On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled it will hear a case regarding how patients can access a common abortion drug. The FDA first approved Mifepristone in 2000, with patients being prescribed the pill following three doctor visits. NPR reported that the FDA relaxed those rules in recent years, allowing patients to get the prescription …
The judge overseeing the case of Chad Daybell this week denied the state’s motion to reconsider his earlier decision to move the trial hours away from Fremont County to Ada County. Judge Steven Boyce made that decision earlier this year, when Daybell’s case was still tied to that of his wife, Lori Vallow Daybell, as …
The Michigan teen who gunned down four classmates in his high school in 2021 was sentenced Friday to life in prison without parole. Judge Kwame Rowe handed down the sentence after a wrenching day of victim impact statements from family members of the four students killed and other students who were at the school that …
Accused child killer Richard Allen has been moved to another Indiana jail, following a motion filed to transfer him after mistreatment allegations. Following an order signed by Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita on December 6, Allen was transferred to the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility in Carlisle. Allen is charged with murder in connection with the …
The wife of a Maryland mother convicted of scalding her 4-year-old stepson in a bath and tossing his body in a dumpster after he died will spend 30 years in prison in prison herself. Shatika Lawson — wife of Malachi Lawson’s mother, Alicia Lawson — was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday with all …
An attorney representing Donna Adelson, a mom-of-five behind bars for the 2014 murder of her son-in-law, says that she’s been under “cruel and inhumane conditions” while at Florida’s Leon County Detention Facility. In a motion filed on Tuesday, Miami attorney Marissel Descalzo requested that Adelson be relocated from solitary confinement or, as an alternative, placed …
Lori Vallow Daybell is set to appear in court in Arizona on Thursday to be arraigned on two murder charge relating to the shooting death of her fourth husband and an attempt on the life of her niece’s ex-husband. Vallow Daybell faces conspiracy charges in both crimes, which were carried out by her brother, Alex …
Two weeks before the reported disappearance of his fiancée Gabby Petito, Brian Laundrie allegedly enlisted the services of a defense team in Wyoming, funded by his parents. According to the latest amended complaint filed in the Petito family’s lawsuit against Laundrie’s parents on Thursday, Joseph Petito and Nichole Schmidt assert that Chris and Roberta Laundrie, …
Lori Vallow Daybell has been extradited to Arizona and booked on conspiracy to murder charges in Maricopa Counta. The Wednesday night extradition came as a bit of a surprise, as Maricopa County officials had previously said it would likely not take place until the so-called cult mom’s appeal on her Idaho murder convictions made its …
A Kentucky appeals court and the state’s Supreme Court have issued rulings against Brooks Houck, the man charged with killing mom of five Crystal Rogers in 2015 and who remains in jail on a $10 million bond. Rogers, a 35-year-old Kentucky mother of 5, was last seen at the Houck family farm in July 2015. …
The murder trial of Chad Daybell will be broadcast live by the court, an Idaho judge ruled Wednesday. Daybell is charged with murder and conspiracy to murder in the death of his first wife, Tammy Daybell, and two of his second wife’s children, Tylee Ryan, 16, and JJ Vallow, 7. Lori Vallow Daybell was tried …
