A former nurse at a North Carolina hospital has been charged in the deaths of two patients after officials said he injected them with lethal doses of insulin. Forsyth County District Attorney Jim O’Neill announced at a news conference Tuesday that Johnathan Howard Hayes, a registered nurse, was charged with …
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Eric Weinberg, executive producer for the hit TV show “Scrubs,” was denied bail on Tuesday after pleading not guilty to sexually assaulting five women whom prosecutors said he lured to photo shoots. Weinberg was arrested earlier this month after being charged with 18 felony counts including rape, oral copulation, forcible …
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Prosecutors on Tuesday charged a Northern California man with fatally shooting three men whom police have said were among six men slain by a serial killer over the past 18 months. Wesley Brownlee, 43, was arrested Saturday in connection with a series of shootings dating back to April 2021 in …
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Anna Sorokin, whose exploits posing as a German heiress to scam individuals and financial institutions out of hundreds of thousands of dollars inspired a Netflix series, has been released from immigration custody. Pictures in the New York Post Friday showed Sorokin in an apartment building in Manhattan. She told the publication …
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A Michigan judge dismissed felony charges Tuesday against seven people in the Flint water scandal, including two former state health officials blamed for deaths from Legionnaires’ disease. The judge’s dismissal was significant but not a complete surprise after the Michigan Supreme Court in June unanimously said a different judge acting …
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A Northern California mother of two was sentenced Monday to 18 months in prison for faking her own kidnapping so she could go back to a former boyfriend, which led to a three-week, multi-state search before she resurfaced on Thanksgiving Day in 2016. Sherri Papini, 40, pleaded guilty earlier this …
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After a months-long manhunt, police arrested a suspect in the death of an 8-year-old girl who had been reported missing before her body was found last March inside a central California home, authorities said Sunday. Dhante Jackson was taken into custody Saturday in the San Francisco Bay Area city of …
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Three men were indicted Thursday in the 2018 beating death of a fellow inmate, the famed Boston mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger, the Department of Justice said in a release Thursday. Fotios “Freddy” Geas, 55, Paul “Pauly,” J. DeCologero, 48 and Sean McKinnon, 36, were all charged with conspiracy to commit …
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A man accused of abducting a 12-year-old who escaped by chewing her way out of restraints after a week in captivity at a rural mobile home was charged with killing two people found dead inside the residence, authorities said Wednesday. Already charged with first-degree kidnapping in connection with the child’s …
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A Wyoming woman has been arrested and is awaiting extradition to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to face arraignment in the death 25 years ago of a baby found discarded in the waste pit of an outhouse, authorities said Wednesday. Investigators traveled to Wyoming on Tuesday to interview the 58-year-old woman, who …
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