that her home took more than seven years to build from the ground up, […]

Medal of Honor recipients would see their pensions increase 6-fold under new proposal

9:07 pm January 23, 2025

EXCLUSIVE: A new, bipartisan, bicameral bill would boost pensions for Medal of Honor recipients six-fold. The legislation, reintroduced by Texas Republicans Rep. Troy Nehls and Sen. Ted Cruz and New Hampshire Democrat Rep. Chris Pappas, would bring pay for those who receive the nation’s highest military award from $16,880 per year to $100,000 per year. […]

Biden clemency for ‘non-violent’ inmates includes Connecticut child killer

9:02 pm January 23, 2025

A 48-year-old Connecticut drug kingpin who killed a mother and her 8-year-old son so she wouldn’t testify against his brother has received clemency as part of former President Joe Biden’s clemency for nearly 2,500 federal inmates he described as “non-violent.” Adrian Peeler, a Bridgeport drug trafficker, killed a woman named Karen Clarke and her 8-year-old […]