A California mother who claimed she was kidnapped and tortured for three weeks in 2016 — but was actually staying with an ex-boyfriend 600 miles from her home — has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for her elaborate hoax. According to the Record Searchlight, prosecutors asked for an 8-month sentence followed by three …
A Missouri couple has been charged with child endangerment resulting in the death of 21-month-old boy who found a loaded gun and shot himself in the head. Police said Alea Little, 24, and her boyfriend, 30-year-old Donnell Straughter, were in bed with the toddler at Little’s home at about 1 p.m. on August 31. The …
The Kentucky Supreme Court on Friday temporarily suspended the law license of prosecutor Ronnie Goldy for allegedly promising a defendant favors in court in exchange for nude images. The Louisville Courier Journal first disclosed in July the 230 pages of Facebook messages between Goldy, the commonwealth’s attorney for Bath, Menifee, Montgomery, and Rowan Counties, and …
A Fiji judge rejected three bail sponsors for a Tennessee man accused of brutally beating his wife to death on their honeymoon this summer, sending Bradley Dawson back to his cell with no bail. One of the “sureties” who wrote to the court in support of bail for Dawson was out on bail himself on …
The mother told detectives she fled the house to a friend’s, leaving the little girl behind, because her husband had been acting oddly all day.
A Florida woman was arrested on Friday after she allegedly stabbed her two roommates and went shopping. Marion County Sheriff’s deputies were called just after 8 a.m. Friday by a man who said he’d been stabbed. When deputies arrived, they found two stabbing victims, one of whom told them that Christina Adams, 30, had stabbed …
A 20-year-old Indiana man riding an electric scooter died early Sunday after he was hit by an apparently drunk driver who fled the scene with the scooter caught beneath her vehicle. Madelyn Howard, 22, failed dexterity tests and was taken into custody for a blood draw and further questioning, police said. She was later taken …
Mikella Debina, 15, had been missing for nearly 20 hours, abducted from a secluded Hawaiian beach, when her alleged kidnapper brought her into a cafe in Hilo, 70 miles across the Big Island from where she was last seen. Bridge Hartman, the host at Cafe Pesto, saw the man and girl — wearing men’s clothing …
Pennsylvania police are looking for a 14-year-old boy who disappeared from a supermarket early Saturday afternoon in Middletown. Zane Dominic Gray was last seen about 1 p.m. at a Karns Foods by his mother, state police said, according to PennLive.com. The teen was wearing a red hoodie, pink beanie, and red sweatpants with “Jordan” on …
A six-week old infant died as a result of co-sleeping earlier this summer almost a year to the day that the mother’s previous child died from the same cause. Brooke Hunter was charged with involuntary manslaughter and child endangerment after the second infant’s death in June, according to Amy Clausing with the Hamilton County (Ohio) …
A 21-year-old Louisiana State University student was shot to death early Friday morning while she was in her car, stopped at a train crossing. Allison Rice was a senior majoring in marketing at the Baton Rouge school. She worked at a restaurant called The Shed, where several family members also worked. Police found Rice dead …
A 33-year-old Nevada man was arrested this week on nine-month-old arrested warrants on charges of sexually assaulting a 9-year-old child. Damon Dante Flores was arrested in Washoe County and brought back to Carson City to face three counts of sexual assault against a child under 14, three counts of lewdness with a child under 14, …
