By SALLY HO and REGINA GARCIA CANO, Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The rapid-fire popping sounded like firecrackers at first, so many in the crowd of 22,000 country music fans didn’t understand what was happening when the band stopped playing and singer Jason Aldean bolted off the stage. “That’s gunshots,” a man could be heard …
A Griffin, Georgia, woman allegedly broke up a street fight with her SUV—and ran her daughter over in the process. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Shameka Peoples, 31, is accused of injuring five people, including her daughter, when she ran her car through an altercation on Wednesday night. Cell phone video, which can be viewed below, …
Released from prison a couple of days early to avoid a likely media circus, disgraced pro football star O.J. Simpson made his first public statement as a paroled man Sunday. Just hours after his nine-year robbery sentence ended, the New York Post published a short video of Simpson’s at-times terse interaction with reporters — especially …
David Creato Jr., the New Jersey man whose relationship with a teenage girl reportedly led him to kill his own 3-year-old son, will face a decade behind bars for the 2015 crime. On Oct. 13, 2015, Creato called police to report his son, Brendan, missing. About three hours later, the boy’s dead body was found …
A border patrol agent in Florida was critically injured when he was ambushed and shot several times outside of an Oakleaf supermarket, but he received some much-needed aid at the scene thanks in part to a brave bystander. When Shelby Floyd-Berrios heard gunshots from the salon where she was working, she told WTLV that she …
A woman with a history of mental illness has been charged with killing her mother with a crossbow and hiding the body under a rug for days, the Morning Call reports. Authorities say Lisa Caplan, 51, murdered her 71-year-old mother, Sandra Barndt, at a duplex in Palmerton, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday. Caplan allegedly shot her mom …
A Pennsylvania couple allegedly admitted to waterboarding a 12-year-old girl to punish her, the Beaver County Times reports. Dion Stevens, 34, and Malisa Stevens, 41, were charged earlier this week after police received a tip that the pair was physically abusing the girl. The victim reportedly told authorities that in April, the Stevens’ dragged her …
Parents in multiple California counties have been notified that a teacher may have contaminated flutes sent to elementary students with bodily fluid — specifically, semen. NBC News reports that federal authorities are investigating reports that flutes sent to elementary school children as part of a nonprofit outreach program called “Flutes of the World” may have …
NEW YORK (AP) — Marilyn Manson’s representative says the singer was injured in a mishap on stage during a New York City performance and taken to a hospital. Variety reports that Manson was performing a cover of the Eurythmics’ “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” when he began to climb a podium, causing it to …
By KEN RITTER, Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Former football legend O.J. Simpson became a free man Sunday after serving nine years for a botched hotel room heist in Las Vegas that brought the conviction and prison time he avoided in the killings of his ex-wife and her friend after his 1995 acquittal in the …
Disgraced NFL legend O.J. Simpson’s post-prison plans have routinely been the subject of media speculation, leading to multiple reports that he might be considering the best way to turn his release into a payday. Media appearances, from interviews to reality television contracts, have been mentioned as possible avenues for Simpson, who is serving the final …
Hugh Hefner’s treatment of women continued to be a topic of discussion in the days following his death Wednesday at the age of 91. The founder of Playboy was married to Crystal Harris, 60 years his junior, in 2012, and early reports after his death indicated a prenuptial agreement Harris signed prior to their wedding …
