The nearly three dozen people arrested for allegedly conspiring to riot near an Idaho Pride event over the weekend appear to be affiliated with the hate group Patriot Front, police said. The group was called “one of the most prominent white supremacist groups in the country” by the Southern Poverty …
Read More »Texas woman accused in death of pro cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson fled to NYC, federal officials say
The search continued Wednesday for a woman suspected in the fatal shooting of professional cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson at an Austin home, and federal officials said the suspect apparently traveled to New York days after the killing. Wilson, 25, was found dead May 11. Austin police issued a murder warrant …
Read More »Trial in murder of teacher Tara Grinstead may hinge on confession and glove: “We’ve had his DNA since 2005, we just didn’t know”
A Georgia man charged with murdering a popular high school teacher who vanished in 2005 went on trial Monday with prosecutors and defense attorneys clashing over whether the jury should believe the defendant’s confession to investigators. Ryan Duke’s trial opened more than 16 years after Tara Grinstead was last seen …
Read More »Marcus Lillard, boyfriend of Georgia professor Marianne Shockley, acquitted in her death 3 years after sheriff called it “one of the strangest cases” ever
The boyfriend of a University of Georgia professor has been acquitted in her May 2019 death at a friend’s house in central Georgia. After Marianne Shockley was found dead outside a hot tub and the homeowner apparently took his own life, the county sheriff called it “one of the strangest …
Read More »Iowa teens used baseball bat to kill their high school Spanish teacher, court documents reveal
Two southeast Iowa teenagers used a baseball bat last fall to kill their high school Spanish teacher, and one of them described in social media posts how they followed the woman, carried out the attack and hid her body, police allege in court documents publicly released this week. Jeremy Goodale …
Read More »Teeth marks sent a man to prison for his wife’s 1985 murder. Lawyers say he was “convicted entirely on junk science”
Julie Ann Bonds died from a brutal attack that left deep cuts to her skull and a spatter of puncture wounds all over the left side of her chest. The body of the 24-year-old woman was discovered in her home in Andalusia in south Alabama on the morning of May …
Read More »Ahmaud Arbery jury foreman reveals the moments in the hate crimes trial that made him cry: “It was a lot to take in”
The Black man who served as foreman of the jury that convicted three White men of federal hate crimes in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery said he believes the guilty verdicts show that while acts of racial violence still occur in the U.S., “we’re moving in the right direction.” Marcus …
Read More »Drake Bell sentenced to probation on charges involving a minor
Drake Bell, the former star of the popular Nickelodeon show “Drake & Josh,” was sentenced Monday in Cleveland to two years’ probation on charges relating to a girl who met him online and attended one of his concerts in Ohio in 2017, when she was 15. Jared “Drake” Bell, 35, …
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