Cruz Rivera, son of famed former talk show host Geraldo Rivera, escaped jail time after taking a plea deal in a Manhattan courtroom on Wednesday for assaulting his ex-girlfriend during two different altercations at his home. Authorities arrested Rivera, 30, in early May for attacking Meghan Burke, 26, on April 28, after she announced she …
A small-town, Kansas councilwoman is capturing national headlines after allegedly biting an officer’s thumb so hard that she broke his bone earlier this month. The bizarre events began to unfold on June 29, when authorities tried arresting 48-year-old Carol Fowler, of Huron, on a failure to appear warrant. The warrant stems from a December incident …
A former student is suing a New Jersey-based university, claiming that she was drugged and sexually assaulted by a man who later posted a video of the alleged rape to Snapchat. According to the Cherry Hill Courier-Post, citing a federal lawsuit, the unidentified woman said she was incapacitated in her dorm room at Stockton University …
A man who allegedly left a 5-month-old baby boy under sticks and debris in a mountainous region of Montana following a crash on Sunday said the baby was “too heavy” to carry, The Missoulian reports, citing court records. The baby miraculously survived being in the wooded area for “at least 9 hours,” according to police. Over …
Authorities have released bodycam footage from the horrific scene they found after a mother allgedly stabbed her young daughter multiple times. 39-year-old Taheerah Ahmad is accused of tying up two of her daughters, aged 11 and 9, before stabbing the 11-year-old “50 to 70 times” and hitting her over the head with a pick-axe May …
A Georgia man set to die by lethal injection on Tuesday has made a lavish last meal request before he faces his death sentence for the murder of his sister-in-law. Keith Leroy Tharpe, 59, is set to be executed by lethal injection in Georgia on Tuesday, according to Fox News. The Georgia Department of Corrections …
Correction: An earlier version of this story contained a booking photo distributed by the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office that was incorrectly identified as Mya Janai Moss. In fact, the booking photo was of a different person and was not involved in the incident discussed in the story. Three Georgia assisted living employees were arrested after …
The body of a missing toddler was found in a Virginia reservoir Thursday, only hours after he was reported missing. Two-year-old August Farley was vacationing with his family when he was reported missing at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, according to a Bedford County Sheriff’s Office press release. According to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Maj. Ricky Gardner …
A woman who scaled the Statue of Liberty on the Fourth of July has been identified as a 44-year-old immigrant from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, New York Post reports. Police say Therese Patricia Okoumou climbed up the famous Liberty Island, New York, statue in protest of President Trump’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and …
Police in Scotland announced the arrest of an unidentified teenage boy in connection with the murder of 6-year-old Alesha MacPhail, who went missing Monday and was found dead just over two hours later, The Guardian reports. The little girl was reported missing from the Isle of Bute, an island located in the Firth of Clyde …
While the exact reasons why James Holmes walked into an Aurora, Colorado, theatre and shot 12 people to death while injuring 70 others in 2012 are not known, recently-released psychiatric reports offer a glimpse into the convicted killer’s mind. The reports of three psychiatrists who examined Holmes were obtained by The Denver Post last week, …
A Massachusetts woman, sentenced last year to 15 months in jail for encouraging her boyfriend to commit suicide, is appealing her conviction on the basis that prosecutors “cherry-picked” texts used against her in the case. Michelle Carter, 21, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter after her boyfriend, 18-year-old Conrad Roy III, committed suicide in July 2014, …
