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Harvey Weinstein has been indicted in California on sexual assault charges, one of his lawyers said on Monday, as the former disgraced Hollywood movie producer appeared in a New York court proceeding over whether to extradite him.

A New Jersey woman’s post advertising what she described as a “demonic” chihuahua for adoption has gone viral for its candor and hilarity.

A former Boston police officer and union chief, charged with molesting multiple children, first faced child abuse allegations in the mid-1990s, according to a published report.

One person is critically injured and three others are stable after a shooting on Birmingham’s northside Monday afternoon.

One person is dead, and a police officer is injured after a shooting at a Knoxville area high school, officials said.

Will Smith and director Antoine Fuqua have pulled production of their runaway slave drama “Emancipation” from Georgia over the state’s recently enacted law restricting voting access.

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz instituted another dusk-to-dawn curfew and law enforcement agencies stepped up their presence across the Minneapolis area Monday as protests continue following the fatal shooting of a Black man during a traffic stop.

A suburban Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot a Black man during a weekend traffic stop accidentally drew her firearm instead of a stun gun, the city’s police chief said Monday. Although rare, a string of similar incidents has happened in recent years across the U.S.

The Minnesota Twins, Minnesota Wild and Minnesota Timberwolves postponed games scheduled for Monday because of safety concerns following the fatal police shooting of a Black man and the potential for unrest in the area.

More than two months after former Kansas City Chiefs coach Britt Reid was involved in a crash that seriously injured a 5-year-old girl, the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office charged him with DWI — serious physical injury on Monday.

A south Mississippi sheriff’s deputy died after he lost control of a police vehicle while responding to a call.

A former sheriff’s dispatcher in a suburb of New Orleans has been arrested, accused of refusing to return more than $1.2 million that had been accidentally deposited into her brokerage account, authorities said.

Police believe an infant was fatally shot Friday by his 3-year-old brother after the older boy got a hold of a gun inside a Houston apartment.

A Pentagon Force Protection Agency officer is charged with two counts of second-degree murder and related charges after shooting and killing two people Wednesday while off duty, Takoma Park Police say.

Three hours after authorities identified 40-year-old Timothy Smith as the man killed in a mass shooting at a Bryan, Texas cabinet store, his sister said his family was stunned to learn he was gone.

Hollywood’s theatrical business may be slowly rebounding but for some exhibitors the last year has been catastrophic. Pacific Theaters, which operates some 300 screens in California, including the beloved ArcLight theaters and the historic Cinerama Dome in Hollywood, said Monday that it will not be reopening.

The murder trial of eccentric New York real estate heir Robert Durst will resume next month after more than a yearlong hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic, a judge said Monday.

An Asian man was attacked on a California street Saturday morning — another brazen attack of an Asian American captured on video.