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Alan Greenspan Dies: Longtime Fed Chair Shaped US Economy
One of the most powerful voices in modern American finance is gone. Alan Greenspan, the economist who chaired the Federal Reserve for nearly 19 years, died Monday, June 22, at age 100 from complications of Parkinson’s disease, his wife of 29 years, NBC News correspondent Andrea Mitchell, said in a statement, according to the network. Greenspan was first appointed Fed chair by President Ronald Reagan in 1987. He remained in the role until January 2006, serving under Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush. His tenure made him the second-longest-serving Fed chair in US his…
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ID Released For Man Who Fell To Death At Madison Square Garden Concert
Authorities have identified the Connecticut man who died after a fall inside Madison Square Garden. The NYPD identified the man as 51-year-old Paul Kueker of Niantic, Connecticut, in New London County. He died after falling during a Goose concert at MSG in Midtown Manhattan on Saturday, June 20, according to CBS New York. Police received a 911 call at 9:51 p.m. for an injured man inside the arena, ABC7NY reported. Officers found Kueker unconscious and unresponsive with injuries consistent with a fall from an elevated position, police said. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where he was pr…
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Alarming 'Suspicious Activity' Scam Alerts Aim To Drain Bank Accounts: What To Know
A text message arrives out of nowhere, warning that something is wrong with an account and demanding immediate action. That's exactly what scammers are counting on. Multiple reports and law enforcement agencies are warning consumers about a growing wave of phishing text messages, often called "smishing" scams, claiming unusual activity has been detected on a financial, technology, or other online account. The messages are designed to create panic. Recipients are told their account has been locked, restricted, or targeted by suspicious activity and are urged to click a link or call a number…
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Babysitter Revived After Being Pulled Unresponsive From Pool At Popular LI Vacation Spot
A 19-year-old babysitter was revived after being pulled unresponsive from a pool in Ocean Bay Park on Fire Island Sunday afternoon, June 21, authorities said. Marine Bureau Sgt. Kelly Locascio and Officers Jordan Colon and Tyler Williams were on foot patrol near 56 East Bay View Walk at 1 p.m. when they heard screams coming from a backyard, according to Suffolk County Police. The officers learned the woman had gone underwater and failed to resurface, according to police. The homeowner entered the pool, pulled her out, and began CPR. Officer Williams then took over CPR, police said. The wom…
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F-16 Intercepts Plane Violating Restricted Airspace Over Maryland: NORAD (
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A Maryland pilot got an unexpected escort from the US military on Saturday afternoon. A NORAD F-16 fighter jet intercepted a civilian aircraft after it entered restricted airspace over Hagerstown, according to the North American Aerospace Defense Command. The violation occurred around 12:20 p.m. Saturday, June 20, when the general aviation aircraft entered a VIP Temporary Flight Restriction area over Washington County, officials said. That's when NORAD stepped in. Military officials said the F-16 intercepted the aircraft over Hagerstown before monitoring it as it safely landed at a nearby…
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Man Falls To His Death At MSG During Concert: Police
A 51-year-old man died after falling from an elevated position during a Goose concert at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night, June 20, according to the NYPD. Police responded to a 911 call reporting an aided person at 4 Penn Plaza in Manhattan at 9:51 p.m., NYPD said. Upon arrival, officers found the 51-year-old man unconscious and unresponsive with injuries consistent with a fall from an elevated position, police said. EMS transported the man to Bellevue Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said. The man's identity had not been released as of press time pending fami…
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Man, 51, Dies After Fall During Concert At Madison Square Garden
A night of music at one of the world’s most famous arenas turned tragic. Click here for a new, updated story: ID Released For Man Who Fell To Death At Madison Square Garden Concert A 51-year-old man fell to his death during a Goose concert at Madison Square Garden in Midtown Manhattan on Saturday night, June 20, according to multiple reports citing the NYPD. CBS New York reported that police said the man fell from an elevated surface inside the arena shortly before 10 p.m. Police sources told CBS New York the man fell from the arena’s 300 level. ABC7NY reported that officers…
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3 Dead In Plane Crash From NJ To MD
Three men were killed when a small plane flying from New Jersey crashed into a wooded area near a residential neighborhood in Bowie, MD, late Saturday night, June 20, Maryland State Police said. The single-engine Piper Cherokee was traveling from Ocean City, NJ, to Montgomery County Air Park when it went down for unknown reasons at approximately 11:30 p.m., according to Maryland State Police. All three occupants, a pilot and two passengers, were pronounced dead at the scene by emergency medical service personnel, police said. Their identities have not been released pending notification of n…
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: Kids Left Dangling 25+ Feet Up On Stalled Long Island Amusement Park Ride
Multiple children and one adult were left stranded at least 25 feet above the ground after a ride malfunctioned at Adventureland in Farmingdale, prompting a large rescue operation Friday, June 19, responders said. The Wave Twister, the park's newest attraction, stopped with 15 passengers onboard, according to the East Farmingdale Volunteer Fire Company. Firefighters, Suffolk County Police ESU, and mutual aid departments worked to secure each rider and lower them one at a time using specialized rescue equipment and aerial apparatus, the fire company said. The operation lasted more than three…
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Deadly Inferno Breaks Out At Luxury Caribbean Resort Popular With US Tourists
A Caribbean vacation spot turned into a scene of smoke, flames, and panic. A deadly fire badly damaged the Viva Dominicus Beach by Wyndham resort in Bayahíbe, Dominican Republic, on Friday, June 19, according to multiple reports. The beachfront resort sits on the country’s southeastern coast, an area popular with US and international tourists. Francesca Valentino, a 46-year-old tourist from Caserta, Italy, died after the fire, according to ABC News. At least one tourist is dead after a massive fire broke out at a luxury resort in the Dominican Republic. ABC News' Alex Presha has the de…
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$24M Pot Bust: Baltimore CBP Seizes 5 Tons Of Marijuana Hidden In Shipment Bound For England
Somebody tried to send more than five tons of marijuana from Maryland to England disguised as a shipment of men's shirts. It didn't make it past Baltimore. US Customs and Border Protection officers seized 10,615 pounds of marijuana from a shipping container at the Port of Baltimore on Thursday, June 18, though the massive bust actually happened on May 29, according to CBP. CBP officers seized five tons of marijuana in a shipping container in Baltimore. CBP The container had arrived from Nassau County on Long Island and was headed for Liverpool, England. On paper, it carried men's …
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Pharmacy Workers Ordered To Their Knees, Phones Stolen At Gunpoint: DC Robbery Boss Learns Fate
One robbery ended with a pharmacy employee zip-tied inside a narcotics vault. Another forced a worker to his knees before being struck in the head. And after a yearlong robbery spree that stretched from Maryland to New Jersey, the man prosecutors say helped orchestrate it all has finally learned where the getaway route ends. D'Marrell Mitchell, a 36-year-old DC man known as "Baby," was sentenced to 224 months in prison for helping lead a violent robbery crew that terrorized pharmacies and cellphone stores across the DMV and beyond, federal prosecutors announced. For nearly a year, from May…
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Tom Dreesen Dies: Frank Sinatra's Opening Act, Frequent Guest Of Johnny Carson
A familiar face from late-night TV and comedy stages has died. Tom Dreesen, a veteran stand-up comedian and actor who became Frank Sinatra’s longtime opening act, died Wednesday, June 17, at his home in Los Angeles, People reported. He was 86. A cause of death was not publicly disclosed. Dreesen built a career spanning more than 50 years and included more than 500 national TV appearances. He became a regular on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" and often appeared on "The Late Show with David Letterman," where he served as a guest host. Dreesen was also closely tied to Sinatra’s l…
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Sauerkraut Diet Frenzy Hits Trump Cabinet Despite 'Sulfurous Odors': Report
Something unusual is showing up on the plates of some of Washington's most recognizable figures. A growing number of senior Trump administration officials have embraced a diet centered on fermented foods, led by sauerkraut, grass-fed meat, and other gut-friendly staples, according to a new report. The trend was detailed by The Wall Street Journal in a report published Thursday, June 18, which described how Vice President JD Vance, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy have adopted the eating plan…
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Hikers Warned After Suspected Norovirus Cases Reported In Shenandoah National Park In Virginia
A suspected norovirus outbreak that has been making its way along portions of the Appalachian Trail has now been reported in Shenandoah National Park, prompting renewed warnings for hikers heading into Virginia's backcountry. The Appalachian Trail Conservancy said it has received multiple reports of hikers experiencing stomach bugs and gastrointestinal illness symptoms along sections of the trail in Virginia. The latest reported case came from Blackrock Hut in Shenandoah National Park, according to an update issued by the conservancy. Earlier reports had already been documented betwe…
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Councilman, Ex-Mobster Charged In Loan-Sharking Scheme After 'Turning Life Around': AG
An ex-mobster turned New Jersey councilman, who has spoken publicly about turning his life around and doing things "the right way" has been arrested and charged with running an illegal loan-sharking scheme that used threats of violence to collect money from borrowers, authorities announced Friday, June 19. John Alite, a 63-year-old Englishtown resident, made loans with interest rates that exceeded legal limits and later obtained money and property from victims by threatening to commit violent acts, and used an entertainment company to promote the scheme, New Jersey Attorney Ge…
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Maryland Child Flown To Hospital After Serious Crash Triggers Helicopter Rescue (
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A young child had to be airlifted to an area hospital early on Friday morning after he was involved in a serious crash in Maryland, officials say. Early on June 19, first responders in Anne Arundel County were called to an intersection in Friendship, where there was a reported collision that left the child with critical injuries that required a Maryland State Police helicopter. Photos from the scene show Maryland State Police flight medics waiting beside the helicopter as crews wheeled the child across the landing zone and toward the aircraft. The child was airlifted out of Anne Aru…
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Trump Unveils New-Look Air Force One Gifted By Qatar At Joint Base Andrews: Watch
A new presidential aircraft is getting its first public rollout. President Donald Trump unveiled a newly acquired Boeing 747 on Friday, June 19, at Joint Base Andrews in Prince George's County, Maryland. The aircraft was gifted by Qatar and is expected to serve as a temporary presidential plane while the US waits for two long-delayed Boeing replacements. .@POTUS makes the inaugural exit from the BRAND NEW AIR FORCE ONE! 🔥🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/jBciB2atAV — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) June 19, 2026 The plane would be known as Air Force One when the president is aboard. Trump high…
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Billions Of Emails, Passwords, Login Credentials Exposed In Massive Data Breach
A massive online exposure could put countless accounts at risk. Cybernews researchers found an unsecured database containing 24 billion records, including usernames, email addresses, plaintext passwords, and login URLs, according to Cybernews. Cybernews said the exposed Elasticsearch cluster contained more than 8.3 terabytes of data. In plain English, that is enough digital material to fill thousands of movies or millions of documents. The database has since been secured and is no longer publicly exposed, Cybernews reported. Researchers said the records came from 36 sources, including Tel…
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'Playboy' Hid Fentanyl In Maryland Home Where His Young Children Slept, Feds Say
A Maryland fentanyl dealer with a curious nickname who kept drugs in the same home where his young children slept is headed to federal prison, authorities announced. Fredrick Crawford, 33, also known as "Playboy," was sentenced to 66 months behind bars after investigators linked him to a fentanyl trafficking operation that stretched into Washington, DC. But it was what agents found at home that stood out after he sold nearly 10 ounces to undercover officers. When federal investigators searched Crawford's residence in October 2025, they found fentanyl, crack cocaine, powder cocaine, marijua…
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Nobody Helped As OD Victim Teetered Above Knicks Parade — Then Off-Duty EMT Saved His Life
Hundreds of Knicks fans watched, and many recorded, but a 24-year-old New Jersey EMT is one of the few who sprang into action — and the only one who saved his life. Now-viral videos captured by Peter Shrieve-Don and Agen Xin show Maplewood's Simone Kelly climbing onto the elevated structure above the World Trade Center subway station and helping save an unresponsive man during the Thursday, June 18 Knicks championship parade in Lower Manhattan. Kelly, a volunteer EMT with the South Orange Rescue Squad and a neuroscience student at Drew University, had arrived at the parade around 7 a.m. aft…
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Class President Who Posed As Dutch Porn Star Stays In Jail Despite 200+ Charges Dropped: Docs
A former senior class president accused of posing as a Dutch porn star to manipulate and extort more than 20 teen boys remains behind bars, even after prosecutors dropped more than 200 felony counts from the case. Zachariah Abraham Meyers, 18, of McMurray, Pennsylvania, was originally charged with more than 300 felonies after Peters Township Police accused him of operating a massive catfishing and sextortion scheme targeting classmates and other teenage boys. Following his preliminary hearing, prosecutors consolidated the case to 67 felony counts, but a Washington County judge recently denie…
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Air Force IDs 8 Killed In B-52 Bomber Crash
A deadly military test flight has now been followed by the names of those lost. The US Air Force released the identities of eight people killed after a Boeing B-52 Stratofortress crashed on Monday, June 15, shortly after takeoff at Edwards Air Force Base in California, according to an Edwards Air Force Base release. The Edwards Air Force Base post can be viewed here: Those killed were identified as: Col. Gregory Watson, 53, weapon systems officer, Boeing (Air Force reservist, assigned 10th Air Force, Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas), Shreveport, L…
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'Love Island USA' Executive Producer Dies Suddenly While Filming Season 8
A hit reality show is mourning one of the people who helped shape what viewers saw and heard. James Barker, an executive producer on "Love Island USA," died while the show’s eighth season was being filmed in Fiji in the South Pacific. He was 40. ITV America and Peacock confirmed on Monday, June 15, that Barker died after what they described as an "unexpected medical emergency," NBC News reported. No official cause of death has been publicly released. Barker joined "Love Island USA" in 2020 as a story producer and rose to executive producer, a role he held for the last three seasons, …
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Heartbreaking Photo Appears To Show Teen Moments Before Deadly Central Park Carriage Crash
A newly released photo shows 18-year-old Romanch Mahajan smiling alongside his family in a horse-drawn carriage moments before a crash in Central Park claimed his life. The image, published by the New York Times and the New York Post, appears to have been taken shortly before the Thursday, June 17 incident near 71st Street and Center Drive that left the tourist dead and his family devastated. NYC horse carriage ban gains traction following tragic death of teen tourist https://t.co/NBLJXNyikM pic.twitter.com/hIlAGJWXm2 — New York Post (@nypost) June 18, 2026 Mahajan's father, De…
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Pregnant Woman Shoots Bystander, Crashes Into Hotel Before Killing Herself: DA
An 8-month-pregnant woman opened fire outside a Massachusetts hotel, wounded an innocent bystander, crashed her vehicle into the building, and then took her own life during a violent early morning incident, according to police. The violence unfolded around 12:55 a.m. Thursday, June 18, at the Sturbridge Plaza Hotel on Haynes Street in Sturbridge, prompting a large response from local and state police. Investigators believe the woman went to the hotel looking for two people she knew, Worcester District Attorney Joseph Early said. She fired shots from outside the building, striking a bystande…
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54 Pounds From LA,
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A convicted felon caught returning to Maryland with more than 54 pounds of marijuana in his luggage after a cross-country trip to Los Angeles has been sentenced in federal court, prosecutors announced. Robert Spriggs, 38, of Washington, DC, was sentenced on Thursday, June 18, to 30 months in prison for his role in a marijuana trafficking conspiracy that moved drugs from California to the Baltimore-Washington region and for illegally possessing multiple firearms. Federal investigators say Spriggs and his associates spent months shuttling between Los Angeles and the DMV, building a marijuana …
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Daycare Worker Accused Of Sexually Abusing Two 3-Year-Old Girls At Virginia Facility: Police
A daycare worker in Northern Virginia is behind bars following an extensive investigation into alleged sexual assaults involving young girls, authorities announced. Joseph Matthew Brown, 38, who has no fixed address, is facing multiple counts of aggravated sexual battery for allegedly inappropriately touching two 3-year-old girls at the Children of America daycare facility on Liberia Avenue in Manassas, according to the Prince William County Police Department. Police say detectives concluded their investigation on Thursday, June 18, into sex abuse that was reported between June 2025 and Apr…
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ICE Agent Rammed By Victim Of Mistaken Identity, Real Suspect Self-Deported In March
A 39-year-old man who ICE agents had apparently mistaken for another man who had already fled the country is facing federal charges, according to federal officials. Eduardo Cruz Garcia, of Barnegat, was charged by criminal complaint with assaulting a federal officer while the officer was performing official duties and inflicting bodily injury in connection to the Monday, June 15 incident on Route 72 in Manahawkin, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Cruz Garcia appeared before a federal magistrate judge in Trenton on Wednesday, June 17 and was ordered detained. Agents wearing vests mar…
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DC Gunman Carjacked Victim 'For Sport,' Left Death Threat 'Ringing In His Ears': Feds
Avery Ricardo Robinson didn't get far after a violent carjacking in Northwest DC last year. Now, he's heading to prison. The 26-year-old District resident has been sentenced to 60 months in federal prison following a harrowing carjacking that left his victim scarred, according to the US Attorney's Office. According to court documents, on Sept. 20, 2025, Robinson rode his bicycle up to a 2017 Nissan Altima near the 1400 block of Park Road NW, pulled out a weapon, and demanded his victim's belongings, including his car keys. Robinson forced the victim at gunpoint to throw his cellphone to t…
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Maryland Man Vanishes After Leaving Home For Gym, Family Says He Never Arrived (
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A Maryland family is desperately searching for a 46-year-old man who vanished nearly a week ago after leaving home for a routine trip to the gym and never arriving. George Shorter Jr., of Odenton, was last seen on the morning of Thursday, June 11, when he left his home headed to Gold's Gym in Glen Burnie, according to Anne Arundel County Police and family members. What happened next remains a mystery. Shorter never made it to the gym, family members said. He also never showed up for work and has not been heard from since leaving home. His disappearance has prompted a growing search effort…
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