A juvenile bottlenose dolphin was found shot to death on a Louisiana beach last month. An animal autopsy found multiple bullets in the animal’s body, including the brain, spinal cord, and heart, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said. NOAA said a member of the public reported the animal stranded to the Southeast Marine Mammal …
New York’s highest court has overturned the 2020 rape conviction against movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, ruling that the judge in the trial made “egregious” improper rulings. “We conclude that the trial court erroneously admitted testimony of uncharged, alleged prior sexual acts against persons other than the complainants of the underlying crimes,” the court’s 4-3 decision …
A Florida man was charged with aggravated animal cruelty after he was seen on video shooting a dog in the face during an argument over his allegedly infidelity. Lee County deputies were called when Farhad Deiham, 41, threatened to kill everyone in the home, including two children, the sheriff’s office said. When they arrived, deputies …
All four women on the US Supreme Court pushed back on Idaho’s strict abortion ban during oral arguments Wednesday on whether the law conflicts with a federal emergency care law. That included conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who accused the state’s attorney Joshua Turner of “hedging” when he said that decisions about whether a woman’s …
A pair of Nevada parents have been arrested for child abuse/neglect after their 11-year-old child was found in a “large metal enclosure” when officers were asked to check on a truancy issue. The Henderson Police Department said they and the Clark County School District Police Department conducted a welfare check Tuesday morning and found the …
An grand jury has indicted Stephan Sterns with first-degree murder in the death of 13-year-old Madeline Soto, nearly two months after her body was found in a wooded area of Osceola County. The indictment alleges that Sterns killed Soto between February 25 and February 27, but no other details about the death were released, WOFL …
A 12-year-old boy found dead after spending the night in a tiny tent at a North Carolina wilderness therapy camp earlier this year may have suffocated in that tent, a staff member assigned to check his breathing in the night told state investigators. Staff at Trails Carolina did not visually check the boy overnight and …
UPDATE: 5th Person Arrested in Brutal Murders of Kansas Moms, Veronica Butler and Jillian Kelley Previous Coverage The four people charged with the murders of two Kansas women who vanished in Oklahoma late last month conspired to kill them to stop a bitter custody dispute with one of the women — and had tried to kill …
A missing Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University professor, under investigation for leaving the scene of a drunk driving accident last week, was found dead Monday from a self-inflicted gunshot wound behind a Holiday Inn in Martin County, Florida. James Solti, 57, rear-ended a flatbed truck on April 17 after he’d been out drinking with Cassie Harrison, who …
A 10-year-old Oklahoma boy awoke Monday morning to find his parents and three brothers dead from a murder-suicide perpetrated by his father. Oklahoma City Police Sgt. Gary Knight said the child called 911 at about 9:30 a.m. and told a dispatcher that “everyone inside the home appeared to be dead.” “Investigators determined that sometime overnight, …
A judge on Tuesday ordered the suspected drunk driver who killed two children when she crashed into a birthday party at a Michigan boat dock held on a $1.5 million bond. Meanwhile, 66-year-old Marshella Chidester’s attorney said his client suffered seizures in her legs and had only one glass of wine on Saturday, the day …
