A tragic first date, initiated through social media connections, resulted in a grim discovery in Arizona. Police report that 21-year-old Arianna Bailey Jones was found dead, buried in a shallow grave in the desert. The man accused of this shocking crime, Domonic Rodolico, claims that two mysterious attackers are responsible for her disappearance and death.

The Glendale police made headlines on Monday with the arrest of 24-year-old Rodolico. The breakthrough came after investigators uncovered what they believe to be Jones’ remains in a quiet, desolate area north of Phoenix. Rodolico now faces charges of first-degree premeditated murder, as reported by Fox 10 Phoenix.

In a poignant announcement on Facebook, the Glendale police extended their deepest condolences to the family of Jones. They expressed a heartbreaking sincerity, stating officers had hoped for a different resolution before disclosing the sad news of Rodolico’s arrest.

Authorities have pieced together that Jones and Rodolico initially met online and later decided to meet face-to-face. Their encounter consisted of a movie date followed by a drive to a remote part of the desert, where detectives suspect this tragic incident unfolded.

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When questioned by detectives, Rodolico denied killing Jones and instead claimed that two unknown men suddenly appeared in the desert and attacked both of them.

“He is saying that the two of them were in this remote area and that two individuals showed up and attacked them,” Glendale Police Department Public Information Officer Jose Santiago said during a news conference. “At some point he made his escape and Ms. Jones stayed behind.”

Investigators, however, said physical evidence, surveillance video and digital evidence gathered during the investigation linked Rodolico to the crime.

Police said detectives developed sufficient evidence to establish probable cause for Rodolico’s arrest. Authorities also said his account changed repeatedly during interviews.

“His story continuously changed,” Santiago said. “The attack became a little bit more dramatic, less dramatic.”

Detectives also found it suspicious that Rodolico never reported the alleged attack to law enforcement or called 911.

“He never reported the incident to us,” Santiago said. “He never made a call to police or to anyone to let anyone know about this attack.”

Santiago added that Rodolico told investigators Jones was “probably not alive” after the alleged attack, despite never contacting authorities to report what he claimed had happened.

Investigators said surveillance video captured Rodolico cleaning out the back seat of his vehicle after Jones disappeared.

Police also said he had wounds consistent with stab injuries, though Rodolico claimed those injuries were inflicted by the alleged attackers.

Authorities credited the department’s Real Time Crime Center, surveillance cameras and cellphone data with helping investigators reconstruct the couple’s movements.

Police said they tracked the pair from Jones’ apartment to a movie theater and then to the remote desert location. A movie theater concession cup recovered at the scene helped investigators connect the burial site to the couple’s date.

Detectives also uncovered evidence showing Rodolico had traveled to the secluded area several times before Jones disappeared, though investigators said they have not determined whether the killing was planned.

“We don’t know if he was planning this or if this was happenstance,” Santiago said.

Jones’ family reported her missing on July 7 after they had not heard from her for several days. Police said her family told investigators the lack of communication was highly unusual because they were normally in frequent contact.

When officers executed a search warrant at Jones’ apartment, they immediately noticed troubling signs.

Police found Jones’ cellphone still inside the apartment and discovered her dog locked inside a crate, where it had apparently been left without food and sitting in its own waste for several days.

“That was enough of an indication that there at least had been some kind of suspicious nature,” Santiago said.

Detectives eventually located what they described as a shallow grave in a remote desert area north of the Valley.

While the Maricopa County Medical Examiner’s Office is still working to determine the official cause and manner of death, investigators said clothing and other physical evidence recovered with the body matched Jones, allowing detectives to identify the remains.

Santiago said the case came together in just four days with help from the department’s Special Investigations Unit, the U.S. Marshals Task Force and advanced investigative technology.

“We were able to pinpoint him attending her apartment. We were able to pinpoint him attending these different areas, going to the movies,” Santiago said. “We were able to pinpoint their cellphone usage in different areas. All of that combined helped us really solve the case on top of the good detective work from our folks.”

According to police, Rodolico has a prior arrest history involving theft-related offenses and was on probation at the time of his arrest.

He is being held on a $2 million cash bond.

The murder charge comes less than a year after Rodolico was sentenced in a separate criminal case involving the burglary of two Valley QuikTrip gas stations, according to court records obtained by Fox 10 Phoenix.

The outlet reported that Rodolico was arrested in May 2025 after investigators accused him of impersonating an employee at a QuikTrip along Peoria Avenue and stealing about $200 from a cash register before allegedly carrying out a similar theft at another QuikTrip in Phoenix.

Court records show he pleaded guilty to criminal impersonation and was sentenced in November 2025 to two years of supervised probation.

Investigators said they are still awaiting additional forensic testing and the medical examiner’s findings as they continue working to determine a motive.

Let there be light!

A bill supported by former President Trump, which aims to make daylight saving time a year-round fixture, is gaining traction and receiving support from both parties. This change would result in sunsets occurring later during the bleak winter months.

On Tuesday evening, the US House of Representatives passed the Sunshine Protection Act. This legislation has the potential to eliminate the long-standing habit of changing the clocks twice a year.

The significant bill overcame a crucial hurdle on Monday when the House Rules Committee sanctioned the rule with a 6-4 vote.

Trump expressed his approval of the legislation, sharing on Truth Social that it could be a “very nice WIN for the Republican Party. Take it!”

What is the Sunshine Protection Act?

The House and Senate versions of the bill both seek to make daylight saving time permanent. This would eliminate the biannual time change in the Spring and Fall — a practice currently followed by every US state except Hawaii and parts of Arizona.

Under the bill, Americans would spring the clocks forward in March and skip “falling back” in November, according to The Hill.

Language from the bill, which Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-Florida) introduced, was already included in a broader transportation proposal in May that passed by roll call vote in the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

Proponents have argued that sparing Americans from the biannual time change would boost outdoor recreation, tourism, and economic activity, and lessen negative impacts on sleep and seasonal depression.

Detractors have said the switch would greatly impact farmers who would have to cope with later sunrises.

Last October, the Senate tried to fast-track a version of the act, but the effort was ultimately thwarted, the outlet reported.

If the measure passes the House on Tuesday, it will head to the Senate before landing on Trump’s desk for approval.

How would the new bill affect New York?

If permanent daylight saving time is enacted, summers would remain the same as they are now, though there would be later sunrises and sunsets.

However, winter sunrises and sunsets would drastically change.

In New York, the latest sunrise when daylight saving time ends in the fall is 7:20 a.m., and the earliest sunset is 4:28 p.m.

But with permanent daylight saving time, the latest sunrise in the Big Apple would be 8:20 a.m., and the earliest sunset would be 5:28 p.m.

The switch would make for a darker early morning commute, but offer more daylight into the evening hours as people leave the office.

Nineteen states — Alabama, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wyoming — have already passed legislation to make daylight saving time permanent if Congress passes the Sunshine Protection Act, The Hill reported.

New York Senate Bill 3380 to make daylight saving time permanent year-round — pending federal legislation to allow the switch — was introduced in January 2025 and remains in the Senate Judiciary Committee.

A California death row inmate, sentenced for the 1979 murder of his pregnant wife, who was on the brink of giving birth, has died following over 45 years of incarceration.

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) reported that Jerry T. Bunyard passed away on July 10 at the California State Prison, Sacramento. He was 76 years old.

“At 4:44 p.m., Bunyard was declared dead at an external medical facility by medical personnel,” stated the CDCR in an official release. “The Sacramento County Coroner will ascertain his exact cause of death.”

Bunyard had been convicted of first-degree murder for taking the lives of his wife, Elaine Bunyard, and their unborn child. Elaine was discovered dead on November 1, 1979, in the garage of their San Joaquin County residence, which she shared with Bunyard and their 7-year-old daughter.

Elaine Bunyard died from a massive shotgun blast to the head, and the fetus died from a lack of oxygen moments later, according to court records. Investigators said Bunyard had hired a childhood friend, Erwin Popham, to commit the murders.

Popham, a drifter, small-time criminal, and frequent drug user, lived with the Bunyard family intermittently. Eventually, Bunyard asked Popham to kill his wife, believing she had gotten pregnant by another man.

Bunyard had offered his wife a $50,000 settlement for a divorce, but she refused, court records state. He also wanted to clear the way to be with his new girlfriend.

Popham initially declined to commit the murder, but the pair eventually settled on a $1,000 fee to be paid within a week of the slaying, followed by additional money once Bunyard received the proceeds of his wife’s life insurance policy.

The murder was supposed to be staged as a suicide.

Popham attacked Elaine Bunyard as she was washing dishes in her kitchen, repeatedly striking her on the head with frying pans. He then dragged her unconscious body to the garage and placed her in a chair. Once she was seated, Popham propped Bunyard’s pump shotgun under Elaine’s chin and pulled the trigger.

Half of her face was blown off, prosecutors said. Given the extreme amount of blood at the scene, Popham abandoned the suicide staging and decided to make the killing look like a robbery instead.

He then drove to Bunyard’s construction job in Patterson and told him “it was done,” according to the California Supreme Court’s review of the evidence.

Currently, 567 California prison inmates are on death row, according to the CDCR. However, in 2019, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order instituting a moratorium on the death penalty in California, granting a temporary reprieve to all individuals sentenced to death.

A woman experiencing intense abdominal pain, nausea, and frequent vomiting decided to visit the emergency room, suspecting stress might be the underlying cause of her discomfort.

However, her symptoms were actually the result of a gooey green mass that had developed in her stomach, partially due to her GLP-1 medication.

The 63-year-old patient sought medical attention at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. She explained to the doctors that she had been using semaglutide, a GLP-1 receptor agonist marketed as Ozempic and Wegovy, for approximately one year.

Over the previous month, she experienced increased episodes of vomiting and nausea coupled with severe pain near her torso. While the medication had initially helped her lose a significant amount of weight, the rate of weight loss had sped up in the last month, coinciding with these new symptoms.

The medical team conducted several diagnostic tests, including a CT scan that revealed a blockage of stool in her digestive tract, although there seemed to be nothing physically obstructing its passage. Using an endoscope—a slender, flexible tube equipped with a camera and light—the doctors finally identified the root of the problem.

The case of the bizarre bezoar

They saw a “large, greenish, gooey-looking mass covered in mucus” in her stomach. It was a bezoar, which affects at most 4 in 1,000 people. While it wasn’t blocking the opening to the small intestine, it was taking up a lot of space and making it harder for food to pass through.

Bezoars are tightly packed masses of undigested or partially digested food, usually in the stomach. There are a few different types. Phytobezoars form from eating too much cellulose-rich food, like celery, prunes, raisins and pumpkin. Trichobezoars form from hair.

In her case, doctors believe delayed gastric emptying caused the bezoar to form.

Gastric emptying is the process of food moving from the stomach into the small intestine. If it’s delayed — a condition called gastroparesis — food can accumulate and harden into a bezoar.

This slowing of food movement also happens to be one of the main effects of GLP-1s. It helps people feel fuller for longer, slows the rate at which carbs are broken down and prevents sugar from flooding the bloodstream.

But GLP-1s are known for sometimes slowing food down too much, causing gastroparesis. This side effect is associated with increasing dosage too quickly. Gastroparesis can lead to nausea, vomiting, bloating, pain, poor appetite and heartburn.

Around 11% of US adults are on a GLP-1, or roughly 28 million to 30 million people.

A Coca-Cola cure

The woman was taken off her GLP-1 immediately, but doctors now had a different problem on their hands: how to get rid of the bezoar.

There are a few options: break it up with an endoscopic knife or use medications like metoclopramide or erythromycin to chemically get things moving. If those don’t work, doctors might resort to surgically removing the bezoar.

But why use meds when a cold Coke will do the trick?

It sounds silly, but yes — doctors have found it’s a great first treatment to try for bezoars before turning to more aggressive methods.

They’re not exactly sure what it is about Coca-Cola that dissolves bezoars so effectively. It could be that the carbon dioxide bubbles penetrate the fibers in the mass, helping to break it apart. Or it might be Coca-Cola’s acidity, which is close to the pH of stomach acid.

Even better news: Diet Coke works just as well as the regular stuff, research shows. That’s especially helpful because many people who develop bezoars have diabetes and need to limit their sugar.

This was true in the Massachusetts woman’s case. She was given Diet Coke, and because she didn’t like carbonation, she drank just 1.5 liters — about half the recommended amount used to break up a bezoar.

On the second day, she reported a “tugging sensation” in her abdomen and felt a wave of relief from the nausea and stomach pain. Another endoscopy showed the bezoar was gone.

She returned to her normal diet and stayed off her GLP-1. With the nausea, vomiting and pain gone, her appetite returned and she regained weight.

FOX LAKE, Ill. (WLS) — A tragedy struck Monday night as a 15-year-old boy from the northern suburbs drowned in the Chain O’Lakes.

The Lake County Coroner’s Office has identified the young victim as Brayan Monzanga, who was from Round Lake.

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According to Chief Christopher Covelli of the Lake County Sheriff’s Office, the teen either leapt from a boat or accidentally fell into the waters of Myers Bay, a section of Pistakee Lake, and did not reappear.

Despite valiant attempts by his friends, who dove in after him, their efforts to locate him proved unsuccessful.

At around 6 p.m., a 911 call was made, prompting emergency responders to quickly arrive at the scene near Fox Lake in the northern suburbs.

Divers and search teams conducted what they hoped would be a rescue operation – before the search shifted to a recovery.

The missing teen was found nearly two hours later by an underwater drone-device. He was not wearing a life jacket.

“Just recreational swimming on the water, went into the water and never came back up. At that point, we were contacted via 911 and started our operations and response,” Fox Lake Fire Deputy Chief Samuel Santiago said. “This is a great location to come bring your families and that’s what they were just trying to do. So just from that aspect, from the organization to the family, we’re very sorry for your loss.”

The incident remains under investigation by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources Conservation Police and the Lake County Coroner’s Office.