After news spread this week of a prison assault that left disgraced Olympic gymnastic team doctor Larry Nassar injured, legal analyst Nancy Grace offered little sympathy for the convicted sex offender. “Oh, boo-hoo,” the former prosecutor said in an interview with TMZ. “Nassar is having to be bullied and attacked by people bigger than him? …
Authorities in Tennessee have arrested a 26-year-old mother on suspicion of leaving her young child inside a hot vehicle as she drank at a nearby Mexican restaurant. According to Fox News, Rachel Vanwagner is expected to face charges of child abuse and neglect in connection with the incident on Tuesday evening. Reports indicate passersby at …
Authorities in North Carolina have arrested a 20-year-old man they believe killed a woman along a trail near the Blue Ridge Parkway inn where they were both worked. According to WGHP, Ashville resident Derek Shawn Pendergraft was arrested on suspicion of second-degree murder after local authorities received a call at about 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday …
A West Virginia mother was arrested Wednesday after allegedly admitting to spraying her 16-month-old son in the face with bleach. According to WOWK, Sylvia Lynn Eden, 27 of Parkersburg, was arrested weeks after the hospital her son was treated at alerted police to the child’s disturbing and suspicious injuries―which entailed chemical burns to his face, shoulder, …
Utah prosecutors will seek the death penalty against two parents who allegedly starved their 3-year-old daughter to death last year and filmed themselves taunting her with food before she died. In recently filed court papers obtained by The Associated Press, the state filed a notice seeking the death penalty against Odgen parents Miller Costello, 25, and …
Two Louisiana women behind bars in connection with the death of a Natchitoches baby are now facing additional charges, according to police. KNOE reports that Hannah Barker and Felicia Marie-Nicole Smith are both charged with criminal conspiracy in the death of Barker’s son, 6-month-old Levi Ellerbe. Jackson is also facing a felony murder charge while Barker is …
Embattled comedian Bill Cosby will be required to register as a sex offender in Massachusetts should he return to his estate in Shelburne Falls. The Boston Herald recently learned that Cosby’s April 26 conviction on three counts of aggravated indecent assault was enough for Massachusetts authorities to order the 81-year-old to register if he spends four days in …
A Popeyes in Detroit, Michigan, remains closed days after a video appearing to show filthy, unsanitary conditions in their kitchen went viral. Shakita Shemere, 20, told The Associated Press that she shot the video after a manager reprimanded her for screaming when she saw a cockroach. Shemere claimed her decision to take to Facebook Live cost her job. …
A billionaire heiress to the Seagram liquor company fortune was one of six people arrested Tuesday for her alleged role as Operations Director in connection with the infamous group NXIVM, who federal agents say is a sex cult. U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Richard Donoghue, announced on Tuesday that heiress Clare …
Kay Thomasson died after being stabbed in the neck at her Atlanta suburb home by a killer who then took her car and abandoned it at an apartment complex several miles away. Security camera video shows a man walking near the crime scene and police are offering a $100,000 reward for help identifying him. Nancy …
A couple in Green, Ohio, were arrested in June following a probe that police say reveals disturbing crimes involving the woman’s children, including the sexual assault of a 4-year-old boy caught on video surveillance. An investigation into Samantha Ward, 31, and her live-in boyfriend, Dean Davis, 28, began in April after a third party witnessed …
A struggle on Highway I-10 Wednesday night left one Arizona State Trooper dead and another injured after a suspect reportedly got ahold of a trooper’s gun and opened fire. Per Azcentral, police identified the fallen officer as Trooper Tyler Edenhofer, who had been on the job less than three months and was in training at the time. …
