A tiny box containing the cremated remains of a baby boy have been returned to his parents, a week after they were stolen during a burglary, the Elmhurst Police Department reported. Police said they’d made an arrest in the burglary and recovered several items stolen from the Illinois home of Sue and Jim LaDeur on …
Reality star Kate Gosselin has been ordered to pay her ex-husband and former reality partner Jon Gosselin $1,500 in legal costs after a Pennsylvania court found she was in contempt of a previous order barring her from using the couple’s children in an October special on the TLC network. The Daily Mail reported that four …
A California man is being held without bail, charged with attempted murder and kidnapping that began in an argument with his ex-girlfriend Sunday night and ended the next day with Good Samaritans restraining him until he could be taken into custody. The Good Samaritans recognized Victor Magana, 24, and the van he was driving from …
Genealogical databases and DNA from a beer mug to track led Colorado police to a Florida trucker, the man they charged on Monday with the rape and murder of a 21-year-old radio station intern 40 years ago. James Curtis Clanton, 61, was known as Curtis Allen White when he allegedly abducted Helene Pruszynski, raped her, …
One of Southern California’s infamous “Toolbox Killers” died on Friday at San Quentin State Prison, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said. Lawrence Sigmund Bittaker, 79, died Friday of natural causes, the department said. Bittaker and Roy Lewis Norris used implements normally found in a tool box — providing them with their nickname — …
A Florida woman has been charged with three counts of felony child abuse after police found her three children abandoned overnight in a mini-school bus parked in a city beach lot with a bucket for a toilet and a bin of perishable food but no cooler. The mother, Andrea L. Kerrins, 33, was found aboard …
An artist who’s already used his own blood and some of Charles Manson’s ashes to create a painting of the deceased cult leader has gone a step further, using more of Manson’s ashes and real human blood to fashion life-like Manson masks, TMZ reports. Artist Ryan Almighty hooked up with master mask-maker Rick “Sik Rik” …
Poor Harvey Weinstein. To hear him tell it, he’s the greatest thing to ever happen to women in movies, not an alleged sexual predator who’s been accused by more than 80 women of sexual assault, harassment and rape. At least that’s how he portrayed himself in an exclusive interview with The New York Post, conducted …
A North Carolina community was stunned this week when video surfaced showing a county sheriff’s deputy — serving as a school resource officer — pick up a student and slam him onto the floor, then do it again, before dragging the student further down the hall. CBS 17 reported that Vance County Sheriff Curtiss Brame …
Police arrested three carjacking suspects who crashed a stolen vehicle into a horse trailer near The Horseman’s Park in east Las Vegas this week, one of whom thought he just might get away — until a posse of cowboys on horseback surrounded him, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported. The failed criminal hopped a fence right …
Detectives are investigating a break-in at Nessah Synagogue early Saturday morning as a hate crime, the Beverly Hills police said in a statement. Police said a man in his early 20s apparently forced his way into the synagogue at about 2 a.m. after committing “a series of minor vandalisms” in an area south of Wilshire …
A Texas judge ruled that a critically ill infant will remain on life support while she studies the constitutionality of a Texas law that would allow the hospital to remove the girl from life support against the family’s wishes. Texas Fourth District Court of Appeals Chief Justice Sandee B. Marion extended the temporary restraining order …
