On Monday, Tennessee lawmakers passed a bill that would make the death penalty an option in some child sex abuse cases. House Bill 1454 would allow prosecutors to pursue the death penalty in various child sexual assault cases — including instances in which the victim is younger than 4, if the offender was in a …
Two Michigan women have been arraigned for allegedly selling drugs out of the daycare where they worked. Genesee County Sheriff Chris Swanson told WNEM that three ounces of cocaine and two handguns were recovered from Fun N Some Daycare, a home daycare in Flint. Swanson said a controlled buy at the home daycare resulted in …
Missouri officials have asked for the public’s help in locating a 10-year-old boy who vanished on Monday. Hassan Javid reportedly vanished in Kansas City, though specifics regarding his disappearance were not provided. According to WDAF, Javid is autistic and nonverbal. Anyone with information regarding Javid’s whereabouts should call Kansas City police’s Missing Persons Unit at …
Newly-released video shows Bryan Kohberger getting his license plates replaced at a Washington DMV office days after killing four University of Idaho students in 2022. Kohberger, then 28, is seen in the surveillance footage at a Department of Motor Vehicles building in Pullman on November 18, 2022. YouTube user Christy’s Chaos was the first to …
A Tennessee woman said she spent five months in jail last year after police’s facial recognition program erroneously linked her to a series of bank fraud incidents in North Dakota. WDAY reported that last July, U.S. Marshals arrested Angela Lipps, 50, in Tennessee on charges that she was a fugitive from justice in North Dakota. …
A Utah woman was criminally charged on Monday, months after she allegedly kidnapped an 11-year-old boy whom she believed was bullying her child and threatened him. On September 17, Shannon Tufuga, 40, reportedly forced the boy into her car and drove him to her Provo home to have him apologize to her child. Tufaga told …
A Michigan man who admitted last month to killing a 13-year-old girl whom he impregnated was found dead in prison on Thursday. Jarvis Butts, 34, was serving a 35-to-60-year sentence for Na’Ziyah Harris’ 2024 murder, in addition to five other sexual assault charges, when he was reportedly found dead at Charles Egeler Reception and Guidance …
On Wednesday, federal prosecutors in California recommended a 15-year sentence for the woman who admitted to providing the ketamine that killed “Friends” actor Matthew Perry in 2023. Prosecutors said Jasveen Sangha — known as the “Ketamine Queen — operated a large-scale drug-trafficking business out of her Hollywood home since 2019. They claimed Sangha, 42, continued …
A Wisconsin woman was criminally charged on Monday, months after her 5-year-old daughter reportedly died as a result of her negligence. On October 22, 2025, Merrill police officers responding to a call regarding a child drowning in a bathtub found Katelyn Nardi’s daughter unresponsive at the residence. The Merrill Foto News reported that the girl …
A Massachusetts police officer was arrested with her husband on Thursday for sexually abusing a boy six years earlier. Plymouth police officer Samantha Pelrine and Daniel Forand, 31 and 37, are accused of abusing the victim, who was placed in their care when he was 12. The Boston Globe reported that the accuser, who is …
South Dakota officials are awaiting autopsy results in the case of a 14-year-old girl who was found dead after disappearing earlier this month. McKenna Wendel vanished from Sioux Falls on March 13, six days before her body was discovered 50 miles away near Brookings. The circumstances surrounding her death are unknown, but NewsNation reported that …
Texas authorities arrested a sex offender last week after he allegedly dropped a thumb drive containing child pornography outside a police station. William Catron, 66, underwent a compliance check at the Parker County police station on March 18. Afterward, a visitor discovered a thumb drive near where Catron had recently parked for his check and …
