The son of a New York nanny on trial for the fatal stabbings of two children reportedly testified that the brutal October 2012 murders were an “accident” and that his mother loved the two children she’s accused of killing. His mother, nanny Yoselyn Ortega, is accused of fatally stabbing Lucia, 6, and 2-year-old Leo Krim …
Officers fired 20 rounds at Stephan Alonzo Clark, who was reportedly holding a cellphone at the time
Ethan Couch, the Texas man who was 16 when he caused the DUI crash that killed four, will be released next month after serving less than two years in prison. Couch, now 20, served 720 days in Tarrant County Jail in Fort Worth, Texas, for violating his probation in 2015. After attending a party where alcohol was …
By DAVID WARREN, REESE DUNKLIN and SHAWN CHEN, Associated Press The man suspected of planting four bombs in the Texas capital this month that killed two people and injured four others was an unemployed college dropout who doesn’t appear to have left much of a trail online aside from some 2012 blog posts about a range …
“We are not 100 percent convinced there’s not other devices out there.”
To the outrage and shock of many, the Utah woman currently jailed for the 2002 kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart could be eligible for parole later this year. CrimeFeed reported that Wanda Barzee, now 72, was sentenced to 15 years in jail on that conviction. While she’s scheduled to be released in 2024, an upcoming parole hearing …
By JENNIFER PELTZ, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A pilot who survived when his helicopter went down in New York City’s East River, killing five passengers, said in an emergency radio transmission that the aircraft’s engine had failed. “Mayday, mayday, mayday,” the pilot is heard saying during the crash Sunday night. “East River — engine …
Louise Turpin’s sister says she is “living in LaLa Land”
By DAMIAN J. TROISE, AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Dick’s Sporting Goods and Walmart took steps Wednesday to restrict gun sales, adding two retail heavyweights to the growing rift between corporate America and the gun lobby. Dick’s said it will immediately stop selling assault-style rifles and ban the sale of all guns to anyone …
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, Associated Press The Anti-Defamation League is reporting a 57 percent increase in anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S. last year, the highest tally that the Jewish civil rights group has counted in more than two decades, according to data it released Tuesday. The New York City-based organization found 1,986 anti-Semitic incidents last year, up …
The delay led officers to believe that the shooter was still in the building when he was actually in a McDonald’s a mile away
By RACHEL ZOLL, Associated Press MONTREAT, N.C. (AP) — The Rev. Billy Graham, who transformed American religious life through his preaching and activism, becoming a counselor to presidents and the most widely heard Christian evangelist in history, died Wednesday. He was 99. Graham, who long suffered from cancer, pneumonia and other ailments, died at his home …
