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A Wisconsin woman has been charged with attempted first-degree intentional homicide after she poisoned her veterinarian husband with animal euthanasia drugs. Fox 6 reports Amanda Chapin, 50, of Monroe, was charged Dec. 28 for allegedly poisoning her 70-year-old husband Gary Chapin by putting barbiturates in his coffee. Chapin attempted to poison her husband three times […]
Tristan Thompson is grieving a major loss. TMZ reports the NBA star’s mother, Andrea Thompson, died Thursday in her Toronto home after suffering a heart attack. Sources say the woman was immediately rushed to the hospital, where doctors attempted to resuscitate her without success. Insiders said the the death was unexpected. Thompson reportedly left Los Angeles on Thursday and landed […]
Following the capture of El Chapo’s son Ovidio Guzmán López this week, Mexican authorities announced that at least 29 people died during his arrest. Per Reuters, Mexican security forces captured the alleged drug trafficker on Thursday, and the city of Culicán was engulfed in violence between authorities and suspected gang members. During the dramatic arrest of […]
Dave Bautista isn’t tolerant of people who are homophobic. The Glass Onion actor told GQ that he had to cover up a tattoo after a former friend made derogatory remarks about the LGBTQIA+ community. The 53-year-old described how the tattoo was a logo for Manny Pacquiao’s team, though Bautista didn’t mention him by name. “It […]
Connecticut state representative Quentin “Q” Williams has died in a wrong-way highway crash after he attended his own swearing-in ceremony for a third term, NBC News reports. The Democrat lawmaker was killed in the crash on Thursday evening after leaving the swearing-in ceremony at the governor’s inaugural ball. Police said that he and the driver […]
Bessie Laurena Hendricks, who was widely cited as the oldest living person in the U.S., died this week at the age of 115. Hendricks died at an Iowa retirement facility, per a report from regional outlet KIMT, mere months after celebrating her 115th birthday. A funeral service for Hendricks, who lived through everything from World […]
On Dec. 23, Nicous D’Andre Spring was supposed to be released from a Montreal jail. Instead, the Montreal rapper, who went by Yk Lyrical, remained detained and died the next day, shortly after police placed a spit hood on him and pepper-sprayed him, according to the Canadian Press. In the wake of Spring’s death, many are calling for […]
William “Rick” Singer, the architect of the “Varsity Blues” college admissions scheme, will spend the next several years behind bars. According to CNN, the 62-year-old Florida resident was sentenced to 42 months in prison on Wednesday for his role in the years-long scandal, which exposed inequalities within the U.S. higher education system. The sentencing came nearly four […]
The man accused of shooting and killing Takeoff has been released from jail after posting bond. As reported by KHOU and other regional Houston outlets, 33-year-old Patrick Clark was released from the Harris County Jail on Wednesday, notably less than a month after a judge denied his request for a lowered bond amount. Per court documents […]
With everything that’s happened in the past few years and the increasingly central role that social media has played in it all, it’s hard not to feel as if an urgent change is needed, both in how these platforms work and how we use them. From the spread of misinformation to trolling and toxic online […]
