A freshman student told investigators he begged fraternity leaders to get help for Timothy Piazza, but they bullied him into keeping quiet about the pledge who became unconscious after falling down stairs. The frat brothers waited 12 hours before calling 911, too late to save the 19-year-old Penn State sophomore. Court documents released after a …
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — The family of a 10-year-old boy who died on a giant waterslide at a Kansas water park will receive nearly $20 million in settlement payments, according to court documents. The largest payment to Caleb Schwab’s family, $14 million, will come from SVV 1 and KC Water Park, two companies associated …
SHEILA BURKE, Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Seven bounty hunters who descended on the wrong car outside a Wal-Mart have been indicted on first-degree murder charges in the killing of an unarmed man and the wounding of another, Tennessee police announced Wednesday. The charges come after a chaotic scene in Clarksville on April 23, …
Facebook has been under fire recently for not doing enough to prevent crimes from being streamed on the site. On Wednesday, Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, said that he plans to hire an additional 3,000 people for the sole purpose of reviewing videos of crimes and suicides. ABC reports that Zuckerberg made the jobs announcement on a video …
The young mother’s clothes had burned off as she struggled to survive, and no one but this man tried to help
One person is dead and at least two others are seriously injured after a suspect stabbed multiple people, killing one, at the University of Texas at Austin. According to MySanAntonio.com, the suspect, who has not yet been identified, is in custody. He is accused of stabbing three people and assaulting another at the Gregory Gym …
A newlywed has been sentenced to life in prison for raping a woman just hours before he married his pregnant wife. According to the BBC, Derry Flynn McCann, 28, pleaded guilty last month to multiple rape charges for the heinous sexual assault of a woman in East London in January — the same morning he …
“No children, no grandchildren are safe”
MICHAEL TARM Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The passenger who was dragged off a United flight after he refused to give up his seat to airline employees settled with the airline for an undisclosed sum Thursday in an apparent attempt by the company to put the fiasco behind it as quickly as possible. David Dao’s …
A video uploaded to Facebook shows a disabled Washington man crawling out of a store after an employee reportedly didn’t allow him to use an electric cart. Shane Zahn claimed in a Facebook post that the incident occurred at Mills Fleet Farm on Monday. Zahn, who is missing a foot, wrote that after he finished …
The attorney who helped acquit Aaron Hernandez of double murder just days before the former NFL star hung himself in his prison cell says that a widely circulated story about a suicide note addressed to a purported prison boyfriend is not true. Defense attorney Jose Baez told TMZ on Monday that reports claiming Hernandez left …
An arrest affidavit for Tad Cummins reveals new details about his weeks on the run with 15-year-old kidnapped student Elizabeth Thomas — and shows that a 12-year-old student was the first to report the teacher’s inappropriate relationship with the teen girl. According to the affidavit obtained by AL.com, the 12-year-old student at Culleoka Unit School …
