A former Iowa county jail employee has been charged with sexual misconduct after an Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation probe into the matter. KCRG said that the agency launched its investigation when a county employee complained of possible sexual misconduct and completed it in March. The state attorney general took over at that point, reviewing …
Celebrity reporters got a windfall over the weekend when thousands of pages of documents from the Amber Heard-Johnny Depp defamation trial were unsealed.
A Florida woman will spend the rest of her life behind bars for hiring hitmen to kill a prominent law professor, WCTV reports. On Friday, a judge in Tallahassee sentenced 37-year-old Katherine D. Magbanua to life in prison in connection with the July 2014 murder of Daniel Markel. Authorities alleged that Magbanua arranged the hit …
Loved ones are pleading for the public’s help to locate a Florida woman who has been missing for more than three weeks and was allegedly acting unusual before she vanished, WINK-TV reports. Erica Johnson was last seen July 8 in Fort Myers boarding a direct Greyhound bus to Tampa. Security cameras recorded her carrying a …
Loved ones of a Colorado teen who died mysteriously last month paid tribute to her this weekend, despite few public details about what happened to her, KKTV reports. On June 27, police found 13-year-old Hailey Perkins dead inside her home in Pueblo West, Colorado, according to the Pueblo Chieftain newspaper. Authorities determined she died by …
A 62-year-old Missouri man was charged with attempted murder Friday for allegedly using a high-powered rifle to shoot a crop duster flying near his property. In addition to attempted murder, Donald V. Bates has been charged with felony property damage, unlawful weapons use, assault, and armed critical action. He is being held without bond in …
Update: 8:45 p.m.: St Croix Sheriff Scott Knudson said at least two victims were airlifted to Regions Hospital and the other were transported by ambulance. The 17-year-old was taken by ambulance to Lakeview Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to KMSP. Original story: A 17-year-old boy was fatally stabbed and four others seriously hurt …
A 3-year-old boy left alone in a vehicle behind a Pennsylvania Popeye’s apparently shot himself Saturday morning with a loaded gun that was also left behind. Police from Caln Township and the city of Coatesville responded to the call shortly before noon when someone called about a possible fight in the parking lot, the Daily …
A University of West Georgia professor was fired after he was charged with the shooting death of a student early Saturday morning. Carollton Police said that Richard Sigman, a professor in the school’s business department, had been at Leopoldo’s Pizza at Adamson Square in Carrollton and got into an argument with another man. The man …
An Ohio judge this week ordered held without bond the man charged with raping and impregnating a 10-year-old Ohio girl, who then had to travel across state lines for an abortion because the state’s anti-abortion law has no exception for rape. Gerson Fuentes was initially arrested on July 12 and ordered held on a $2 …
A California woman who rendered three young children orphans in a drunk driving wreck will serve decades behind bars after statements from the victims’ children were read in court. Grace Elizabeth Coleman, 23, was sentenced on Friday to 21 years to life in prison for killing 27-year-old Henry Eduardo Saldana-Mejia and his wife, 28-year-old Gabriela …
A jury on Friday convicted a prominent New York doctor of sexually abusing vulnerable patients who had sought treatment for chronic and debilitating pain, WABC-TV reports. Victims accused the neurologist, 68-year-old Ricardo Cruciani, of molestation and rape and said he forced them to watch him masturbate during patient appointments. Authorities also alleged that the physician …
