Johnson & Johnson’s shares took a steep 10 percent plunge Friday following an explosive Reuters report accusing the pharmaceutical company of knowing for decades that its baby powder contained asbestos. Friday’s exposé claimed Johnson & Johnson failed to inform the Food and Drug Administration after three different tests conducted by three different labs from 1972 …
A California state assemblyman was arrested on child abuse charges Monday after his 7-year-old daughter reportedly told a teacher about a spanking he gave her. Joaquin Arambula told The Fresno Bee Wednesday that he spanked his eldest daughter because she “acted out.” He claims the following day, his daughter was angry about the spanking and …
One of 14 suspects jailed for the mistaken-identity slaying of New York slaying of Lesandro “Junior” Guzman-Feliz was reportedly slashed in the face at Rikers Island this week. The attack involving Manuel Rivera, 18, a suspected member of the Trinitarios gang, occurred Tuesday morning, according to the New York Daily News. Officials said the culprit, Tyreek Johnson, 21, …
Authorities in Virginia are asking for the public’s help in locating a 6-year-old Chesterfield girl who was last seen on Monday and is believed to be traveling with her mother. According to WTVR, Child Protective Services reported Karsen Miller missing on Wednesday. Since then, officials said they believe the 6-year-old is with her mother, Kelli Renee Miller, 36, …
A Michigan couple allegedly failed to tell police that their adult son mutilated the body of a missing woman who was reportedly found earlier this month in the man’s apartment and shared basement. James Howard Chance, 76, and Barbara Louise Chance, 63, were recently charged with perjury and being an accessory after the fact in connection with Jared James Chance’s …
A 2-month-old Massachusetts girl has died days after a pedestrian crash that also killed her 5-year-old sister and left her mother and two others injured. WHDH reported that Natasha Nicole Mejia-Rivera died from her injuries Wednesday, days after Sunday’s crash in Revere which claimed the life of Adrianna Mejia-Rivera. Suffolk District Attorney John P. Pappas said …
An 84-year-old man reportedly died at a Florida nursing home early last year after contracting gangrene in his genitals due to staff’s failure to bathe him. Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) inspection records obtained by the Naples Daily News stated that York Spratling, 84, was at housed at Consulate Health Care of Jacksonville and died …
A former Florida college professor and his 3-year-old daughter were reportedly found dead in his home Monday afternoon in what police are investigating as a murder-suicide. According to the Tampa Bay Times, the grisly discovery was made after Laurel Friedman called police requesting a welfare check for her daughter and her estranged husband, Ayhan Aytes, 48, …
A janitor was sentenced Tuesday to 14 years in prison for molesting 10 girls at a California middle school he previously worked at. Per The Los Angeles Times, ex-janitor Michael Anthony Barry, 60, pleaded no contest last month to five felony counts of a lewd act upon a child, five misdemeanor counts of child molesting, …
An Alabama school district claimed no reports of bullying were made at the elementary school attended by a girl who hanged herself earlier this month. Alex Braswell, a lawyer representing Demopolis City Schools told the Tuscaloosa News that the school system conducted an internal investigation into the bullying allegations made by McKenzie Adams’ family and did not find that …
The family of the Indiana teen accused of killing his pregnant classmate and putting her body in a dumpster has spoken out for the first time. Aaron Trejo’s aunt, Alexzaundra Patton-Manu, told The Daily Beast that the family’s “in shock” following allegations that the 16-year-old football player murdered Breana Rouhselang, 17, who was six months …
A 16-year-old Indiana boy pleaded not guilty Tuesday to murder and feticide charges despite allegedly admitting to stabbing his ex-cheerleader girlfriend to death and dumping her body in a dumpster. Charged as an adult, NBC News reported that Aaron Trejo entered his pleas during his arraignment and was ordered to be held without bail. The Mishawaka High School …
