LOS ANGELES — A Florida woman was criminally charged Tuesday after she allegedly sprayed bullets at the home of star singer Rihanna earlier this week.

Ivana Ortiz, 35, of Orlando faces one count of attempted murder, nine counts of assault with a firearm, two counts of shooting into an inhabited dwelling and one count of shooting at a motor ...Read more

Audio has been released from the arrest of Ivanna Lisette Ortiz, the Florida woman charged with attempted murder after she allegedly fired nearly a dozen shots outside Rihanna’s Beverly Hills mansion this weekend.

Los Angeles Police previously confirmed to the Daily News that Ortiz, 35, was being held on over $10 million bail after she ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Alberto Carvalho, the embattled Los Angeles schools chief, in his first public statement since FBI raids at his home and district office on Feb. 25, has denied any wrongdoing and has asked to be returned to his duties.

Carvalho is currently on paid administrative leave, pending developments in the ongoing investigation.

“Mr. ...Read more

CHICAGO — The Chicago Police Department’s bolstered training in the execution of search warrants will soon mean an increase in residential searches by CPD officers, Superintendent Larry Snelling told a federal judge Tuesday.

“Once we get all our officers trained up, we can now go back to doing some of those residential search warrants ...Read more

BALTIMORE — A Baltimore Police lieutenant, a homicide sergeant and a former officer have been indicted on charges that they manipulated timekeeping records to collect extra pay, prosecutors said Tuesday.

A grand jury charged Sgt. Mark Rutkowski, 51, Lt. Welai Grant, 42, and a former officer, Harrison Brandon, 38, with felony theft and ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Maryland’s attorney general sued federal immigration authorities Tuesday, accusing them of blocking an investigation into alleged inhumane conditions inside the “holding rooms” at the Baltimore federal building.

Attorney General Anthony G. Brown filed the lawsuit against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S. ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The Maryland Senate Budget and Taxation Committee on Thursday will either approve, limit, or eliminate numerous budget cuts and fund transfers proposed in Gov. Wes Moore’s fiscal year 2027 budget, which funds the state’s day-to-day costs, with a majority of it financing healthcare, education, and public safety programs.

The ...Read more

CHICAGO — A south suburban man was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison Tuesday in a massive, $14 million fraud scheme where he collected kickbacks for filing more than 1,500 bogus loan applications at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The 120-month term handed down to Sharhabeel Shreiteh was believed to be the longest sentence for any ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota residents told the chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on Tuesday about what they experienced during the nation’s largest federal immigration enforcement action.

Madeline Lohman, director of advocacy at the Advocates for Human Rights, said that during the weekslong Operation Metro Surge, Minnesota saw ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senators sparred at a hearing Tuesday over local jurisdictions that have policies against cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, as the Senate teed up another floor procedural vote to end a Department of Homeland Security shutdown.

Senate Budget Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., used the hearing to highlight his ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Russia is emerging as one of the few early economic beneficiaries of the war with Iran, as disruptions to energy infrastructure drive up demand for Russian exports and the world casts its gaze to the Middle East and away from Moscow's war in Ukraine.

The U.S. and its European counterparts slapped severe sanctions on Russia in ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Seven Disneyland employees were treated at hospitals on Tuesday after an odor in a backstage area at the park caused them to become dizzy and short of breath.

Anaheim fire officials responded to the theme park at 12:30 p.m. after receiving a report of an unknown smell in the Tomorrowland section of the park near Star Tours, said...Read more

NEW YORK — The City Council voted Tuesday to start the process of giving local elected officials pay bumps with the formation of a commission.

The bill will establish a three-person commission that will decide if raises are in order for the city’s mayor, public advocate, comptroller, borough presidents, council members and district ...Read more

BALTIMORE — With a month left in the 2026 legislative session, the lingering rift between some Democratic members of the General Assembly and Gov. Wes Moore is unlikely to significantly affect this year’s legislative session.

But it might alter the next if Moore wins a second term, political professors told The Sun.

“Your second term is ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota has for decades been shifting toward outsourcing management of its social services system. Gov. Tim Walz is now looking to reverse that trend in an effort to prevent fraud.

But the proposals, including having the state take on some work now handled by counties and eliminating the use of managed care organizations, like...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Pope Leo XIV has accepted the resignation of Bishop Emanuel Shaleta from his role governing the Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of St. Peter the Apostle of San Diego, Catholic officials announced one day after Shaleta’s arraignment on embezzlement charges.

His resignation was accepted in February and announced Tuesday, according to a ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Gov. Wes Moore is encouraging Marylanders to explore how eating less meat can improve their health, conserve the environment, and prevent harm to livestock through plant-based diets.

Moore signed a proclamation Tuesday, naming March 20, 2026, “MeatOut Day in Maryland,” according to a news release from the Farm Animal Rights ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California voters are being urged to put a poison-pill effort on the November ballot that would nullify a controversial proposed tax on the state's billionaires.

Neither proposal has yet qualified for the ballot — supporters of each need to gather the verified signatures of hundreds of thousands of voters. But petitions that ...Read more

NEW YORK — Cops evacuated a city park next to Gracie Mansion on the Upper East Side on Tuesday after an unattended package was discovered — near where two ISIS-inspired protesters were arrested three days earlier for throwing homemade bombs, police said.

Cops responded to a promenade overlooking the water in Carl Shurz Park near East End ...Read more

With U.S. and Israeli forces continuing offensive strikes on Iran, federal counterterrorism authorites are warning that the desperate theocracy could launch retaliatory strikes on American soil using sleeper cells, affiliated Iranian terrorist groups, lone wolf sympathizers or targeted cyberattacks.

Within days of the killing of Iranian Supreme...Read more