Raymond Moody pleads guilty to killing missing teen Brittanee Drexel, sentenced to life in prison
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Raymond Moody, the man who confessed to killing missing teenager Brittanee Drexel in 2009 while she was on a spring break trip to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday. Moo…
Fetterman is ready for ‘full duty’ and speaks with no ‘cognitive deficits,’ his doctor says
Mark Makela/Getty Images(PHILADELPHIA, Penn.) — Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman’s health “has continued to improve” and he is speaking “without cognitive deficits” months after a stroke, the Democrat’s primary-care physician wrote in a re…
Florida seeing ‘abnormal’ increase in flesh-eating bacteria cases due to Hurricane Ian
Tetra Images/Getty Images(FORT MYERS, Fla.) — Florida is seeing an increase in confirmed cases of flesh-eating bacteria this year due to the impact of Hurricane Ian, health officials said.
The Florida Health Department has reported 65 confirmed cases…
Sanibel Causeway reopens to residents of hard-hit Lee County
Governor Ron DeSantis/Facebook(FORT MYERS, Fla.) — The Sanibel Causeway will reopen to civilian traffic on Wednesday, three weeks after Hurricane Ian slammed into Florida’s southwestern coast and destroyed portions of the vital link between Sanibel Is…
Anna Faris accuses ‘Ghostbusters’ director Ivan Reitman of harassing behavior on set
Fred Duval/FilmMagic — Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Sony Pictures(NOTE LANGUAGE) On a new episode of her podcast Anna Faris Is Unqualified, the former Mom star detailed the “reign of terror” she claims she faced on the set of My Super Ex-Girlfriend at …
“I had a 2 percent chance to live”: Matthew Perry details brush with death from addiction in new memoir
Flatiron BooksFriends veteran star Matthew Perry is opening up about his decades-long battle with addiction in hopes of inspiring others with his new memoir, Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing.
The actor tells People, “I had to wait until I wa…
Former Trump ally Tom Barrack planning to call Steve Mnuchin as witness in trial as defense begins
Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)(NEW YORK) — As former Trump adviser Tom Barrack begins his defense in his ongoing criminal trial on charges that he illegally lobbied Trump’s presidential campaign and his subsequent administration on behalf of the Un…
Migrant facility opens on Randall’s Island as NYC deals with influx of asylum-seekers
Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — In another sign New York City is grappling with an increase of migrants entering the shelter system, the city has officially opened a sprawling, 84,000-square-foot emergency shelter on Manhattan’s Randall’s…
Mom challenges town’s testing following cancer cluster reports, says more should be done
ABC News(NEW YORK) — A New Jersey mom is on a mission to uncover more information that could shed light on a possible cancer cluster at her children’s high school.
Edyta Komorek, an environmental scientist, told ABC News’ Good Morning America she was…
Actress Anna May Wong is first Asian American to appear on US currency
John Kobal Foundation/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Actress Anna May Wong will be the first Asian American to appear on U.S. currency, the U.S. Mint announced.
Wong’s coin, shipping Oct. 24, is the fifth design in the American Women Quarters Program, cele…