Former food company executive Michelle Janavs was sentenced to five months in prison Tuesday for paying bribes in the college admissions scam, the US Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts said. Janavs, whose family invented Hot Pockets, paid the scheme’s mastermind, Rick Singer, $100,000 to cheat on two of her daughters’ ACTs, and agreed to pay $200,000…… MORE
A 92-year-old veteran finally got the medals he deserved decades after serving in World War II. Thomas Simpson, who served in the Navy, said he was determined to get them after one of his grandsons asked him a question. “He came up to me and said, ‘Pop pop, what did you do during the war?’…… MORE
The mother of a Michigan high school student with same-sex parents alleges her daughter’s English teacher infringed on her freedom of speech when she rejected a class paper on the topic of same-sex marriage. Destiny McDermitt, a 17-year-old junior at Hill-McCloy High School in Montrose, was assigned a project titled “Take a Stand,” in which…… MORE
Molly Pedrone doesn’t remember crashing her white Kia Soul into a Boca Raton canal or being pulled from the sinking vehicle by bystanders who jumped in to save her. But she is grateful. The 34-year-old was driving home after a work meeting on Sunday, thinking about doing some chores and having lunch when she had…… MORE
Fashion tycoon Peter Nygard’s New York office was raided Tuesday as the magnate faces allegations of sex trafficking in a civil lawsuit. The FBI and New York police executed the search warrant, said Nicholas Biase, a spokesman for the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. Biase declined to provide further details.…… MORE
A day after Kobe and Gianna Bryant’s memorial service, Tom Brady took to social media to reflect on the basketball star’s impact, writing that Bryant was the “real life superhero our world needs.” Brady posted a five-paragraph reflection titled “What’s really important?” to Facebook, Instagram and Twitter on Tuesday morning. He begins by saying he’s…… MORE
Have you ever wanted to see what the Apollo 13 astronauts saw? NASA’s got you covered. The space agency on Monday released a video of the moon from the point of view of the astronauts on the aborted Apollo 13 mission. They made the video in 4K resolution using data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter,…… MORE
After emerging victorious in his National Hockey League debut for the Carolina Hurricanes, 42-year-old emergency backup goalie David Ayres has become an overnight sensation. So much so that the Hurricanes began selling an Ayres T-shirt. The team recently made the shirt available on its website for $28. “‘Zamboni driver by day, emergency goaltender by night,’…… MORE
Someone shot a bald eagle and then left it for dead. It’ll survive, but may never fly again. The mature eagle was found suffering of a gunshot wound in cold water over the weekend in Miami, Oklahoma, the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation said. A nearby fisheries technician jumped in and rescued the bird, and…… MORE
Sabrina Ionescu delivered yet another masterful performance. This time, it was one for the NCAA record books — and coming on an emotional day. Just hours after the 22-year-old Oregon Ducks star spoke at Kobe and Gianna Bryant’s memorial in Los Angeles, Ionescu was back on the basketball court, having taken a charter flight to…… MORE
