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A Harvard scientist who spent months in custody on a federal smuggling charge was released Thursday after a bail hearing in Boston. Russian citizen Kseniia Petrova was stopped in February at Boston’s Logan Airport by Customs and Border Protection agents as she returned on a flight from Paris. The Justice …

A small plane carrying six people crashed off the San Diego coast, killing everyone on board, the Federal Aviation Administration said Monday. The twin-engine Cessna 414 crashed at around 12:30 p.m. Sunday, not long after it took off, the FAA said. The plane was returning to Phoenix one day after …

As the World War II bomber “Heaven Can Wait” was hit by enemy fire off the Pacific island of New Guinea on March 11, 1944, the co-pilot managed a final salute to flyers in an adjacent plane before crashing into the water. All 11 men aboard were killed. Their remains, …

A man who abducted a 6-year-old Missouri girl and beat her to death at an abandoned factory two decades ago was put to death Tuesday evening, shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a request to block the execution over arguments he was mentally incompetent. Johnny Johnson, 45, received a …

A man has been charged in the death of a Maryland father who suffered life-threatening injuries during a fight at his home after an altercation at his child’s school.  Garrett Trevor Taylor, 26, has been charged with manslaughter, three counts of second-degree assault, affray and disorderly conduct, according to a …

Nine people were wounded in a mass shooting in downtown Cleveland early Sunday morning, authorities said. No deaths were reported.  A suspect has not been identified, police said.  The shooter opened fire toward a crowd of people exiting different nightclubs in the city’s Warehouse District, where multiple officers were already …

Florida governor and presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis signed a bill Thursday that would allow for roads across Florida to be made with “radioactive” mining waste that has been linked to cancer.  The measure, brought forward by the state House, adds phosphogypsum to a list of “recyclable materials” that state officials …

The collapsed section of Interstate 95 is set to reopen in two weeks, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro told reporters on Saturday. Shapiro made the announcement at a news conference following a helicopter tour of the collapse site with President Joe Biden.  “I can now talk a little bit more about …

A jury has convicted an Oregon man who injured an FBI bomb technician with a shotgun attached to a wheelchair, one of the many booby traps the man had set up in his former home.  A federal jury on June 2 found Gregory Lee Rodvelt, 71, guilty of assaulting a …

Michael Perez never planned on becoming a cybercriminal.   In the 1980’s, as personal computers were just starting to appear in homes across the country, Perez was a young boy who found tinkering with technology much more entertaining than toys. By the time he was 12 years old, he was …