Police in Missouri are speaking out days after video surfaced apparently showing officers arrest a man as he holds an infant. The Riverfront Times reported that the footage was first posted to Facebook Sunday but a repost of the two-minute video quickly went viral. In it, two St. Louis County police officers are seen trying …
“Teen Mom” star Amber Portwood has temporarily lost custody of her 1-year-old son after she assaulted her boyfriend and threatened him and the toddler with a machete, according to reports. An Indiana judge reportedly barred Portwood, 29, from contacting her boyfriend, Andrew Glennon, 35, or son until criminal proceedings concluded. Documents obtained by TMZ stated …
Lawyers representing a former Texas police officer facing murder charges for September’s shooting death of her neighbor have requested a change of venue due to the media attention the case has received. The Dallas Morning News reported that Amber Guyger’s attorneys cited “media hysteria” as the reason why they want the high-profile trial moved out …
The parents of a one-year-old boy in New Mexico who underwent a liver transplant last year were arrested Monday for allegedly failing to take their son to his follow-up doctor’s appointments. KOAT reported that Kyla and Jason Witterman were charged with child abuse for not only forgoing their son’s doctor’s appointments after his April 2018 …
Police credited Oxygen show ‘Cold Justice’ with helping them reinvestigate the decades-old cold case
Police in Pennsylvania are looking for a man who allegedly robbed a store clerk at gunpoint, only to give the money back because it wouldn’t cover his daughter’s kidney transplant. KYW-TV reports that the armed suspect entered 1 Stop Smoke Shop in Philadelphia and approached the female clerk behind the counter while waving a handgun. …
A quick-thinking driver reportedly thwarted a car theft at a Georgia gas station on Thursday by spraying gasoline all over the would-be thief while standing at the pump. In surveillance footage obtained by WSB-TV, someone in a Dodge Charger is seen dropping a man off at a Conyers BP gas station in Rockdale County. The …
U.S. Marshals apprehended a Pennsylvania man on Tuesday, roughly 10 hours after he allegedly stabbed his girlfriend’s 8-year-old son to death and fled to Ohio. KDKA reported that Keith Burley, 44, was apprehended without incident in Youngstown, Ohio, after fatally stabbing Mark Edward Mason in New Castle. Before his capture, authorities described Burley as “armed …
A mother reportedly halted a recent court hearing to plead with a judge for fairness after waiting four years for an ex-teacher to stand trial for allegedly sexually assaulting her teen son. According to TAPInto South Plainfield, the mother interrupted to express disappointment at waiting four years to see her son’s alleged abuser, John Angeline, …
Authorities in Tennessee are investigating after an apartment fire killed an 8-month-old girl and injured five other children as their mothers were out at a nightclub, according to reports. The Nashville Tennessean reports that Jream Jenkins died, and her 23-month-old brother and four other children—ages 6, 4, 2, and 1—were found injured at the Antioch …
Michelle Carter, the Massachusetts woman currently serving a 15-month sentence for encouraging her late boyfriend to kill himself in 2014, has appealed her case up to the U.S. Supreme Court. BuzzFeed reported that Carter, 22, has asked the country’s highest court to review her involuntary manslaughter conviction on the basis that her texts to Conrad …
A New York couple expecting twin girls sued a fertility clinic after they reportedly had two boys who they had to return to their biological parents. The unidentified Asian-American couple reportedly underwent in vitro fertilization at CHA Fertility Clinic and gave birth in March. They’re now accusing the clinic of concealing a mix-up which not …
