A Popeyes in Detroit, Michigan, remains closed days after a video appearing to show filthy, unsanitary conditions in their kitchen went viral. Shakita Shemere, 20, told The Associated Press that she shot the video after a manager reprimanded her for screaming when she saw a cockroach. Shemere claimed her decision to take to Facebook Live cost her job. …
A woman in Florida is accused of trying to extort a man who left his phone unattended while out enjoying a few drinks with friends. The New York Post reports that Briyana Andrea Valls, 22, is charged with extortion and grand theft after she allegedly threatened to tell the man’s wife that he was cheating if …
A Colorado mom says she woke up to find her 3-year-old little girl stuck inside a brand-new washing machine the family had just bought, which was turned on and in the process of filling with water. ABC reports that when Lindsey McIver woke up one morning last week, she found her 4-year-old son crying and …
Nearly two years after a 10-year-old boy died in a horrific waterslide accident in Kansas City, the park is closing down the tallest waterslide in the world. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Caleb Thomas Schwab, the son of a Kansas City lawmaker, died in August 2016 on the Verruckt waterslide at the Schlitterbahn waterpark when a raft …
A Missouri circuit court ordered Johnson & Johnson on Thursday to pay $4.69 billion to 22 women and their families after they made claims that asbestos in the company’s talcum powder products, including its baby powder, led them to develop ovarian cancer, The New York Times reports. A St. Louis jury awarded the women, who …
Delta Airlines is investigating the death of a dog during a layover at Detroit Metropolitan Airport, and the pet’s family want answers. The dog, an 8-year-old Pomeranian named Alejandro, was reportedly found dead inside of its carrier at a cargo facility in Romulus, southwest of Detroit. Alejandro was headed to New Jersey from Phoenix, and …
The 30-year-old Syracuse man ordered by a judge to move out of his parents’ home is still complaining about minor inconveniences despite making an easy paycheck for an appearance on a right-wing talk show. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Michael Rotondo has until June 1 to move out of his parents’ home after moving back in with …
The 30-year-old man ordered by a judge to move out of his parents’ home now claims he can’t afford moving boxes in what appears to be another attempt to stall fleeing the nest. The New York Daily News reports that Michael Rotondo, who was ordered by a judge to move out of his parents’ house …
SEATTLE (AP) — An “unlikely” string of events prompted Amazon’s Echo personal assistant device to record a Portland, Oregon, family’s private conversation and then send the recording to an acquaintance in Seattle, the company said Thursday. The woman told KIRO-TV that two weeks ago an employee of her husband contacted them to say he thought their device …
A grown man has been ordered to vacate his parents’ home by a judge after a short legal battle, as reported by the New York Post. 30-year-old Michael Rotondo, who is unemployed and has lived with his parents for the last eight years, was asked Tuesday by State Supreme Court Justice Donald Greenwood to leave …
A group of black women leaving an Airbnb rental were mistaken for burglars in an alleged racial profiling incident in Southern California. And now they are planning to sue the local police who responded to the 911 call. One of the three women is Donisha Prendergast, the granddaughter of Bob Marley. According to USA Today, she …
On the very first day it opened, the world’s fastest and tallest roller coaster had to be shut down after an accident. According to CBS Philly, “Steel Vengeance” opened briefly on Saturday at Cedar Point Amusement Park in Sandusky, Ohio, only to be shut down after two roller coaster cars collided. One of the cars was …
