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The NFL season doesn't end after Week 2, but if your favorite team is off to an 0-2 start, it might feel like it's over. Historically speaking, you have a reason to feel that way, too. In the last 10 years, only 12 of the 84 teams that have lost their first two games have gone on to make the postseason that year (14.3%). That percentage was better last year, […]

For years, Justin Herbert has been widely considered a prototype for an NFL quarterback. Scouts, coaches, executives and many in the media have gushed over his arm and legs, marveled at his mechanics and drooled over his potential. Heading into every year following his splendid rookie season, the NFL has been bracing for his inevitable breakthrough. It’s time we all admit that we were just wrong. After six NFL seasons, […]

A California animal rescue operator is facing up to 24 1/2 years in state prison after being charged with 35 felonies and misdemeanors for alleged cruelty to animals, as she is accused of leaving roughly 300 animals living in severe squalor.Christine De Anda, 57, operator of the "Rock ‘N’ Pawz" rescue, faces 12 felony counts of animal cruelty, two felony counts of grand theft of labor, and 21 misdemeanor charges […]

A single gunshot during a post-tailgate fight near Notre Dame's South Bend, Indiana, campus struck a woman and a police officer Saturday night, authorities said.The violence erupted around 7:30 p.m. ET just as crowds were leaving the university's tailgating areas and heading toward Eddy Street Commons. According to South Bend authorities, Notre Dame Police told them a male suspect was seen armed and reportedly pointing a gun at people, but […]

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement partnered with more than five other federal, state and local agencies in a weeklong immigration-enforcement operation in Southwest Florida that yielded 500 arrests.Caught in the sweep, according to a statement from ICE, were: a Haitian charged with murder; a Honduran accused of molesting children; a suspected Mexican cartel member; a Guatemalan who allegedly tried to use a Taser on an officer during his arrest; and […]

An unusual trial is underway for a Florida plastic surgeon, accused of murdering an attorney he’d opposed in court and disposing of his body in a dumpster before prosecutors say it ended up at the landfill.Clad in an orange jail jumpsuit, Dr. Tomasz Kosowski, 47, is representing himself in court as he faces a first-degree murder charge with the possibility of the death penalty. He’s waived his right to a […]

An Illinois judge found Corie Walsh too dangerous to release after prosecutors alleged the Frankfort mother posed a threat to her husband and three surviving children after she was charged with murdering her 2-year-old son, Barrett.But forensic psychiatrists say "dangerousness" is not a permanent label. Instead, it is a forward-looking assessment that can change as a person's mental condition improves through treatment.Walsh, 40, remains held without pretrial release after a […]

After three full weeks of college football, there are four teams at the top of my top 25 who have yet to show flaws: Indiana, Georgia, Miami and Notre Dame. That does not mean that these teams are flawless. There’s still time and a number of ranked opponents for each of them to face before we can come to a definite conclusion on just how perfect — or imperfect — […]

The potential serial killer investigation involving gruesome images discovered at the home of a dead pornographer could take a much darker turn if it turns out the sadistic images were being distributed to a wider network, according to a prominent police and forensic psychologist.Raymond "RC" Horsch, an 82-year-old who produced brutally themed pornography and books, died last year. But after his son Eugene Horsch, 44, was arrested in June on […]