A former South Carolina state lawmaker was sentenced this week to 17 1/2 years in prison for distributing child sexual abuse material. US District Court Judge Cameron McGowan Currie called the material Robert John “RJ”May distributed “more severe than any another she has seen, noting that the founding member of South Carolina’s ultra-conservative Freedom Caucus …
Court filings in actor Timothy Busfield’s child sexual abuse case in New Mexico reveal allegations of a similar nature against him at a theater he and his brother founded in California in 1986. The new allegation appears in a document filed by Bernalillo County prosecutors this week urging that the Emmy-winning actor continue to be …
A Missouri man is charged with gunning down his neighbor in a violent confrontation that ended a lengthy history of harassment. Jeffrey King, 42, shot 41-year-old Chris Wells 13 times in the street in front of their homes and then tried to blame the victim for hitting him first, according to a probable cause affidavit. …
An 11-year-old Pennsylvania boy faces homicide charges after he shot his father to death after getting mad at him for taking away his Nintendo Switch and telling him to go to bed. Pennsylvania State Police said they were called to the Duncannon Borough home just beore 3:30 a.m. on Tuesday and found 42-year-old Douglas Dietz …
A Tennessee church deacon was arrested Wednesday and charged with nine counts of especially aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor after his wife found photos and videos on his phone of a teenage babysitter using the toilet and shower and changing clothes in their bathroom. According to WTVC, Christopher Thomas Collins, 42, was removed from …
A US Bureau of Land Management officer has been charged with second degree murder after a drunken brawl at a Wyoming bar last week left a man dead. Lander Police did not name the man charged with with second degree murder — two other men were charged with being an accessory before the murder — …
Police in western North Carolina have now made two arrests in the murder of an Asheville teen who was last seen in November and found dead in a ditch in Candler on December 12. Johnathan David Paleno, 21, was arrested on December 19 and charged with first degree murder in the death of 18-year-old Joseph …
The Brazilian au pair at the center of an elaborate plot to kill her boss’s wife continued her testimony on Wednesday in Brendan Banfield’s murder trial. “I thought of it as being the right thing to do,” Juliana Peres Magalhães said of her decision to take a plea deal and testify against Banfield, according to …
An Ohio man was indicted on murder charges nearly six weeks after he claimed his 18-year-old girlfriend shot herself to death with a gun he brought into the home they shared with his family. Haiden Babiuch was found shot to death on December 6, less than a week after her boyfriend, 20-year-old Ezekiel Ananias James, …
A Kentucky man has been charged with murder in the shooting death of his 33-year-old son during “a heated altercation” Tuesday afternoon. Kentucky State Police said they were called to a residence and found Jordan Hadley seriously injured. He was taken to TJ Sampson Hospital in Glasgow, where he was pronounced dead. A preliminary altercation …
A Missouri couple has been charged with child endangerment after they allegedly allowed a child suffer with a serious staph infection for a year, even as the boy’s sores swelled to the size of baseballs. William Robinson, 41, and Keisha Morgan, 35, were booked into jail in St. Clair County on Tuesday, KOLR reports. The …
