Silver Alert Issued for 67-Year-Old Wisconsin Who Left Home When the Power Went Out
Shooting
January 13, 2024
4-Year-Old Child Shot Dead, Homicide Unit Investigating
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 …
Lawsuit
January 13, 2024
Dozens of Lawsuits Filed Diabetic Drugs Used for Weight Loss, Causing Extreme Side Effects
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 …
Child Abuse
January 13, 2024
Maintenance Workers Find Malnourished Toddler With Ankles Duct Taped; 3 Arrested
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 …
Mass shooting
January 13, 2024
Federal Prosecutors to Seek Death Penalty for Buffalo Supermarket Gunman Who Killed 10 Black People
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 …
Murder
January 13, 2024
2 Networks Air Story of Teen Newlyweds Who Hired Hitmen to Kill Parents
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 …
Death Row
January 13, 2024
Alabama Supreme Court Denies Death Row Inmate’s Appeal of Nitrogen Hypoxia Execution
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 Alert
January 13, 2024
Killer of ‘Amber Alert’ Namesake Amber Pennington Has Never Been Caught
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.
Sex Crimes
January 13, 2024
Former Attorney Gets Less Than 2 Years in Prison For Soliciting Sex From Clients in Lieu of Payment
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 …
Court
January 12, 2024
Bryan Kohberger’s Defense to Get ‘Portion’ of Investigative Genetic Genealogy Information
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 …
Court
January 12, 2024
Chad Daybell’s Attorney Seeks to Withdraw From Case
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 …
Child sex crimes
January 12, 2024
Texas Man Arrested for Raping Toddlers in Houston Mall Restroom
A Texas man has been charged with sexually assaulting toddlers at the Houston mall where he worked at a kiosk and posting videos of the assaults online. Court documents describe four short videos of more than one attacker assaulting two 2-year-olds in a mall restroom at Houston’s Galleria. Arthur Fernandez III is the only person …