Butterball is facing calls for a boycott just days before Thanksgiving after sickening footage of poultry workers allegedly sexually abusing and torturing its turkeys resurfaced on social media. The uproar unfolded after People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) activists posted a decades-old clip online over the weekend that allegedly showed the company’s employees abusing live turkeys at a …
Read More »Video shows Ill. Dem rolling eyes during drunk driving arrest
Newly released bodycam footage shows Illinois Democrat Samantha Steele rolling her eyes and dropping the fact that she is an elected official as Chicago police officers place her under arrest for drunk driving. In the footage an arresting officer tells Steele, the Cook County Board of Review Commissioner, that if she does not exit her car, he will help her …
Read More »Would-be Trump assassin Ryan Routh rages in ranting jailhouse letter
Ryan Routh, who is charged in the second assassination attempt on Donald Trump, tied himself to the president-elect’s other would-be assassin, Thomas Crooks, in a bizarre letter from jail — in which he also ranted about the “two-party system.” Routh 58, sent the letter to Politico reporter Ankush Khardori from a federal detention center in Miami where he is awaiting …
Read More »Pilot who flew dogs to be adopted dies in NY plane crash
A Virginia pilot devoted to rescuing shelter dogs was killed when a small plane crashed in the Catskills on Sunday as he was flying several dogs up for adoption to an upstate animal shelter. Father of three Seuk Kim, 49, was killed Sunday alongside one of three dogs he was flying from Maryland to Albany to be adopted as part …
Read More »Win one for the Gipper! Ronald Reagan film tops in home sales following Trump victory
Now that’s winning one for “The Gipper” — the late actor and President Ronald Reagan. The film “Reagan” has surged to the top of the home sales charts following President-elect Donald Trump’s victory on Nov. 5. “Reagan” was listed as #2 on Amazon’s Best Sellers list overall Monday for DVD, Blu-ray and digital download sales. It was listed No. 1 over the …
Read More »Conspiracy theories may have sparked tragic twist in Hannah Kobayashi’s case
The mysterious case of missing Hawaiian photographer Hannah Kobayashi has been marred by wild conspiracy theories – including that she was brainwashed by a cult or blackmailed by African hackers – and they may have literally driven her father to his death, her aunt said. Cops said Ryan Kobayashi, 58, leaped from a Los Angeles International Airport parking garage Sunday …
Read More »Blue Man Group to end New York shows after more than 30-year run
They blue off their hometown. The Blue Man Group, the long-standing and beloved off-Broadway show, will end its 34-year run in New York City in the new year. The show, which involves mime-like voiceless bald men painted head to toe in a vibrant shade of electric blue and a lot of drums, will deliver its last hometown performance on Feb. …
Read More »DNA links suspect to 1979 California cold case killing —decades after he passed lie detector test
A man who was cleared by a polygraph test for the rape and murder of a teenage girl in 1979 has now been linked to the suspect with newfound DNA evidence, authorities revealed. 17-year-old Esther Gonzalez had been walking from her home in Beaumont, Calif., to her sister’s house in Banning, about 85 miles east of Los Angeles, on Feb. …
Read More »Susan Lorincz sentenced to 25 years for fatal Florida shooting of black mom
The white Florida woman who gunned down her black neighbor, a mother of four young kids, over a long-running dispute about the children playing outside her home was sentenced to 25 years in prison Monday. Susan Lorincz, 60, claimed she was acting in self-defense when she shot and killed 35-year-old Ajike “A.J.” Owens, but the judge — and the all-white …
Read More »Beloved Mich. pastor killed by illegal migrant who allegedly blew through red light
A beloved Michigan pastor was killed earlier this month after a driver who was in the country illegally allegedly blew a red light and struck the 72-year-old, according to authorities and family members. Stephen Singleton was on his daily morning run in Rochester Hills and was crossing the street within the crosswalk while wearing a reflective vest when he was …
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