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A Wisconsin woman was charged with first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse, and third-degree sexual assault after she allegedly severed a man’s head while high during sex, New York Post reports. The shocking discovery was made by the 25-year-old victim’s mother in the early morning hours of Feb. 23 after she was awakened by the sound […]
YoungBoy Never Broke Again secured a win in his ongoing federal gun case. According to legal documents obtained by XXL magazine, a U.S. district judge has granted YoungBoy’s request to suppress video evidence that was seized during his 2020 arrest. Attorneys for the 22-year-old rapper—legal name Kentrell Gaulden—argue the footage was inadmissible in court because the camera was […]
The so-called “stand your ground” laws may be doing more harm than good. According to a new study, researchers confirmed a notable link between the self-defense statutes and a significant rise in U.S. firearm homicides. The peer-review report, published in the JAMA Network Open on Monday, found states that enacted SYG laws experienced an average increase of 8-10 percent in […]
A man was stabbed in a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority station this past Sunday after he reportedly got into an altercation with another man for not flushing the toilet behind him. According to Mass Live, police arrested 42-year-old Hector Avededo after he allegedly got into an altercation with a 33-year-old man who refused to flush the […]
A South Florida woman is facing a first-degree murder charge after she allegedly stabbed her husband, who was physically disabled, more than 140 times. NBC News reports Joan Burke, 61, of Palm Springs, was arrested Sunday and charged with the death of her husband Melvin Weller, 62, whose body was found by Burke’s son on the couple’s kitchen floor […]
Several people were stabbed in New York City’s subway system over the weekend, in the wake of Mayor Eric Adams announcing plans for safer public transit. NBC News reports at least six stabbings occurred within 48 hours of Adams and New York Governor Kathy Hochul unveiling a 17-page public safety initiative, “Safety Subway Plan,” on Friday. The first two […]
A Tennessee woman is facing numerous charges related to alleged sexual encounters with at least nine local high school boys. WTVC reports Melissa Blair, a 38-year-old mom, was indicted last week on 23 total charges, with 18 counts of aggravated statutory rape, four counts of human trafficking by patronizing prostitution, solicitation of a minor, and forfeiture of […]
A 21-year-old college student at SUNY Potsdam was fatally shot near campus on Friday. WWNY reports Elizabeth Howell, 21, of Patterson, was shot shortly before 6 p.m. Friday. Police say Howell was found on College Park Road, in the village of Potsdam, located about 200 miles north of Albany. Howell was pronounced dead after being rushed […]
The suspect in an Arizona drive-by shooting has been charged with the fatal shooting of 7-year-old Letreese Moten. According to CNN, 29-year-old Terriance D. Armstrong Jr. was taken into custody this week after he opened fire on another vehicle early Thursday in Glendale, Arizona. Authorities say the shooting was preceded by a verbal altercation involving Armstrong and […]
Joel Lavine, a suspended professor at Columbia University, managed to dodge jail time in his years-old sexual misconduct case. According to CBS News, the tenured professor was sentenced to one year of conditional discharge for sexually abusing a former patient whom he had known since she was a teen. Survivor alleged the abuse took place in early 2019, […]
