An Idaho judge on Tuesday denied 12 motions filed by attorneys for accused college killer Bryan Kohberger to dismiss the death penalty from his case. District Judge Steven Hippler listened to oral arguments on the motions during a lengthy hearing on November 7, promising to issued a ruling at a later date. 112024 Memorandum Decision …
A Texas jury awarded nearly $100 million to the family of a man gunned down in his own apartment by a Dallas police officer who thought she was at her own apartment on a different floor. The jury awarded $60 million in punitive damages and $38.6 million in compensatory damages, ruling that Amber Guyger acted …
A Utah judge on Wednesday dismissed a wrongful death suit filed against the Moab Police Department in the 2021 death of Gabby Petito but said an appellate court might have more leeway to pry apart the case’s minutiae. “The existing case law applies governmental immunity and extends the reach of governmental immunity in this kind …
A Minnesota man is accused of bursting into a hunting cabin and gunning down his 62-year-old father as he had dinner with friends and relataives. Kirk Edward Hazlett III, 31, was charged with two counts of second degree murder, two counts of kidnapping, and one count of first degree burglary in the death of Kirk …
An autopsy report for a 7-year-old Oklahoma girl who died in August reveals that the girl, who weighed less than 30 pounds at the time of her death, swallowed a baby bottle top, leading to her death. According to the autopsy report, the bottle lid blocked Violet Mitchell’s small intestine, causing a “failure to thrive” …
A Virginia couple was arrested this week after the wife allegedly had her husband brutally stab a pizza restaurant employee over a “botched order.” Catherine N. Harper, 45, and Corey T. Harper, 47, are both charged with malicious wounding, and Corey Harper has an additional charge of brandishing a firearm, WAVY reported. Police were called …
The University of Rochester Department of Public Safer has arrested four university students for their involvement in posting hundreds of “Wanted” posters around the campus last week targeting Jewish faculty and staff. DPS Chief Quchee Collins said a fifth person is under investigation. The four students have been charged with felony criminal mischief. The posters …
A Florida couple were arrested Tuesday morning after they attacked a school resource deputy at Deltona Middle School because they didn’t get what they wanted after a meeting with officials about a battery charge filed against their son for shoving a girl a day earlier. Jorge Rivera and Dagmarie Apointe Iturrino were upset their son …
A 16-year-old Ohio boy missing since November 12 has been found dead a two-hour drive across the state from his home. Mansfield Police asked for the public’s help finding Trentin Isaac on Monday. But on Tuesday, Mansfield Police Chief Jason Bammann told the Richland Source that the Harrison County Sheriff’s Office notified investigators they’d found …
A mother, her 19-year-old son, and his girlfriend were found shot to death in the mother’s home Monday in Cary, North Carolina. Erica Alyse Holton, 54; Xavier Neil Holton, and 19-year-old Aminah Michelle Guy were pronounced dead on the scene, the Raleigh News & Observer reported. A 911 call released on Tuesday indicated that Erica …
A Texas man has been arrested after he confessed to killing his uncle because he felt “unwelcomed and unloved” in the uncle’s home. Jose Torres, 37, was found shot to death at his home on Friday after he failed to pick up his wife and children from work and school, KHOU reported. They called a …
A California man has been charged with murder and attempted murder after he allegedly killed his mother and tried to kill his wife before making an attempt on his own life. The Vallejo Police Department said that Frank James McMillan, 63, stabbed his wife at least once before stabbing himself just after 8:30 a.m. on …
