Accused murderer Jodi Arias, on the witness stand for a ninth day, faced her prosecutor’s questions for the first time Thursday, with prosecutor Juan Martinez attacking her credibility during six hours of cross-examination. Arias, during eight days of questioning by her own lawyers, told jurors intimate details of her sex life with ex-lover Travis Alexander,... Read More
Officials say burned remains found in a California mountain cabin have been positively identified as fugitive former police officer Christopher Dorner. San Bernardino County sheriff’s spokeswoman Jodi Miller said Thursday that the identification was made through Dorner’s dental records. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP’s earlier story is... Read More
A 19-year-old daycare worker was formally charged Friday in the abduction of a 5-year-old girl from her Philadelphia elementary school last month, an arrest aided by the little girl’s report to police that there was a talking bird in the home where she was taken, authorities said. Christina Regusters was charged with kidnapping, rape of... Read More
Last weekend, employees of the Godiva company gave out chocolate bars at a gun range in Texas. “They came out and set up a table, and allowed people to preorder chocolate-covered strawberries,” said Brandy Liss, the chief executive of the Arms Room, an indoor range outside of Houston. “We wanted to have chocolates in the... Read More
Accused murderer Jodi Arias has a new man in her life, according to a report by Azcentral.com. The man, identified by the news network as Bryan Carr, said he has been visiting Arias behind bars for more than a year. He said the couple met through a mutual friend prior to her arrest and connected on... Read More
It took months for anyone to discover that an eccentric man known simply as Radkin had died, crushed under a tractor-pulled horse trailer on his property on the shores of Lake Champlain in northern Vermont. But it didn’t take long for looters to ransack the hoarder’s dilapidated house, police say, hauling off antiques, a vehicle,... Read More
Police were hunting for a convicted murderer on Thursday after he was mistakenly released from custody in Chicago, where he was sent to face a drug charge while serving a 60-year prison sentence in Indiana. Indiana Department of Corrections officials said Steven L. Robbins, 44, was sent to Cook County Circuit Court on Tuesday to... Read More
AUSTIN, Texas, Jan 29 (Reuters) – Texas is set to execute Kimberly McCarthy by lethal injection on Tuesday, the first woman to be put to death in the United States in more than two years. The execution is scheduled to be carried out at the state prison in Huntsville, Texas after 6 p.m. local... Read More
A Stoughton, Mass. baby shower turned into a 200-person brawl Saturday night, resulting in four people being arrested, including a 14-year-old. The fight took place at Club Luis de Camoes on Porter Street and took 20 police officers almost an hour to subdue, StoughtonPatch reported. “Oh my God. It was just nonstop. There would... Read More
A prominent Alabama pastor fatally shot his wife and wounded their 18-year-old daughter in their church-owned home before grabbing a kitchen knife and trying to stab himself to death, police said Friday. The Rev. Terry Greer, 54, is being charged with murder in the slaying of 52-year-old Lisa Greer and attempted murder in the wounding... Read More
A dog reportedly mutilated by Mexican drug traffickers is recovering at a sanctuary for abused and abandoned dogs. Sanctuary owner Patricia Ruiz says Pay de Limon, or Lemon Pie, was fitted with prosthetic front legs last year. The Belgian shepherd mix now walks, jumps and runs. Ruiz says the dog was left in a trash... Read More
In a Jan. 10 story about Indiana’s appeal of a court ruling granting a trial to a boy who, at age 12, pleaded guilty as an adult to conspiracy to commit murder, The Associated Press erroneously reported the relationship between the boy, Paul Gingerich, and the murder victim, Phillip Danner. Danner was the stepfather of... Read More
The allegations were almost too heinous and far-fetched to be believed. A New Hampshire lawyer who graduated at the top of her class and credited her success to Christianity was accused of using her 14-year-old daughter as a sexual pawn, at one point even engaging in a sexual act with the girl on camera. But... Read More
An Indiana woman whose young son was abducted 19 years ago was screaming and “jumping up and down” after learning he was living in Minnesota under a different name, her husband said Thursday shortly after police announced they had found him. Richard Wayne Landers Jr. was just 5 years old when he and his paternal... Read More
Anchorage Police are now turning to the public for help capturing two men who, they said, raped a woman while she was unconscious and then stole her child’s Christmas presents from under the tree. The Anchorage Daily News reports that the incident happened in the woman’s apartment in the early hours of December 15. The... Read More
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