Update: Suspects who pointed gun at party-goers while flying Confederate flag get stiff prison sentences
Hate Crimes
**WARNING** Video contains graphic language
Child Abuse
February 27, 2017
Mom on trial for killing son: ‘he looked like his dad’
A mother in Australia sat in a courtroom on Monday morning, facing allegations that she murdered her 3-year-old son in 2014. She’s accused of killing him because “he looked like his dad.” The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the unnamed woman reportedly told police that she killed son because she couldn’t connect with him. She …
Weird Crime
February 27, 2017
Drone invasion: GoPro crashes through woman’s Manhattan high-rise apartment
Recreational drone use is against the law in the city
Missing
February 27, 2017
Urgent! Police searching for two missing Pennsylvania teens
Authorities in Harrisburg and Middletown, Pennsylvania, are looking for two teen girls that disappeared on Sunday. FOX 43 reports that Elliyah Griffin, 16, and Jovianna Gonzalez, 15, were last seen in the Middletown Genesis Court area. Elliyah is bi-racial. She stands five foot three inches tall and weighs around 100 to 125 pounds. She has brown hair, …
February 27, 2017
Police say more than 100 Jewish cemetery headstones damaged
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — More than 100 headstones have been vandalized at a Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia, damage discovered less than a week after similar vandalism in Missouri, authorities said. A man visiting the cemetery called police at 9:40 a.m. Sunday to report that three of his relatives’ headstones had been knocked over and damaged. “The …
Violent Crime
February 26, 2017
VIDEO: Did a police officer stage his wife’s suicide attempt?
Footage reportedly shows a Griffin, Georgia, police officer come home to find his wife with a gunshot wound to the head. Matthew Boynton, 20, discovered his wife Jessica, 19, lying in a pool of blood in a closet. Barely clinging to life, Jessica spent three weeks in a coma before waking up, according to 11alive. …
Drug Crime
February 26, 2017
2-year-old tot found licking bong in running car
It is not known what the woman’s relationship is to the child
Hate Crimes
February 26, 2017
Suspects who flew Confederate Flag by child’s birthday party face 20 years in prison
Two suspects threatened party goers with a gun
Yelled racial slurs while riding in a truck with confederate flags
**WARNING: Video contains graphic language**
February 26, 2017
Joseph Wapner, star of ‘The People’s Court,’ dead at 97
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Joseph Wapner, the retired Los Angeles judge who presided over “The People’s Court” with steady force during the heyday of the reality courtroom show, died Sunday at age 97. Son David Wapner told The Associated Press that his father died at home in his sleep. Joseph Wapner was hospitalized a week …
Missing
February 26, 2017
Ohio mom found dead in recycling bin
The young mother had been turning her life around
Violent Crime
February 26, 2017
Shooter Be Damned: Gunman kills 8-year-old after car accident
A manhunt is underway for the suspect
Bullies
February 25, 2017
Watch: Boy risks his safety, takes on bully who hurt smaller student
When a high school student in Canada saw a fellow student getting bullied, he risked his own safety to help him. The boy’s mother is proud of her son, but upset that the school isn’t do a lot to help out kids who are being bullied frequently in an area beside the school. Global News …