A Missouri state trooper pleaded guilty to a boating violation in the drowning death of a handcuffed man, according to The Kansas City Star. On Tuesday, Anthony Piercy (pictured left) pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a negligent operation of a vessel charge in the May 2014 death of Brandon Ellingson, 20 (pictured right). He faces—at most—six months in …
“What should be a time of great joy and celebration in a young person’s life has turned into a horrible tragedy.”
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — A central Illinois man was charged Friday with kidnapping in the disappearance of a visiting Chinese scholar who authorities believe to be dead after last being seen three weeks ago. Yingying Zhang, the daughter of a working-class factory driver from China, disappeared on June 9, just weeks after arriving at the …
The courts sentenced a Virginia woman who beat her 3-year-old goddaughter to death to 30 years behind bars, according to CBS6. Danielle Turner, 25, carried out the unthinkable abuse on infant Latrice Walden in February. Turner originally claimed that Walden had hit her head on the faucet when she slipped in the bathtub. She later admitted to hitting the baby …
Florida police have announced that a 14-year-old boy shot himself in a Miami gun range on Thursday afternoon. The shooting is being investigated as a possible suicide, according to CBS Miami. Vincent Colonna was with his father at the Gun World gun range when the teen suffered what authorities are suggesting was a self-inflicted gunshot wound. …
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The married mother’s husband reportedly filed for divorce just before one of the alleged assaults
The gunman may have been a former employee at the hospital
NEW YORK (AP) — Police say at least two people have been shot at a New York City hospital and the gunman is still at large. The gunfire broke out at 2:50 p.m. Friday inside the Bronx Lebanon Hospital in the Bronx. Television images showed the hospital surrounded by police cars and fire trucks. Police …
A Tennessee church employee has been arrested on charges that he assaulted two young children he transported on the bus he drove for work. According to LocalMemphis.com, Edwin Burgess, 54, was arrested this week following reports he had sexual contact with two children, ages 9 and 10. Burgess is accused of baiting the children with a …
A Poteau, Oklahoma, police officer who responded to a child abuse call in 2015 is being praised after he adopted a little boy who was being severely beaten and starved. KFSM reports that when Officer Jody Thompson responded to the call and saw the then-8-year-old boy for the first time, he knew almost immediately that the child …
Tennis star Venus Williams is facing a wrongful death lawsuit after police determined she was at fault in a fatal car crash earlier this month that killed a senior citizen. The family of 78-year-old Jerome Barson, who died two weeks after the June 9 crash in Florida, is suing Williams for unspecified damages. As Crime …
