UPDATE The pretrial conference has been rescheduled until April 7, after suspect Damon Becnel’s attorney was granted a continuance. Original Story A pretrial conference for a Florida man accused of abusing his daughter and dog is set for Monday via Zoom, CBS 5 reports. Damon Becnel was arrested January 2, 2020, on child abuse and animal …
Police are searching for the suspect of a fatal shooting that took the life of a Yale graduate student. According to the New Haven Independent, 26-year-old Kevin Jiang was fatally shot in the East Rock neighborhood of New Haven, Connecticut, on Saturday night. Emergency responders reportedly found him lying in the road near his Prius, …
A Georgia substitute teacher was arrested on Friday and charged with 19 counts of child molestation, the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office reports. School officials notified investigators of “allegations of misconduct” by the teacher, and the subsequent investigation found that Amelia Ressler, 30, had “engaged in indecent and immoral acts while in the presence of school …
Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Antonio Brown has been ordered to pay his rape accuser $100,000 because he allegedly violated a confidentiality agreement, TMZ reports. Britney Taylor sued Brown in 2019, alleging he sexually assaulted her multiple times and violently raped her in 2018.Brown and Taylor entered into the confidentiality agreement after the lawsuit was …
A Minnesota woman reported missing early Saturday morning was found dead nearly 36 hours later, and her husband has been arrested for her murder. Little Falls Police said Jonathan Greyblood, 30, reported Jeanine Greyblood, 37, missing on Saturday, saying she was last seen at about 1:30 a.m. walking away from a home near the Pine …
A celebratory cannon blew up when it was fired during a baby shower in Michigan on Saturday, killing one of the attendees. MLive reports that Evan Thomas Silva, 26, was standing 10 to 15 feet from the device when it exploded, sending shrapnel into three parked cars and the garage where the shower was held, …
A 13-year-old girl was killed Saturday when she tried to get out of a stolen vehicle and ended up being dragged for several miles, KWCH reports. Kevin Palmer, 34, was arrested and charged with felony murder in the incident, which took place around noon. Wichita police said the girl, who has not been named, was …
A former Texas teacher was sentenced Friday to more than 10 years in prison for stalking a 16-year-old student and possessing child pornography, the Dallas Morning News reports. Court documents say that Ricky Lynn Badley, 45, began sending the teen girl text messages in 2019, referring to her as a “little girl” and his “new …
A 5-year-old girl remains hospitalized Sunday and has not awakened since she was critically injured in a car crash on Thursday, the Kansas City Star reports. The girl, identified as Ariel by her family, was in a car struck by a pickup truck driven by Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid — the 35-year-old …
Indigenous communities are working together to address what they say has become a growing problem: violence against American Indian women, girls, and non-binary persons, the Traverse City Record-Eagle reports. Advocates say not enough is being done to track the issue and hold offenders responsible. The murder rate of Indigenous women is more than 10 times beyond the national …
Former Seattle Seahawks player Chad Wheeler has pleaded not guilty to domestic violence charges. He was arrested after his girlfriend called 911 saying she was being “killed.” She told police Wheeler asked her to bow to him and when she didn’t he grabbed her, threw her on a bed, and beat her. He’s not the …
A YouTube prank went horribly wrong Friday night when one of the people being pranked shot and killed a prankster. Metro Nashville police said Timothy Wilks, 20, was fatally shot in the parking lot of Urban Air Trampoline and Adventure Park in the city’s Old Hickory neighborhood just before 9:30 p.m, The Tennessean reported. Witnesses …
