An Idaho mother is accused of brutally beating her children after they ate a tub of ice cream. Fox News reports that Priscilla Zapata allegedly shaved her two daughters’ heads after discovering they had eaten the ice cream, in addition to severely beating all four of her children — two boys and two girls — and …
A Utah police officer has been fired after he was caught on camera in July forcibly arresting a nurse who refused to let him draw blood from an unconscious patient. CNN reported that Detective Jeff Payne was terminated. According to Payne’s lawyer, Greg Skorda, his client was notified of the department’s decision in a letter …
An Idaho man allegedly beat, strangled and stabbed his parents to death and then tried to hide their bodies in a shed. William Taylor, 48, faces two counts of first-degree murder as well as two counts of failure to notify of a death in connection with the killings, KTVB-TV reports. The charges come after authorities …
The patient that Utah nurse Alex Wubbels was arrested for protecting from a blood test passed away on Monday, as reported by FOX 13. Rigby Police announced William Gray’s death via Facebook on Tuesday. The truck driver and reserve officer with the Rigby Police Department in Idaho was critically injured in July when a suspect …
The father of a special needs boy took to Facebook on Thursday to express his hurt and anger after he learned older boys at his son’s school were taunting and bullying the little boy. KTLA reports that Jackson Bezzant, who turns 8 in a little over a week, has Treachers Collins syndrome, a rare medical condition that …
BY NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS, Associated Press ROCKFORD, Wash. (AP) — A shooter opened fire at a high school in a tiny town in Washington state Wednesday, killing one student, injuring three others and sending worried parents to the school in a frenzied rush, authorities said. Brian Schaeffer of the Spokane Fire Department told reporters that one …
The owner of a now-shuttered private boarding school pressured a teenager into sex, forced girls to undress for “body image therapy” and held other students in solitary confinement, authorities say. Prosecutors on Friday charged Benjamin Trane, the former director of Midwest Academy, with third-degree sexual abuse, sexual exploitation by a counselor and child endangerment, as …
A wife, a 14-year-old girl, and her mother were found dead with a single gunshot wound to each of their heads in a farmhouse shed in Caldwell, Idaho, on June 19. The primary person of interest, Michael Bullinger, remains on the run. The victims of the Idaho triple murder include Nadja Medley, 48, her daughter, Payton …
An Idaho mom was arrested after crashing her car full of kids and blowing over four times the legal limit on her roadside Breathalyzer test. Lauren Weeks, 37, of Rexford, Idaho was arrested on a misdemeanor charge of excessive driving under the influence, possessing an open container while driving, and injury to child by transporting …
P. SOLOMON BANDA, Associated Press DENVER (AP) A recent insurance study links increased car crash claims to legalized recreational marijuana. The Highway Loss Data Institute, a leading insurance research group, said in study results released Thursday that collision claims in Colorado, Washington, and Oregon went up 2.7 percent in the years since legal recreational marijuana …
An 18-month-old Idaho boy died after his mother’s boyfriend allegedly beat him so violently that investigators compared his injuries to a car accident at 70 mph. According to court documents obtained by KTLA 5, Jesus Adan Castillo, 22, eventually admitted to police that he beat Zachary Tendoy, 1, after a night of drinking. Initially, Castillo, who …
