ERIC OLSON AP Sports Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Referee John Higgins of Omaha reported he received death threats after Kentucky’s loss to North Carolina in the NCAA South Regional final, a Nebraska law enforcement official said Wednesday. Higgins’ roofing company received about 3,000 harassing emails and an unknown number of phone calls, some including …
Police have told NBC News that ‘several’ of the dozen-plus missing teens in Washington D.C. have been found, as social media discussions have raised the profile of the missing teen problem in the nation’s capital. On Wednesday, NBC News reported that three teens — Demetria Carthens, 17; Heaven Shamte, 15; Rayna Gross, 16; and Dashann …
A Houston middle school employee is facing charges of aggravated sexual assault following an alleged affair with a 13-year-old student at the school where he works. According to Chron.com, Mauricio Orlando Mendoza, 37, is an IT worker at the school. The status of his employment since the molestation allegations is not known, but he could …
An unlicensed practitioner charged with killing a woman during a butt injection procedure gone horribly wrong is on trial — and her business partner is accused of leaving the dying woman alone. Denise Rochelle Ross, 45, is charged in the death of Wykesha Reid, 34, who came to Ross’s makeshift salon on Februrary 19, 2015, …
DANIEL ESTRIN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police on Thursday arrested a 19-year-old Israeli Jewish man as the primary suspect in a string of bomb threats targeting Jewish community centers and other institutions in the U.S., marking a potential breakthrough in the case. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld described the suspect as a hacker, but …
An Alabama family is grieving after a mother and daughter died less than an hour apart in traffic accidents on the same road. According to WAFF, Julia Yates Patterson, 39, was killed after a head-on collision on Highway 117 in Valley Head around 3 p.m. on Tuesday afternoon. Just 30 minutes later, her 8-year-old daughter Elizabeth …
A deadlocked jury could not convict Jonathan Paul Koppenhaver of the most serious charge he was facing, reports the New York Daily News, but the Las Vegas jury did find him guilty on 29 other charges, including kidnapping and sexual assault. The mixed martial arts fighter, known as “War Machine” entered his ex-girlfriend Christy Mack’s apartment …
The women may not be alive today if not for the bravery of a stranger
A 28-year-old Georgia middle school teacher was arrested along with one other person, following a $6 million drug bust in Hall County. Karla Alvarez (pictured on the left), 28, a teacher at Chestatee Middle School Academy, and Monica Pascual Brito (pictured on the right), 24, were arrested on March 17 in Oakwood, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. …
A Baytown, Texas, father who forced his 16-year-old daughter into prostitution was sentenced to 30 years in prison this week. Scott Rodney Robinson, 46, pleaded guilty to aggravated compelling of prostitution, a first-degree felony. Robinson was arrested last June in an undercover sting orchestrated by the FBI and the Houston Police Department’s Vice Division, according …
An EMT was killed in Thursday in New York City in a horrifying accident after a man tried to steal an ambulance. According to the New York Post, Yadira Arroyo, an EMT for the Fire Department of New York City, was driving her ambulance with her partner in the Bronx yesterday when a man jumped …
Two men taunted the woman while recording video — and she was NOT having it
