A shoplifting suspect shot a Nebraska police officer in the face and fled, eventually leading state police on a 20-mile, high speed chase before exiting a freeway and getting stuck on railroad tracks, according to the Omaha Police Department. Officer Jeffrey Wittstruck was struck in the face and top of the head and was transported …
New York Gov Andrew Cuomo “ridiculed and belittled” wife Kerry Kennedy while the two were married, according to Michael Shnayerson, who wrote an unauthorized biography of the Democratic politician in 2015. Writing in Vanity Fair magazine, Schnayerson quoted unnamed sources saying that Kennedy complained about “enduring this abuse” from her husband and even once slept in a locked bathroom to keep away from him. A spokesman for Cuomo said those allegations were among “all sorts of untrue rumors” that circulated while the Cuomos were divorcing in 2005. Shnayerson also said Cuomo frequently demeaned subordinates and was singularly focused on his career. Cuomo has been accused of sexual harassment by at least six women, prompting an investigation from the state attorney general’s office and an impeachment investigation by the legislature.
A 65-year-old Oregon woman was arrested Thursday in Texas when she refused to wear a facemask inside a Galveston bank, KHOU reports. Terry Lynn Wright first refused to comply when the Bank of America branch manager asked her to comply with bank rules. Then she argued with a Galveston police officer who arrived and asked …
A North Carolina couple is in jail after an Ohio investigation into a sex crime against a 15-year-old led to Davidson County. Arrest warrants said that Gavin Head, 53, and his wife Taylor Head, 22, sent videos of them having sex to the Ohio teenager, The Dispatch reports. Sheriff’s deputies began an investigation on Sunday …
A Pennsylvania judge Friday abruptly ordered all children at a county juvenile detention center transferred to another facility after receiving a startling letter detailing horrific physical, psychological, and sexual abuse at the facility. Delaware County Public Defender Christopher Welsh sent the letter to the county on Friday, the Philadelphia Inquirer said, and it contains affidavits …
A Pennsylvania mother had been charged with cyber crimes after an investigation revealed that she anonymously sent fake indecent images of girls on her daughter’s cheerleading team to the group’s coaches in an attempt to force them off the team. Bucks County District Attorney Matt Weintraub’s office said Raffaela Spone, 50, sent images of at …
A second night of protests in downtown Portland ended early Saturday with dozens of detentions and 13 arrests during an “autonomous demonstration” against Department of Homeland Security officers deployed in the city, KGW reports. The Portland Police Bureau said the protesters took to the streets at about 9 p.m. Friday and “devolved into property destruction …
Police in Kansas are looking for a 36-year-old man they say is missing and endangered, KCTV5 reports. Eric Buyle was last contacted Friday night by phone, the Overland Park Police Department said, and he is believed to be in the metropolitan Kansas City area. Police described Buyle as 5 feet 11 inches, 180 pounds with …
Police looking for two young boys who disappeared from California City in December conducted a search at the home of their adoptive grandparents in Bakersfield on Friday, 23ABC reports. Orson and Orrin West, ages 3 and 4, were last seen on December 21, 2020, their adoptive parents said, as CrimeOnline previously reported. 23ABC said that …
A 7th member was added to the jury Friday to hear the murder trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin, accused of kneeling on George Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes last year while Floyd begged for life. Floyd’s death was videotaped by bystanders, and the video’s release prompted nationwide protests and calls for …
An upstate New York woman found dead in the trunk of a car in Queens this week died from a blow to the head that fractured her skull and caused a brain injury, the New York Daily News reports. Destini Smothers, 26, had been missing since November when she came to New York to attend …
A Missouri man suspected of killing and decapitating his mother last year has been found dead in Arkansas, the Vernon County Sheriff’s Office says The Sheriff’s Office named Aaron Goodwin, 38, the sole suspect in the death of 63-year-old Connie Goodwin, who was found dead in her southwestern Missouri home on October 28, as CrimeOnline …
