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Students sitting and relaxing on the lawn in front of the Davidson Library on the campus of UCSB, University of California Santa Barbara - April 15, 2024. Image credit: bluestork via Shutterstock.

Ex-UCSB student sentenced to 30 years for rape after courthouse dash

A former University of California, Santa Barbara student, Arian Eteghaei, convicted of sexually assaulting multiple women, has been sentenced to 30 years to life in state prison, closing out a yearslong case that also saw him briefly escape courthouse custody.

August 13, 2026
The USS Abraham Lincoln carrier and a U.S. Air Force B-52H Stratofortress, conduct joint exercises in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility in Arabian Sea June 1, 2019. (Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Brian M. Wilbur/U.S. Navy via AP, File)

Sailors tried to jump from USS Lincoln during record deployment

Families of sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln are pressing Navy leadership over a mounting mental health crisis, after military-focused outlets reported multiple sailors have tried to go overboard during the carrier's record-setting deployment in support of the war with Iran.

August 13, 2026
People walk near the tarp covered front entrance of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts before the start of the 27th Annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor Celebrating Bill Maher, Sunday, June 29, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Judge orders Kennedy Center to pay musician Chuck Redd $252,000 in fees

A D.C. judge has ordered the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to pay more than $252K in attorneys' fees to jazz musician Chuck Redd after his lawyers successfully argued that the center's breach-of-contract lawsuit targeted his protected speech over the venue's attempted name change.

August 12, 2026
Actor Anthony Anderson attends the 50th annual T.J. Martell New York Honors Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025, in New York. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP)

Kimmel guest host Anthony Anderson jokes Trump headed to hell

Kimmel guest host ANTHONY ANDERSON jokes about Trump: "Apparently, after the NATO summit last month, Trump hid inside a catering cart to sneak out of Turkey due to security threats. And let's give it up. Let's give it up to the Secret Service. Do you know how hard it is to sneak a pig out of Turkey?"

August 12, 2026
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, right, and his wife Rama Duwaji wave at members of media after a news conference at Gracie Mansion, Monday, Jan. 12, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

NYPD denies security detail for Mamdani’s wife’s Middle East trip

The NYPD is refusing to send a security detail with Mayor Zohran Mamdani's wife on her planned trip to two Middle Eastern countries under State Department "do not travel" warnings, contradicting an earlier claim from the mayor's office that officers would accompany her. She is scheduled to travel to Syria and Lebanon.

August 12, 2026
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Puerto Rico slaughterhouse, execs indicted in Clean Water Act case

Federal prosecutors have unsealed an indictment charging four individuals and Ganaderos Borges Inc. (GBI), a Puerto Rico slaughterhouse operator, with four violations of the Clean Water Act and conspiracy to violate the act. They are accused of illegally discharging wastewater toward an adjacent creek that travels approximately half a mile to the Caribbean Sea at Tropical Beach in Naguabo.

August 12, 2026
Stanley Shockley's mugshot. (Credit: Onslow County Sheriff's Office)

North Carolina DoorDash driver beaten with bat, suspect arrested

A North Carolina mother of three is recovering from multiple skull fractures and a brain bleed after a man allegedly followed her during a DoorDash delivery and beat her with a bat. Investigators identified the suspect as Stanley Shockley, who lives six houses from where the attack occurred.

August 12, 2026
Victoria Gotti and her son, Carmine Agnello, attend a news conference for the film "Gotti: Three Generations" on April 12, 2011, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File)

5 questions about John Gotti grandson’s prison sentence

Carmine Agnello, grandson of the late Gambino boss John Gotti, has reported to federal prison after a judge ruled there was no evidence his promised kidney donation to his mother, Victoria Gotti, was actually imminent.

August 12, 2026