NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Tennessee’s Department of Children’s Services (DCS) has a vision of “Children First.” After several high-profile issues, like children sleeping on office floors, DCS has tried to start fresh. The department’s 2023 Annual Report revealed that the Department is going in “a new direction.” The new mission statement contends that the department […]
Jun. 25—A woman admitted to planning the shooting of her father inside his Northwest Spokane home early Tuesday morning because he would beat her and her dogs, she told police. Alyssa Bradburn, 31, called police just before 1 a.m. to report she shot and killed her father, Timothy Bradburn, court documents say. The two live […]
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – EU antitrust regulators on Tuesday charged Microsoft (MSFT) of illegally bundling its chat and video app Teams with its Office product and say that recent moves by the U.S. tech giant to unbundle the package were insufficient and more needed to be done. “Microsoft has breached EU antitrust rules by tying its […]
Three injured minors who reportedly escaped Monday from a relative’s home in Phoenix while wearing zip ties on their wrists told authorities that they had been abused and that other children were still restrained in the relative’s apartment. The victims’ relative, a 33-year-old woman, has been charged with 12 counts of child abuse and kidnapping, […]
US President Joe Biden’s administration is pushing the tech industry and financial institutions to shut down a growing market of abusive sexual images made with artificial intelligence technology. New generative AI tools have made it easy to transform someone’s likeness into a sexually explicit AI deepfake and share those realistic images across chatrooms or social […]
A small black plastic box is tightly clasped around Stephanie Clark’s left ankle at the dining table as she plays Uno with her son. The court-ordered GPS monitor is tracking her every move, and so is the 9-year-old boy. He’s clinging to his mom after two years apart, only getting a few hours to play […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Noriko Kuwabara was excited to try a new recipe she’d seen on social media for crispy shrimp spring rolls, so she and her husband headed to Costco’s frozen foods aisle. But when she grabbed a bag of farm-raised shrimp from the freezer and saw “Product of India,” she wrinkled her nose. […]
Two Michigan men say their cousin’s abusive ex-husband approached them in a Lake Orion gym before they sent him packing with questions about what happened to his missing girlfriend, who was last seen almost exactly three years ago. A series of photos provided by the men show Ryan Bane, a former yachtsman whose girlfriend, Sarm […]
Netflix’s upcoming docuseries “The Program: Cons, Cults and Kidnapping” is a first-person account of the trauma and abuse a group of teens experienced while attending The Academy at Ivy Ridge in Ogdensburg, New York. The investigative limited series follows director Katherine Kubler, who attended The Academy at Ivy Ridge, and her former classmates as they […]
Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan has accused Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary of being “personally abusive”, after he called the Green Party leader “incompetent” and an “idiot”. The Ryanair boss also called on Mr Ryan to resign over his party’s opposition to raising the cap on passenger numbers at Dublin Airport. A number of Green Party […]
From the moment Laketa Cole pulled up to Cincinnati City Hall on her red motorcycle with the license plate “SASSY,” it was clear she wasn’t your typical council member. She’d go on to win three terms on city council, then nab a post with the powerful Public Utilities Commission of Ohio before settling into a […]
Renee Poche, a contestant on Season Five of “Love Is Blind” whose storyline never made the air, is suing Netflix and a production company behind the reality series, calling her time on the show “traumatic.” Poche, whose engagement to Carter Wall was filmed but never aired, filed the lawsuit Jan. 2. The complaint, which was […]