A California mother convicted of relentlessly abusing and murdering her 8-year-old son has asked a court to vacate her murder conviction and resentence her. Pearl Fernandez, now 37, was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole in the death of Gabriel Fernandez in May 2013. Her boyfriend, Isauro Aguirre, was sentenced to death, as …
Police say ex-NFL cornerback Phillip Adams killed a prominent doctor, his wife, their two grandchildren, and an air conditioning technician who had been working outside their home.
At least six people were shot, one fatally, Thursday afternoon at a cabinet manufacturing facility in east Texas, and police have taken a suspect into custody. Bryan police told KBTX that officers were called to Kent Moore Cabinets at about 2:30 p.m.. They found one person dead on the scene and transported four more to …
A 54-year-old Pennsylvania woman is dead and a 26-year-old man charged with her murder after a Facebook Marketplace sale went sideways. Denise Williams’s family reported her missing on Monday when she didn’t return from checking out a refrigerator she hoped to buy for her boyfriend as a gift, WJAC reported. Geistown Borough police found her …
A 20-year-old North Carolina man has been charged with murder in the death of a young woman found dead in her locked bedroom — and her brother says the man was one of her roommates. Raleigh police have not said how Eric Gael Hernandez-Mendez knew Christina Matos, 20, or given a cause of death. Matos’s …
An Alabama woman charged with killing a 52-year-old grandmother while street racing was arrested early Wednesday morning in Atlanta after her bond was revoked in Birmingham. Carmesia Flannigan, 22, posted a pair of profanity-laced Facebook live videos in which she blamed the victim, home healthcare worker Brandy Ballard. Ballard had just left home on her …
Detectives looking into the murder of a 21-year-old pregnant woman found shot to death nearly a week after she disappeared are now considering whether two people may have been involved. CBS Philly also reported that a source close to the investigation said that Dianna Brice was shot multiple times, her body dumped into a wooded …
Biological fathers in Utah are now required to pay half of a woman’s pregnancy costs in a legislative attempt to decrease “the burden of pregnancy,” the bill’s sponsor says. Republican Rep. Brady Brammer said he wanted to do something to make birth easier rather than continue a focus on anti-abortion measures, the Associated Press reported. …
The man who fired then-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin and three other officers after George Floyd’s death testified Monday that what Chauvin did “in no way, shape, or form is anything that is by policy, part of our training, and is certainly not part of our ethics or values.” Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo was …
The parents of a British woman who disappeared in the US Virgin Islands early last month are watching the so far fruitless search for their daughter from afar. Peter and Brenda Heslop desperately want to get to the Caribbean island, but a restriction in place aimed at preventing the spread of COVID-19 is keeping them …
A 64-year-old woman walking her dogs was stabbed to death in a random attack Saturday morning. The Riverside Police Department responded to the call about 7:30 a.m. and found Ke Chieh Meng on the ground bleeding, police spokesman Officer Ryan Railsback told KTLA. She was taken to a nearby hospital where she died of her …
Milwaukee police have issued an AMBER Alert for two missing children allegedly abducted by an armed man who injured the children’s mother. Darrell A. Harbour, 36, allegedly took off with 2-year-old Winter Harbour and 1-year-old Safari Harbour in their mother’s vehicle. Police described the vehicle as a maroon 2007 Chevy Impala with Wisconsin tag number …
