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Alex Murdaugh has been convicted in the murders of his wife and son. A panel of 12 jurors reached the verdict Thursday after a six-week trial that included testimonies from more than 70 witnesses. CNN reports the jury deliberated for less than three hours, and ultimately found the defendant guilty of two counts of murder and two counts […]
A Republican Tennessee legislator faced backlash this week after he proposed to revive lynching-style hangings. Rep. Paul Sherrell (R-Sparta) made the proposal Tuesday during a Criminal Justice Committee meeting that addressed HB 1245—a bill that would allow death row inmates to be killed by firing squad. While expressing his support for the bill, Sherrell suggested an […]
A man who was left paralyzed from the waist down after being shot by a police officer in Florida in 2021 has filed a federal lawsuit. Per the office of attorney Ben Crump, who announced the lawsuit on Wednesday during a press conference with co-counsel attorney Hunter Shkolnik and attorney Sue-Ann Robinson, the suit against […]
West Virginia lawmakers have advanced a bill that would effectively ban child marriage. According to the Associated Press, the GOP-led House of Delegates approved the legislation 84-13 Wednesday with bipartisan support. Under West Virginia’s current law, children as young as 16 can legally get married as long as they obtain parental consent. Those who are younger than […]
A man has been arrested and charged in connection with a fatal St. Louis shooting seen in video. The graphic footage, which has been circulating widely on Twitter without content warnings, shows a man standing over another on a sidewalk. Deeper into the short clip, the suspect points a gun at the other man, then […]
Police in Hong Kong have charged four people with murder in connection to the gruesome slaying of influencer and model Abby Choi, whose missing head was found in a soup pot, according to local broadcaster TVB. The 28-year-old model, who was reported missing last week, appeared on the front cover of the latest edition of […]
TikTok has announced several new features for teen users, including a 60-minute daily screen time limit. To be clear, the limit does not full-on block a user from spending longer than 60 minutes on the platform. Instead, per an extended breakdown of the new features shared by TikTok on Wednesday, users under the age of […]
As expected, Tory Lanez’s sentencing in the Megan Thee Stallion shooting case has been postponed. As reported by KTTV and others, a new potential sentencing date (April 10) was set during a hearing with Superior Court Judge David Herriford on Tuesday. This outcome was more or less predicted, per court reporter Meghann Cuniff, who also shared […]
On Feb. 3 of this year, multiple cars carrying hazardous chemicals as part of a train operated by Norfolk Southern were confirmed to have derailed in the East Palestine area of Ohio. Developments surrounding the troublingly toxic event have continued to spill out in the weeks since, with updates from the scene of the crash […]
A Twitter employee and top exec who went viral last November after being pictured sleeping in the floor of the company’s offices amid the early days of Elon Musk’s takeover has been fired, according to multiple reports. Esther Crawford, Twitter’s Director of Product Management who also led the Twitter Payments division, was first reported by Platformer’s Zoë […]
