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Kouri Richins, 35, allegedly killed her husband Eric, 39, in Park City, Utah, in May 2022, by lacing a Moscow Mule cocktail with five times the lethal dose of fentanyl [...]
Live-in girlfriend charged with first-degree murders of fire chief and his basketball star daughter, 15, fatally shot inside their Missouri home – Linda Hayden faces death penalty if convicted
Henry Williams, 63, and Ha’layna Elliot, 15, were discovered dead by family members at their residence in Ferguson, Missouri, on Saturday The retired fire chief of [...]
Ohio pastor, a former American Idol contestant turned devout Christian, charged with murdering teacher wife at Ohio home as their children slept
A music pastor and worship leader at Christian Life Center in Butler Township, Ohio, has been charged with murder, felonious assault with a deadly weapon and tampering with [...]
US Supreme Court in 6-3 majority decision strikes down Trump’s sweeping universal tariffs
The Supreme Court on Friday struck down President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs The 6-3 decision means is a rare instance of the conservative-led court reining in [...]
Former elementary school teacher’s aide Anna Marie Crocker, 34, sentenced to 51½ years in prison for sexual assault and exploitation of boys between the ages of 12 and 16
Former elementary school teacher’s aide Anna Marie Crocker, 34, was sentenced to 51 and a half years in prison She had been convicted for sex crimes involving boys [...]
Six suspects charged in murder of Bolt driver Isaac Satlat, 22, who was carjacked and strangled in the drivers seat by his passengers in Pretoria, South Africa
Prosecutors in Pretoria, South Africa on Wednesday charged three additional suspects in the murder of e-hailing driver Isaac Satlat The Nigerian student, 22, was murdered on [...]
‘Prophetess’ Kathleen Klein allegedly warned workers they’d ‘face divine judgement and eternal damnation if they were lazy’ – Wealthy church leaders charged for operating sweat shop fundraising call center, pocketing millions
Kathleen Klein, 53, allegedly operated a forced labor ring along with two co-conspirators to solicit donations for their church, Kingdom of God Global Church The wealthy [...]
New owners claim entrepreneur Kimora Lee Simmons pays no rent, refuses to vacate her $25M Beverly Hills mansion bought by estranged husband with stolen money, but her lawsuit alleges transaction was done without her permission
Kimora Lee Simmons is refusing to leave her $25M Beverly Hills mansion bought by estranged husband Former banker Tim Leissner was arrested, in June 2018, for his part in a [...]
Washington state mom who abused and starved adopted daughter, 8, to death, then drove with her coffin in a U-Haul to a funeral home 1,100 miles away, bags 32 years in prison
Mandie Miller, 36, Friday was sentenced to serve 32 years in prison, she’d pled to the murder of her adopted daughter and biological niece, Meela Miller, in September [...]
Michelin-star London restaurant boss, Vikas Nath, accused of ‘spiking’ woman’s spicy margarita with ‘substance’, admits act, tells court he did it to make her ‘less anxious’
Southwark Crown Court was told that Michelin-star restaurant boss spikes a woman’s spicy margarita with a substance hidden in a Madagascan vanilla extract bottle while [...]
Surgeon outed for providing barred transgender treatment to minors, ‘falsely accused’ colleague of rape, after he exposed disturbing procedures at hospital, $1M defamation lawsuit claims
Texas doctor who performs transgender surgeries on children falsely accused her co-worker of rape after he exposed disturbing procedures at hospital, lawsuit alleges Three [...]
CEO of Georgia based financial group, Todd Burkhalter, admits to running $380M Ponzi scheme – as prosecutors seek 17½-year prison sentence
“Unbelievably, Burkhalter shamelessly continued to scam his victims even while under federal investigation” – US Attorney Theodore S. Hertzberg Todd Burkhalter, the [...]
Driver of SUV in Christmas crash that injured ex-heavyweight champ, Anthony Joshua, killing his trainer and fitness coach, arraigned for ‘reckless driving, causing death’
Adeniyi Mobolaji Kayode, 46, appeared at a court in Ogun, a state in southwestern Nigeria which shares borders with the country’s business capital, Lagos state Kayode [...]
Ex-OPEC president in UK court ahead of corruption trial – Diezani Alison-Madueke is facing bribery charges while serving as Nigeria’s oil minister
Diezani Alison-Madueke, 65, who was in office from 2010 to 2015, was the first woman oil minister in Nigeria and the first female president of the global oil cartel OPEC [...]
Indiana Judge, wife, both shot and injured at home on Sunday, after a stranger knocked on their door pretending he had their dog
Judge Steven Meyer was shot in the arm and his wife, Kimberly, was struck in the hip when a stranger arrived at their house around 2.17pm The Indiana judge and his wife [...]
Senator is sued by wife of former bodyguard, alleging extramarital love affair that wrecked 14-year marriage
Ex-senator has been accused of having an affair with her bodyguard in a lawsuit filed by Heather Ammel, the wife of the former staffer Kyrsten Sinema, 49, was senator for [...]
‘Botched investigation or coverup?’ – Feds set to probe controversial ‘suicide’ ruling in case of Ellen Greenberg, the Philadelphia schoolteacher found with multiple stab wounds
Federal prosecutors set to scrutinize investigation of a teacher’s death 15 years ago, that was ruled ‘suicide by authorities in Philadelphia Ellen Greenberg, 27, [...]
Death for Oklahoma Sunday school teacher Brenda Andrew, 62, who had husband murdered by lover for ‘hefty insurance claim’, after she loses appeal
Brenda Andrew, 62, was found guilty of capital murder for having her husband Robert killed 25 years ago Weeks before Robert Andrew, 31, was shot dead in the garage of [...]
Texas middle school teacher charged with having sex with student, 14, in Walmart parking lot, appears in court
Jaden Renee Charles, 26, a mother-of-four, is facing two counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child Authorities said the middle school teacher had a relationship with [...]
Refugee Syrian brothers who joined their father to drown their sister in ‘Honor killing’, jailed 20 years each by Dutch court – Their dad who fled back to Syria is jailed 30 years in absentia
Syrian born teenager Ryan Al Najjar from Joure, Holland was brutally murdered last year after what Dutch prosecutors called an ‘Honor killing’ On May 28, 2024, [...]
‘Switching places’ without consent during a Carnival Cruise ship encounter lands stepbrothers from Detroit in a Nassau court, charged with rape and abatement to rape
American tourists from Detroit, Sayjuan Readous, 26, and his stepbrother Antoine Flowers Jr., 28, appeared in court in Nassau, Bahamas, on Monday, charged with rape Readous [...]
Wisconsin man admits helping his mother kill his 87-year-old grandfather, after claiming victim was ‘not grandpa. He had been killed by malevolent spirits,’ before their arrival
Jacob Kempainen of Wisconsin, last week pled guilty in Houghton County, Michigan, to second-degree murder in the death of Alvin Kempainen, 87 As per the plea arrengement [...]
Wisconsin judge, Hannah Dugan, convicted on felony ‘obstruction’ for helping illegal migrant ‘evade arrest’, faces up to five years in jail
Federal prosecutors charged Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan with obstruction, a felony, and concealing an individual to prevent arrest, a misdemeanor, in April [...]
Nick Reiner faces death penalty or life without parole, as prosecutors seek murder conviction with special circumstances, for Hollywood ‘Nepo baby’ charged with killing his parents
Late Hollywood producer’s son accused of killing his parents on Dec. 14, made his court appearance in Los Angeles Superior Court three days after murders Rob Reiner and [...]
Trump pardon for Colorado county clerk, Tina Peters, who tried to help overturn 2020 election, ‘has no authority in my state’ – Governor
Donald Trump announced Thursday that he has granted pardon to former Colorado county elections official, Tina Peters, 69, now in prison for election fraud Presidential pardon [...]
‘Careless’ Texas mom facing death penalty after allowing violent boyfriend to move in – the ex-con lover has been charged in fatal beating of her toddler
Chelsea Berg, 30, was arrested Monday, the day after her son Dawson Zamora, 3, died in Amarillo, Texas, almost two months after a fatal beating by Berg’s lover Berg, a [...]
House parent, 30, hired to care for troubled teens in state run group home in Pennsylvania, charged after she demanded sex from a 16-year-old resident at gunpoint
A house manager tasked with caring for troubled teens in a group home allegedly, had sex with a 16-year-old boy at gunpoint while plying him with drugs and a gun Cristal [...]
Eight Philadelphia teens, 14 -15, named and shamed publicly by sheriff after allegedly, robbing Dick’s Sporting Goods store while attending youth football tournament in Florida
Philadelphia teenagers accused of robbing a Dick’s Sporting Goods store in Florida while attending a football tournament identified to public by a Florida sheriff Polk [...]
Florida judge sends Donovan Faison, 23, to death row for killing pregnant girlfriend Kaylin Fiengo, 18, after she refused his demand for abortion
Donovan L. Faison of Seminole County, Fla., was handed the death penalty Friday for “executing” his girlfriend, Kaylin Fiengo and their unborn child, three years [...]
AG rips Minnesota for allowing Somali migrant, a convicted serial rapist, to walk free before he committed more assaults – Abdimahat Mohamed, 28, faces 20 years to life in prison
The US Attorney General excoriated Minnesota for allowing a Somali national, with multiple sex offense convictions to walk free, before he committed more of the same crime [...]