Michael Yifan Wen of New York.Photo:Nassau County Police Department Nassau County Police Department A family in New York was left shaken after an evening oftrick-or-treatingended with a child allegedly having a weapon aimed directly at him. An officer with the Nassau County Police Department confirmed to PEOPLE that Michael Yifan Wen, 43, of Manhasset, New York was arrested and charged withendangering the welfare of a childand menacing after pointing a firearm at a 6-year-old’s head on Saturday....

Miguel Enrique Salguero-Olivares.Photo: Raleigh/Wake CCBI DNA evidence has led to the arrest of a man for the murder of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student Faith Hedgepeth nine years ago. Hedgepeth was a 19-year-old junior in college when, on the morning of Sept. 7, 2012, she was found dead in her off-campus apartment. An autopsy later revealed she died after a severe beating to the head, according toNBC News....

Khalil Soussa wins $1M from Massachusetts lottery ticket.Photo:Mass. State Lottery/XThanks to his housekeeper, Khalil Soussa is cleaning up!The Massachusetts man purchased a $15,000,000 Money Maker lottery ticket, but it had been long forgotten in his home and “collecting dust” for months,according to the Massachusetts State Lottery.It wasn’t until Soussa’s housekeeper found the ticket in a vase that the man realized he had won $1 million on the instant ticket game, lottery officialssaid....

Photo: Getty According to Belgian outletLa Libre, the man, referred to in the report as Pierre, used an app called Chai to communicate with a bot called Eliza for six weeks after becoming increasingly worried about global warming, reportedViceandThe New York Post. “He was so isolated in his eco-anxiety and in search of a way out that he saw this chatbot as a breath of fresh air,” his wife Claire, whose name was also changed in the report, toldLa Libre, per thePost....

Photo: Mat Hayward/GettyThe 911 dispatcher heard a woman’s screams, and then the gunshots.Police officers who raced to the scene about 10:30 a.m. Saturday found the bodies of Jamie Joiner, 30, and her sister Jessica Joiner, 34, outside a home in rural Madison County, Illinois.Both had been shot “in the head and neck region,” Madison County Chief Deputy Sheriff Jeff Connor said at anews conferenceon Sunday.Describing the 911 call to Collinsville police that was forwarded to his agency, he said: “You could hear a female in the background screaming, and then a couple of what appears to be gunshots in the background....

Photo: Kruger National Park/Twitter An elderly Swiss man has been hospitalized after a car accident involving a wild giraffe at a national park in South Africa. The injured Swiss man and his wife were traveling in a rental camper throughKruger National Parkon Sunday when a tourist bus carrying 13 visitors through the park collided with a giraffe, causing the massive animal to fall onto the rental car. While the parktweetedon Sunday that “the Swiss driver was responding at the scene and his condition is stable,” MSN reported the same day that he was on life support....

Vaccine.Photo: GettyA man in Germany is accused of getting dozens of coronavirus shots so he could later sell forged vaccination cards.The 60-year-old from Magdeburg in eastern Germany reportedly got up to 90 COVID-19 shots in local centers before he was caught at a vaccination facility in Saxony after going there for a shot two days in a row,NBC Newsreports.Police — who seized blank vaccination cards from the man — did not arrest him....

Photo: Scott Dittman A Pennsylvania father wearing a “Free Dad Hugs” shirt at his local Pride parade never would have thought that his small act of giving strangers hugs would leave such a large impact on the world. On Sunday, Scott “Howie” Dittman tagged along to the Pittsburgh Pride Parade with his friend Denna Hays, who was attending withFree Mom Hugs, an organization that advocates for LGBTQ equality and gives out hugs at Pride events....

Photo: GoFundMe The family of a 28-year-old father who died while trying to jump over a turnstile at a New York City subway station is remembering him as a “vibrant” and “loving” person. Christopher De La Cruz died on Sunday morning while trying to hop over a turnstile at the Forest Hills-71st Ave subway station in Queens, the New York Police Department confirms to PEOPLE. He was declared dead at the scene....

Photo:Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images A man whoopened the emergency door mid-flighton an Asiana Airlines plane to South Korea on Friday explained he did so because he felt suffocated, police said on Saturday. According to the Yonhap News Agency, police said theunidentified 33-year-old mantold authorities he had been “under a lot of stress after losing his job recently” and opened the door because hewanted to get off the plane quickly....

Last week, a Washington State judge sentenced an admitted rapist to 34 months in prison forthe role he played in the overdose death of an 18-year-old womanearlier this year. But first, the judge took a moment to voice her frustrations with the state-mandated sentencing limits that restricted her from imposing a harsher sentence against 20-year-old Brian Varela. Varela admitted sexually assaulting an unconscious Alyssa Noceda back on Feb. 3. He then sent partially-nude photos of her to a group text....

Jonathan Andrew Bahm and Griffin Cuomo.Photo: Obituary; GriffinCuomo/InstagramAn Irvine, Calif. man has been charged with special circumstances murders after allegedly stabbing his co-worker, Griffin Cuomo, and then Cuomo’s roommate, Jonathan Bahm, to death in their Anaheim apartment early Tuesday morning.“Ramy Hany Mounir Fahim, 26, of Irvine, has been charged with two counts of murder, and two enhancements each of lying in wait, multiple murders, and the personal use of a deadly weapon,” the Orange County District Attorney’s Officestated Friday....

Photo: Lindsay Steinke / SWNSA 79-year-old man from Alberta, Canada, went to beauty school last week for a lesson on how to do his “beautiful” wife’s hair and makeup.His wife of 50 years has always “taken pride in” her appearance and “it’s important to her,” but due to failing eyesight it became increasingly difficult, Delmar College of Hair and Esthetics director Carrie Hannah told SWNS.The husband – who has chosen to remain anonymous – wanted to first learn how to do his wife’s hair as she kept burning herself with a curling wand because of her vision impairment....