A convicted killer who charmed his way onto the late 1970s version of TV’s “The Dating Game” — in the middle of his killing spree — died in prison early Saturday morning. Rodney Alcala, 77, died of natural causes in an Orange County hospital, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Alcala was …
Andrew Taake said he was “just standing there” and got pepper-sprayed — but that’s not what photos and videos show.
A California pastor was arrested this week after a teenage girl reported that he had sexually abused her between the ages of 9 and 12. Puredi Hillary, the pastor at Shiloh Tabernacle Church in Rancho Cucamongo, was arrested on charges of continuous sexual abuse of a minor and lewd and lascivious acts with a child …
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 …
