Pittsburgh police recommended assault charges against the owners and an employee of a northside Exxon gas station after a video of a “particularly disturbing” fight went viral, police said. The confrontation began when two women reported to the station personnel that a gas pump had malfunctioned, spilling gas. The customers demanded a refund, but the …
A California appeals court on Friday backed former Gov Jerry Brown’s decision to block parole for Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten, according to an AP report in the Sacramento Bee. Van Houten, 70, is serving a life sentence for her role in the stabbing deaths of Los Angeles grocer Leno LaBianca and his wife, …
Pinellas County sheriff’s deputies arrested a former employee at an assisted living facility on Friday, saying he ingested an unregulated drug called kratom and fell asleep while a disabled man in the backseat of the company minivan died in the heat. Russell had taken John LaPointe, 35, to a doctor’s appointment on May 9 from …
Las Vegas police arrested adult film star Cheryl Marie Murphy, known as Bridget the Midget in her movies, this week for stabbing her boyfriend during a violent argument. Law enforcement told TMZ that a neighbor reported screaming and breaking glass from a home in southwest Las Vegas. Officers found that Murphy, also known as Bridget …
Jeffery Epstein paid doctors to prescribe sedatives and anti-depressants to his victims while they were being abused, a new Miami Herald report alleges. At least two alleged victims have made the claim and are now suing over the abuse. Accuser Virginia Giuffre said Epstein’s doctors prescribed her Xanax during the three-year period she was being …
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A Louisiana police officer was killed and another was wounded on a highway Friday afternoon following a vehicle chase that ended in gunfire, authorities said. The incident reportedly involved two Mandeville officers who were shot on U.S. 190 and La. 22. Mandeville Police Chief Gerald Sticker said two suspects have been taken into custody and that …
A southern Indiana woman and her now ex-boyfriend have been arrested and charged with “heinous, despicable, disgusting” acts of child abuse, Scott County Sheriff Jerry Goodin told WLKY on Friday. Matthew Mosier, 37, and Hannah Graves, 28, were arrested Thursday after an investigation that began in August when the Indiana Department of Child Services got …
A judge who told the mother of a sexual assault victim to “keep your mouth shut, sit down” during a hearing earlier this summer recused himself from the trial on Friday, citing the mother’s stated concerns that she feared he could not conduct the trial fairly, NJ.com reported. Middlesex County Superior Court Judge Joseph Rea was …
Surveillance video captured a wild shootout in Chester, Pennsylvania, Friday morning, as two men fired at one another while recklessly circling a mini-van parked on a city street blocks from two schools, CBS Philly reported. In the video released by Chester Police, children on their way to school duck for cover behind other vehicles as …
Authorities in South Carolina have relaunched their search for a 5-year-old girl who they believe was stabbed to death and thrown in a dumpster around the same time as her mother’s murder in August. WIS reported that Sumter Police, along with local, state, and federal agencies, are combing through a Richland County landfill in search …
Authorities in New Jersey held a press conference Friday afternoon to update the public on the continued search for missing 5-year-old Dulce Maria Alavez, and addressed false rumors that police have made an arrest. Bridgeton Police Chief Michael Gaimar said at the news conference, shared via livestream from NBC Philadelphia, that false rumors had been …
