Teen pleads guilty in Slender Man attack
Trials
“I believed that if I didn’t go through with it, Slender Man would come and attack and kill myself, my friends and my family.”
Violent Crime
August 21, 2017
Judge shot walking into Ohio courthouse
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (AP) — A judge was shot and wounded Monday morning as he walked toward his county’s courthouse, and a suspect was killed after a probation officer returned fire, officials said. Jefferson County Judge Joseph Bruzzese Jr. was shot near the courthouse in Steubenville, just across the Ohio River from West Virginia’s northern panhandle, …
Scams
August 21, 2017
Mastermind of lottery fraud faces 25-year prison sentence after scams net him more than $2 million
“The depth of his deceit is dumbfounding”
Violent Crime
August 21, 2017
Prosecutors: Professor killed boyfriend as part of ‘heinous’ sexual fantasy
By MICHAEL TARM, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The fatal stabbing of a hairstylist in Chicago was part of a sexual fantasy hatched in an online chatroom between a Northwestern University professor and an Oxford University employee, whose plan included killing someone and then themselves, prosecutors told a Cook County judge Sunday at a bond hearing …
Police
August 19, 2017
Officers Down: Suspect in killings of 2 Florida officers arrested at bar
Four additional police officers in two states were shot on Friday night
Serial Killers
August 18, 2017
New Hampshire confirms identity of suspected serial killer who murdered six women and children
By HOLLY RAMER, Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Authorities on Friday said they have confirmed the identity of a man suspected of killing six women and children while using numerous names in multiple states. The announcement came seven months after law enforcement officials said a man who died in a California prison in 2010 after …
Trials
August 18, 2017
WHAT? Poland Spring Water is a ‘colossal fraud’ claims court docs
By MARINA VILLENEUVE, Associated Press A lawsuit claims that Poland Spring Water is deceiving consumers with evergreen labels that say their bottle contains “100 percent natural spring water” that hails from Maine. The class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court in Connecticut claims that parent company Nestle Waters North America is bottling common groundwater that doesn’t …
Terror
August 18, 2017
Bloodbath at U.S. vacation hotspot: Barcelona under attack as police kill five jihadis
By JOSEPH WILSON and ALEX OLLER, Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spanish police intensified a manhunt Friday for suspects behind two deadly vehicle attacks on civilians, shooting and killing five people wearing fake bomb belts who attacked a seaside resort and arresting four others believed linked to the carnage wrought on a Barcelona promenade. Spanish …
Politics and Crime
August 17, 2017
BUSTED! ‘Big-mouth’ court official loses six-figure job after butt dial catches shocking comments
“I’m not doing anything. I barely show up to work”
Terror
August 17, 2017
TERROR IN SPAIN: Van plows into Barcelona crowd in attack; 13 reported dead
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility
Trials
August 15, 2017
HBO producer gets one year in prison after death of female doctor and mother of three
Johnson pleaded guilty to acting as an accessory.
Celebrity Justice
August 15, 2017
Tiger Woods had marijuana, painkillers in system at arrest: Report
By TERRY SPENCER, Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A toxicology report shows that Tiger Woods had the active ingredient for marijuana, two painkillers and two sleep drugs in his system when he was arrested on a DUI charge. Jupiter, Florida, police released the report Tuesday, less than a week after Woods agreed to enter …
