Year: 2020

Celebrity
September 14, 2020

Don Lewis’s family buys commercial time on Carole Baskin’s DWTS premiere

Tiger King nemesis Carole Baskin makes her debut on “Dancing with the Stars” Monday night, and the family of her missing millionaire husband Don Lewis used the opportunity to ask a nationwide TV audience for help finding the man who vanished in 1997. They and their attorney bought air time during the show’s first commercial …

Protests
September 14, 2020

SEE IT: Driver hits protester in crosswalk, breaks both his legs: Reports

A North Carolina man who police say hit a Black Lives Matter protester Saturday night returned to Tennessee on Monday to turn himself in, the Johnson City Police Department says. Jared Benjamin Lafer, 27, has been charged with aggravated assault in the incident, which reportedly left Jonathan Bowers in a wheelchair with two broken legs, …

Politics and Crime
September 14, 2020

‘Sexting’ ex-Congressman Anthony Weiner picks up pieces of his life after prison as CEO of glass shard manufacturing company

Disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner may have found the right job for the next phase of his life: CEO of an employee-owned Brooklyn company that makes countertops using shards of broken glass. And that’s not all. IceStone, Weiner’s new company, says its “commitment to second chances goes beyond our factory and our products.” “We hire …

child neglect
September 14, 2020

Tot boy found dead in hot car after caregiver doesn’t drop him off at daycare: Reports

Authorities in Florida are investigating after a 1-year-old boy was reportedly found dead in a car on Friday. The Orange County Sheriff’s Office said Jace Leslie was found deceased in a vehicle parked outside a Pine Hills home. WESH reported that the residence the toddler was discovered dead outside of was also used as an …

Amanda Fernandes
Missing
September 14, 2020

BOLO: State police ask public’s assistance in finding missing teen girl

*This is a developing story and will be updated as additional information becomes available.* New Jersey police are searching for a missing teen who hasn’t been since Sunday. Patch reports that 15-year-old Amanda Fernandes was last seen off of Sumner Avenue in Woodbine Township. Staff members of Acenda Integrated Health Cape Community Home reported seeing …

Politics and Crime
September 14, 2020

‘Like an experimental concentration camp’: ICE detention center nurse, detainees say women were routinely given hysterectomies without medical cause [REPORT]

A nurse at an ICE detention center in Georgia has submitted a whistleblower complaint alleging that a doctor performed mass hysterectomies on women behind held at the Irwin County Detention Center (ICDC). Law & Crime obtained court documents filed by legal advocacy groups on the nurse’s behalf, which cite numerous witnesses who claim that women …

Juveniles
September 14, 2020

12-year-old Florida boy kills family Chihuahua, brings 3 guns and ammo to school

A Florida boy was arrested on felony charges Thursday after police say he brought three guns and ammunition to his school. CBS 13 reports that the incident happened at the Lighthouse Christian School on U.S. 1 in Callahan. A student at the school, age 12, allegedly brought a revolver and two semiautomatic pistols to the …

Violent Crime
September 14, 2020

80-year-old woman out for walk randomly slashed in the neck by suspect with ‘no motive’

Maryland authorities say an 80-year-old woman was out for a morning walk when she was randomly attacked by a stranger. Fox 6 reports that the incident happened on a walking trail in Columbia on September 9, off of Cradlerock Way. The suspect, identified at 20-year-old Traquan Malik Waller, allegedly sliced the victim’s neck at around …