An unlicensed Utah daycare worker is facing felony child abuse charges after she reportedly slammed an infant down so severely that she broke his legs. FOX News reports 66-year-old Elvira Ortega, who ran an unlicensed daycare in Salt Lake City, allegedly admitted to police that she slammed the baby feet-first onto a hard bathroom floor while …
By COLLEEN LONG, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A defense lawyer says it was an act of madness. Prosecutors will begin trying to prove Thursday that it was murder. Five years ago, Yoselyn Ortega, a trusted nanny to a well-to-do family, took two young children in her care into a bathroom at their Manhattan apartment, …
Two roommates who went missing in New Mexico earlier this year have been found dead. KOAT reports that Zakaria Fry, 28, and her roommate Eugene Carrell Ray, 70, were found dead last week Albuquerque, a month after both went missing. Fry was found in a trash container, the Ray was reportedly found in a trunk nearby …
By DAMIAN J. TROISE, AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Dick’s Sporting Goods and Walmart took steps Wednesday to restrict gun sales, adding two retail heavyweights to the growing rift between corporate America and the gun lobby. Dick’s said it will immediately stop selling assault-style rifles and ban the sale of all guns to anyone …
Authorities in Florida have arrested a middle school teacher on suspicion of carrying out an illicit relationship with a 14-year-old student. According to Newsweek, police believe the married 26-year-old teacher began taking an inappropriate interest in the student in November, which played out with her sending him nude images of herself and purchasing marijuana for …
A New York woman faces criminal charges including attempted murder, burglary and assault in connection to a poisoning more than a year ago. According to reports, 42-year-old Viktoria Nasyrova, a Russian living in Brooklyn, is accused of poisoning a woman with a tampered cheesecake with the intention of assuming her identity as well as numerous …
A Grand Junction, Colorado, man who was condemned to more than 300 years behind bars for child sex crimes was freed less than three years into his lengthy sentence. The Mesa County District Attorney’s Office confirmed to KREX that Michael Tracy McFadden, 46, was released from Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility in Ordway on Tuesday. According to the …
Authorities in Kentucky arrested a disabled man’s parents on suspicion of severe neglect resulting in his death at the age of 20. As WKYT reported, Albert and Patsy Christy were arrested on Monday and are expected to face murder charges following a months-long investigation into Logan Christy’s death. A medical examiner’s report helped secure the …
A new class-action lawsuit has accused a renowned youth volleyball coach of using his position to rape at least six teen girls “hundreds” of times over a 30-year span. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, a 72-page complaint stated that Rick Butler, who had “the ability to place the teenage girls he coaches at top college volleyball programs,” …
Since the day Lucas Hernandez disappeared on February 17, his stepmother, Emily Glass, has been in the hot seat, given that she was the last person to see the boy. While sitting in jail on a child endangerment charge, she opened to a local Wichita reporter about Lucas’ disappearance, publicly for the first time. FactFinder12 …
Kansas authorities and volunteers have now search five parks in the Wichita area, in hopes of finding any clues that would lead to the whereabout of missing boy, Lucas Hernandez, but nothing has surfaced. On Tuesday evening, authorities, acting on a tip, searched a disturbed rock pile at Chapin Park. They later reported that nothing connected …
A junior at Northwestern University died on Sunday of unexplained causes and police are investigating her death. The Daily Northwestern reports that Kenzie Krogh, 20, died Sunday morning at Saint Francis Hospital, where her friends brought her on Saturday when she reportedly said she wasn’t feeling well. Krogh was a junior at the School of Education and …
