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13 days ago
A former California reserve deputy sheriff has been identified as the person who died after a pleasure boat carrying members of an extended family capsized in the frigid waters of San Francisco Bay near Alcatraz Island.
Clifford Joseph Boisa, 79, of Sutter County, died after the three-level recreational vessel sank Tuesday afternoon with 20 people aboard, authorities said. The Sutter County Sheriff's Office confirmed to Fox News Digital that Boisa served as a reserve deputy sheriff beginning in 1987.
Three passengers remained missing Wednesday after 16 others were rescued, including three people who were taken to local hospitals.
The U.S. Coast Guard said Wednesday it planned to suspend its search for the three missing passengers at sunset after crews spent roughly 23 hours searching more than 950 nautical square miles of San Francisco Bay.
"We have completely saturated the search area," Coast Guard Sector San Francisco Commander Capt. Jarod Tosczko said during a Wednesday news conference, thanking Good Samaritans who helped rescue people from the water.
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17 days ago
The sudden death of influential Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina will have implications for legislative business in the Senate — where Republicans' slim margin is already under stress with the absence of Sen. Mitch McConnell after he was hospitalized— and the November election.
Here's what we know about what comes next.
Under state law, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster can appoint a temporary replacement to fill Graham's now-vacant seat.
But because Graham was up for reelection this year, his death will kick off a sprint primary election to replace him on the November ballot.
Officials have yet to announce how Graham will be replaced, but state law appears to call for a special primary election on August 11 — with a possible runoff on August 25 — to choose a new nominee.
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18 days ago
Nolan Wells' parents are speaking out for the first time on their grief and lingering questions after the 18-year-old was found dead following his disappearance over the July 4 weekend. Christine and Elmore Wonsley, along with their attorney Ben Crump, sat with "Good Morning America" host Michael Strahan for an emotional interview on July 10 in which they reflected on their sorrow over Wells' loss and explained their confusion about what led to his death. Wells was last seen on Mississippi's Horn Island during a holiday boating trip with friends. Crump previously confirmed to NBC News that Christine had reported her son missing that night when he didn't return with the others in his group. A two-day search culminated in a park ranger finding Wells' body ashore on the island. A cause of death is yet to be determined, but Crump has said that the Wonsleys don't accept that their son could have drowned accidentally and are launching an independent investigation into what happened. Both Christine and Elmore explained on "GMA" that they don't understand why Wells would have chosen to stay on the island without his friends. "We always taught him that if you go with a group, you stay with a group," Elmore said. "If you go with five, you come back with five. Do not separate from the group. Because I always said, 'Safety is in numbers.' So he knew to stay with this group, so why would he split from the group? I don't know." Per The ****** ociated Press, Jackson County Sheriff John Ledbetter said that Wells' friends are cooperating with authorities. "From the people we've talked to, it sounds like he chose to stay on the island with the ****** umption that he was going to ride back to the mainland with someone else," he told the outlet of Wells. Crump, however, claims that there are inconsistent accounts about whether Wells intended to join his friends back to the mainland. Local police are also asking for anyone who was on Horn Island on July 4 to turn in possible photos or videos of Wells, while Crump and the Wonsleys shared hope to uncover more details through a forensic ****** ysis of Wells' phone. Wells would have turned 19 in August and was preparing to start the new football season at Southwest Mississippi Community College, where he was a wide receiver.
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25 days ago
(NewsNation) — A female Australian tourist has been missing for almost two weeks after being last seen in Nevada.
Sally Grace Contarino, 26, was last seen on security footage on June 20 at 1:02 p.m. at a Smith's Market.
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police said she was last known to be in the area of 9700 West Skye Canyon Drive at around 1 p.m. on June 20, 20 miles northwest of the Las Vegas Strip.
Contarino was known to be wearing a gray/blue sweatshirt, jean shorts, black-and-white shoes and a purse at the time of her disappearance.
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28 days ago
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Monday described the upcoming midterm elections as a choice "between communism and common sense" following a string of recent progressive wins in Democratic primaries.
"I know the president and many Americans are extremely concerned [about] how far left the Democrat party is moving," Leavitt said in an interview with "Fox & Friends."
"This is not your granddaddy's Democrat party," she continued. "These are communists. The president is trying to call them that. They want to abolish private prisons, they want to abolish the police, they want to abolish private property. These are radical, Marxist ideas that have never worked in the history of the world."
"I think it's a choice coming up between communism and common sense. That's how the president views it," she said.
The press secretary's comments come after three leftist candidates supported by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) won congressional primaries in New York last Tuesday, with two candidates beating establishment-backed incumbents.
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1 month ago
By Aleksandar Vasovic
BELGRADE, June 27 (Reuters) - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Saturday he would resign within weeks and the country will hold early presidential and parliamentary elections, following 18 months of anti-government protests.
The announcement by Vucic, who has been in power as president or prime minister for 12 years, came amid persistent anti-corruption ‌demonstrations led by students and triggered by the collapse of an awning at a railway station in the northern city of Novi Sad in November 2024, in which ‌16 people died.
Protesters, opposition and rights groups allege the railway station disaster was a sign of broader government mismanagement of construction projects and corruption.
"I will be president for only a couple more weeks, and then I will resign," Vucic told throngs of his supporters at a pro-government rally in the capital, Belgrade. Vucic's second and final mandate was due to expire in mid-2027.
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1 month ago
The biological father of murdered Preston Davey has attended a candlelit vigil in memory of his son and told how the baby was subjected to months of "terror at the hands of a monster".
Gary Nolan was speaking as family, friends and well-wishers gathered to pay tribute to Preston on what would have been his fourth birthday.
The 13-month-old died in July 2023 at the hands of teacher Jamie Varley, 37, his adoptive father from Blackpool, Lancashire.
Varley's partner John McGowan-Fazakerley, 32, was also convicted of ******* ual ******* ault, child cruelty and allowing the death of a child, with the pair due to be sentenced on Thursday.
Speaking as mourners and well-wishers gathered in Preston's Flag Market, Nolan told BBC North West Tonight of his heartbreak and anger at the convicted men.
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2 months ago
A coalition of civil rights groups on Tuesday asked a state judge to order one of New York's largest suburban counties to stop its deployment of nearly 600 license plate readers, calling it a warrantless and "indiscriminate surveillance system" that violates the state constitution.
The class action lawsuit also alleged that Westchester County never got proper authorization to launch the program, which has amassed a database of 1.6 billion plate scans that has been shared with more than 50 outside law enforcement agencies, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The complaint said the network "records the long-term travel patterns, daily habits, and intimate information of millions of law-abiding New Yorkers and other motorists who travel through Westchester."
"In a democracy, a police department cannot unilaterally decide — without legislative authorization — to surveil the daily movements of its own citizens without any real accountability, transparency, or oversight," said Barry Friedman, founder and faculty director of the Policing Project at NYU School of Law, which brought the suit on behalf of four motorists. "This indiscriminate data surveillance must not be allowed to continue in the dark."
"Westchester County has not yet received or reviewed the lawsuit referenced," a spokesperson for the county said.
The widespread use of license plate reader systems, which utilize a system of cameras to scan and record motorists' license plate information, has generated controversy. The ****** ociated Press in November reported that the U.S. Border Patrol was running a secretive license plate reader program that singled drivers out over their travel patterns, prompting a complaint from congressional Democrats that the program may be unlawful.
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2 months ago
At the WSJ Leadership Institute CEO Summit in London, Octopus Energy CEO Greg Jackson joins WSJ Leadership Institute President Alan Murray and fellow business leaders to discuss why falling costs for solar, batteries and electric vehicles are reshaping the global economy—and why countries that move fastest on electrification could gain a lasting competitive advantage.
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2 months ago
Common Sense Media founder and CEO Jim Steyer joins TODAY to share a new report that is shedding light on how younger people are using AI and breaks down the potential warning signs that parents should watch out for. "This is a wakeup call for every parent out there," he says.