Over 80 strangers on a Florida beach unite in a human chain to save a drowning family
“These people were God’s angels”
July 11, 2017
At least 16 killed in military plane crash in Mississippi
ITTA BENA, Miss. (AP) — A U.S. military plane used for refueling crashed into a field in rural Mississippi, killing at least 16 people aboard and spreading debris for miles and creating a fiery wreckage, officials said. Leflore County Emergency Management Agency Director Frank Randle told reporters at a late Monday briefing that 16 bodies …
Family Crime
July 8, 2017
Newlywed bride enlists own daughter in murder plot to kill firefighter husband
A Cleveland woman was convicted Friday of masterminding the death of her firefighter husband so she could collect insurance money. According to Cleveland.com, jurors took less than two hours to find 45-year-old Uloma Curry-Walker guilty of aggravated murder, assault and conspiracy in the 2013 killing of her spouse, William Walker. The jury returned with the …
July 5, 2017
Husband of woman lost at sea deletes Facebook post, family launches campaign to bring baby back to U.S.
The FBI and the Coast Guard are reportedly continuing to investigate Lewis Bennett in connection to the disappearance of his wife in an increasingly confounding case that has the woman’s family in public conflict with the father of Isabella’s infant girl. As Crime Online previously reported, Bennett posted a lengthy Facebook message last week, admitting …
Kidnapping
July 1, 2017
Beloved female student visiting from China believed dead as Illinois man charged with kidnapping
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — A central Illinois man was charged Friday with kidnapping in the disappearance of a visiting Chinese scholar who authorities believe to be dead after last being seen three weeks ago. Yingying Zhang, the daughter of a working-class factory driver from China, disappeared on June 9, just weeks after arriving at the …
June 24, 2017
Lawyers fight to keep Aaron Hernandez murder conviction
BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts prosecutors on Friday appealed a court ruling that erased former NFL star Aaron Hernandez’s murder conviction in the 2013 killing of a semi-professional football player. Hernandez’s conviction in the fatal shooting of Odin Lloyd was voided after the former New England Patriots player killed himself in prison. Under a long-held Massachusetts …
Court
June 24, 2017
Is a Supreme Court justice about to retire?
Big cases, retirement rumors as Supreme Court nears finish
June 23, 2017
RIDING HIGH: States where marijuana is legal have rising car crashes
P. SOLOMON BANDA, Associated Press DENVER (AP) A recent insurance study links increased car crash claims to legalized recreational marijuana. The Highway Loss Data Institute, a leading insurance research group, said in study results released Thursday that collision claims in Colorado, Washington, and Oregon went up 2.7 percent in the years since legal recreational marijuana …
June 19, 2017
American student Otto Warmbier dies one week after being freed by North Korea
North Korea held Otto Warmbier for a year and a half and he was in a a state of “unresponsive wakefulness” of unknown cause
Trials
June 17, 2017
Bill Cosby Rape Jury Hangs
Prosecutor promises new trial: “She’s entitled to a verdict”
June 15, 2017
Weis Supermarket massacre victim’s family needs your help! Desert Storm vet’s death robs family of father, husband
When a Randy Stair blocked the exits at Weis Supermarket in northeast Pennsylvania and opened fire on employees, he robbed a 7-year-old girl of her father and a wife of her husband. Brian Hayes, 47, was killed along with coworkers Terry Sterling, 63, and Victoria Brong, 26. Stair, 24, then killed himself. “There is a …
June 14, 2017
‘Is that guy okay???’ Dramatic video shows shooting massacre at Alexandria baseball field
An eyewitness to the terrifying, politically-charged shooting of GOP members of Congress captured dramatic video of the gunman firing off round after thunderous round at Eugene Simpson Stadium Park in Alexandria, Virginia, Wednesday morning. The New York Post obtained video taken by an eyewitness, Noah Nathan, who was walking his dog near the baseball field where the …