A reputed mobster was gunned down at a New York City McDonald’s on Thursday, just months after his son was shot in a possible targeted attack. The New York Post reports that Sylvester Zottola, 71, was fatally shot at a McDonald’s drive-thru in the Bronx on Thursday. Zottola is reportedly a Bonanno crime family associate, and was …
Authorities in Florida are investigating threats one Edgewater man reportedly made during a recent city council meeting. According to Fox News, 56-year-old Leonard Towsley continued a longstanding feud with his neighbor in a violent rant earlier this week directed at local leaders. “He took full advantage of you peoples’ stupidity, arrogance and animosity and made …
By JEFFREY COLLINS and MEG KINNARD, Associated Press FLORENCE, S.C. (AP) — The Vietnam veteran and disbarred lawyer accused of shooting seven law enforcement officers, killing one, bragged online about his marksmanship and love for the “smell of gunpowder” in the years before the deadly standoff, records and social media posts unearthed Thursday showed. Frederick Hopkins …
UPDATE: The Tampa Bay Times reported that missing Florida mother Sydney Wyatt, 28, and her 1-year-old son, Future Johnson, were found safe at a local hotel at around 10 a.m. Friday. Police have yet to provide a timeline of events leading up to their safe discovery. Original story: Police in Florida are asking for …
Young patients at Children’s of Alabama were greeted by a group of superheroes in the form of window washers dressed as comic-book favorites. According to AL.com, Sunlight Building Services LLC provided the workers through a contract with Hoar Construction LLC and sent window washers dressed as Batman, Superman, Spiderman and Captain America this week. As …
The investigation into the killings of eight members of an Ohio family in 2016 appears to have turned cold, which prompted a judge to order the coroner to release summaries of the victim autopsies. Nancy Grace re-examines the Rhoden family massacre in light of the new revelations with a panel of experts including death scene …
A viral video with over 800,000 views has cost a hairstylist his job after he allegedly delivered a roundhouse kick to a young pro-life campaigner at the Life Chain demonstration in Toronto, Canada, on Sunday. Life Site reports that the person in question has been identified as Jordan Hunt, a now former employee of Noble Studio 101. …
Royal Carribean International has apologized to passengers who had their cruise-going experience ruined by 1,300 rowdy conference attendees, whose idea of fun reportedly entailed bringing burlesque dancers and women dressed as Playboy bunnies to swarm public areas of the vessel. Last month, 1,300 employees from Indian tobacco company Kamla Pasand boarded Voyager of the Seas ship in Sydney, …
Authorities are investigating after a masked gunman fatally shot two men in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood in a 36-hour period. The Chicago Tribune reported Eliyahu Moscowitz, 24, was shot to death Monday evening on the 1100 block of West Lunt. His death came a day after Douglass Watts, 73, was reportedly shot and killed while walking his …
The man who had been charged with the burning death of 19-year-old Jessica Chambers is headed to Louisiana to face charges of murdering a different woman in 2015. As CrimeOnline previously reported, a Mississippi judge declared a mistrial in the Chambers this week after a jury could not agree to a verdict. This was the …
Police in Massachusetts arrested a man Wednesday for allegedly attacking his ex-girlfriend and her current boyfriend with a wooden crucifix. Officers arrested Torrey Smith, 39, weeks after the August 22 attack at the victim’s Billerica home. According to WBZ-TV, the prosecutor said Smith grabbed his ex-girlfriend by the legs as she tried to flee and struck her in …
A seventh woman came forward this week with accusations against a former University of Delaware baseball player, who’s already accused of raping six other women, NBC Philadelphia reports. The suspect, Clay Conaway, 22, is charged with first-degree rape in connection with an alleged sexual assault of a 20-year-old woman at a Georgetown home in June. …
