Mark Personette, now 80, was sentenced to life for the 1978 strangling of 15-year-old Marissa Harvey after genetic genealogy and trash DNA closed a decades-old cold case. A San Francisco jury convicted Mark Stanley Personette of first-degree murder in the killing of 15-year-old Marissa Harvey, and a...

The U.S. Marines exceeded all fiscal 2026 recruiting goals and brought in 31,250 new troops, part of what the Corps calls a historic enlistment rebound. The Hill reported that the Marine Corps cleared its fiscal year 2026 targets across every component and category. The service enlisted 31,250 new r...

Newly released bodycam footage captures officers arresting Luigi Mangione at a Pennsylvania McDonald's five days after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot dead in Manhattan, complete with the murder weapon still in his bag. The recordings, unsealed Friday by a Manhattan judge, show the prec...

Boeing has won a more than $20 billion Navy contract to develop the F/A-XX sixth-generation fighter, officials call it vital for carrier air power and national security. The Department of War and the U.S. Navy awarded Boeing the production contract for the F/A-XX on September 29, 2026, moving the ne...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is launching a Pentagon Office of Religious Affairs that reports directly to him, a faith-first move critics contend elevates Christianity in military policy. Hegseth made the announcement in a Wednesday speech to military chaplains at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Vir...

A 63-year-old woman and a 61-year-old man were found shot to death outside their Oakland Hills home above UC Berkeley Friday morning, and police say the circumstances remain unknown. Officers responded after a neighbor reported hearing gunshots near the Berkeley-Oakland border. A firearm was found n...

An elderly California couple faces murder charges after the fatal shooting of their son-in-law, a New York Times Games executive locked in a bitter custody battle with their daughter. True Crime News reported that Jonathan McKinsey, 40, was fatally shot at a park in the Dublin, California area on Se...

Chester Weger, convicted in the 1960 Starved Rock murders and dead since June, heads to a rare posthumous pardon hearing as victims' families insist he was guilty. The Illinois Prisoner Review Board has set an October 6 hearing on a posthumous pardon for Chester Weger, the former lodge dishwasher kn...

Texas DPS and the FBI arrested a Converse man within hours of a tip about a planned attack on the state Capitol in Austin, and officials say no ongoing threat remains. Texas Department of Public Safety troopers and the FBI moved fast after receiving information about a credible threat to attack the ...

The U.S. Navy brought in 45,112 new sailors for fiscal 2026, beating its 45,000 goal months early and locking in a third straight year of hitting accession targets. Military Times reported the sea service cleared its initial 45,000-sailor target in July, three months ahead of schedule, then finished...