California woman murdered nearly two decades ago identified through genetic genealogy

Russell Crowe hit the red carpet at the Rome Film Festival in Italy on Sunday, accompanied by his much younger girlfriend, 31-year-old Britney Theriot. Crowe is 58. The New Zealand-born actor was there to promote his new film "Poker Face," which he not only stars in, but also directed.  Crowe and Theriot went public with their relationship in 2020, two years after Crowe finalized his divorce from wife of 15 years, Danielle Spencer.

Kim Kardashian’s California home nearly got broken into over the weekend.

Police in California has arrested a man who is suspected to be behind a series of murders that claimed the lives of six people.

Police in Stockton, California announced that a suspect has been arrested in relation to six murders and one shooting since April 2021. Stockton City Manager Harry Black announced that Wesley Brownlee, 43, was arrested while he was armed and on a "mission to kill" another victim.

How long had Ned Fulmer been cheating on his wife Ariel Fulmer with co-worker Alex Herring?! A lot longer than we thought, it seems!!!

DALY CITY, CALIF. – In some of America’s most expensive cities, residents are having to pack up and leave as rent prices rise. Inflation is keeping teachers from moving into these major cities like San Francisco in California, fueling the need for more staff when school districts are already struggling to hire.  Rent prices in San Francisco have gone up more 16% in the past year, the real estate company Redfin reported in June.The most recent teacher salary data shows that the average salary for teachers has gone down in the past decade by 3.2%, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

The California cities of San Bernardino, Oakland and Los Angeles have been ranked among the state’s most dangerous cities, according to a new study from WalletHub. "Threats to safety in the U.S. come in many forms, from the continued presence of the COVID-19 pandemic and natural disasters to mass shootings and traffic accidents," WalletHub’s financial writer Adam McCann said, describing the intent of the study.

A woman who survived being a victim of a suspected serial killer believed to be linked to multiple deaths in and around Stockton, California said police investigators didn't take her seriously when she reported the attack and acted as if they "just didn’t care."  In an interview with 209 Times, Natasha LaTour said she told authorities about the night she nearly died on April 16, 2021. She was living in a tent in Stockton when around 3 a.m., she heard the sound of crunching gravel.  When she got out of the tent, a dark figure approached her.The assailant was wearing a black surgical mask and pointed a gun one-handed at her, she told the news publication.

Rescue divers in Arizona recovered the body of a California man who went missing Saturday after he jumped into Lake Havasu and never resurfaced, authorities said Sunday. Responding deputies immediately deployed divers into the water but the searchers were unable to locate the victim, the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office said. Officials described conditions as difficult during the response, with winds gusting upwards of 40 mph and waves as tall as three feet.

A California man was kidnapped in broad daylight and remains missing as of Sunday afternoon, according to local reports and police.  The Los Angles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) said two male suspects exited a 2008 silver Infiniti G-35 on Michillinda Avenue near Colorado Boulevard in the Pasadena area Thursday.  Stills of the suspected kidnapping suspects.  (LASD) The suspects were seen attacking a man on a sidewalk and dragging him into the back seat of the Infiniti, FOX 11 reported, citing LASD.  The suspects were last seen driving south on Michillinda Avenue with California license plate number 6FMY326. Anyone with information is asked to call 562-946-7150.  Fox News has reached out to the sheriff’s department for updates in this case.  The kidnapping came just days after a California family that were kidnapped at gunpoint and were missing for days were found dead.  Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke said on Wednesday that their "worst fears have been confirmed" as deputies found the bodies of each of the four family members, including the 8-month-old.

A Northern California fire department is investigating a video posted on social media showing a woman wearing a bikini exiting a fire truck outside a strip club. The San Jose Fire Department launched the investigation after a video posted on the San Jose Foos Instagram account on Thursday night showed a fire truck with lights flashing stop outside the Pink Poodle Strip Club before a bikini clad woman hopped out and walked toward the club, KTVU-TV reported.

The FBI released its national crime data for 2021 this week, but it lacks data from nearly 40% of police departments nationwide, including massive forces in cities such as New York and Los Angeles.  "I don't think you could get national numbers, at least not useful national numbers, from this data," Jacob Kaplan, criminologist at Princeton University, told the Marshall Project earlier this year. "It's going to be really hard for policymakers to look at what crime looks like in their own community and compare it to similar communities." The FBI switched to a new recording program at the start of January 2021, called the National Incident-Based Reporting System.The new reporting method was rolled out to provide a more thorough snapshot of offenses, such as what weapons were used in an incident, types of property stolen, and more detailed demographic information on victims and perpetrators of crimes.

More than 80 people have been charged in a scheme in which the suspects deposited checks stolen through the U.S. Postal Service into various bank accounts, totaling nearly $5 million in losses in a widespread mail theft operation, authorities said Friday.  The fraud scheme began in 2018 when people deposited altered checks stolen from the mail into "numerous" bank accounts, said Carroll Harris, the inspector in charge of the Los Angeles division of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.

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