A Louisiana school bus driver was arrested on Tuesday, a day after he allegedly held a 13-year-old girl against her will and made inappropriate comments to her. Brusly police said Christopher Taplin, 33, was supposed to drop off the girl at her middle school, but he kept her on the bus and let the other …
Coroners ruled on Thursday that July’s death of a 7-year-old boy at a children’s residential center in Kentucky was a homicide, sparking the firing of two workers. The Louisville Courier-Journal reported that Ja’Ceon Terry died of positional asphyxia, or the inability to move his body in a manner to allow him to breathe. Terry suffered …
A California mother was ordered on Wednesday to pay more than $9,000 to a 15-year-old girl who she ordered her daughter to punch during a basketball game last year. TMZ reported that Tira Hunt accepted a diversion program to avoid jail, but she was ordered to undergo anger management before she can return to basketball …
A former deputy attorney general living in Nevada was arrested on Tuesday for the unsolved 1972 slaying of a woman in Hawaii. KRNV reported that Tudor Chirila Jr., 77, was arrested in Reno, Nevada, for fatally stabbing Nancy Anderson, 19, at her apartment in Honolulu half a century earlier. Anderson was found covered in blood …
A Pennsylvania EMS worker was killed last week when she was crushed between two ambulances. Two private ambulances were responding to a call in Philadelphia on Saturday, and the first ambulance driver stayed behind the wheel as his colleagues prepared to load the patient. At some point, the driver left the vehicle with the motor …
Alabama authorities are reportedly reviewing nearly 1,000 calls made between corrections officer Vicky White and a jailed capital murder suspect before she allegedly helped the inmate escape in April. Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton told AL.com that Vicky White, 57, and accused murderer Casey White, 38, who was housed at William Donaldson Correctional Facility in …
Washington authorities are investigating the death of a man who was found dead on Monday in a tent full of improvised explosive devices. A driver called 911 and claimed they were flagged down by a woman who said her boyfriend was unresponsive in a tent near Chelatchie Prairie off US Forest Service Forest Road 54. …
On Wednesday, lawyers for jailed film producer Harvey Weinstein asked a California judge to allow him to see a private dentist for fake teeth before he stands trial in October for sex crimes. According to the New York Post, prison dentists will pull Weinstein’s decayed molars without replacing them. Weinstein’s attorney, Mark Werksman, said dentists …
On Wednesday, R. Kelly was convicted in Illinois of federal child pornography charges for filming himself sexually abusing his 14-year-old goddaughter in the 1990s. The Chicago Tribune reported that Kelly, 56, and his co-defendants, Milton Brown and Derrel McDavid, were acquitted of obstructing Kelly’s 2002 child pornography trial in Cook County. Kelly was also found …
A Florida judge admonished lawyers for Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz for abruptly resting their case on Wednesday. Attorneys for Cruz, 23, said they would be calling 80 witnesses, but they ended proceedings after 11 days — calling only 25 witnesses to the stand. The Miami Herald reported that the last person to testify was …
An Iowa teen who was reportedly being sex trafficked when she killed her rapist was sentenced on Tuesday to five years of probation and was also ordered to pay $150,000 to the slain man’s family. Pieper Lewis, 17, also received a deferred judgment, meaning her voluntary manslaughter conviction could be expunged when she completes her …
On Monday, North Carolina police charged a man for last week’s drunk-driving golf cart accident that killed a passenger. Gaston Gazette reported that Derek Helms, 19, was drunk when he was driving a golf cart that Gabby Carrigan, 18, fell off of on September 5, leading to her death the following day. Gaston County police …
