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LPETTET/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Another parent has been arrested in connection to the so-called "Varsity Blues" college admissions scandal, this time for allegedly spending $400,000 to get her son a spot at the University of California-Los Angeles.The Department of Justice announced Tuesday that a Chinese woman based in Canada named Xiaoning Sui has been arrested in Spain in connection to her alleged efforts to get her son into UCLA.Sui, 48, faces […]

danchooalex/iStock(ALBANY, New York) -- New York state has banned the sale of flavored e-cigarettes amid growing national concern about the safety of the products.The ban went into effect after being approved by the state's Public Health and Health Planning Council Tuesday afternoon.New York is the first state to enact such a ban, although Michigan lawmakers have approved a similar ban but are working out details.This comes days after New York […]

smolaw11/iStock(MCALESTER, Okla.) -- Police arrested an Oklahoma teenager with a semi-automatic rifle this week after she allegedly threatened to target her former high school and "shoot 400 people for fun."Alexis Wilson, 18, was arrested at her home on Monday after allegedly telling coworkers at a pizza restaurant in McAlester, Oklahoma, about 90 miles south of Tulsa, that she purchased a new AK-47 and had the urge to shoot people, according […]

MicroStockHub/iStock(CLEWISTON, Fla.) -- Despite calls from the LGBT community for more information in the wake of the discovery of a black transgender woman burned beyond recognition in Florida earlier this month, authorities say they are reluctant to release details about the investigation into her death.Police had to use dental records to identify 23-year-old Bee Love Slater after her body was discovered inside of an abandoned car in Clewiston, Florida, on […]

NYPD School Safety(NEW YORK) -- A school safety officer with the New York City police was shot dead in her apartment, allegedly by her boyfriend, in an apparent murder-suicide, according to authorities.Officers responded to reports of an argument and gunshots inside a Fort Greene, Brooklyn, apartment around 11:20 p.m. Sunday, initially treating the call as a possibly armed and barricaded person, according to the New York Police Department (NYPD).When officers […]

FILE - Erin Donalson/iStock(NEW YORK) -- There are now 14 large uncontained wildfires burning in the West, not including smaller fires that broke out Monday.One of them, the Francis Fire in Davis County, Utah burned up to 200 acres and there were mandatory evacuations for residents in the area, though those have since been lifted since Monday evening.Tuesday, the cold front that caused all the gusty winds that helped to […]

aijohn784/iStock(LINDENWOLD, N.J.) -- A 60-year-old man has been charged after a 1-year-old girl, of whom he was the legal guardian, died in a hot car in New Jersey, prosecutors said.Shelton Shambry was charged Monday with fourth-degree abuse and neglect for allegedly leaving the 22-month-old girl in a van at a train station in Lindenwold last month, according to the Camden County Prosecutor's Office.After a call to 911 on Aug. 16, […]

FILE - 00one/iStock(GREEN BANK, W. Va.) -- Astronomers have discovered the "most massive neutron star ever measured," amassing to more than two times the mass of our sun, that they dub "almost too massive to exist," according to a statement from researchers at the Green Bank Observatory."A neutron star is what remains when a very massive star goes supernova and dies, it is an extremely dense dead stellar core," Thankful […]

Baltimore Police Department(BALTIMORE) -- Police are searching for a former actor on The Wire who allegedly escaped custody after being taken to a Baltimore hospital last week.Christopher Clanton Sr. -- who played Savino Bratton in two seasons of HBO's Baltimore-based drama The Wire -- allegedly escaped from police custody on Friday after being transferred to a nearby hospital, police said. The 33-year-old actor was arrested for allegedly violating a protective […]