Silver Alert Issued for 67-Year-Old Wisconsin Who Left Home When the Power Went Out
Murder
January 14, 2024
‘Suitcase Killer’ Heather Mack Wants More Lenient Sentence for Mom’s Murder: ‘Waste of public resources’
A Chicago-area woman who conspired to kill her mother so she and her boyfriend could steal more than $1 million should be imprisoned for decades, authorities say. This week, federal prosecutors asked a court to sentence Heather Mack to 28 years behind bars for the role she played in the murder of her mom, 62-year-old …
Court
January 14, 2024
‘He got what he deserved’: Teen Gets Life in Prison for Role in Fatal Carjacking of Louisiana Grandmother
Loved ones of a Louisiana grandmother who died after her SUV was carjacked say the teen who violently attacked her deserves the sentence he received, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports. On Friday, a judge ruled that 18-year-old John Honore should spend the rest of his life behind bars, although he will be eligible for parole …
Other
January 14, 2024
Amanda Knox Has a Message for Gypsy Rose Blanchard
Amanda Knox is offering some words of advice and empathy for Gypsy Rose Blanchard, the Missouri woman who was recently released from prison for her role in the murder of her abusive mother, Claudine “Dee Dee” Blanchard. In a piece published this weekend for The Free Press, Knox advised Blanchard that it may take some …
Shooting
January 13, 2024
4-Year-Old Child Shot Dead, Homicide Unit Investigating
Investigators are looking into the shooting death of a 4-year-old in the Chickasaw neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky. Louisville Metro Police said they were called to a home just before 4 p.m. and found the child with a gunshot wound, WLKY reported. The child died at Norton Children’s Hospital. LPMD’s homicide unit is investigating and all …
Lawsuit
January 13, 2024
Dozens of Lawsuits Filed Diabetic Drugs Used for Weight Loss, Causing Extreme Side Effects
The makers of several effective drugs to treat type 2 diabetes are facing lawsuit because doctors also prescribe them for weight loss, which most of the drugs have not been approved for. Novo Nordisk, the maker of Ozempic and Wegovy — which is approved for weight loss and contains higher amounts of the active ingredient …
Child Abuse
January 13, 2024
Maintenance Workers Find Malnourished Toddler With Ankles Duct Taped; 3 Arrested
Three people have been arrested after apartment maintenance workers found a malnourished toddler with her ankles duct taped together in November. Court documents say that Kenry Joseph Flukers, Toniesha Deshae Perkins, and Mya Jhari Breaux-McGruder have been charged with injury to a child by omission and unlawful restraint, KTRK reported. The three are accused of …
Mass shooting
January 13, 2024
Federal Prosecutors to Seek Death Penalty for Buffalo Supermarket Gunman Who Killed 10 Black People
Federal prosecutors have said they will seek the death penalty for the white man who gunned down 10 Black people at a Buffalo, New York, grocery store in 2022. Payton Gendron, 20, pleaded guilty last year in state court for the killings at a Tops supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood. He was sentenced to …
Murder
January 13, 2024
2 Networks Air Story of Teen Newlyweds Who Hired Hitmen to Kill Parents
Nicolas Shaughnessy and his then wife Jaclyn Edison hired two hit men to kill his parents in 2018, then moved in with his mother — who survived the shooting — for three months before police nailed down the truth of what happened that night. Barking dogs alerted wealthy Austin jewelry Ted Shaughnessy, 55, to intruders …
Death Row
January 13, 2024
Alabama Supreme Court Denies Death Row Inmate’s Appeal of Nitrogen Hypoxia Execution
Alabama’s Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by a death row inmate seeking to stop the state’s first-in-the-nation nitrogen hypoxia execution. The state tried but failed to execute Kenneth Eugene Smith in November by lethal injection, then announced it was ready to try the experimental execution in which the condemned man will breathe pure nitrogen …
AMBER Alert
January 13, 2024
Killer of ‘Amber Alert’ Namesake Amber Pennington Has Never Been Caught
Amber Hagerman, 9, was snatched off her pink and white bicycle in Arlington, Texas, on January 13, 1996. Her body was found four days later, and her killer was never identified. But her name lives on.