A federal judge in Tampa, Florida, denied prosecutors’ request to delay a trial due to Monday’s total eclipse. The Washington Post reported that a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) agent wanted to postpone court proceedings because he had prepaid for an eclipse trip. However, Judge Steven Merryday ruled that the trial, surrounding a felon …
“Everybody does it. Why not? People take video of them in cars like all the time. And I’m only 18—we’re still young.”
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (AP) — A judge was shot and wounded Monday morning as he walked toward his county’s courthouse, and a suspect was killed after a probation officer returned fire, officials said. Jefferson County Judge Joseph Bruzzese Jr. was shot near the courthouse in Steubenville, just across the Ohio River from West Virginia’s northern panhandle, …
Did a Missouri daycare worker take discipline too far? The parents of a 4-year-old girl think so, and want the daycare shut down after an employee allegedly strapped the child to a chair with duct tape and took a picture. KFVS reports that the Missouri Department of Children and Family Services found the photo of the …
“The depth of his deceit is dumbfounding”
By MICHAEL TARM, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The fatal stabbing of a hairstylist in Chicago was part of a sexual fantasy hatched in an online chatroom between a Northwestern University professor and an Oxford University employee, whose plan included killing someone and then themselves, prosecutors told a Cook County judge Sunday at a bond hearing …
A Pennsylvania woman who discovered that her baby daughter’s cremains were actually a dog’s remains is speaking out against the mistake and considering legal action against the funeral home that gave her the wrong ashes. Action News 4 reports that baby Jerrica Sky was born stillborn in 2015. Her mother, Jennifer Dailey, decided to have her newborn …
Los Angeles police have arrested a biology teacher and accused her of having sex with a 16-year-old student, Los Angeles Times has reported. Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) spokesman Tony Im announced Sunday that Aimee Palmitessa, 45, a teacher at the prestigious Brentwood School, was arrested Friday and charged with statutory rape. In a recent newsletter, …
Connecticut police have arrested a woman after officers allegedly discovered five children living in filth and eating dog food off the floor, as reported by FOX 61. WVIT has noted that police arrived at Chloe Edwards’ Middletown apartment following a call about an air conditioner fire that was allegedly caused by a cigarette thrown from a …
A Pennsylvania teacher has been charged with multiple sex crimes for allegedly having an intimate relationship with a 16-year-old student whom she was “obsessed” with, the Daily Local News reports. Melissa Bonkoski, 38, bought a so-called burner phone — a disposable cell phone — so she could secretly arrange trysts with the boy. During those …
Police say a Florida caregiver beat an elderly woman severely on Thursday and tried to set her house on fire all over an argument a will. New York Daily News reports that Roman Dusk, 65, became infuriated when the elderly lady informed him she planned to leave her home to someone else when she passed …
An 18-year-old Texas woman has been accused of forcing a child she was babysitting to perform sex acts on her. Police in San Antonio arrested Esmeralda Marie Medellin Thursday night on sexual assault charges, the San Antonio Express-News reports. The child reportedly told his mother that Medellin ordered him to perform a sexual act on …
