A dancer in 2004’s “Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights” testified this week that disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein masturbated on her during the filming of the “reimagining” of 1987 blockbuster “Dirty Dancing.” The dancer, identified as Ashley M., is not one of the five Jane Does accusing Weinstein of rape and sexual assault in Los Angeles, …
A 17-year-old Texas boy has been arrested after he shot a 14-year-old with an AR-15-style rifle last weekend in a dispute over a girl. Officers responding to reports of a shooting in White Settlement just before midnight on October 22 found the Brewer High School 14-year-old with a gunshot wound to the leg. He remains …
A North Carolina man with a lengthy history of arrests for impersonating a law enforcement officer was arrested again this week on the same charge, just over five months after his last conviction. According to an arrest warrant, Adrian Michael Crump, 59, was pretending to be a CIA officer on Thursday at a Wake Forest …
A Louisiana man has been charged with multiple sex crimes against a minor and ordered held on a $210,000 bond. The Rapides Parish Sheriff’s Office said that Timothy Michael Barbat, 35, has been charged with five counts of sexual battery, five counts of molestation of a juvenile, and 10 counts of aggravated crimes against nature …
A North Dakota woman charged with shooting a mother holding her 5-month-old baby earlier this month was ordered held on a quarter-million dollar bond on Friday. Tarnelle Abraham, 23, is charged with aggravated assault and reckless endangerment. She was also given a no-contact order for the family of the woman she shot, Valley News Live …
An Arizona mother has been charged with child abuse after she allegedly left her 5-month-old baby at home alone while she went out drinking. Mesa police pulled over Clare Margaret Meacham Thursday afternoon after receiving several calls about a possible drunk driver, KPHO reported. After officers handcuffed Meacham, she told them she “may” have left …
A California husband and wife are behind bars after they allegedly broke into an apartment and terrorized members of their own family living there — even kidnapping them at gun point and holding them against their will at a hotel. Westminster police said the adults escaped from the hotel Thursday morning and called for help, …
Police in Pennsylvania have arrested a 39-year-old man and charged him with kidnapping his girlfriend and her two sons and threatening to kill them. Investigators said Kenneth D. Smiley broke into the girlfriend’s apartment early Thursday morning and forced her and her children into a car at knifepoint. State police issued an Amber Alert for …
“Substantial direct and circumstantial evidence” supported a jury’s guilty verdict for since-cleared murder suspect Adnan Syed, according to the now-retired judge who presided over his trial in 2000. Wanda Keyes Heard, who retired in 2019, submitted an affidavit in support of the legal challenge by murder victim Hae Min Lee’s family, who are seeking more …
Authorities in North Georgia are searching for a man who shot his wife in the back and fled into the woods. Walker County Sheriff Steve Wilson said that John Robert Wells, 49, and his wife arrived unannounced early Thursday morning at a home in the Villanow community of Lafayette, where their children were staying. The …
Six children and two adults were found dead in a suburban Oklahoma home after a house fire on Wednesday, and police say the incident appears to be a murder-suicide perpetrated by the adults. Investigators have not yet named the victims, but next of kin has been notified, Tulsa World reported. The fire was called in …
An Alabama man told investigators that he stabbed and dismembered his girlfriend because she wouldn’t have sex with him. Blount County Sheriff Mark Moon said that 38-year-old Justin Fields has been charged with murder and abuse of a corpse in the death of Tammy Bailey, 52, AL.com reported. Fields told investigators that the couple went …
