Miss Teen USA 2023 UmaSofia Srivastava is stepping down from her title two days after Miss USA 2023 Noelia Voigt resigned. Srivastava, 17, announced her resignation in an Instagram post in a nearly identical format to Voigt, writing that she feels her “personal values no longer fully align with the direction of the organization.” “After months of grappling with this decision, I have made the choice to resign from the title of Miss Teen USA 2023. I am grateful for all the support from my family, my state directors, my sister queens, and the fans who have cheered me on since ..read more

Stormy Daniels will return to the witness stand Thursday in Donald Trump’s hush money trial as the defense tries to undermine the credibility of the porn actor’s salacious testimony about their alleged sexual encounter and the money she was paid to keep quiet. The trial against the former president kicks back off with defense lawyers questioning Daniels, whose account is key to the prosecutors’ case accusing Trump of scheming to illegally influence the 2016 presidential campaign by suppressing unflattering stories about him. Trump looked on in the courtroom as Daniels for hours on Tuesday desc ..read more

The North Richland Hills Police Department has announced funeral arrangements for Assistant Police Chief Kevin Palmer who collapsed while on duty last week. Palmer will be remembered on Thursday, May 9, with a procession followed by a funeral at Keystone Church in Keller. The community is invited to pay their respects along the procession route, which will leave the Lucas Funeral Home, located 1321 Precinct Line Road in Hurst, on Thursday morning at approximately 9:30 a.m. The procession will depart south on Precinct Line Road, turn west on Bedford Euless Road, south on Melbourne Road, we ..read more

A special team of Dallas County prosecutors is using high-tech tools to collect data from cars as they build a case against Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice, who police say was driving 119 mph on a Dallas highway in the moments before a dangerous crash that injured several people in March. Weeks before that crash happened, NBC 5 Investigates spoke to members of the district attorney’s team to learn more about how they use technology to investigate high-speed crashes on Dallas roads. For months, NBC 5 Investigates has reported on dangerous driving and excessive speeds on Dallas road ..read more

A company using trained dogs to search DFW schools says they’ve found up to 30 guns on local campuses this school year. The images the search team provided to NBC 5 are striking: dozens of pills and handguns found on campuses in the Metroplex. It’s the reality these security experts are trying to put a stop to. “Our biggest fears are fentanyl and firearms,” said Josh Ellis, owner of H1 K9 Consultants. “Those are the two biggest things, even as a handler.” H1 K9 is a private company that uses dog handlers to conduct campus searches in partnership with 100 local districts. The company told NBC 5 ..read more

Indianapolis police announced Wednesday they’ve opened an investigation into an “NBA player and citizen” altercation that happened at Gainbridge Fieldhouse on the night Bucks guard Patrick Beverley threw a ball at a fan in the final minutes of a season-ending loss to the Pacers. Police said in a news release the case has been forwarded to detectives, “who are currently investigating this situation and take all accusations seriously.” Detectives will present the case to the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office at the conclusion of the investigation, the release stated. Cameras showed Beverley sitt ..read more

It will soon be Barron Trump’s time to step into the political spotlight. The youngest child of former President Donald Trump, who will graduate high school next week and has largely been kept out of the political spotlight, on Wednesday night was picked by the Republican Party of Florida as one of the state’s at-large delegates to the Republican National Convention, according to a list of delegates obtained by NBC News. “We have a great delegation of grassroots leaders, elected officials and even Trump family members,” Florida GOP chairman Evan Power said. “Florida is continuing to have a gre ..read more

Four flight attendants abused “their privileges as airline employees” and smuggled “millions of dollars of drug money” out of New York City to the Dominican Republic, federal authorities said Wednesday. The suspects had access to the “Known Crewmember (KCM)” lane at John F. Kennedy International Airport, giving them fast and X-ray-free passage through security, authorities said. “In effect, given these loosened security procedures, KCM privileges allow flight attendants to bypass airport security with large quantities of cash without that cash being seized,” a Homeland Security Inves ..read more

Deputies responding to a disturbance call at a Florida apartment complex burst into the wrong unit and fatally shot a Black U.S. Air Force airman who was home alone when they saw he was armed with a gun, an attorney for the man’s family said Wednesday. Senior Airman Roger Fortson, 23, who was based at the Special Operations Wing at Hurlburt Field, was in his off-base apartment in Fort Walton Beach when the shooting happened on May 3. Civil rights attorney Ben Crump said in a statement that Fortson was on a Facetime call with a woman at the time of the encounter. According to Crump, the woman ..read more

Shea Langeliers has been pounding the Texas Rangers. Langeliers hit a two-run homer on his way to a career-high five RBIs, and the Oakland Athletics beat the Rangers 9-4 on Wednesday in the first game of a doubleheader. Langeliers then hit another two-run homer in the second inning of the second game for seven RBIs over the doubleheader, matching Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson for the A’s record. Jackson did it on Aug. 24, 1969, against Baltimore by driving in three runs in the first game and four in the second. Langeliers now has 20 RBIs against the Rangers, his most against any opponent. “Shea ..read more