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 …
The toddler who was hit by alleged street racers in Florida this week has died of her injuries. Fox News reports that 21-month-old Lillia Raubenolt has succumbed her injuries following the horrific crash on Tuesday that also killed her mother. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Lillia and her mother Jessica Reisinger, 24, were visiting Tampa from their …
Hours after a small human remains were found in Harvey County, Kansas, on Thursday, the stepmother of missing boy, Lucas Hernandez, was booked into the Sedgwick County Jail in Wichita. According to Sedwick County jail records, Glass, 26 was booked at around 10:34 p.m. on Thursday, on charges of “interference with a law enforcement officer …
By COLLEEN LONG, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Flinching when he heard himself described as a man who used power to prey on women, Harvey Weinstein was arraigned Friday on rape and other charges in the first criminal prosecution to result from the wave of allegations against him that sparked a national reckoning over sexual …
By ROB GILLIES, Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — An explosion caused by an “improvised explosive device” ripped through an Indian restaurant in a mall in the Toronto suburb of Mississauga, wounding 15 people, Canadian police said. Peel Region Sergeant Matt Bertram said two suspects with their faces covered to conceal their identity entered the Bombay Bhel …
A Florida mother is blaming the the Netflix show, “Thirteen Reasons Why,” for her daughter’s suicide attempt on Mother’s Day, after the girl’s friends allegedly made a “suicide pact” and pushed her kill herself. Okechobee News reports that the mom, identified as Katrina Sheffield, said she pieced together the information after reading messages sent between …
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts judge who engaged in sexual acts with a social worker in his courthouse chambers will be suspended indefinitely, the state’s highest court ruled Thursday, setting in motion the judge’s possible removal from the bench. The Supreme Judicial Court said Judge Thomas Estes’ “grave, willful and …
A trio of Florida motorists are facing criminal charges after police say their illegal street race resulted in the death of a woman and critical injuries to her 21-month-old daughter. According to the New York Post, Ohio native Jessica Reisinger was in Tampa on Friday when she was pushing her daughter across Bayshore Boulevard shortly …
A investigator says he helped find reported human remains on Thursday, likely 5-year-old Lucas Hernandez, who has been missing since February 17. KWCH reports that Harvey County Sheriff Chad said he responded to a call regarding a “dead body” underneath a bridge off of SE 96th Street, in between S. Woodlawn and Hillside Streets in Harvey County on …
Authorities in North Carolina have arrested a woman on suspicion of sexual battery among other criminal counts after she allegedly assaulted a cable repairman dispatched to her home earlier this year. According to the Fayetteville Observer, 47-year-old Mildred Newsome was arrested last week and charged on Saturday with two counts of second-degree forced sex offense …
Investigators in Pennsylvania have requested that search warrants connection to the murder of a young teacher be sealed, indicating they are a working on leads they do not want to be made public. Authorities have not named any suspects in the murder of Rachel DelTondo, 33, who was gunned down in her mother’s driveway on …
A Florida couple was arrested Wednesday after their 8-month-old son died of an apparent fentanyl and cocaine overdose. According to WKMG, David Williams Chappele Jr., 29, and Jessica Marie Strickland, 27, were arrested eight months after officers found their son, Tanner, unresponsive at their Brevard County home on September 6, 2017. The child was pronounced dead …
