Federal prosecutors this week asked a judge to admit allegations of more twisted acts— including sexual abuse of minors, hush money payments, and physical abuse — as evidence in R&B star R. Kelly’s racketeering trial, set to begin next month in Brooklyn. The new court filing alleges that a “crisis manager” for the star bribed …
A Florida man was sentenced this week to two years in prison for not telling his sex partners about his positive HIV status. Gentry Burns, 27, appeared in Volusia County court on Thursday and pleaded no contest to a single count of uninformed HIV-infected sexual intercourse, WESH reported. Two other counts of the same charge …
An 18-year-old nursing student was shot and killed Wednesday afternoon as she rode her bicycle with friends in northwest Detroit. Interim Detroit Police Chief James White said that Tikiya Allen “was not the intended target.” “It appears — all indications — that she was caught in the crossfire of someone who made a horrible decision …
Two Florida sisters pleaded guilty earlier this year to killing their 85-year-old father after one of them confessed to man that both sisters had slept with. Linda Roberts, 64, called 911 on the morning of March 6, 2015, to say she and her 65-year-old sister, Mary Beth Tomaselli, had found Anthony Tomaselli dead on his …
A University of Virginia economics lecturer has disappeared in Shenandoah National Park, prompting an extensive search. Fifty-five-year-old Julia Christine Devlin was last seen in Charlottesville on July 14; security footage showed her white Lexus sedan entering the park late on that day. On Saturday, investigators found her car wrecked and abandoned in the southern portion …
Iowa police are looking for a 13-year-old girl they say has PTSD and occasionally has psychotic episodes. Callista Ryan was last seen at about 7 a.m. Thursday morning in south Cedar Rapids, the Cedar Rapids Gazette reported. Ryan is described as 4 feet 11 inches tall and about 107 pounds. She has a Ying Yang …
A California mother and her 14-year-old son have been arrested after the son “accidentally” shot his toddler half-sister. Thirty-seven-year-old Veronica Pyatt, the teen, and Pyatt’s 20-month-old daughter were in a vehicle in San Bernardino Tuesday afternoon, San Bernardino police said. The teen was “manipulating a loaded firearm in the back seat” of the vehicle, police …
Police in the western Detroit suburbs are looking for 86-year-old woman who disappeared while on her way to visit a friend. Livonia police said that Helen Kaneris was driving a black, 2011 Chevy Malibu with Michigan plates ELS1149. Kaneris never arrived at her friend’s home and never returned to her own, they said. Anyone who …
An Oklahoma woman has been charged with murder for allegedly running over her husband with an ATV. The Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s Office was called to the scene at Soggy Bottoms ATV Trails at about 9:30 p.m. Saturday night after a 911 caller said a “girl was screaming saying her dad was dead.” “Somebody ran her …
An 80-year-old man found dead this week with “I touch little girls” scrawled on his chest died from blunt trauma to his head and torso. The body of Robert Raynor was found in the hallway of his Staten Island apartment building early Monday morning. In addition to the message on his chest, two other messages …
The sound of crying led police to a baby boy abandoned outside a Detroit medical clinic Wednesday morning. Police said a person heard the crying outside Riverview Medical Office, a former hospital, and called police, Fox 2 reported. “My officers went and purchased diapers for the baby and then we got the baby to the …
A Pennsylvania man accused of kidnapping and killing Linda Stolzfoos, the 18-year-old Amish woman who disappeared walking home from church last year, will plead guilty Friday, but it’s not clear what charges are involved in the deal. Justo Smoker, 35, has been charged with homicide, kidnapping, and false imprisonment and is on the Lancaster County …
