The family of a man beaten to death in 1979 is fighting the release of his killer under California’s Elderly Parole Law. Walter Joseph Lewis, now 76, was convicted of two murders after stabbing a man to death in 1965, when he was 18, and then beating Robert Chartier to death with a hammer in …
Investigators are looking into the shooting death of a 4-year-old in the Chickasaw neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky. Louisville Metro Police said they were called to a home just before 4 p.m. and found the child with a gunshot wound, WLKY reported. The child died at Norton Children’s Hospital. LPMD’s homicide unit is investigating and all …
The makers of several effective drugs to treat type 2 diabetes are facing lawsuit because doctors also prescribe them for weight loss, which most of the drugs have not been approved for. Novo Nordisk, the maker of Ozempic and Wegovy — which is approved for weight loss and contains higher amounts of the active ingredient …
Three people have been arrested after apartment maintenance workers found a malnourished toddler with her ankles duct taped together in November. Court documents say that Kenry Joseph Flukers, Toniesha Deshae Perkins, and Mya Jhari Breaux-McGruder have been charged with injury to a child by omission and unlawful restraint, KTRK reported. The three are accused of …
Federal prosecutors have said they will seek the death penalty for the white man who gunned down 10 Black people at a Buffalo, New York, grocery store in 2022. Payton Gendron, 20, pleaded guilty last year in state court for the killings at a Tops supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood. He was sentenced to …
Nicolas Shaughnessy and his then wife Jaclyn Edison hired two hit men to kill his parents in 2018, then moved in with his mother — who survived the shooting — for three months before police nailed down the truth of what happened that night. Barking dogs alerted wealthy Austin jewelry Ted Shaughnessy, 55, to intruders …
Alabama’s Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by a death row inmate seeking to stop the state’s first-in-the-nation nitrogen hypoxia execution. The state tried but failed to execute Kenneth Eugene Smith in November by lethal injection, then announced it was ready to try the experimental execution in which the condemned man will breathe pure nitrogen …
Amber Hagerman, 9, was snatched off her pink and white bicycle in Arlington, Texas, on January 13, 1996. Her body was found four days later, and her killer was never identified. But her name lives on.
A former Pennsylvania defense attorney was sentenced to up to 23 months in prison for soliciting sex from his clients in lieu of payment for services. Corey Kolcharno, 49, pleaded guilty to four counts of promoting prostitution and was required to surrender his license to practice law, Pennsylvania Attorney General Michelle Henry said. “The defendant’s …
The judge in Bryan Kohberger’s trial for the murder of four University of Idaho college students in 2022 has ordered the state to provide to the defense “a portion” of the investigative genetic genealogy information it used to help identify Kohberger as the suspect in the case. Judge John Judge provided the specifics of the …
Chad Daybell’s attorney has filed a motion to withdraw from his case and requested that the accused murderer be appointed two public defenders qualified to work the death penalty case. John Prior wrote in his motion that his client had confirmed that he cannot pay for his services and that he is withdrawing with Daybell’s …
