A California appeals court on Friday backed former Gov Jerry Brown’s decision to block parole for Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten, according to an AP report in the Sacramento Bee. Van Houten, 70, is serving a life sentence for her role in the stabbing deaths of Los Angeles grocer Leno LaBianca and his wife, …
Pinellas County sheriff’s deputies arrested a former employee at an assisted living facility on Friday, saying he ingested an unregulated drug called kratom and fell asleep while a disabled man in the backseat of the company minivan died in the heat. Russell had taken John LaPointe, 35, to a doctor’s appointment on May 9 from …
Las Vegas police arrested adult film star Cheryl Marie Murphy, known as Bridget the Midget in her movies, this week for stabbing her boyfriend during a violent argument. Law enforcement told TMZ that a neighbor reported screaming and breaking glass from a home in southwest Las Vegas. Officers found that Murphy, also known as Bridget …
A southern Indiana woman and her now ex-boyfriend have been arrested and charged with “heinous, despicable, disgusting” acts of child abuse, Scott County Sheriff Jerry Goodin told WLKY on Friday. Matthew Mosier, 37, and Hannah Graves, 28, were arrested Thursday after an investigation that began in August when the Indiana Department of Child Services got …
A judge who told the mother of a sexual assault victim to “keep your mouth shut, sit down” during a hearing earlier this summer recused himself from the trial on Friday, citing the mother’s stated concerns that she feared he could not conduct the trial fairly, NJ.com reported. Middlesex County Superior Court Judge Joseph Rea was …
Surveillance video captured a wild shootout in Chester, Pennsylvania, Friday morning, as two men fired at one another while recklessly circling a mini-van parked on a city street blocks from two schools, CBS Philly reported. In the video released by Chester Police, children on their way to school duck for cover behind other vehicles as …
A south Florida couple was arrested late Wednesday, charged with trying to sell counterfeit watches, purses, shoes, and handbags — valued at $2.4 million, had the cache been authentic, the Palm Beach Post reported. Steven Price, 32, and Deva Overman, 37, were booked into the Palm Beach County jail after Price offered to sell a …
Police in rural North Carolina arrested Timothy Wade Parnell, 58, on Thursday, charging him with the murder of a woman found dead in her yard more than a week ago, CBS 17 reported. An off-duty sheriff’s deputy discovered Anne Kirkpatrick’s body in front of her house on September 8, according to WRAL. Kirkpatrick, 46, had …
Wealthy Democratic donor Ed Buck was charged Thursday in federal court with providing methamphetamine to a man who overdosed and died in his home in 2017. The new charge comes two days after state charges were levied against him over another man who overdosed in his home last week, the Los Angeles Times reported. Twenty-six-year-old …
An active duty US Marine and a 19-year-old woman were arrested this week on multiple charges related to manufacturing and selling LSD, the Onslow County Sheriff’s Department said in a Facebook post. Andrew Christian Gray and Allison Alexia Seely were arrested on Monday at the end of a two-month investigation jointly conducted by the Onslow …
A Republican state senator in Pennsylvania has admitted that he received child pornography through his Tumblr blog and now faces felony charges of possession of child porn and criminal use of a communications facility. Mike Folmer, 63, resigned from his seat representing Lebanon and parts of York and Dauphin counties on Wednesday, a day after …
Michelle Troconis was arraigned in a Norwalk, Connecticut, court Wednesday on fresh charges of tampering with evidence in the disappearance of Jennifer Dulos, a 50-year-old mother of five engaged in a contentious, two-year-old long divorce process with her husband, Fotis Dulos, Troconis’s boyfriend. Both Troconis and Fotis Dulos were arrested on the new tampering charges …
