As the man accused of killing Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts earlier this year prepares for a first-degree murder trial, reports indicate he is trying to secure U.S. government funding for his mounting legal defense bills. Cristhian Bahena Rivera was identified as an undocumented immigrant after his arrest on suspicion of killing the 20-year-old woman …
Authorities in Kentucky say a gunman is dead after he opened fire on a Scott County deputy during an attempted fugitive arrest. According to WAVE, 57-year-old Edward Reynolds was wanted as a fugitive out of Florida on a warrant related to a July bank robbery. He was the subject of a joint mission by deputies, …
A new video of a business meeting between Harvey Weinstein and a woman who has accused him of raping her shows him hitting on the woman and appearing to touch her inappropriately — just hours before the accuser says he raped her in a hotel room. Sky News obtained the video of a 2011 meeting …
UPDATE: Police in Texas revealed that the woman who reported finding an hours-old baby girl in the woods Wednesday afternoon was the newborn’s mother, according to KTRK. “The initial reportee is actually the one who had delivered the infant. She had reported the infant was found here. That was concocted. That was not accurate,” Harris …
Virginia police are investigating a call regarding a missing 3-month-old baby who reportedly disappeared from her Roanoke home on Tuesday night. Roanoke Police Department reports that the mother of infant Arieanna Day told police she put the baby in her crib at around 10 p.m., in their home off of 1100 block of Hanover NW. The mother …
The ex-boyfriend of an Arizona teen whose body was found in the desert a month after her disappearance was charged in her death. Per KTRK, Jon-Christopher Clark, 23, appeared before a judge Tuesday night in relation to newly-filed first-degree murder charges. Police are also pursuing improper removal of a body and evidence tampering charges against Clark. Documents …
A gas station clerk in Washington is reportedly on life support days after a group of teens allegedly robbed the store and left him to die as he suffered a heart attack. According to KOMO News, surveillance cameras show Zarif Kelada, 34, collapsing moments after confronting the teens for eating pepperoni sticks without paying. Police said …
A Louisiana man is accused of attempting to rape a woman he met on an online dating website—but the reported victim told police she fought back by biting the man’s genitals before hiding behind a table for hours over the weekend. Authorities arrested John Wesley Patton, 54, of Westwego, on charges of second-degree rape, aggravated …
“BTK Killer” Dennis Rader claims in a just-released interview that a “demon” inside of him caused him to kill 10 people over a 17-year period in Wichita, Kansas. Nancy Grace explores that the 73-year-old serial killer says in the Oxygen documentary “Snapped: Notorious BTK Serial Killer.” Grace’s experts include medical examiner Dr. William Morrone, Southern …
Two children in the center of an AMBER Alert are safe after police captured their mother, accused of shooting their father and fleeing with them. Cleveland.com reports that authorities arrested 28-year-old Arriel Bryant at a relative’s house off of Lorain Avenue in Cleveland on early Tuesday morning. Bryant is accused of killing the father of her …
By REGINA GARCIA CANO, Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — MGM Resorts International drew criticism Tuesday for saying hundreds of survivors of the Las Vegas mass shooting, who are being sued by the casino operator, could opt to have the money that will be used to serve them a lawsuit instead donated to a charity. The …
A bald eagle made a surprise appearance at a 9/11 remembrance ceremony in Minnesota on Tuesday, perching itself atop a fire engine’s aerial ladder in what the local fire chief called a “phenomenal” moment. The Star-Tribune reports that a bald eagle, the United States’s national bird, appeared at a 9/11 memorial ceremony in Coon Rapids, …
