A New Jersey mother says she is taking legal action against a day care that has given her no explanation for how her 2-year-old daughter came home last week with one of her “cornrow” hair braids missing from her head — claiming they didn’t know if her child “pulled it out” herself or whether something more nefarious happened.

“You have to use some type of force for a braid to be removed,” Tamara Hemingway told New York ABC station WABC about her daughter, Myla, and what happened to her.

“It was a cornrow so it was braided down to her scalp,” Hemingway said. “There’s no way that, I don’t know who could have done it, but I know for a fact she or a kid would not have done that.”

Special counsel Jack Smith filed court documents on Monday to dismiss the criminal election interference case against President-elect Donald Trump before he takes office in January, citing long-standing Justice Department policy prohibiting the indictment and prosecution of a sitting president. The request was subsequently granted by U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan just a few hours after Smith’s filing, meaning the charges stemming from Trump’s alleged attempt to undermine the 2020 election on Jan. 6 are over.

While the dismissal was inevitable, Smith requested that the case against Trump be dismissed “without prejudice,” meaning there would be nothing barring prosecutors from bringing the same charges again in the future.

In her order granting the request, Chutkan wrote that “dismissal without prejudice is appropriate here,” noting that Trump’s presidential immunity from prosecution will not be permanent.

“Dismissal without prejudice is also consistent with the Government’s understanding that the immunity afforded to a sitting President is temporary, expiring when they leave office,” Chutkan wrote.

An argument about a bottle of hot sauce in Colorado elicited a fiery and ultimately fatal rage over the weekend that left one man dead and another behind bars, police in the Mile High State say.

George Vigil, 19, stands accused of one count of murder in the second degree, the Denver Police Department said in a relatively sparse press release issued on Monday afternoon.

Several aspects of the case are shrouded in mystery, but, in the end, someone the defendant knows was stabbed to death, according to an affidavit of probable cause obtained by Law&Crime.

Stunned neighbors in Orange, Texas, awoke to the news on New Year’s Day that four people were found dead in a home, each of them shot and killed in a tragic case that appears to be a murder-suicide.

The Orange Police Department at 7:50 a.m. responded to the scene on North 8th Street and found 53-year-old Bobby Kiel, 34-year-old Porsha Kiel, 33-year-old Lester Lewis and 17-year-old Janiya Lewis fatally shot in what was deemed an “isolated incident” with no broader threat to the community.

The reason for that investigative conclusion became clearer when a relative of Porsha Kiel’s told local CBS affiliate KFDM reported that authorities were operating under the belief that Lester Lewis shot the Kiels and Janiya Lewis before taking his own life.