Andrew Blake

Prom after-party blamed for 40-student brawl at L.A. high school

Security was ramped up Tuesday at a Los Angeles high school after dozens of students were caught on video participating in a lunchtime brawl the day before.

May 11, 2016

George Mason students fall victim to sextortion scheme

Students and staff at George Mason University are being alerted by law enforcement after campus police became aware of two instances of alleged sextortion in under a week.

May 11, 2016

Def Leppard agrees to photo-op with deaf Leopards

Def Leppard's Wednesday night concert in Little Rock will be preceded by a meeting between the British band and Arkansas' own deaf Leopards.

May 11, 2016

Gene Simmons apologizes after claiming Prince ‘killed himself’

Kiss bassist Gene Simmons has apologized after alleging during an interview with Newsweek that fellow musician Prince had "killed himself" with drugs.

May 11, 2016

West Point won’t punish cadets who posed with raised fists

The 16 black West Point cadets who caused a stir after posing for a photograph with raised fists won't be disciplined over the image, the U.S. Military Academy said Tuesday.

May 11, 2016

Homeowner sues Hollywood tour company over false Julia Roberts claims

The owner of a Hollywood Hills home has filed a lawsuit after becoming sick and tired of tourists being erroneously told actress Julie Roberts resides in his 9-bedroom Mulholland Drive mansion.

May 10, 2016

Restaurant owner on trial for manslaughter after customer with peanut allergy dies from curry dish

A British restaurateur on trial for manslaughter was accused Monday of putting "profit before safety" by a prosecutor who blames him for the death of a customer who died after eating a curry meal containing peanuts.

May 10, 2016

Joseph Boeckmann, disgraced Arkansas judge, resigns amid widening sex scandal

Cross County District Judge Joseph Boeckmann announced his resignation Monday morning after investigators said a search of his computer uncovered naked photographs of male defendants who had appeared in his court.

May 10, 2016

Chelsea Manning honored with award, cash prize for WikiLeaks disclosures

Chelsea Manning, the former Army soldier convicted of the biggest leak of classified documents in U.S. history, was honored in absentia Monday at a London ceremony for her role in providing Wikileaks with secret documents concerning the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

May 10, 2016

BBC journalists expelled from North Korea for ‘speaking very ill of the system’

North Korea expelled a team of BBC journalists Monday as a direct result of their recent reporting from Pyongyang, where more than 100 foreign journalists gathered last week to cover the country's first party congress in 36 years.

May 9, 2016

Richard Ojeda, West Virginia state Senate candidate, brutalized during campaign cookout

A West Virginia Senate candidate running in Tuesday's primary was brutally beaten at a campaign event Sunday afternoon and hospitalized with multiple fractures to his head and face.

May 9, 2016

Aniya Wolf, female high school student, kicked out of prom for wearing a suit

A Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, high school student said she was ejected from her prom on Friday evening because she wore a suit and tie in lieu of a dress.

May 9, 2016

Alaskan tourists take advantage of homeless shelter’s free food, coffee

A homeless shelter in Ketchikan, Alaska, has appealed to city officials for extra funding after cruise ship passengers started taking advantage of the facility's free food and drinks.

May 6, 2016

Facebook loses motion to dismiss biometric case stemming from social network’s photo-tagging feature

Facebook should have to answer claims in federal court brought by users who say the social network unlawfully collected and stored their biometric data without consent, a U.S. District Judge ruled Thursday.

May 6, 2016

Judge in Sandy Hook case rejects gunmaker’s bid to delay discovery process

A judge in Connecticut on Thursday said attorneys suing the Remington Arms Co. can begin demanding internal documents from the gunmaker in order to avoid further delays in a negligence lawsuit stemming from the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

May 6, 2016

State Dept. rejects hacker’s claims regarding Hillary Clinton emails

The State Department joined Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton in rejecting claims made by a Romanian hacker who boasted of breaching the former secretary of state's private email server.

May 6, 2016

Recreational marijuana vote coming to California in November

A measure that aims to make recreational marijuana legal in California will appear on the ballot during November's election, two decades after voters there approved the first medicinal marijuana law in the country, Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday.

May 5, 2016

West Point investigating photo of cadets with raised fists

The United States Military Academy at West Point said Wednesday that an investigation is underway regarding a photograph that shows 16 black cadets in uniform posing with their fists in the air.

May 5, 2016

Chris Matthews caught on hot mic complimenting Melania Trump’s appearance: ‘My God, is that good’

MSNBC host Chris Matthews was practically left speechless by Melania Trump's appearance Tuesday evening during an event in New York, but a hot microphone picked up the few words he managed to get out before the network abruptly cut to a commercial.

May 5, 2016

Oakland police nix Cinco de Mayo drunk driving patrols after publishing ‘insensitive’ press release

The Oakland Police Department on Tuesday walked back plans for deploying extra DUI traffic patrols on the roads during Cinco de Mayo after a press release about the operation was accused of being culturally insensitive.

May 5, 2016