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Updated: 4:13 PM EDT Aug 3, 2026

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Kate Malongowski

Sr Digital Curator

An officer in Texas was nearly struck by a car while he had another driver pulled over on the side of a highway.

See the scary moment in the video above.

The El Paso Police Department posted a bodycam video of the incident as a warning to drivers to be aware of their surroundings.

The officer was shown conducting a routine traffic stop when an accused distracted driver smashed into the back of the pulled-over vehicle while going at a high rate of speed.

The stopped vehicle was pushed about 500 feet down the highway.

Both the officer and the struck driver were treated for non-life-threatening injuries.

"This incident is a stark reminder that traffic stops are among the most dangerous parts of an officer's job," the police department said in the post. "In a matter of seconds, a routine stop nearly turned tragic."

Bodycam video shows deputies help rescue woman at Florida beach

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Updated: 2:58 PM EDT Aug 3, 2026

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Jocelyn Brumbaugh

Sr Digital Curator

A popular travel gadget is at its lowest price of the year right now.

We spotted this four-pack of Apple AirTags for less than $90 on Amazon.

Many travelers use AirTags to track the location of their luggage, especially in the case of connecting or delayed flights. The 2nd generation version that's on sale right now can assist in finding a suitcase, wallet or keys by providing step-by-step directions on your connected iPhone or Apple Watch.

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These AirTags also have a louder speaker to make it easier to find your items and upgraded technology to help you find your items from further away. The battery lasts for more than a year and your iPhone will alert you when it's time to change it.

We also spotted similar pricing on this four-pack of AirTags at Walmart.

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Updated: 1:05 PM EDT Aug 4, 2026

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Phil Tenser

Digital Media Manager

A Somerville firefighter pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges of larceny and forgery related to an alleged World Cup ticket scam.

Prosecutors said the case began last November when Whelan, a Patriots season ticket holder, claimed he had priority access to World Cup tickets. He reportedly shared ticket prices in a group chat, and investigators said at least 30 people paid him more than $14,000 in total.

When the tickets did not arrive and victims asked for refunds, prosecutors said Whelan "doubled down." Prosecutors also alleged that Whelan forged a letter from the president of the Somerville pension board.

"For decades he has operated as a middle man, communicating with a ticket broker to supply friends and family with tickets for concerts and sporting events," Whelan’s defense attorney said.

The defense claimed the ticket broker failed to hold up her end of the bargain. City payroll data show he was earning $106,688.

The City of Somerville said Whelan has been placed on paid administrative leave.

"The City respects the legal process, and any personnel action will be determined after that process is complete, and pursuant to the processes established by applicable law and/or collective bargaining agreement," officials said in a statement.

The judge released Whelan on $250 cash bail, and he is scheduled to return to court in September.

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Updated: 10:50 AM EDT Jul 31, 2026

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Annie Jennemann

Data Journalist

During President Donald Trump's second administration, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has ramped up operations in major cities across the country, targeting places like schools and neighborhoods. The latest enforcement operations garnering public attention have been at airports.

Earlier this week, the New York Times reported a rise in arrests at U.S. airports documented by immigration attorneys and documents the publication obtained. The arrests have focused on people with expired visas and have occurred in at least 15 airports, they reported.

The Get the Facts Data Team analyzed data from the Deportation Data Project and found an increase in arrests where the data indicated a connection with airports. That connection was an airport listed as the arrest site landmark or marked as a "current duty site."

From Trump’s inauguration day, Jan. 20, 2025, to March 10, 2026, there were 568 arrests made by ICE where the agency indicated the arrest was at or near an airport, our Data Team's analysis found. That’s more than five times the 108 arrests linked to airports in the same time frame leading up to Trump’s second administration.

The Deportation Data Project obtained and then processed the government data via a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. The latest data was released at the end of March and included arrests through March 10 of this year.

While some arrests by ICE are linked to airports within the data, it isn't a complete or perfect snapshot. Data from Trump's inauguration through March 2026 includes just 16 airports, 10 of which had fewer than 10 arrests reported.

Chicago O'Hare International Airport was named 220 times from the time Trump took office to March of this year in the data — a large increase from five arrests it was linked to in the same time period leading up to his inauguration.

Of the 108 arrests identified that were linked to airports in the time period leading up to Trump's second administration, more than half were at the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in Puerto Rico.

Reuters reported earlier this year that an internal document showed more than 800 people had been arrested by ICE following tips from TSA, which shared its data on over 31,000 people traveling.

On Tuesday, American Oversight, a nonprofit watchdog organization, released a document acquired via the Freedom of Information Act. The document revealed a data-sharing agreement between TSA and ICE from May 2025.

ICE did not respond to our request for comment about enforcement operations at airports.

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The arrests of people with expired visas are a way for the agency to increase its arrests since they already are on the government's radar for things like having a pending application, according to Colleen Putzel-Kavanaugh, an associate policy analyst for the Migration Policy Institute.

"So it's an effort to increase arrest numbers as opposed to sort of the larger narrative that ICE is after the 'worst of the worst,'" Putzel-Kavanaugh said.

But for people with a pending application, it wasn't always an issue in the past when they were traveling domestically, Putzel-Kavanaugh said.

Immigration enforcement has ramped up under Trump's second administration. A previous analysis from the most recent data released by the Deportation Data Project through March found that the average daily number of ICE arrests has more than tripled since Trump took office in January 2025, compared to the last year of Joe Biden’s presidency.

The number of arrests made by ICE has surged under Trump’s second administration, but declined following the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal officers during the administration’s ICE operations in Minneapolis.

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Updated: 11:35 PM EDT Aug 3, 2026

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Ed DiOrio

Reporter

Stephen Fatur was born and raised in Western Pennsylvania before he joined the U.S. military during World War II.

In 1945, according to military officials, the 19-year-old died as a tail gunner on a B-17G Flying Fortress on a bombing mission near Glinica, Poland. His plane was shot down by German fighter planes.

For more than eight decades, his family, who called the staff sergeant “Johnny,” didn’t know if he would ever make it back home to Slickville, Pennsylvania, which is in Westmoreland County — around 29 miles from Pittsburgh.

“There was always something missing in our family,” Kristen Barnett, one of Fatur’s nieces, said. “He was the missing piece. We always had his picture up. It wasn’t Johnny. He wasn’t distant. He was Uncle Johnny.”

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Barnett is the youngest niece of the late Westmoreland County war hero. Cheryl Lutz is the oldest niece. However, neither of them knew their uncle before he passed.

“We knew him through our mother and grandmother,” Lutz said. “Even as a young child, we grieved with them when they were grieving.”

All that the living family members have to remember Fatur by are the stories told by their elders.

“They told stories and talked about when Delmont had a parade in 1945 when the war was over,” Lutz said. “They couldn’t participate because of their grief.”

Monday morning, instead of a parade, after 81 years, the family participated in a procession honoring the late hero in the streets of Delmont.

“This is history in the making,” Terry Valore, a U.S. Marine Corps Veteran from Slickville, said. “I remember what it was like when I got to come home. If you were a soldier or a soldier boy, you would want this kind of turnout. He was a kid when he left. He was a kid when he died. He’s finally coming home.”

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Local veterans, residents, and family members of Fatur lined the streets as the Slickville native’s remains were brought back after being identified through DNA testing earlier this year.

“I was contacted, as the oldest, and told that his remains had been positively identified through the DNA analysis,” Lutz said. “The POW/MIA Accounting Agency contacted my mother for her DNA [in 2017]. They’re actively searching for remains all over the world.”

The gratitude from the community was felt on the ride to Fatur’s final resting place.

“All of us in the car were crying,” Lutz said. “It was overwhelming to see the support.”

Fatur returned home with full military honors. He was brought to Twin Valley Memorial Park by a meaningful relative.

“My son, who is in the Navy, was the special escort who brought him home,” Barnett said. “We’re a military family. Thank you just doesn’t seem like enough to everyone.”

As Staff Sgt. Johnny’s family finally has closure, they want other military families to not lose hope.

“No soldier gets left behind,” Barnett said. “They are going to keep searching until everyone is brought home. My heart grieves for everyone who doesn’t have closure because we have it now. He’s home.”

Twin Valley Memorial Park in Delmont, Pennsylvania, is close to 10 minutes from Staff Sgt. Fatur’s hometown.

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Updated: 12:56 PM EDT Aug 4, 2026

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Todd Kazakiewich

Reporter

A Boston man was arraigned Tuesday on murder and other charges in connection with a fatal shooting in Hyde Park that left one man dead and four others injured.

Oliver Derima, 27, of Boston, was arraigned in West Roxbury Boston Municipal Court on charges stemming from the shooting that happened early Monday morning. He was held without bail and will return to court on Sept. 4.

One person dead, four others injured in Hyde Park shooting, police say

Boston police responded at about 12:38 a.m. to a report of a shooting near 1184 Hyde Park Ave. Officers found five adults suffering from gunshot wounds.

All five victims were taken to local hospitals. Police said one of the victims, identified as Ky Mani Korey Reynolds, 26, of Dorchester, died from his injuries.

"Heinous acts like what happened a few days ago in Hyde Park show an utter disregard for the sanctity of life and tear at the fabric of our communities," Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden said. "I thank Boston police homicide detectives and my office's homicide unit for such quick and effective work leading to this arrest of the man directly responsible for the killing."

Neighbors said a party in the area had become increasingly disruptive before the shooting.

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Updated: 12:53 PM EDT Aug 4, 2026

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Emily Maher

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Sera Congi

Reporter

Prosecutors called a series of witnesses to testify about evidence recovered from the crime scene Tuesday morning in the trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother accused of strangling her three children in their Duxbury home in 2023. Watch a livestream from the courtroom now in the video player above.

Lindsay Clancy Trial Day 6: Key moments

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• Clancy agreed Tuesday to stipulate to some facts in the case, and her defense said it spares the prosecution from presenting witnesses about evidence and the chain of custody. Although the agreement was accepted by Clancy in open court, the document has not yet been seen by reporters.
• Investigators testified about visiting the crime scene in the family's Duxbury home. Detective Joseph Rabbitt testified about medications found in the home. Witnesses from the MSP Crime Lab testified about blood evidence collected from both Clancy's hands and the home.

Lindsay Clancy trial Day 5: Key moments

• Doctors testify about Cora and Callan: The day began with emergency doctors describing attempts to save two of the children. Cora was pronounced dead in Plymouth; Callan suffered severe brain injury and was later taken off life support.
• Psychiatrists describe Clancy’s hospital condition: Dr. Jhilam Biswas said Clancy appeared anxious, communicated in writing and asked about an attorney during a brief Jan. 26 evaluation; Biswas said she saw no signs of psychosis. Dr. Sejal Shah said Clancy was initially confused and delirious after spinal surgery, but later denied suicidal or homicidal thoughts and appeared focused on rehabilitation. Clancy also asked for her health care proxy to be changed from her husband to her parents.
• The state begins laying out evidence from the home: Officers described securing the Duxbury house and collecting devices, hospital paperwork, medication records and handwritten notebooks.
• Journal entries reveal struggles with sleep and anxiety: Prosecutors read entries from the notebooks describing Clancy feeling overwhelmed by her son Callan’s sleep schedule. On cross-examination, the defense highlighted other entries in which Clancy wrote about wanting to get well, brain fog, guilt, anxiety and concerns about returning to work.

More key takeaways from the trial are here.

Journals become evidence

The journal was introduced to the case by the prosecution during the testimony of Trooper Cory Melo, who was assigned to the Plymouth District Attorney's Office. The prosecution and defense both read passages from the journal.

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"Completely overwhelmed, I feel like I'm drowning," Clancy wrote in a sentence read by the prosecution.

On cross-examination, the defense read aloud examples of Clancy expressing stress about sleep training her youngest child, Callan; guilt over using family money while not working; and concern about her relationship with her husband, Patrick.

"I want to be well," Clancy wrote in one passage read in court.

Lindsay Clancy trial: Top takeaways

Physicians, nurses describe Clancy's injuries

Dr. Sejal Shah testified about working with Lindsay Clancy at Brigham and Women's Hospital, starting on Jan. 29. Shah said Clancy was initially confused and delirious after spinal surgery, but later denied suicidal or homicidal thoughts and appeared focused on rehabilitation. Clancy also asked for her health care proxy to be changed from her husband to her parents.

The defense questioned Shah about Clancy’s diagnoses and medications prescribed before the killings. Shah explained some medications carry warnings about possible suicidal thoughts.

Nurses Rachelle Amedee and Meghan Collins testified that Clancy arrived at the ICU at Brigham and Women's Hospital early in the morning on Jan. 25, and was assigned constant supervision. Amedee said Clancy required resuscitation that first night.

Amedee said Clancy, who was intubated, was able to use a whiteboard to communicate starting on Jan. 28. The nurse said Clancy described being confused and unable to feel her lower extremities.

On cross-examination, Amedee confirmed that records indicated Clancy had a known history of postpartum depression.

Earlier Monday, prosecutors called emergency department doctors who described treating the children. One described receiving Cora Clancy at Beth Israel, where she was declared deceased. Others described Callan Clancy's arrival and treatment at Boston Children's Hospital, where he was eventually declared brain dead, and life support was removed three days later.

The final physician testified about Lindsay Clancy's arrival at South Shore Hospital with lacerations on her neck and wrist, and a spine injury.

Background of the Clancy case:

• Lindsay Clancy faces three murder charges in the 2023 deaths of her children, Cora, Dawson and Callan.
• She also jumped from a second-floor window, leaving her partially paralyzed.
• In a civil case, Lindsay Clancy alleges a "catastrophic failure" of multiple medical providers in diagnosing and treating her psychiatric condition.
• Her trial began on July 20. Although her legal team offered to stipulate to the deaths of the children, she has pleaded not guilty.
• She is being held at Tewksbury State Hospital.
• The jury is made up of 12 women and six men. They will not know until the presentation of the case is concluded who will deliberate and who will be an alternate.

This case involves issues of mental health. If you or someone you know needs help, you can talk with the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by calling or sending a text message to 988, or you can chat online here.

Lindsay Clancy jury visits key locations

The first week of testimony in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial ended after the judge, jury and attorneys visited locations connected to the case, including the Clancy family's former home in Duxbury.

The jury also retraced the route prosecutors say Lindsay Clancy sent her husband, Patrick Clancy, on the day of the killings, including stops at a CVS and a restaurant in Plymouth.

Day 4: Court adjourns after more emotional testimony, tour of Clancy family home

Day 4: Court adjourns after more emotional testimony, tour of Clancy family home

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Expert testimony expected to be crucial

Retired District Court Judge Jim Barretto said the case is expected to center on competing psychiatric experts.

"The defense, of course, is expected to call experts supporting its claim that Lindsay Clancy was suffering from postpartum psychosis and lacked criminal responsibility. And of course, we'll hear from prosecution – the prosecution – who's expected to present experts, uh, disputing that conclusion," Retired District Court Judge Jim Barretto said.

The defense is expected to argue that Clancy was suffering from postpartum psychosis and lacked criminal responsibility at the time of the killings.

Prosecutors are expected to present experts who dispute that conclusion.

Video below: Reporter Sera Congi describes court during 911 call

Reporter Sera Congi describes 911 call in Lindsay Clancy trial

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Prosecutors must prove criminal responsibility

The prosecution has the burden of proving Clancy was legally sane when the children were killed.

To secure a conviction, prosecutors must prove the killings were committed with premeditation or with extreme atrocity or cruelty.

Opening statements delivered

The state laid out for the jury of 12 women and six men the alleged events that led up to the children's deaths on Jan. 24, 2023, and warned the jurors they would hear graphic testimony as she urged the group to use their common sense and life experiences as they listen to the case.

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Plymouth County Assistant District Attorney Shanan Buckingham started by telling the jury the children were strangled "meticulously."

"One by one, she wrapped exercise bands around each one of the kids' necks and pulled until their little bodies were limp and lifeless," Buckingham said.

The state argued Lindsay Clancy understood her actions and made a deliberate choice.

"She heard a voice, a male voice, a voice that she had never heard before, a voice that she had never heard again. That voice told her it was her last chance; she had to kill her kids so she could kill herself. She immediately took action when she heard the voice with no direction or details from this so-called voice, and she killed the children," Buckingham said.

Video below: Defense's opening statement

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Lindsay Clancy's defense team plans to use the insanity defense, arguing that she suffered from postpartum psychosis and was overmedicated at the time of the alleged crimes.

In his opening statement, Reddington said his client knows she killed her children but questioned what was going on in Lindsay Clancy's mind.

"After the second child she had postpartum. … You will hear evidence that was one of the issues that was important because it can lead to (being) bipolar. One of the things you don't do if someone is bipolar, you don't put them on an antidepressant, on Zoloft. It messes with your brain, and it was done in this case," Reddington said.

Reddington showed the jury graphic photos of Lindsay Clancy in the hospital after she jumped out of her bedroom window in an effort to head off any move by the prosecution to make the attempted suicide appear to be fake.

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Psychiatrist talks maternal mental health

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Updated: 12:43 PM EDT Aug 4, 2026

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Phil Tenser

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Boston police on Tuesday identified an 18-year-old who was fatally shot in East Boston over the weekend, as the incident remains under investigation by the department's Homicide Unit.

Joseph Gabriel Lucas Gomez, 21, of East Boston, was found with gunshot wounds when police responded to the area of 464 Meridian Street at approximately 1:24 a.m. on Sunday. According to police, he was rushed to a hospital but did not survive.

The shooting remains under investigation by the detectives assigned to the Boston Police Homicide Unit. Anyone with information that can assist in the investigation is urged to contact detectives at 617-343-4470. Anonymous tips can be submitted to the CrimeStoppers Tip Line at 1-800-494-TIPS or by texting the word “TIP” to CRIME (27463).

Police also offered that community support is available from the Boston Neighborhood Trauma Team at 617-431-0125.

Note: Police originally identified the victim as being 18-years-old.

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Updated: 11:39 AM EDT Aug 4, 2026

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Arielle Mitropoulos

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A man pleaded not guilty Tuesday to second-degree murder in the death of a woman whose body was found buried under the floor of a garage in Tyngsborough, Massachusetts.

Shawn Sullivan, 40, of Tyngsborough, pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder and improperly disposing of a body in the death of Jill Kloppenburg, who was reported missing in January 2025.

An investigation that ultimately led to Kloppenburg's body began on March 10, when Nashua, New Hampshire, police received a call from someone who said a friend told him he had killed a woman named "Jill." The suspect was later identified as Sullivan.

Shawn Sullivan in court on Aug. 4, 2026.

The friend said that Sullivan "claimed that he had shot her and then buried her under the floor in a garage," according to Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan.

Prosecutors said Sullivan claimed he accidentally shot the woman while showing her a gun in his bedroom, and after a few days, he buried her under his garage floor.

Tyngsborough, Massachusetts, man pleads not guilty in death of woman found buried in garage

A search of the home in March by Tyngsborough and Tewksbury detectives, as well as Massachusetts State Police detectives, identified a large patched section of the garage floor. Ground-penetrating radar confirmed something was buried under the patch, and a plastic bag containing human remains was ultimately recovered.

The remains were identified as Kloppenburg, a Lowell, Massachusetts, woman who was last seen in January 2025 and who was reported missing a month later.

"I just want her to get justice. I want everyone to know that she was a great person. And we're going to keep fighting and make sure he gets what, you know, what he deserves," Kloppenburg's friend Cindy Crowley said.

Investigators said they believe that Kloppenburg and Sullivan knew each other and that she had visited his home.

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Body found under Tyngsborough garage floor may be missing Lowell woman

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