An Iowa couple won big in court on Tuesday after they sued their former attorney for malpractice when the baby they adopted was returned to his birth parents, then murdered by his own father. PEOPLE reports that Rachel and Heidi McFarland won the lawsuit against lawyer Jason Rieper, who “acted negligently” and failed to successfully get the …
A St. Petersburg, Florida, woman is accused of goading her 16-year-old daughter into fighting a girl who’s six months pregnant. Celena Sherri Troupe, 34, allegedly saw her daughter brawling another girl Friday. Instead of stopping the altercation, police said Troupe encouraged her to keep fighting, according to The Smoking Gun. “The defendant [Troupe] did not …
“I believed that if I didn’t go through with it, Slender Man would come and attack and kill myself, my friends and my family.”
Authorities are asking for the public’s help in locating a pregnant woman who they say disappeared outside her Fargo, North Dakota, apartment Saturday afternoon. Savanna Lafontaine-Greywind’s family revealed to KVLY that the 22-year-old is eight months pregnant. Lafontaine-Greywind was last seen between 1:30 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. Saturday outside her North Fargo apartment building. Her …
A federal judge in Tampa, Florida, denied prosecutors’ request to delay a trial due to Monday’s total eclipse. The Washington Post reported that a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) agent wanted to postpone court proceedings because he had prepaid for an eclipse trip. However, Judge Steven Merryday ruled that the trial, surrounding a felon …
“Everybody does it. Why not? People take video of them in cars like all the time. And I’m only 18—we’re still young.”
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (AP) — A judge was shot and wounded Monday morning as he walked toward his county’s courthouse, and a suspect was killed after a probation officer returned fire, officials said. Jefferson County Judge Joseph Bruzzese Jr. was shot near the courthouse in Steubenville, just across the Ohio River from West Virginia’s northern panhandle, …
Did a Missouri daycare worker take discipline too far? The parents of a 4-year-old girl think so, and want the daycare shut down after an employee allegedly strapped the child to a chair with duct tape and took a picture. KFVS reports that the Missouri Department of Children and Family Services found the photo of the …
“The depth of his deceit is dumbfounding”
By MICHAEL TARM, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The fatal stabbing of a hairstylist in Chicago was part of a sexual fantasy hatched in an online chatroom between a Northwestern University professor and an Oxford University employee, whose plan included killing someone and then themselves, prosecutors told a Cook County judge Sunday at a bond hearing …
A Pennsylvania woman who discovered that her baby daughter’s cremains were actually a dog’s remains is speaking out against the mistake and considering legal action against the funeral home that gave her the wrong ashes. Action News 4 reports that baby Jerrica Sky was born stillborn in 2015. Her mother, Jennifer Dailey, decided to have her newborn …
Los Angeles police have arrested a biology teacher and accused her of having sex with a 16-year-old student, Los Angeles Times has reported. Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) spokesman Tony Im announced Sunday that Aimee Palmitessa, 45, a teacher at the prestigious Brentwood School, was arrested Friday and charged with statutory rape. In a recent newsletter, …
