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Husband of woman reported missing after going overboard in Bahamas being questioned following arrest: Attorney

April 10, 2026 by WDNY Radio

(NEW YORK) — The husband of a woman who was reported missing in the Bahamas after going overboard on a dinghy is being questioned by police following his arrest in connection with his wife’s disappearance, his attorney said Friday.

Lynette Hooker, 55, of Michigan, and her husband, Brian Hooker, 58, had departed Hope Town on the Abaco Islands for Elbow Cay around 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, according to the Royal Bahamas Police Force. The couple was en route to their yacht, Soulmate, when bad weather caused Lynette Hooker to fall overboard, her husband told authorities.

Brian Hooker has not yet been charged following his arrest on Wednesday, his attorney confirmed to ABC News on Friday. He is being interviewed by police and there may be a charging decision afterward, the attorney, Terrel Butler, said. Police can hold him for up to 48 hours before seeking an extension, she said.

Brian Hooker has been cooperating with authorities in the ongoing investigation, his attorney said. He was injured after falling into the water while assisting police in a search of the Soulmate boat on the night of his arrest, according to Butler. He has since been treated for his injuries, which included an abrasion, she said.

The attorney said Brian Hooker is “heartbroken” over his wife’s disappearance and that his arrest has been “traumatic.”

“Brian appears completely heartbroken and deeply distressed. His primary concern and source of intense frustration is his inability to continue the search for his wife of 25 years,” Butler said in a statement after visiting her client at the police station on Thursday. “The trauma of her disappearance, coupled with his current detention as a suspect, has left him in an extremely fragile state.”

He “categorically denies the allegations made against him,” Butler said in an earlier statement.

The arrest came after multiple sources told ABC News a criminal investigation had been opened into whether there was any wrongdoing in the case.

The U.S. Coast Guard is leading the probe, according to a source familiar with the investigation.

The search is ongoing for Lynette Hooker, according to police.

Her husband told police the strong currents on Saturday took her out to sea, authorities said. She was holding the boat key when she went overboard, causing the 8-foot hard-bottom dinghy’s engine to shut off, police noted.

Her husband spoke out for the first time on Wednesday, saying he is “heartbroken over the recent boat accident.”

In a statement posted to social media, Brian Hooker said “unpredictable seas and high winds” caused his “beloved Lynette to fall from our small dinghy” near Elbow Cay.

“Despite desperate attempts to reach her, the winds and currents drove us further apart. We continue to search for her and that is my sole focus,” he said.

Brian Hooker subsequently paddled the boat back to shore, arriving at around 4 a.m. Sunday to a marina, where he reported his wife overboard to an individual who then alerted police, authorities said.

The search and rescue operation has been conducted by land, sea and air and involved multiple agencies, including the U.S. Coast Guard, the Royal Bahamas Police Force said.

Brian Hooker thanked the agencies “who have worked tirelessly in an ongoing effort to bring Lynette back to us.”

“Thank you to everyone for keeping Lynette in your thoughts and for your support of our family during this difficult time,” he said.

Butler said Brian Hooker will not be making any further statements to the media amid the ongoing investigation.

Lynette Hooker’s daughter, Karli Aylesworth, has called for a “full and complete investigation” into her mother’s disappearance.

She told ABC News her mother is fit and a good swimmer, and described what her stepfather told her about his wife’s disappearance.

“He said that my mom’s missing and that she fell out of the boat and that he threw a life jacket to her or something, and he doesn’t know if she got it or not,” she said.

“I just hope we find her,” she added.

The Hookers are avid sailors, documenting their travels on social media under the name “The Sailing Hookers.”

The U.S. State Department is “aware of reports regarding a missing American near Elbow Cay” and is “working with Bahamian authorities to provide assistance,” a spokesperson for the agency said Monday.

Barry Manilow postpones more shows on his North American tour

April 10, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Barry Manilow has postponed more shows on his arena tour.

Manilow’s next scheduled show was booked for April 13 at UBS Arena in Long Island, New York. A post on the venue’s website says the show has now been postponed.

Newsday reports that an email from the arena went out to ticket holders noting that the show “will now be rescheduled to a later date due to doctor’s orders.”

While Manilow hasn’t made an official statement regarding the postponement, his website lists the UBS show, as well as all shows scheduled before a July 30 date in Charleston, South Carolina, as “TBD.” That includes shows in Newark, New Jersey; Wilkes-Barre and Reading, Pennsylvania; Portland, Maine; and Albany and Buffalo, New York.

Manilow had surgery in December to remove a cancerous spot on his left lung. In early February, he postponed dates for his Las Vegas residency in order to focus on healing, and then later that month postponed arena shows after his doctor advised him he wouldn’t be healthy enough to headline the concerts.

ABC Audio has reached out to Manilow’s rep for comment.

On This Day, April 10, 2014: Peter Gabriel, KISS, Nirvana inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

April 10, 2026 by WDNY Radio

On This Day, April 10, 2014…

Peter Gabriel, KISS and Nirvana were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame at a ceremony held at the Barclay’s Center in Brooklyn, New York.

Previously inducted in 2010 as a member of Genesis, Gabriel was honored this time for his solo career, with Coldplay’s Chris Martin on hand to do the honors. Gabriel also performed, treating the crowd to “Digging in the Dirt,” “Washing of the Water” with Martin and “In Your Eyes” with Youssou N’Dour.

KISS was inducted by Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello. All four original members — Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Peter Criss and Ace Frehley — attended, though they did not perform.

Nirvana was inducted by R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe; surviving members Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic, along with guitarist Pat Smear, performed four tracks with guest vocalists, including St. Vincent, Lorde, Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon and Joan Jett.

Other inductees that evening included Hall & Oates, Linda Ronstadt and Cat Stevens, as well as Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, which was inducted into the Musical Excellence category.

Lauren Conrad, Kristin Cavallari and more reunite for ‘The Reunion: Laguna Beach’

April 10, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Let’s go back, back to the beginning, because The Reunion: Laguna Beach is here.

Nearly 22 years after Laguna Beach introduced the world to the lives of a group teens from Orange County, California, the cast came together for the ultimate reunion special, which was filmed in October 2025 and is set to air Friday, April 10, on The Roku Channel.

Stars Lauren Conrad, Kristin Cavallari, Stephen Colletti and more spoke with ABC News Digital at the premiere last month, which was held at Shutters on the Beach in Santa Monica, California.

The idea to bring everyone back together came after the Laguna Beach High School alums had their own 20-year high school reunion.

“We’ve had a lot of events recently,” Conrad said. “We had our 20-year high school reunion, Stephen and Kristen did a beautiful podcast where they reflected on the whole show, and one by one, we all went on their podcasts and talked to them — and I think everyone walked away from that feeling really good about the experience.”

She added, “So it started the conversation of, like, should we all get together as a group, which we haven’t done, and kind of reflect on this show, celebrate what it meant and talk about the fact that a lot of us are still really good friends?”

In a Q&A during the screening, Cavallari said that even though she and Colletti have invited everyone to appear on their podcast individually, “The one thing that was missing was getting everyone together in the same room.”

In Laguna Beach, Conrad’s storyline included a love triangle between her, Cavallari and Colletti.

Although Conrad and Cavallari previously addressed their alleged beef in 2022 on Cavallari’s podcast, the trailer for the reunion features her and Cavallari finally sitting down in person and addressing how the show framed them as enemies.

Cavallari said during the Q&A, “We actually have a lot more in common than I think I thought.”

Alabama Shakes premiere new single, ‘American Dream’

April 10, 2026 by WDNY Radio

The reunited Alabama Shakes have premiered a new single called “American Dream.”

“It’s a snapshot of what we’re living through in 2026,” frontwoman Brittany Howard says of the track. “I look around and wonder how we got to a place where there’s so much strain and so little support. I mean, it shouldn’t be impossible to take off work so you can bring your child to the doctor—that’s actually insane.”

She adds, “My hope is that one day people will hear this song and say, ‘’Yeah, s*** was crazy back then, but we made it through.'”

“American Dream” marks the second new track from Alabama Shakes since they reunited at the end of 2024 after a six-year hiatus. The first, “Another Life,” was released in 2025.

The most recent Alabama Shakes album is 2015’s Sound & Color.

Alabama Shakes will launch a U.S. tour April 16 in Richmond, Virginia.

Alleged gunman Tyler Robinson wrote in letter, ‘opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk’: Court documents

April 10, 2026 by WDNY Radio

(PROVO, Utah) — Tyler Robinson, the man accused of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk, allegedly told his boyfriend, “I had the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk, and I took it,” according to newly unsealed court documents.

On Sept. 10, 2025, the day of the shooting, Robinson allegedly sent his boyfriend a message that said, “drop what you are doing, look under my keyboard,” according to the search warrant affidavit.

Robinson’s boyfriend told police that he found a handwritten letter under the keyboard, the documents said.

ABC News first reported on the existence of the letter in September.

Police said they reviewed the boyfriend’s photo of the letter. The note read, according to the documents, “If you are reading this per my text, then I am so sorry. I left the house this morning on a mission, and set an auto text.”

“I am likely dead, or facing a lengthy prison sentence,” the letter continued, according to the documents. “I had the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk, and I took it. I don’t know if I will/have succeeded, but I had hoped to make it home to you. I wish we could have lived in a world where this did not feel necessary.”

Kirk was shot and killed in the middle of his outdoor event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. The 31-year-old was the founder of the conservative youth activist organization Turning Point USA, and the Utah Valley event marked the first stop of his “The American Comeback Tour,” which invited students on college campuses to debate hot-button issues.

Robinson allegedly fled the scene of the shooting, prompting a massive manhunt. He surrendered to authorities on the night of Sept. 11.

He was charged with aggravated murder, felony discharge of a firearm causing serious bodily injury, obstruction of justice, two counts of witness tampering and commission of a violent offense in the presence of a child. He has not entered a plea.

Teddy Swims releases ‘Mr. Know It All’ ahead of Coachella performance

April 10, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Teddy Swims is kicking off Coachella weekend with the brand new song he’s been teasing, “Mr. Know It All.”

On the track, he sings about sabotaging his love life by assuming it’ll end badly: “Shoulda told you I could see this coming, like I’m lookin’ right into a crystal ball/ When I fall in love it’s with misfortune, oh, I wish I wasn’t Mr. Know It All.”

“‘Mr. Know It All’ explores the idea that love can become a self-fulfilling contradiction,” Teddy explains in a statement. “When you believe you already know how it ends, you protect yourself by holding back and that distance becomes the reason it fails.”

“But when you try to fight that fate and control every outcome, you can end up suffocating the connection,” he adds. “It’s about how both fear and control can quietly undo something real.”

Teddy takes the main stage at Coachella Friday at 5:30 p.m. PT. You can watch the festival live streaming on YouTube.

Judges hear arguments over legality of new Trump administration tariffs

April 10, 2026 by WDNY Radio

(WASHINGTON) — In what has become a recurring legal battle for the Trump administration, a panel of judges is hearing arguments Friday about the legality of new tariffs that a policy research center says contribute to costing every household about $1,000.

A group of plaintiffs — including 24 states, the toy company behind Care Bears and Lincoln Logs, and a spice importer — argue that the Trump administration is abusing a little-known law to impose a sweeping 10% tariffs after the Supreme Court found the last round of tariffs were unlawful.

“The President has once again exercised tariff authority that he does not have –involving a statute that does not authorize the tariffs he has imposed –to upend the constitutional order and bring chaos to the global economy,” the state attorneys general said in their lawsuit.

The arguments are being heard by a three-judge panel on the Court of International Trade.

The legal dispute comes down to the interpretation of Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974, which allows the president to temporarily levy tariffs of up to 15% in response to “fundamental international payments problems” such as “balance-of-payments deficits.” The law allows the president to impose tariffs unilaterally for 150 days, after which Congress needs to approve the tariffs.

Lawyers for the Trump administration have argued that the United States’ massive trade deficit constitutes exactly the kind of problem Section 122 was designed to fix. A coalition of Democratic attorneys general disagrees, arguing the Trump administration is conflating different financial issues — “trade deficits” and “balance of payments deficits.”

While both terms use the word “deficit,” a “trade deficit” is created by having less exports than imports, while a “balance of payments deficit” accounts for all international transactions involving the United States, according to the Cato Institute, a libertarian-leaning think tank.

“Were the President to find the endless tariff authority he seeks based only on his decision to conflate trade deficits alone with balance of payments deficits, he would be seizing power from Congress unconstitutionally,” the attorneys general argue.

According to the Yale Budget Lab, a nonpartisan policy research center, Trump’s tariffs — including the broad Section 122 tariffs, as well as metal and pharmaceutical tariffs imposed under different authorities — are estimated to cost every household between $760 and $940 if the Section 122 tariffs expire within 150 days. If Congress were to extend the tariffs, the price impact could be between $1,200 and $1,500 for each household.

Evanescence announces new album, ’Sanctuary’; listen to single ‘Who Will You Follow’ now

April 10, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Evanescence has announced a new album called Sanctuary.

The fifth studio effort from Amy Lee and company — sixth if you count 2017’s Synthesis compilation of reworked songs with orchestration and electronics — is due out June 5. It’s the follow-up to 2021’s The Bitter Truth.

“This album is over three years in the making, and finally listening back to it all at once, about to release it to the world, I am so damn proud of every second of it,” Lee says in a post on Evanescence’s website. “It’s overwhelming. Working on it has been my outlet for so much that feels wrong and out of control, and a place to ignite hope through the power of music and connection… good thing we have the tour all lined up or I wouldn’t know what to do with myself now!”

Lee adds, “I’ve been completely obsessed. I’m dying for the fans to hear this.”

Sanctuary includes the 2025 single “Afterlife,” which Evanescence recorded for the Netflix series Devil May Cry; it earned the band their first #1 hit on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Airplay chart. A second cut, called “Who Will You Follow,” is out now.

Evanescence is playing the Sick New World festival in Las Vegas on April 25 before launching a full U.S. tour with support from Spiritbox and Nova Twins in June.

Peter Frampton drops new song, ‘Lions at the Gate’ featuring Tom Morello

April 10, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Peter Frampton has released another track off his upcoming solo album, Carry The Light.

“Lions at the Gate” featuring Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello is a protest song, which, according to a press release, “draws inspiration from lion statues outside Hollywood elite mansions in the 1920s. It symbolizes “a bold challenge to the ultra-powerful.”

“‘Lions at the Gate’ is a powerful track with a powerful message,” says Frampton, “and Tom’s playing took it to another level.”

The song, available now via digital outlets, also features vocals from Frampton’s son, Julian Frampton. It is the second track released from the album, following “Buried Treasure” which features Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers keyboardist Benmont Tench.

Carry the Light, dropping May 15, is Peter Frampton’s first album of all-new material in 16 years. In addition to Morello and Tench, it features guest appearances by Sheryl Crow, Graham Nash, H.E.R. and saxophonist Bill Evans.

Carry The Light will be released digitally, on CD and on 180-gram yellow vinyl. It will also be available as a limited-edition numbered vinyl featuring a premium cover. All formats are available for preorder now.

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