Idaho Judge Rules State Can’t Criminalize Abortion For Pregnant Women Who Need Emergency Care
Abortion
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Heroes
August 25, 2022
11-Year-Old Boy Rescues Toddler Who Jumped Into Swimming Pool
An 11-year-old North Carolina boy saw a toddler slip away from his mother and jump into a swimming pool earlier this month, and when he couldn’t get anyone’s attention to help, he just rescued the boy himself. Max Belward was at the pool but not swimming that day because he was recovering from swimmer’s ear, …
Child Abuse
August 25, 2022
Boyfriend Charged With Choking Girlfriend’s Toddler, Paralyzing Him
A 23-year-old Ohio man has been charged with abusing his girlfriend’s two children, including fracturing an 18-month-old boy’s vertebrae and damaging his spine. Nathan Sanders faces two charges each of felonious assault and endangering children for allegedly choking the boy and a 3-year-old girl, WKRC reports. “It’s an absolutely abominable set of facts, judge,” said …
Court
August 25, 2022
Florida Man Sentenced to Life in Prison for Horrific Abuse of Boy Rescued by Restaurant Manager
A Florida man was sentenced to multiple life sentences last week for abusing and torturing his 11-year-old stepson. The boy was rescued by an Orlando restaurant manager who noticed something wrong when Timothy Lee Wilson, 36, didn’t let the boy order food, and she saw bruises on the child’s face, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Flavaine …
Court
August 24, 2022
Jury Awards Vanessa Bryant $16 Million for Graphic Photos Taken at Kobe Bryant Helicopter Crash Site
The jury also ordered Los Angeles County to pay $15 million to co-plaintiff Chris Chester, whose wife and daughter were killed in the crash.
Celebrity Justice
August 24, 2022
New York Appeals Court to Hear Appeal by Harvey Weinstein
The New York State Court of Appeals has granted an appeal to disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein and will hear arguments on whether he deserves a new trial. Weinstein was convicted of rape in 2020 and sentenced to 23 years in prison, as CrimeOnline previously reported. In June, an appeals court rejected arguments that the …
Court
August 24, 2022
Convicted Killer Ordered to Pay Child Support For Daughter of Father He Fatally Shot
Earlier this month, a West Virginia judge ordered a man to pay $500,000 in child support — not for his own child, but for the daughter of the man he fatally shot in 2016. Bobby Thompson, 34, was sentenced to 15 years in 2017 for voluntary manslaughter for killing Raymond Chapman, 22. Chapman was paying …
Murder
August 24, 2022
Kentucky Nurse Charged With Murder for Allegedly Injecting Senior With Unprescribed Ativan, Leading to His Death
A Kentucky grand jury indicted a nurse on a murder charge this week after an investigation determined she injected an elderly patient with “something special” while he was agitated, ultimately causing his death. Lexington police say the May 5 death of 97-year-old James Morris at Baptist Health Lexington was “a direct result” of the actions …
Child sex crimes
August 24, 2022
Air Force Sergeant Charged with Child Porn, Sexually Exploiting Children
An Air Force technical sergeant was arrested Monday on his South Carolina base and charged with child pornography and sexual exploitation of children. South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson’s office said that Tech. Sgt. David Wayne Crouse, 37, was taken into custody Monday morning by the Shaw Air Force Base Office of Special Investigations and …
Crime Stories
August 24, 2022
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace: OnlyFans Model Stabs Boyfriend Dead, Claims Self-Defense
OnlyFans model and Instagram influencer Courtney Clenney was arrested on charges that she stabbed her boyfriend to death at a Miami high-rise. Christian Obumseli, 27, was fatally stabbed inside the couple’s apartment. An attorney for Clenney says that the 25-year-old “was a victim of physical, emotional, and mental abuse at the hands of Obumseli” and …
Lawsuit
August 24, 2022
Alabama Pastor Arrested for Watering Neighbors’ Plants While They Were Out of Town: Lawsuit
An Alabama man said he’s filing a discrimination lawsuit against Childersburg police after he was arrested while watering plants for his out-of-town neighbors. According to WRBC 6, Michael Jennings was arrested in May outside his neighbor’s yard in Childersburg, after another neighbor complained about an unknown man and SUV in the area. The incident, which …
Missing
August 24, 2022
Harmony Montgomery: Lawyers Push to Toss Dad’s Confessions Made During Search for Missing New Hampshire Girl
Defense lawyers for missing Harmony Montgomery’s father, Adam Montgomery, are trying to throw out two police interviews after alleging the officers ignored the defendant when he refused to talk, and pushed him to reveal information. In court filings this week, New Hampshire defense attorney Caroline Smith said that officers “pressed and badgered Montgomery” to speak …