The Serbian mother of a Massachusetts woman who has been missing since New Year’s Day and whose husband is charged with murder, will ask the United States for official information about her daughter’s disappearance, Serbia’s Foreign Ministry said Saturday. Milanka Ljubicic, the mother of Ana Walshe, signed a formal request …
Read More »Passenger on cruise ship from Iceland to Boston accused of sexually assaulting crewmember
A Minnesota man is facing a charge of abusive sexual contact while on a cruise ship from Iceland to Boston this past summer, according to federal prosecutors in Massachusetts. Daniel Farias, 45, of Bloomington, Minn., will appear in federal court in Boston on Friday, according to a news release from …
Read More »Idaho murder victims’ surviving roommate heard cry and saw masked man in home, police affidavit says
Watch “48 Hours: The Idaho Student Murders” — correspondent Peter Van Sant reports on CBS and streaming on Paramount+. One of two roommates who survived the brutal attack that left four students dead at the University of Idaho told investigators that she saw a masked man leaving her home after the …
Read More »Jade Janks found guilty of killing stepfather Tom Merriman after finding nude images of herself on his computer
A California woman has been found guilty in the death of her stepfather after prosecutors said she found nude images of herself on his computer, the San Diego district attorney confirmed on Wednesday. Jade Janks, a 39-year-old interior designer from Solana Beach, was convicted of first-degree murder after the jury …
Read More »Jurors hear former U.S. Border Patrol agent confessing to 4 killings as 5th woman recounts her escape
Jurors in the capital murder trial of a former U.S. Border Patrol agent have heard a taped interview in which he confesses to the 2018 killings of four sex workers in South Texas. If convicted of capital murder, Juan David Ortiz, 39, faces life in prison without parole because prosecutors …
Read More »Maurice Hastings, California man imprisoned for 38 years, is freed after DNA evidence points to different person
A man who spent more than 38 years behind bars for a 1983 murder and two attempted murders has been released from a California prison after long-untested DNA evidence pointed to a different person, the Los Angeles County district attorney said Friday. The conviction of Maurice Hastings, 69, and a …
Read More »Benjamin Cole, convicted of killing his 9
Oklahoma executed inmate Benjamin Cole on Thursday morning despite claims from his attorneys that he had been severely mentally ill. Cole was pronounced dead at 10:22 a.m. at Oklahoma’s state penitentiary in McAlester. He was the sixth Oklahoma inmate to be executed since the state resumed carrying them out in October 2021. Cole …
Read More »Las Vegas Raiders’ Davante Adams charged with assault after shoving photographer
Las Vegas Raiders star Davante Adams has been charged with assault after he shoved a photographer while walking off the field following the team’s 30-29 loss against the Kansas City Chiefs on Monday night. A document, filed in Kansas City Municipal Court, alleges Adams, 29, pushed Ryan Zebley to the ground …
Read More »Texas puts to death inmate who fought rules prohibiting pastor from praying over him during execution
A Texas death row inmate whose case redefined the role of spiritual advisers in death chambers nationwide was executed Wednesday, despite the efforts of a district attorney to stop his lethal injection. John Henry Ramirez, 38, was executed at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. He was convicted of killing 46-year-old …
Read More »Brothers in Texas arrested after 2 migrants shot, one fatally, near U.S.
Two brothers in Texas have been arrested after authorities say one of them opened fire on a group of migrants getting water near the U.S.-Mexico border, killing one man and shooting a woman in the stomach, according to court documents filed Thursday. The shooting Tuesday was in rural Hudspeth County …
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