A South Carolina woman pleaded guilty this week to fatally poisoning her husband with eyedrops and was sentenced to 25 years in prison, WCNC reported. Lana Sue Clayton, 53, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and tampering with a food or drug, admitting that she had laced Steven Clayton’s drinks with Visine for three days before …
Two Honolulu police officers were shot near the base of Diamond Head on Sunday when they responded to an assault call at a home that later burst into flames and spread to other houses in the neighborhood as well as vehicles parked on the street. Live ammunition exploded inside the home as well, the Honolulu …
A Utah community was left “devastated” on Saturday after a teen boy was accused of killing three children and an adult, all members of his family, and wounding another, The Salt Lake Tribune reported. Police took the suspect into custody Friday night at a Tooele County hospital, Grantsville Police Cpl Rhonda Fields said. He was …
A 14-year-old girl was drugged and kidnapped from a California strip mall earlier this week, but her abductors didn’t take her phone from her. “Somebody help me,” she messaged her friends over Snapchat, KPIX reported. “I’m in a random man’s car … I am not in Santa Cruz. Where am I?” Her digital savvy friends …
A Bronx man burst into his girlfriend’s workplace this week and began punching her in two violent incidents separated by his stepping outside to put a 12-inch knife up his sleeve — and it was all caught on video. The Mid-Hudson News reported that the incident took place at Superior Package Company in Harriman, north …
A Montana man was charged with breaking his three-month-old baby girl’s arm, the Bozeman Chronicle reported. Trevor Jackson Hale, 20, was charged with felony assault on a minor and ordered held on $15,000 bond. The Chronicle said that Belgrade Police Department said it responded to call from Bozeman Health Urgent Care about an infant with …
Three people were arrested this week after deputies conducting a welfare check at a home in eastern Alabama found wooden cages and “evidence that the children had been locked in the cages on multiple occasions,” according to the Lee County Sheriff’s Office. Five children lived in the home in Smiths Station, a rural community not …
A former Georgia high school paraprofessional was arrested on Friday after a complaint against her said she “was involved in a sexual relationship with several students” at the school where she once worked, the Barrow County Sheriff’s Office said. Heather Kishun, 35, was charged with aggravated child molestation, child molestation, contributing to the delinquency of …
A Massachusetts couple spotted a car Wednesday night highlighted in an AMBER Alert and gave chase, providing police with the information they needed to eventually stop the car and free an 11-year-old girl who had been grabbed while walking home from school hours earlier. Benny Correa and Amanda Disley spotted the blue Honda Civic with …
The US Virgin Islands filed suit against the estate of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein on Wednesday, claiming that he abused and trafficked girls as recently as 2018 and as young as 11 or 12. Reuters said the complaint, filed by USVI Attorney General Denise George, seeks damages from Epstein’s $577.7 million estate — including the …
The boyfriend of six-year-old Zymere Perkins’s mother was found guilty Wednesday for beating the boy to death after he defecated in the living room. Ryshiem Smith, 42, was found guilty of second-degree murder, first-and second-degree manslaughter and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child by a Manhattan jury. His sentencing is scheduled for …
A Tennessee woman now faces charges of first degree murder in addition to child abuseafter her infant boy drowned in a bathtub while she went outside to smoke a cigarette. Lindsee Louise Leonardo, 32, told deputies she left 11-month-old Aiden Xavier Leonardo and his 23-month-old sister in four to six inches of water last Wednesday …
