FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The mother of a Texas teenager who used an “affluenza” defense in a fatal drunken-driving wreck is back in jail, accused of taking drugs in violation of the conditions of her release on bond. Tonya Couch was booked into a Fort Worth jail on Thursday. The arrest warrant issued Wednesday …
Anthony Bourdain, the celebrity chef, storyteller, and host of the CNN series “Parts Unknown,” is dead of an apparent suicide. He was 61. CNN reports that fellow chef Eric Ripert found Bourdain dead in his hotel room in France. The network released a statement confirming the suicide on Friday morning. “It is with extraordinary sadness …
The Kansas woman who led a private investigator to the remains of 5-year-old Lucas Hernandez last month has died on early Friday morning, allegedly from a gunshot wound to the head. According to KSN, authorities arrived to a home off of South Edgemoor in Wichita a little after 1:30 a.m. on Friday morning after Lucas’ …
A California couple who relentlessly abused and murdered the woman’s 8-year-old son learned their fate in Los Angeles court on Thursday. Superior Court Judge George G. Lomeli sentenced Palmdale mother Pearl Sinthia Fernandez, 34, to life without the possibility of parole and put boyfriend Isauro Aguirre, 37, on death row for the May 2013 killing of Gabriel …
Kentucky authorities are searching for a toddler girl who disappeared from her grandparent’s home in Bullitt County on Thursday morning. The family dog was also reported missing. The Bullitt County Sheriff’s Office reports that Charlee Campbell, 2, was sleeping in her bed at 5:30 a.m. when her grandfather left for work. Four hours later, the little girl’s …
Authorities in North Carolina say an employee at a pizzeria in Fayetteville was arrested on suspicion of adding a poisonous substance to cheese at the restaurant. According to the New York Post, 59-year-old Ricky Lee Adami was working at Primo Pizza when he allegedly put rat poison into the cheese mix set to be used …
An Illinois mother convicted of fatally beating her son on his fourth birthday learned her fate this week inside a Cook County courtroom. A jury found mother-of-four Crystal Valdez, 35, guilty of the first-degree murder of her youngest son, Christopher. As of Wednesday, Valez and her live-in boyfriend, Cesar Ruiz, have both been sentenced in connection with …
Florida authorities want answers after a newborn girl was found deceased, floating near the Boynton Beach Inlet in Ft. Lauderdale on Friday. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that officials with the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office stated the baby, who appeared to be around one to two weeks old, was found by firefighter Chris Lemieux about 75 to 100 feet …
The chief of police in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, has been placed on administrative leave as his department investigates the dramatic murder of a young teacher — who was the subject of an unauthorized departmental leak just months before she was gunned down in her mother’s driveway. KDKA News reports that Aliquippa Police Chief Don Couch was …
The convict reportedly admitted to sexually molesting around 100 boys
Las Vegas police have released more than 500 emergency calls from the October 2017 massacre that claimed 58 lives. According to KSNV, gunfire can be heard in some of the 518 emergency 911 calls that were made public on Wednesday. One of the first calls placed was placed by Mandalay Bay security after Jesus Campos …
Attorneys for a Texas inmate facing execution for the stabbing deaths of his estranged wife, their young son, and the woman’s infant daughter told a federal judge that he’s too mentally ill to face capital punishment. Andre Thomas, 35, was sentenced to death for the March 2004 slayings of Laura Boren, 4-year-old Andre Jr., and Boren’s …
