The Amber Heard-Johnny Depp defamation dispute is now in the hands of the jury, although the jurors wrapped up deliberations Friday evening and headed home for a long weekend. The questions at issue are whether Heard’s 2018 op-ed in the Washington Post defamed ex-husband Depp, and whether Adam Waldman, an attorney who represented Depp at …
A North Carolina mother and her boyfriend face child abuse charges after Wayne County deputies found her 11-year-old special needs son injured and malnourished. Deputies said a family member alerted them over the weekend about the boy’s condition, WNCN reported. They found the 11-year-old “neglected, malnourished and sustained injuries due to the poor living conditions …
An incident commander mistakenly believed no more children were at risk about 20 minutes into the horrific shooting at Robb Elementary School on Tuesday and made the decision to hold back and wait for more equipment before breaching the door where the shooter was barricaded. Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw said Friday …
The teen was not the subject of the custody exchange.
A south Florida doctor has been arrested and charged with attempted sex trafficking of a young girl. An arrest affidavit says that the investigation into 26-year-old Alan Li, then a resident at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach, on March 12 when an Ohio woman contacted federal agents to say Li was seeking young …
Investigators are reportedly trying to determine if a retired federal agent was among those who accepted the invitation.
An alert Pennsylvania bank employee helped rescue a kidnapped woman on Wednesay when her captor brought her in to apply for a loan and she asked for a “help loan.” The employee set off the bank’s silent alarm, usually used for a robbery, and police arrived and arrested 36-year-old Wilson Medina-Garcia, charging him with kidnapping, …
The father of the 18-year-old who opened fire at a Texas elementary school this week — killing 19 students and two teachers — says he’s sorry for “what my son did.” Salvador Ramos, 42 — who has the same name as his teen son — told The Daily Beast that he “never expected my son …
The trial of cult mom Lori Vallow Daybell will be delayed until January so she can be tried alongside her husband Chad Daybell, an Idaho judge said Thursday in a 12-page ruling. “This is a death penalty case. The discovery volume is extraordinary. Defendant’s defense team has only recently been fully assembled and has expressed …
British authorities have authorized sexual assault charges against actor Kevin Spacey. Rosemary Ainsley, head of the Crown Prosecution Service’s Special Crime Division, announced the charges on Thursday. “He has also been charged with causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent,” she said. “The charges follow a review of the evidence gathered …
