A Texas man “chugged” a cloudy liquid from a water bottle just after a jury found him guilty of child sexual assault Thursday afternoon and later died. Edward Peter Leclair, 57, was tried on five counts of sexual assault involving one victim in 2016, the Denton Record-Chronicle reported. He was arrested in 2018 and released …
Three young eastern North Carolina men, all members of the same family, were arrested and charged Friday with sex crimes against two young children. Ethan Jones, 18, and his 20-year-old brother, Brandon Jones, have both been charged with statutory rape and statutory sex offense with a child, the Craven County Sheriff’s Office says. The brothers’ …
Author Salman Rushdie is undergoing surgery in New York after a 24-year-old New Jersey man jumped onto a stage where he was speaking and stabbed him in the neck. Rushdie’s condition was not known, although a doctor who had been in the audience at the Chautauqua Institution described the writer’s wounds as “serious but recoverable.” …
A California dermatologist accused of poisoning her husband with Drano in his lemonade says she did nothing of the sort and that her husband made up the accusations to get custody of their children. Emily Yu, 45, was suspended from her job after her arrest last week, KCBS reported. Her husband — radiologist Jack Chen …
An Oregon woman reported missing last week was found dead this week in a landfill. The Washington County Sheriff’s Office said that 27-year-old Kaylee Birdzell was reported missing by her sister on August 5, according to KOIN. Two days later, court documents say, deputies got an anonymous call saying that Birdzell’s ex-boyfriend, 31-year-old Fabian Albert …
A Florida woman was arrested on Wednesday after a postal worker found a naked toddler wandering alone on an Ocala street. The Ocala Police Department said the child had multiple scratches, a bruise near the right eye, and a bloody nose and was covered in sand. Medical personnel took the child to a hospital for …
Anne Heche, involved in a car crash a week ago that destroyed a west Los Angeles home, is on life support and is not expected to survive. A statement released by a representative Thursday night said the 53-year-old actor suffered a “severe anoxic brain injury” and is on life support for possible organ donation, KNBC …
Actor Anne Heche had drugs in her system at the time the crashed her car into a home last week, igniting a blaze that took 59 firefighters more than an hour to get under control. Heche, 53, is in a coma in critical condition after the crash in Los Angeles’s Mar Vista neighborhood. “In preliminary …
A man armed with an AR-15 got into the FBI field office in Cincinnati, Ohio, Thursday morning and fired a nail gun at personnel inside. After an hours-long standoff north of the city, the man — wearing body armor — was shot and killed when he raised a gun and law enforcement opened fire. Sources …
Arrest documents unsealed on Thursday dispute an OnlyFans model’s contention that she threw a knife at her boyfriend at a distance of about 10 feet during an argument, killing him. The knife penetrated Christian Obumseli’s chest at a slightly downward angle for more than 3 inches, according to investigators who said that was too deep …
A Missouri man ended years of conflict this week by shooting his neighbor in the head, killing him. Samuel Avery, 42, has been charged Monday with second degree murder and armed criminal action in the death of Warner Alexander Trotter, 41, according to KMBC. Court records say that Avery called 911 to report that he’d …
An Indiana police officer was shot during a traffic stop Wednesday evening and is now “fighting for her life” in a hospital. Richmond Police Chief Mike Britt said that Seara Burton, 28, was assisting other officers in stopping a moped when her K-9, Brev, indicated the possible presence of narcotics. The moped’s driver, identified as …
