Ava Kelley

2 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | Tim Stelloh |Ava Kelley

May 20, 2025, 5:52 PM EDTA 24-year-old Venezuelan man is accused of posing as an unaccompanied minor to attend an Ohio high school in a case school officials described as “highly unusual and deceptive.”Anthony Emmanuel Labrador Sierra, who attended Perrysburg High School for more than a year beginning as an apparent 16-year-old last January, was arrested during a traffic stop on felony forgery charges, school and police officials said Tuesday.

1 month ago | liberalpatriot.com | Ava Kelley

“And in the near future, I want to do what has not been done in 24 years: balance the federal budget. We are going to balance it,” President Donald Trump declared in his address to a joint session of Congress on March 4, 2025. In one of the first acts of his second term, Trump established the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to help accomplish this longstanding goal of the Republican Party. DOGE’s mission is to cut waste and ensure federal agencies implement his policy agenda.

1 month ago | nbcnews.com | Doha Madani |Kailani Koenig |Ava Kelley

The driver who crashed into an Illinois after-school program, killing four students, was not under the influence of alcohol and controlled substances. A toxicology report for Marianne Akers, 44, came back negative and no charges have been filed as of yet, Illinois State Police Director Brendan Kelly said Thursday. Akers was taken to a hospital and provided both blood and urine samples for testing.

1 month ago | nbcnews.com | Dennis Romero |Ava Kelley |Insiya Gandhi

The deaths of three children and one adult teenager when a vehicle veered off an Illinois roadway and into an after-school camp were likely not the result of a targeted attack, police said Tuesday. Illinois State Police investigating the tragedy in the village of Chatham said the driver was not in custody as detectives await the results of toxicology tests.

1 month ago | nbcnews.com | Samira Puskar |David K. Li |Ava Kelley

WAUKEGAN, Ill. — Witnesses of the 2022 mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade in a Chicago suburb emotionally relived the massacre at the gunman's sentencing hearing on Wednesday — even though Robert "Bobby" E. Crimo III did not show his face in court. Crimo, 24, pleaded guilty last month to 69 counts, including 21 counts of murder, for the shooting that killed seven people and wounded nearly 50 more at a July 4, 2022, parade about 30 miles outside of Chicago.