A fire in a drug rehabilitation center in the violence-plagued Mexican state of Guanajuato killed 12 people and injured at least three others, authorities said Sunday. The fire broke out early Sunday in the town of San Jose Iturbe, where the municipal government said it was still investigating what caused the …
Read More »
A longtime CIA officer who drugged, photographed and sexually assaulted more than two dozen women in postings around the world was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison Wednesday after an emotional hearing in which victims described being deceived by a man who appeared kind, educated and part of an …
Read More »HASTINGS, Minn. — The mother of a 3-year-old boy who died of a fentanyl overdose in 2020 was sentenced Wednesday to four years probation, the Dakota County Attorney’s Office announced. Queenetta McDaniel, 36, of Maplewood, pled guilty to one count of manslaughter in the second degree on July 24, 2023. The …
Read More »
A Vermont armed robbery suspect who police say eluded capture in the past week in a vehicle, on a stolen bike, on foot and in a stolen sailboat was arrested Thursday after he was spotted in a kayak on a river, authorities said. Eric Edson, 52, was wanted on accusations …
Read More »
Lori Vallow Daybell, whose children’s 2019 reported disappearance sparked a nationwide search before their bodies were discovered months later buried on her husband’s Idaho property, was sentenced Monday to life in prison with no possibility of parole, the maximum sentence, in the murders of 16-year-old Tylee Ryan and 7-year-old Joshua …
Read More »
Trenton, N.J. — A New Jersey man who was twice convicted of defrauding investors out of $230 million and whose lengthy prison sentence was commuted by President Donald Trump is once again facing fraud charges, federal prosecutors in New Jersey announced Wednesday. Eliyahu “Eli” Weinstein, 48, of Lakewood, who is …
Read More »
Police in Texas arrested a pair accused of kidnapping an 18-year-old woman and holding her captive for about a month, officials said Monday. The victim escaped on Sunday night, Harris County Constable Mark Herman said. The suspects had left the home for a short time, giving the woman a brief …
Read More »
Prosecutors will seek the death penalty against a man charged with kidnapping a Memphis, Tennessee, school teacher during an early-morning run and killing her, a district attorney said Thursday. Cleotha Abston is charged with snatching Eliza Fletcher from a street near the University of Memphis on Sept. 2 and forcing …
Read More »
NEWTON, Mass. — The Nonantum neighborhood of Newton, Massachusetts, is on high alert after police say three elderly people were killed inside a home Sunday morning. Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan said there is evidence of forced entry at the home and the victims suffered stab wounds and blunt force …
Read More »
A Tennessee woman has been accused of trying to hire a hitman to kill the wife of a man she met on dating app Match.com, according to a federal criminal complaint. Melody Sasser is charged with murder for hire, according to the complaint filed last month in U.S. District Court …
Read More »