A 17-year-old Alabama boy has been charged with manslaughter in the shooting death last month of his 12-year-old brother, AL.com reported. Bessemer police said they responded to a call on March 30 and found Sean Rose with a bullet wound to the head. He was taken to Children’s of Alabama in Birmingham, where he was …
Philadelphia’s city transit system SEPTA said Friday it would no longer enforce a policy requiring passengers to wear a facemask during the coronavirus pandemic after a viral video showed police officers forcibly dragging a man off a bus because he wasn’t wearing one. SEPTA said the incident, which took place Friday morning, was under investigation, …
A Florida medical examiner ruled that violence and overdoses of Benedryl caused of the deaths of a mother and her three children who were found dead in the family home in January, the Orlando Sentinel reported. Anthony Todt, the father of the family, has been accused of killing 42-year-old Megan Todt, 13-year-old Alek Todt, 11-yearold …
Flagler County sheriff’s deputies said they arrested a 42-year-old woman late Wednesday after she allegedly spent several days filling plastic Easter eggs with a variety of items, including explicit images of men and women having sex, and stuffing them into county residents’ mailboxes. Abril Cestoni reported told deputies she was “educating people” with her eggs, …
A sex offender set free by former Kentucky Gov Matt Bevin (R) after losing his re-election bid last fall has been arrested on a federal charge of producing child sex abuse material, the Louisville Courier-Journal reported. Bevin commuted Dayton Jones’s life sentence to time served in December, telling the Courier-Journal there was “zero, zero” evidence …
Three men went on a shoplifting spree at a New Jersey Lowe’s earlier this week, and after they were taken into custody, one of them told arresting officers he had COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. The Howell Township Police Department said it confirmed with the health department that the man had tested positive …
A Baltimore police sergeant is reportedly under investigation after he was seen in an Instagram video intentionally coughing near residents of a public housing complex in southeast Baltimore in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. The coughing prompted a profanity laced diatribe from the woman filming the video and other people down the street, who …
“Pharma bro” Martin Shkreli — four years into a seven year sentence for securities fraud — wants out of prison to work on a COVID-19 cure. The 37-year-old former pharmaceutical company CEO gained notoriety in 2014 when he bought the rights to a life-saving AIDS drug and promptly jacked the price from $13.50 to $750 …
Oregon police on Sunday arrested man who allegedly tossed a lit firework at a woman, missed, and instead set several moving trucks — and a man who had been siphoning gas from one of them — ablaze. Eugene police said officers responded to a U-Haul facility in the city’s Santa Clara neighborhood just before 6 …
North Carolina police on Sunday found the body of a 20-year-old woman missing for more than a week and arrested three people they believe killed her. Mary Collins was last seen at about 2:30 p.m. in the afternoon on March 28 and was believed to have gone to Charlotte’s entertainment district, NoDa, also called North …
An Iowa driver has been charged with murder and animal neglect after he slammed his truck into a woman walking her dog, killing both before speeding off. Police say Jason Robert Sassman, 49, was driving a pickup truck at a high rate of speed in northwest Des Moines shortly after 8 a.m. Sunday, according to …
A New Mexico man was jailed last week after he doused his wife with gasoline and tried to set her on fire because he learned he wouldn’t be getting a coronavirus stimulus check. The Albuquerque Police Department said that Joe Macias, 63, has been charged with attempted murder, kidnapping and aggravated battery against a household …
