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A Colorado funeral home operator who made headlines back in 2020 after being arrested alongside her mother for illegal body part sales has been sentenced to 20 years behind bars. On Tuesday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announced that 46-year-old Megan Hess had received a 20-year sentence after her prior guilty […]
Amber McLaughlin, 49, has been executed in Missouri, despite calls from death penalty abolition advocates and lawmakers for the execution to be halted, marking what’s widely been referred to as the first instance of a transgender woman being put to death in the U.S. Per a report from the Associated Press, McLaughlin was put to death […]
James “Buster” Corley, known for being a co-founder of Dave & Buster’s, died this week in Texas at the age of 72. According to reports, including one from regional outlet WFAA, police in Dallas initially responded to Corley’s home near the White Rock Lake area on Monday and found a man later identified as Corley with […]
A Florida man who was arrested and convicted of impersonating a doctor when he was a teen has received another term in prison for defrauding his employer. NBC Miami reports Malachi Love-Robinson, 25, has been sentenced to 28 months in prison after pleading guilty to grand theft and organized scheme to defraud less than $20,000. Circuit Judge Howard Coates, […]
All four passengers in a car that went over the side of a California cliff have survived in what officials are calling “nothing short of a miracle.” In an initial statement detailing the crash, Battalion Chief Brian Pottenger of the Coastside Fire Protection District and Cal Fire said that the car in question—described as a […]
A ground crew member at an airport in Alabama died over the weekend in an accident involving one of the engines of an aircraft. The National Transportation Safety Board said in a statement, obtained by Insider, that the unidentified employee was “ingested into the engine” of an American Airlines Embraer 170 on Saturday, as the plane was parked at the gate in […]
An Oregon woman is accused of pushing a 3-year-old child off a platform and onto the train tracks in an unprovoked attack last week. Breanna Workman, 32, has been charged with first-degree attempted assault, third-degree assault, interfering with public transportation, second-degree disorderly conduct, and recklessly endangering another person, according to a press release from the Multnomah County […]
The state of New York has become the sixth in the United States to legalize the composting of human bodies, per the Associated Press. Democratic governor Kathy Hochul signed the legislation on Saturday (Dec. 31, 2022) to legalize natural organic reduction, which is otherwise known as human composting or terramation. New York is the sixth state […]
A library in Colorado is set to begin a tiered reopening process this week following meth-related concerns. In a statement shared by the City of Boulder over the weekend, as reported by KCNC-TV and other outlets, it was announced that the Main Library would first re-open on Jan. 4, albeit only for those picking up […]
Multiple human skulls were discovered wrapped in plastic and foil at the Querétaro Intercontinental Airport in Mexico, regional authorities said in a recent news release. The National Guard in Mexico shared photos of the package in question last week, noting that the four skulls were “apparently of human origin” and were being shipped to South […]
