A Florida sicko laughed in court Wednesday as he pleaded guilty to luring a 16-year-old girl to his home then killing and dismembering her body — and is seeking the death penalty for himself. Steven Gress, 37, appeared smiling in a Pinellas County courtroom Wednesday morning and changed his plea to guilty on charges of kidnapping and first-degree murder in the February 2025 killing of Miranda Corsette, the Tampa Bay Times reported. Gress told the court he felt it was “the right thing to do,” but maintained he did not actually kill Corsette. “I did not kill Miranda, but I…

DEAR ABBY: My friend of many years, whom I consider to truly be part of the family, has made food the only thing that makes her happy. Besides my husband, she’s all I have left. She went to a doctor a couple years ago who told her she must lose weight, but she ended up gaining more.  I’ve tried talking to her, but she says I am preaching to the choir. It doesn’t help that her husband is also obese. They enjoy eating out constantly. She has many physical things wrong with her, most of which could be helped greatly…

By&nbspFranziska Müller Published on 21/08/2026 – 8:09 GMT+2 The unusually low water level of the Danube in Budapest has revealed relics that had remained hidden on the riverbed for more than 80 years. Among the discoveries are the remains of two German soldiers from the Second World War, their military identity tags and a DKW military motorcycle buried in the mud. For decades, the fate of the two soldiers was unknown. They were listed as missing, with no confirmation of where or how they had died. Now, the discovery of their remains and identity tags could finally help establish who…

Police are investigating after the body of a 50-year-old Halifax man was found at a recycling facility in Halifax. Halifax Regional Police say officers responded to a recycling facility on Chain Lake Drive at about 2:20 p.m. Tuesday after the body of an adult man was discovered. Get breaking National news Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won’t miss a trending story. Police say the body arrived at the facility in a truck that had collected material from commercial containers throughout the Bayers Lake and Halifax areas earlier in the day.An autopsy conducted…

August 21, 2026 — 4:24pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAWarning: Graphic contentA man who has accused Alan Jones of touching him inappropriately under the table at a lunch in Sydney looked distraught and in shock at the event, a guest at the lunch has told a court.Jones, 85, has pleaded not guilty to 20 counts of indecent assault and two counts of sexual touching relating to six male complainants between 2003 and 2020. He is standing trial in Sydney’s Downing Centre Local Court.Alan Jones arrives at Downing Centre Local…

Outer Banks had its work cut out for itself when trying to wrap up the show — and that came with plenty of onscreen surprises, deaths and twists. “The whole finale is just such a love letter to everyone who has ridden with us for these past five seasons,” Caroline Arapoglou gushed exclusively to Us. “It’s a show where you just want to see the Pogues get a happy ending — and I think that was the right way to end it.” Arapoglou, 35, credited the hit Netflix show, whose final season is streaming now, for finding a way to…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A man dressed up as the “Star Wars” villain Darth Vader showed up at a San Diego City Council meeting to mockingly defend Flock police surveillance cameras, telling council members “this is what the emperor needs.”He approached the podium at the Public Safety and Livable Neighborhoods Committee meeting on Wednesday, complete with Darth Vader’s trademark heavy breathing heard through the council chamber’s microphone.The committee members even addressed the man as ‘Darth Vader’ as he appeared to mock the Flock-linked surveillance system, suggesting the surveillance tool could be an asset to the dark…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! EXCLUSIVE: An Angel Dad whose daughter’s life was tragically cut short by an illegal alien, is joining U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Fox News Digital has learned.”I am excited to accept the Executive Director role at VOICE because this is not simply a government position for me, it is deeply personal and rooted in a mission I have come to understand through unimaginable loss,” Joe Abraham said, announcing a move he hopes will help serve others in his situation.VOICE stands for Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement and is an office inside…

A charter aircraft carrying eight people crashed at a remote radar site in western Alaska on Thursday, killing all on board, the US military said. The crash happened at Cape Newenham Long Range Radar Site Airport, approximately 450 miles west of Anchorage, Alaska. “This is a devastating loss for our military family and the communities we serve,” US Air Force Lt. Gen. Robert Davis, commander of Alaskan Command, the Alaskan North American Aerospace Defense Command Region and Eleventh Air Force, said in a statement. The radar site is managed by the Pacific Air Forces Regional Support Center. It’s part of…

Neskantaga First Nation had to be evacuated again after a sewage flood at the community’s only nursing station, the northern Ontario community’s chief said on Thursday. Gary Quisess said Neskantaga residents had to leave the community earlier this month for the second time this summer, just days after they returned home following a wildfire evacuation.“It’s not a good feeling to be displaced and a hotel is not a long term facility for a community to stay in,” he said during a press conference at Queen’s Park.“It’s heartbreaking. All of our plans, summer plans, are gone. Our community festival. Our family reunion, it’s gone. Youth retreat is gone. Everything.”He said families from his community are staying in crowded hotel rooms in Toronto…

August 21, 2026 — 3:38pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAThe NSW roads minister has admitted there is no completion date for the $3 billion M6 motorway in Sydney’s south, despite earlier advice from the state’s transport agency that it would open to motorists by late 2028 as work was more than 90 per cent complete.Jenny Aitchison told the NSW upper house’s budget estimates committee on Friday that there was no opening date for the four-kilometre underground motorway between Arncliffe and Kogarah, which has been stalled by years-long delays and…

Prince Harry is looking forward to coming back home after spending six years in California. “Harry is not as happy in the U.S. as he is in the U.K.,” a source exclusively shares with Us after news broke that the Duke of Sussex and wife Meghan Markle would be moving back to Britain. “They aim to be somewhere outside of London, not in, like, the city proper,” the source adds. “They are open to a new chapter.” On Wednesday, August 19, multiple outlets reported that Harry, 41, and Meghan, 45, would be relocating with their children to the U.K. for…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A charter flight carrying two pilots and six passengers crashed while approaching a remote site in western Alaska on Thursday, officials said.Clint Johnson, the National Transportation Safety Board’s Alaska region chief, told The Associated Press that two pilots and six passengers were on board.Johnson did not immediately have information on their conditions.The plane took off from Anchorage and is believed to have crashed early Thursday afternoon while approaching Cape Newenham, according to the AP.PENNSYLVANIA STATE POLICE HELICOPTER, SMALL PLANE COLLIDE IN MIDAIR, KILLING 1 AND INJURING 2 STATE TROOPERS The twin-engine Cessna…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy accused Harvard University of indoctrinating students with ideas that run counter to his Christian values, raising concerns about whether his own daughter should attend the prestigious Ivy League school.”I don’t want them to get one viewpoint,” Duffy said on an episode of the Department of Transportation-sponsored YouTube series “The Great American Roadtrip.” “I want them to get a lot of different viewpoints, but I don’t want them fed only one viewpoint that’s contrary to the way my kids were raised.”The comments come as Duffy’s daughter, Paloma, expressed interest…

The married New York doctor embattled in a he-said, she-said legal fight with his Long Island stripper ex-mistress admitted the streamy relationship was the “worst mistake of my life,” a new court filing revealed. Wealthy family physician Keith Hoerning, 51, shot back at his ex-mistress Rosana Kissoon, 39, with a court filing Thursday containing screenshots of alleged text exchanges between the pair documenting the stripper’s escalating threats as their love affair fell apart, according to the Daily Mail. Kissoon filed a $1 million lawsuit in Suffolk County court against Hoerning — with whom she allegedly had an 18-month affair filled…