Attorneys for “affluenza teen,” Ethan Couch, are going to the Texas Supreme Court in an attempt to get him released from jail. NBC DFW reports that the lawyers filed the request on Friday, arguing that the judge was wrong for sentencing the 19-year-old to two years behind bars, after his case was previously handled in juvenile court. …
DANIEL ESTRIN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police on Thursday arrested a 19-year-old Israeli Jewish man as the primary suspect in a string of bomb threats targeting Jewish community centers and other institutions in the U.S., marking a potential breakthrough in the case. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld described the suspect as a hacker, but …
An Alabama family is grieving after a mother and daughter died less than an hour apart in traffic accidents on the same road. According to WAFF, Julia Yates Patterson, 39, was killed after a head-on collision on Highway 117 in Valley Head around 3 p.m. on Tuesday afternoon. Just 30 minutes later, her 8-year-old daughter Elizabeth …
A 9-year-old little girl riding in the back seat of a car called police on Tuesday after a Batavia, Ohio, woman was allegedly shooting up heroin in the front seat. Click 2 Houston reports that the parents of the girl, Paula Smith and Charles Dove, were in the front seat while the child sat in the back …
A search is underway for a Florida man who went overboard on a Carnival cruise ship on Wednesday, near Cuba, the U.S. Coast Guard said. ABC News reports that Brandon Paul, 23, fell from the eighth deck of a Carnival Victory cruise ship. The incident occurred around 3 a.m. The ship was around 30 miles north of Pinar Del Rio, …
A Bend, Oregon, daycare manager is facing 114 charges for allegedly leaving children—ages 6 months to 7 years—home alone to go tanning. On Wednesday, a grand jury indicted January Irene Livsey (who also goes by January Neatherlin), 31, on 76 counts of first-degree criminal mistreatment and 38 counts of recklessly endangering another person. Livsey is …
Authorities: Twin 9-month-olds weighed eight pounds, had maggots in genitals
He left his bright orange prison-issued underwear, with DNA evidence, at the scene
UPDATE Pix 11 is reporting that a 28-year-old man has turned himself in for a stabbing caught on video in NYC. Sources say he arrived at the precinct with two knives, but neither was the murder weapon. He reportedly told police that he traveled to New York from Baltimore for the express purpose of killing black people. …
Mom says that people have made threats and neighborhood kids have shown up at her home to make jokes.
A link has been found between breast implants and a rare form of cancer, which has killed at least nine people, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Tuesday. The cancer, called anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL), is a rare type of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma involving cells in the immune system that can develop following …
A St. Augustine’s University freshman visiting her family for spring break was shot and killed while watching her friends film a music video in Washington D.C. According to the Washington Post, Ayana J. McAllister had gone to visit her family this week in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, for the school’s spring break. She was reportedly in northeast …
