A 24-year-old mother has been charged with attempted murder and felony child abuse after she allegedly put her newborn baby boy into a plastic bag and buried him beneath some leaves near her home, WBTV reported. Union County, North Carolina, deputies believe Casey Marie Thomas gave birth on Wednesday and then abandoned the little boy. …
The man who broke into civil rights icon Rosa Parks’s Detroit home and robbed her has been arrested for an almost identical crime in Grand Rapids, MLive reported. Joseph Nathaniel Skipper, 54, hit the then-82-year-old Parks in the face before fleeing with $53 in 1994. A year later, he was sentenced to eight to 15 …
The daughter of an influential Memphis family was found dead in her historic Arkansas home late Wednesday morning, apparently slain by the man who murdered her mother and cousin nearby in 1996, the Memphis Commercial Appeal reported. Martha McKay had been the sole owner of Snowden House, originally built by her grandfather in 1919 on …
Metro Nashville police took a phone call from Zohal Sakwall on January 31, and the story she told them was shocking. Sakwall, 40, told officers that she had put a plastic bag over her infant daughter’s head and suffocated her because of “the disruption to her life caused by having the child,” police said. Even …
The Arizona Court of Appeals has upheld the guilty verdict and sentencing of convicted killer Jodi Arias, rejecting her attorneys’ contention that prosecutorial misconduct and the media circus surrounding the court proceedings deprived her of a fair trial, ABC 15 reported. The three-judge panel did, however, refer prosecutor Juan Martinez’s behavior during the trial to …
An assistant nursing manager at Mount Sinai West hospital in New York has died after contracting the novel coronavirus, and other personnel at the hospital are blaming a shortage of basic supplies at the hospital for his death. Kious Kelly, 48, was admitted to his own hospital on March 17, the New York Post reported, …
Alaska State Troopers have arrested an 18-year-old man and charged him with kidnapping and killing a 10-year-old girl last week in a tiny fishing village on the Kanektok River in western Alaska. Ida “Girlie” Aguchak was reported missing on late Monday afternoon, March 16, and her body was found two hours later at the Quinhagak …
A Georgia man was arrested Monday after he pulled a gun on two women wearing medical masks and gloves at a suburban Atlanta post office, WSB reported. Harvey Taratoot, 75, admitted to police he pulled his gun on the women — a grandmother and her adult granddaughter — because he feared they would give him …
Doctors at Fort Worth’s Cook Children’s Medical Center warn that stress resulting from worries over the novel coronavirus pandemic may lead to an increase in child abuse. The national recognized pediatric hospital has seen six child abuse cases this week — one fatal — when it normally sees about eight a month, Dr. Jayme Coffman, …
A 36-year-old Texas woman has been charged with murder after she allegedly slit her four year-old son’s throat with a knife and then tried to kill herself. Ritika Rohatgi Agrawal’s husband found her wandering around their Sugar Land home Saturday morning with cuts to her neck and wrists and their son dead in an upstairs …
Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, CNHI newspapers reported Sunday, citing two anonymous officials connected to the New York state prison system. Weinstein was taken to Wende Correctional Facility in western New YOrk on Wednesday to begin his journey through the prison system and is one of two prisoners …
A Florida woman claiming to have a “black belt in martial arts” kicked her boyfriend in the nose when he wouldn’t have sex with her and then coughed “copious amounts of saliva” onto a paramedic’s face while shouting “I have the coronavirus!” the Villages News reported. La-Donald Holmes, 38, was charged with domestic battery and …
