Authorities are searching for a Wyoming mother of two who has been missing for several days. Concern intensified after she did not arrive to pick up her children from an after-school program, leading her sister to contact police.

The Casper Police Department said Kandice Gunter, 30, was last seen Thursday morning in Natrona County. Her sister, Kayla Gunter, told Cowboy State Daily that she reported Kandice missing after the children, ages 9 and 6, were not collected from the Boys & Girls Club on Wednesday.

“That’s when I started freaking out,” Kayla told the newspaper. “It’s completely unlike her not to come get her kids.”

Investigators said Gunter was believed to be driving a gray 2016 GMC Canyon pickup displaying a temporary Wyoming registration. Her cellphone was last detected at about 12:30 p.m. Mountain Time Friday near Highway 387 and the Natrona County line.

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Kayla said she last spoke with her sister by phone at 10:41 a.m. Wednesday. Nothing during the call suggested that Kandice was in trouble, but she stopped responding afterward. According to the report, the family was later informed that Gunter’s phone had registered near Gillette around noon Wednesday.

Gunter had moved from Nevada to Casper roughly a month ago, reportedly to live closer to her children. She had been staying with their father and assisting with the children’s care.

“I looked so hard but there’s so much wide open spaces with one set of sad eyes hope you’re okay!! 14 years you’ve been in my life and can’t end it like this Kandice Gunter,” Facebook user TK Kentopp wrote early Saturday.

Kayla said the relocation seemed to be going smoothly and that her sister had given no indication she intended to leave or sever contact. The two women usually spoke by phone at least three times each day.

The Casper Police Department said Gunter was last seen in person in Natrona County on the morning of Oct. 29 and was reported missing later that night. She was reportedly traveling in a gray 2016 GMC Canyon pickup with temporary Wyoming plates. Her phone was last located around 12:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 30, along Highway 387 near the Natrona County line.

Gunter is 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighs about 185 pounds. She has black hair, blue eyes and a butterfly tattoo on her neck.

Anyone who has seen Gunter, spotted the gray pickup or has information about her whereabouts is urged to contact the Casper Police Department at 307-235-8278. Anonymous information may be provided to Crime Stoppers of Central Wyoming at 307-577-8477 or through crimestopperscasper.org.

President Donald Trump has condemned his former attorney Alina Habba Mildon’s reported $50 million agreement to work for a billionaire Venezuelan family, saying the deal was arranged behind his back and demanding that some of the money go to a Trump-affiliated organization.

Trump criticized Habba, 42, after she accepted a lucrative position as general counsel at Concord Partners, a company founded by the daughter of Venezuelan financier Julio Herrera Velutini.

“I thought it was terrible,” Trump told Fox News on Saturday during a Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago. “I said I don’t want her paid. We had somebody speak to the people that did it, and she used her relationship to do that and it was far too much.”

“You know, it’s one thing for a person to get paid legal fees or whatever—she’s a lawyer. I thought it was totally obnoxious and outrageous, and it’s not acceptable, not acceptable at all.”

“It’s unacceptable what she did,” Trump added.

The New York Times reported that Trump told at least one ally the Herrera family should not pay Habba the remaining money owed under her contract.

According to sources cited by the newspaper, Trump’s aides and allies also said he wanted Habba to contribute part of the deal’s proceeds to his future presidential library or another Trump-related entity.

Habba agreed last year to a four-year position with Concord Partners and officially began serving as the company’s general counsel on January 1.

The Times reported that, around the time Habba joined the company, Velutini was facing bribery charges connected to a misdemeanor campaign finance violation. He received a pardon in January 2026, according to the newspaper.

Habba had also recently married Turkish billionaire Turhan Mildon. The couple held a lavish New York City wedding in September, only months after reportedly meeting.

The wedding drew attention after reports claimed Habba was 17 years older than her new husband, who was said to be 25.

The Times spoke with former classmates of Mildon who said he was 25. The newspaper also reviewed his U.S. visa and the photo page of his Turkish passport, both of which gave his date of birth as December 2, 2000.

The source of the discrepancy remains unclear. The Daily Mail contacted Mildon’s company, Miller Holding, and Alina Habba for comment.

Mildon, the grandson of a Turkish energy magnate, has become a source of tension within Trump’s circle in recent weeks because of a planned donation to the Kennedy Center.

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Habba accused former Kennedy Center chief Ric Grenell of failing to transfer $5.6 million that Mildon says he donated to the Washington, D.C., arts institution. Grenell has denied the allegation, while the White House continues to investigate the matter, the Daily Mail reported earlier this month.

It remains unclear when or where Mildon and Habba first met. They were publicly seen together for the first time in April, when an active-shooter incident brought the White House Correspondents’ Dinner to an early end.

Mildon has been seen with Habba at a number of White House events in the months since, and the pair tied the knot in September in Manhattan’s newly-reopened Waldorf Astoria Hotel.

The ceremony marked Habba’s third wedding, and at the time it was reported that it was Mildon’s second wedding. His previous marriage in 2021 into the family of a prominent Turkish magnate ended in 2024. 

However, the Times reported that several of Mildon’s former confidants said he had a legally non-binding religious marriage to María Ceballos, the daughter of Venezuelan military commander Adm. Remigio Ceballos, last year.

That relationship, before Mildon met Habba, reportedly took place at a time when Mildon was pursuing business deals in Venezuela. 

Mildon’s spokesperson told the Times that the couple only had an engagement ceremony, however, Ceballos reportedly told friends she was his wife. Religious marriages in Turkey are not legally binding, so his statement that he was only engaged to Ceballos may be accurate even if his ex claims they wed. 

Mildon has also portrayed himself as a billionaire, and he previously told Forbes Turkey that his companies’ revenues climbed over $2.6 billion in 2025. 

He has business interests in Venezuela and the Congo. 

Mildon came into President Trump’s orbit via Habba, with the ongoing wrangle over his donation to the Kennedy Center said to have caused Trump considerable stress. 

After Habba laid out her claims about what she says is the missing $5.6 million, Trump is said to have turned to White House counsel Will Scharf and said: ‘Take this seriously, figure it out, and come back to me ASAP.’ 

Grenell denied Habba’s claims in a subsequent phone call with Trump. 

He again denied the donation claim in a statement given to the Daily Mail, saying: ‘It’s absurd. I’ve never asked for one cent to be sent somewhere else pretending it was for the Kennedy Center and I’ve never received any payment from him at all,’ Grenell said in a statement to the Daily Mail.

‘Make [Mildon] give proof to what he is claiming he gave.’

New criticism is mounting against New York Gov. Kathy Hochul over her appearance in a Netflix documentary examining the renewed investigation into seven men accused of sexually assaulting a woman at Cornell and her public comments about the allegations.

None of the seven men has been criminally charged. In October, Hochul signed an executive order naming New York Attorney General Letitia James as the special prosecutor overseeing the investigation.

In the recently released documentary, “Instadocs: Jane Doe v. Cornell,” Hochul appears roughly 13 minutes into the film, discussing her reaction to reports about the case.

During the interview, she said, “My first reaction was how disgusting, not again. You feel like, not again.”

Hochul also recalled her experience as an undergraduate at Syracuse University in the late 1970s.

“There were a series of rapes our first week on campus and there was a sense of anxiety all around,” Hochul said.

She criticized what she described as a “culture” that “has never changed.”

“The number of people involved and the repugnancy of her allegations would’ve drawn you to local police department fairly quickly,” she said.

The allegations by Jane Doe attracted national attention after she filed a civil lawsuit against seven Cornell Chi Phi fraternity brothers, the university, her own sorority and others. She alleged that she was drugged and gang raped inside a fraternity house in 2024.

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The lawsuit came nearly two years after she first reported the allegations to local law enforcement. Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten said that “multiple prosecutors and criminal investigators reviewed Jane Doe’s statement and correctly determined the alleged facts as set forth in the statement do not constitute a crime.”

Hochul also addressed the handling of the allegations by law enforcement during her interview for the documentary.

“In a situation like this, you want to make sure that people believe in the process,” she said.

Fox News contributor Donna Rotunno, a criminal defense attorney and host of the “Crime and Justice with Donna Rotunno” podcast, criticized Hochul’s participation in the documentary. She argued that the governor’s comments could intensify existing concerns about the fairness of the prosecution.

“The governor can say anything she wants about anything. The question is, should she?” Rotunno said.

“The problem you have here is there has already been the air of impropriety,” she added.

Rotunno called the timing of Hochul’s renewed attention to the case “suspect” and questioned why the governor intervened two years later.

“If she was so in tune as to what was happening in Ithaca or elsewhere in the state of New York, this is probably something that should have been on her radar.”

Asked by Fox News Digital why Hochul chose to appear in the documentary, a spokesperson for the governor said, “Governors routinely speak to news and media organizations about matters of significant public interest.”

In 2019, a bullet came within inches of Brandon Boudreaux’s head as a gunman opened fire outside his Arizona home.

The attempted shooting uncovered an alleged murder-for-hire scheme connected to Lori Vallow Daybell. Prosecutors said she enlisted her brother, Alex Cox, to target Boudreaux, who was involved in a bitter divorce from Vallow’s niece, Melani Pawlowski.

Years later, Boudreaux is sharing his account of the attack and the events that followed.

On Oct. 2, 2019, Cox allegedly fired from a parked Jeep Wrangler as Boudreaux drove his Tesla into the driveway of his Gilbert home. Boudreaux noticed the Jeep’s rear window was open just before the shot rang out. The bullet slammed into the driver’s-side door and shattered the window.

Authorities identified Cox as the suspected gunman soon after the shooting, but he died in December 2019 before prosecutors could charge him.

In June 2025, an Arizona jury found Vallow, widely known as the “cult mom,” guilty of conspiring to kill Boudreaux. Two months earlier, a separate jury convicted her of conspiring in the death of her estranged husband, Charles Vallow, who was shot and killed by Cox in July 2019.

Those Arizona verdicts came after Vallow’s 2023 trial in Idaho. Jurors convicted her of murdering her children, 16-year-old Tylee Ryan and 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow, as well as conspiring to murder Tammy Daybell, the former wife of Vallow’s husband, Chad Daybell.

She was also found guilty of grand theft for collecting Social Security benefits intended for her children.

Sharing his story

Boudreaux recounts the ordeal in his new book, “Unthinkable.” He first wrote the manuscript as a private record for his four children, hoping to give them a fuller understanding of what happened and the decisions he made.

“I’m sure I made some mistakes,” Boudreaux told News Media. “If they need some closure, if they need to understand better… my goal was to give them all the information.”

Boudreaux also wanted the book to explain how his faith helped sustain him, while making clear that his children would be free to follow their own spiritual beliefs.

“I want them to understand their dad and maybe in understanding their dad and why he made the choices he did, maybe they’ll understand themselves better,” he said.

The book eventually grew into a public project after Boudreaux shared the manuscript with family and friends. They encouraged him to make the story available to a wider audience.

“They all encouraged me,” he said. “They said they thought it was good enough and there was enough in there that people would be interested in.”

Even so, Boudreaux held back until the criminal cases moved forward. He deliberately avoided releasing details that might compromise the investigations or court proceedings.

“I needed to go on the stand with a defense attorney,” he said. “I just felt more comfortable waiting and making sure that I let that process go first.”

“Now that it feels like it’s most likely done, it was something that I always kind of intended to share my perspective on.”

Divorce and shooting

During Vallow’s Idaho murder trial, Boudreaux testified that his marriage to Pawlowski collapsed in 2019 as she grew closer to Vallow.

The couple filed for divorce in July 2019. They later fought over custody of their children.

According to a 2020 custody filing in Maricopa County Superior Court, Pawlowski’s second husband, Ian, wrote that she believed a “dark entity” or demon had possessed Boudreaux, East Idaho News reported.

The filing also claimed Chad Daybell told Pawlowski something must happen to Boudreaux to advance his spirit and the Lord’s plan.

Pawlowski has not been charged in the shooting.

Boudreaux, who remarried in 2020, said the shooting, his divorce and the lingering fear that someone was still after him left him struggling to trust others.

“Having been through someone shooting at me, and then having them continue, in my opinion, to keep looking for me … you’re just naturally gonna have some trust issues,” he said.

He acknowledged that public attention brought some discomfort, but said most people treat him with kindness and respect.

Investigation remains active

Boudreaux declined to discuss details of the shooting investigation, saying he wanted to leave that work to law enforcement.

“I encourage them to continue the investigation,” he said. “I really don’t want to talk about the investigation. I want to leave that up to them.”

The Gilbert Police Department confirmed to NBC News that the investigation into the 2019 shooting remains active.

‘Everybody has value’

Boudreaux said he hopes readers take away a broader message from “Unthinkable” about finding value and overcoming adversity.

“I hope that everybody has value and everybody can help someone else,” he said, adding that difficult experiences do not have to dictate a person’s choices.

“Just because something hard happens in your life doesn’t mean that you have to respond a certain way.”

A night of last-minute Halloween shopping turned tragic at a Spirit Halloween store this weekend when gunfire left a pregnant woman dead and six people injured. Frightening video from inside the store captured shoppers scrambling for cover as the shooting unfolded.

Shots were fired at approximately 8:30pm on Friday at the seasonal store in Fairfield, a city outside San Francisco. The gunman remained unidentified, and no arrests had been made, according to the Fairfield Police Department.

Police announced Saturday afternoon that the only person killed was 31-year-old Constance Hages. Her family told authorities that she was pregnant.

Three male victims, aged 16, 19 and 32, were hospitalized in critical condition. Their identities have not been released.

A 23-year-old man was also hospitalized in critical but stable condition. Two other victims, a 19-year-old man and a 43-year-old man, were treated for gunshot wounds and later released, police said.

Video recorded by a witness showed terrified shoppers dropping to the ground and hiding as gunshots echoed through the Spirit Halloween store.

Jocelyn Lopez Tabares, 15, told the New York Post that she began recording the scene as evidence before calling her mother.

When the shooting began, she initially thought a balloon had burst. Her older sister then pulled her to the ground.

‘I was in shock, and everyone just went down. My sister pulled me down because I couldn’t move. I was so scared,’ Lopez Tabares recalled.

‘All I could hear was people screaming and running from the back to the front,’ she added.

Lopez Tabares said she believed she might die, telling the newspaper: ‘I didn’t want to die that way.’

She described customers rushing toward the exits while she and her sister stayed hidden inside the store, fearing for their lives.

The shaken teenager also recalled hearing a mother cry out for her baby after the gunfire began.

Miena Davis, another witness, gave a similar account to local NBC affiliate KCRA. She said she heard a mother calling for her child and described the store as descending into ‘immediate panic.’

Javier Espinoza told the outlet that he and his girlfriend moved toward the front of the store during the shooting. He and another witness lifted the security gate, allowing shoppers to flee.

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Janet Jacobo, who had been shopping with her three sons, told the New York Times that she ran from the store with her youngest child in her arms after hearing the gunshots.

Jacobo said her children were terrified. In an effort to reassure them after the traumatic experience, she told them it had been a ‘scary show at the Halloween store.’

The investigation into the shooting is still active and ongoing. The Fairfield Police Department said on Saturday morning that it is believed to have ‘stemmed from a targeted incident involving one suspect inside the Spirit Halloween store.’ 

‘We encourage everyone to remain vigilant, look out for one another, and report any suspicious activity,’ the department added in a statement.

‘The safety of our community remains our priority, and our department remains committed to working alongside our community to ensure everyone can enjoy a safe Halloween.’

Separately, another community was rocked on Friday night when a second shooting unfolded while revelers were shopping for last-minute costumes at a Spirit Halloween in Michigan. 

Shots rang out at the store following an altercation between a 21-year-old man from Detroit and a 21-year-old male from Oak Park, according to the Madison Heights Police Department. 

The Detroit man sustained multiple gunshot wounds and was rushed to a local hospital, where he later died. A 9mm handgun was recovered at the scene. 

The Oak Park man sustained non-life-threatening injuries after he was assaulted by bystanders before officers took him into custody. The department said investigators anticipate forthcoming criminal charges. 

The suspect’s wife, named only as Alanna, told Click on Detroit that her husband shot in self-defense. 

She said they were leaving the store with their three children when an acquaintance confronted them. Alanna claimed her husband fired a shot fearing the man was armed.

‘If he didn’t have that gun, and we walked out here and all those people would’ve jumped on him, would I be at the hospital right now praying over my husband? He defended me, himself, and his kids,’ she said. 

The Daily Mail has reached out to the Fairfield Police Department and the Madison Heights Police Department for updates on the investigations into both shootings. 

At least seven people were wounded early Sunday in a shooting near Indiana University Bloomington as students and visitors gathered for homecoming weekend.

Bloomington police officers responding to reports of “multiple gunshots” encountered a large crowd and later spotted a man fleeing with a firearm at about 1:30 a.m., Deputy Chief Ryan Pedigo said.

A fight reportedly broke out in the crowd shortly before the gunfire, according to WTHR.

The conditions of those injured were not immediately available. Pedigo said no fatalities had been reported.

Investigators are also trying to determine whether additional victims may have been hurt but have not yet come forward.

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Police detained one person and recovered a firearm nearby, though authorities have not determined whether that individual was the shooter, Pedigo said.

Officers found shell casings from several calibers on the sidewalk near the shooting scene, a discovery that suggests more than one gun may have been used, the Bloomingtonian reported.

The gunfire erupted on Kirkwood Avenue near Grant Street, a busy nightlife area popular with students and located just three blocks from the IU campus.

The shooting followed a high-energy homecoming night for Indiana University, whose Hoosiers defeated Minnesota in a dramatic overtime victory earlier Saturday evening.