An Illinois child welfare worker was killed Tuesday when she was reportedly stabbed during a home visit. Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) investigator Diedre Silas, 36, was murdered while responding to reports of children in danger at a home in Thayer. Six children, between the ages of 1 and 7, were at the …
A Texas father was fatally shot in a Chuck E. Cheese parking lot on Friday during an altercation with another man. Calogero Duenes, 24, was bringing his 6-year-old daughter’s birthday cake into the Humble establishment when he got into an argument with a man, driving a burgundy Ford, in the parking lot. After hearing gunshots, …
South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh, who remains jailed on financial fraud charges, is reportedly facing at least eight additional civil lawsuits from people who he allegedly scammed. According to Fox News, Murdaugh, 53, is accused of stealing money from a deaf man who was left paralyzed following a 2011 car accident and an ex-highway patrolman …
At least thirteen people, including seven children, were killed on Wednesday in a blaze at a Pennsylvania rowhouse that also left two people injured. WCAU reported that the fire occurred in Fairmont, a neighborhood in Philadelphia, in a two-unit rowhome. It is believed that 26 people resided in those two units, which are owned by …
The 4-year-old grand-niece of George Floyd — whose 2020 murder at the hands of a Minnesota police officer gained international attention — was reportedly shot on Saturday at her Texas home. KTRK reported that Arianna Delane was shot as she slept in a bedroom located on the second floor of a Houston home. The girl’s …
On Tuesday, prosecutors announced they have dropped a groping charge against former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, marking the foreseeable end to a legal saga that led to Cuomo’s resignation. The Albany County District Attorney said in a statement that they are not prosecuting Cuomo, 64, for forcible touching, as an independent investigation determined they …
An Ohio man was arrested on Wednesday for reportedly throwing hot grease on a woman and her 18-month-old son as they slept. The 20-year-old victim contacted police on December 21, after Michael Maloney, 41, allegedly entered her Hamilton home and threw grease or oil on her and her son. The woman was hospitalized for burns …
On Monday, a federal judge in Oklahoma scheduled a resentencing date for “Tiger King” star Joe Exotic, who received a 22- to 27-year sentence for violating federal wildlife laws and devising a murder-for-hire plot targeting controversial animal activist Carole Baskin. KOCO reported that resentencing for Exotic, 58, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, is scheduled …
Three people, including a mother and her 13-year-old son, were reportedly found dead after a shooting in a Pennsylvania neighborhood on Friday. Tatiana Hill, 28, Nandi Fitzgerald, 28, and Fitzgerald’s son, Denzel Nolan Jr., 13, were identified as the victims. Officers who responded to Pittsburgh’s Homewood South neighborhood found one of the women fatally shot …
A Texas man who had been wanted for the past nine months in connection with his wife’s October 2020 murder reportedly took his own life on Friday in Florida. Trent Paschal, 49, allegedly shot and killed Savannah Paschal, 30, at their Galveston County home before a police standoff which ended with him being shot and …
On Friday, a U.S. federal judge rejected Prince Andrew’s request to dismiss a lawsuit filed against him by a woman claiming he sexually assaulted her when she was 17. Andrew’s legal team unsuccessfully argued that Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s lawsuit against him should be thrown out since Giuffre, 38, no longer resides in the U.S despite …
An Alaska couple was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly killing a 2-year-old boy who was placed into their care after his father murdered his mother in September. Arraigned on Thursday, Steven Melovidov, 31, is accused of fatally striking Joshua Rukovishnikoff on December 11 and injuring his genitals. Following an emergency call that day, Melovidov’s wife, …
