A Michigan mother was reportedly forced to throw her three daughters from a top-floor window to allow them to escape from an apartment fire that left seven children and a firefighter injured. WDIV reported that the blaze broke out Wednesday morning at an apartment building on Detroit’s west side. Though the fire was extinguished shortly after …
No arrests have been made nearly five years after Eastern Michigan University student Julia Niswender was found dead with her clothes cut off in the bathtub of her off-campus apartment. According to M Live, authorities determined the 23-year-old’s cause of death was asphyxiation associated with drowning. Police noted that Niswender was deprived of oxygen before being placed in …
A 14-year-old boy is facing criminal charges for allegedly raping a female classmate in the stairwell of their Warren, Michigan, high school. According to WDIV, Khymani Jamal Tolbert is accused of raping a freshman girl at Lincoln High School on November 28. Officials revealed that the entire incident was caught on school surveillance cameras. Authorities claimed …
A Michigan woman pleaded guilty Friday to the 2015 murders of her husband and their dog. Yvonne Helen Cortis pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and killing/torturing an animal in the beating deaths of her husband Gregory Cortis and their 11-year-old yellow Labrador retriever. She admitted to beating them with a metal bar to put “them …
A Michigan Arby’s employee chased a man down Monday morning after he allegedly robbed one of her managers. Marcia Rabideau, the director of operations for the Sterling Heights Arby’s, said when one of her managers beat on the door of the building and yelled that they had been robbed, she “didn’t think, [she] just reacted,” MLive …
In the middle of a bitter divorce, Tanya Zuvers waited for her three sons, Andrew, Alexander, and Tanner Skelton, to return from a Thanksgiving outing with their father, John Skelton. Seven years later, John still claims he gave the children to a “group” to protect them from their mother—and Zuvers is left wondering if her …
A Michigan woman who was 17 when she sexually assaulted her ex-boyfriend at knifepoint has avoided prison. MLive reports that Lestina Marie Smith, now 18, was sentenced Monday to five years’ probation and will spend the next 25 years on the sex offender registry. The teen originally faced life in prison for the January 11 incident that …
A Northern Michigan man who allegedly wandered outside a gas station covered in blood and waving around meat was arrested following a fight with deputies. According to WNEM, police arrived at the EZ-Mart BP Gas Station in Scottville Monday afternoon following reports of a bloodied man wielding a piece of meat and roaming around the …
A Michigan substitute teacher is accused of sexually assaulting a teen student in her basement and sending him nude photos over social media. According to the Lansing State Journal, a preliminary hearing revealed that the victim allegedly met Allyson Brittany Moran, 26, a long-term substitute teacher at Stockbridge High School, during the 2016-2017 school year while he …
Five teenagers are being charged as adults after police say they threw a large rock off of a Michigan bridge that smashed into the windshield of an oncoming vehicle, killing the driver. MLive reports that the teens, ages 15-17, were arrested on Monday and charged with conspiracy to commit second-degree murder, malicious destruction of property, and …
An investigation is underway after a rock reportedly thrown from a Vienna Township, Michigan, overpass crashed through a car’s windshield and killed the passenger. The Genesee County Sheriff’s Office said they are investigating Wednesday night’s incident as a “potential homicide.” Kenneth Andrew White, 32, died as he was traveling south on I-75 and the rock struck the vehicle. Four drivers told officers that they also …
A Detroit, Michigan, mother who was jailed for refusing to vaccinate her young son also reportedly lost primary custody of the child. According to the Detroit Free Press, court testimony revealed Wednesday that the boy’s father, James Horne, had his 9-year-old son vaccinated Monday. Oakland County Circuit Judge Karen McDonald also ordered that Horne and Rebecca Bredow, 40, share …
