A Maryland woman is dead after a 12-year-old boy jumped from an overpass in Virginia, in an alleged attempt to end his own life. NBC Washington reports that 22-year-old Marisa Harris, of Olney, Maryland, was driving a 2005 Ford Escape along eastbound I-66 in Virginia on Saturday when the boy threw himself off of the Cedar Lane …
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Kevin Spacey said Sunday he is “beyond horrified” by allegations that he made a sexual advance on a teen boy decades ago. The two-time Oscar winner posted on Twitter that he doesn’t remember the encounter. “But if I did behave then as he describes, I owe him the sincerest apology …
A California teenager will stand trial as an adult for charges related to the 2015 rape and murder of his 8-year-old neighbor. Although he was only 15 years old at the time of the attack, a judge sided with prosecutors who argued the graphic nature of the crime and the level of planning that went …
Police in Texas believe a man fatally shot his daughter’s boyfriend, ran them both over, drove off and then killed himself, according to KDFW. Officers said it happened as the shooter’s daughter and her boyfriend left a movie theater Friday evening. The shooter reportedly caught the couple by surprise. Investigators have identified the daughter’s boyfriend …
A husband and wife in New York pleaded guilty to an array of abuses inflicted on a young girl in their care over a period of several months. According to the Binghamton Press & Sun Bulletin, 28-year-old Justin Crandall and 27-year-old Jessica Crandall faced an impending trial Friday when they both accepted deals to plead …
New Mexico police arrested a woman they believe abused her foster child over an extended period of time. According to the Farmington Daily Times, 53-year-old Hope Graciano faces a total of four felony charges — including one first-degree count — associated with her alleged abuse of the 11-year-old victim. A licensed foster-care provider for roughly …
A Wisconsin woman was convicted Wednesday of sexually assaulting two 16-year-old boys while she worked as a teacher’s aide. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that the first victim claimed he met Kimberly Gersonde, 24, in 2015 when he picked his brothers up from Ben Franklin Elementary School. The boy said Gersonde gave him her number on a sticky …
Texas authorities responded to an early-morning shooting Sunday at what has been been described as a Halloween party. According to Austin police detective Lee Knouse, the suspected shooter was an acquaintance of the victims and was a guest at the private gathering, the Austin American-Statesman reported. “There was described a white male subject that was …
The “knock out” game may be making its way back, and it’s scaring people as Halloween nears, especially New Yorkers where a man was recently sucker punched outside of a restaurant. New York Post reports that the victim, a 43-year-old male, stood outside the Shake Shack, a burger joint in Brooklyn, when a group of teens …
A Long Island mother is accused of robbing a bank while leaving her six-month-old daughter in the car. The New York Post reports that Diana Marini, 28, took a taxi with her daughter to a Chase Bank in Islandia in Suffolk County on Saturday afternoon. She allegedly left her daughter inside the car when she went …
A district attorney’s office in Pennsylvania said it will reinstate most of the charges against 11 members at a now-nonoperational Penn State Fraternity, which were dismissed for incidents in connection with a sophomore pledge’s death earlier this year, according to Fox News. The incident comes after Tim Piazza, 19, fell down a set of stairs, …
Police in Plainfield, Illinois, cautioned locals to stay inside as they investigated a suspected murder-suicide that spanned two crime scenes Saturday. According to WMAQ, officers first responded to the report of a shooting at a Jewel-Osco supermarket, where they found the body of a woman shortly after noon. The victim was found in the store’s …
