Author: Robert Kinney

The cause of death of Patrick Muldoon — the actor best known for his roles on two of the most-watched television dramas of the 1990s — has been officially confirmed. According to People magazine, which obtained Muldoon’s death certificate, the 57-year-old actor died from a myocardial infarction, the medical term for a heart attack. The certificate lists pulmonary embolism and hereditary coagulopathy — a condition affecting the blood’s ability to clot — as the underlying causes that contributed to his death. Muldoon passed away on April 19. His remains were cremated on April 28. The circumstances of Muldoon’s death were…

New ownership. New season. New problems. Six Flags St. Louis did not make it through its first day of the 2026 season without a serious incident. The park — located in Eureka, Missouri — was closed early on Saturday after multiple brawls broke out among a group estimated at up to 100 people, the vast majority of them juveniles. Eureka Police Chief Michael Werges confirmed to local outlet First Alert 4 that officers responded to the scene promptly and succeeded in dispersing the crowd before the situation escalated further. Approximately half a dozen juveniles were detained in connection with the…

Colorectal cancer has long been associated with older adults. A growing body of research is challenging that assumption — and the latest data suggests one specific dimension of the problem is accelerating faster than most people realize. A new study, scheduled to be presented at Digestive Disease Week 2026 in Chicago, has found that rectal cancer mortality among Americans aged 20 to 44 is rising at a rate two to three times faster than that of colon cancer in the same age group. The researchers analyzed Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) death records spanning 1999 to 2023, then…

Maitland Ward has been in front of cameras for most of her life. As a teenager, she played Jessica Forrester on “The Bold and the Beautiful.” In her early twenties, she joined the cast of the beloved Disney sitcom “Boy Meets World” as Rachel McQuire. She was working. She was visible. And by her own account, she had little idea what was actually being done with her image. Now 49, Ward is telling that story — and she is doing it with the clarity that decades of distance and hard-won perspective make possible. “Back then, I think they looked at…

President Donald Trump had arrived at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday making history — the first sitting president to attend the annual event as commander in chief after boycotting it throughout his first term and last year. He was seated at the head table. The room was full. The evening was underway. Then gunshots were heard — and everything changed. An armed man charged a security checkpoint at the Washington Hilton, opened fire, and struck a Secret Service agent at close range before being stopped. The agent was hit in the vest and survived. Trump, First Lady Melania…

Heidi Klum is not waiting for the official start of the season. The 52-year-old supermodel and “America’s Got Talent” judge gave her Instagram followers a glimpse of what relaxation looks like at her home this week — and the response from fans was immediate. On Wednesday, Klum posted a short video of herself strolling around her swimming pool accompanied by her three dogs: Uschi, Jäger, and her rescue puppy, Fritz. She wore a black triangle bikini top paired with high-cut bottoms, a towel draped loosely around her, and sunglasses completing the look. Her hair fell in easy, beachy waves. “Best…

Virginia voters approved a redistricting referendum on Tuesday evening. By Wednesday, a circuit court judge had ruled it unconstitutional. The speed of the legal reversal underscored just how contested the redistricting battle in Virginia has become — and how far from settled the question of who will ultimately draw the state’s congressional maps remains. Tazewell Circuit Court Judge Jack Hurley issued the ruling on Wednesday, one day after the Democrat-backed referendum passed at the ballot box. In his decision, Hurley declared that all votes cast for or against the proposed redistricting amendment were unconstitutional, citing procedural requirements embedded in Virginia’s…

A closely watched special referendum in Virginia on Tuesday produced a result with consequences that extend far beyond the commonwealth’s borders — and that could meaningfully reshape the battle for control of the U.S. House of Representatives ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. Virginia voters approved a ballot measure granting the Democratic-controlled Virginia General Assembly temporary authority to redraw the state’s congressional maps — authority that currently rests with a nonpartisan redistricting commission. If upheld by the courts, the redrawn maps could shift Virginia’s 11-member congressional delegation from its current 6-5 Democratic edge to a potential 10-1 Democratic advantage. That…

Federal authorities stopped Tianrui Liang at John F. Kennedy International Airport on April 7 as he was preparing to board an international flight out of the United States. He was taken into custody just days after a warrant had been issued in Nebraska — the state where prosecutors say the 21-year-old had been photographing some of the American military’s most sensitive aircraft without authorization. Liang, a Chinese national enrolled at Glasgow University in Scotland, now faces federal charges for allegedly violating the law that prohibits photographing United States military installations without the express approval of a base commander. The case…

What unfolded in Shreveport, Louisiana on Sunday morning is among the most devastating domestic violence incidents in recent American memory — a methodical, multi-scene attack that left eight children dead, two women shot, and an entire city trying to process a grief that its leaders described as unlike anything they had ever encountered. Shreveport Police identified Shamar Elkins as the gunman. He was shot and killed by law enforcement later that day following a vehicle chase into neighboring Bossier Parish. He did not survive to face charges. His victims did not survive at all. The violence unfolded across multiple locations…