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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, […]

A third suspect in the murder of Young Dolph is missing after he was released from an Indiana jail in January. CBS affiliate WREG reports law enforcement has issued an arrest warrant for Shondale Barnett, 28, who was arrested on Jan. 11 alongside another suspect, Justin Johnson, before he was released on Jan. 21.  Barnett is now wanted […]

Nick Minaj is still catching heat over a vaccine claim involving swollen testicles. On Thursday night, the Philadelphia Public Health Department caught wind of a Nicki tweet posted on Feb. 16: “Nothing like watching someone speak confidently about something they know nothing about,” she wrote without providing context. The health department responded to the message with the […]

A Florida police officer’s alleged excessive force was caught on tape, with the footage showing him punching and kneeling on a man after he was already in handcuffs. NBC News reports that the officer, from the West Palm Beach Police Department, has been hit with charges of aggravated battery due to the Nov. 1, 2019 […]

The white men who were convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery had a history of sharing racist and violent messages online, an FBI intelligence analyst said Wednesday. While testifying during the defendant’s hate crime trial, Amy Vaughan told the jury that two of Arbery’s killers—Travis McMichael and William “Roddie” Bryan—repeatedly sent bigoted private messages and memes on social media in the years […]

Frank Pesce, whose long list of acting credits include Flashdance, Midnight Run, and Miami Vice, died earlier this month from complications of dementia, Variety reports. He was 75.  “I met Frank at a very low point in my life. He always said he saved me and he was right. I’d never met anyone like him,” his girlfriend Tammy […]

A California man was taken into custody Sunday following an incident aboard a Washington D.C.-bound American Airlines flight which was forced to make an emergency landing at Kansas City International Airport, FOX 8 News reports.  Following the flight’s departure from Los Angeles, Juan Remberto Rivas, 50, walked up to the cockpit area and swiped a napkin with plastic utensils from […]

A 51-year-old convicted murderer who escaped from prison in Mississippi was captured days later after a vehicle he allegedly carjacked ran out of gas, authorities said. In a statement shared Tuesday, the Mississippi Department of Corrections confirmed the manhunt for Michael Floyd Wilson had come “to an end” after his apprehension in Harrison County. Per […]

As the family of Lauren Smith-Fields prepares to sue the city of Bridgeport, Connecticut, her loved ones—and others—are stressing the importance of social media in getting her story out there.  In a new report from the New York Times, some of Lauren’s friends opened up about how social media and TikTok specifically helped spread her […]

A six-year-old girl who was reported missing in 2019 was found alive under a secret set of stairs at her grandfather’s New York home on Monday. ABC News reports Paislee Shultis, who was four when she disappeared, was discovered in a hidden room beneath a staircase in Saugerties, a town in the Hudson River Valley located about 110 […]