A former babysitter pleaded guilty to manslaughter Wednesday for the 2019 death of a man she was accused of disabling as an infant 40 years ago and was sentenced to three years in prison. Terry McKirchy, 62, accepted a plea deal for the death of Benjamin Dowling, who died at 35 after a life of...
Chilling new video has been released showing Thomas Matthew Crooks casually walking through a crowd in Butler, Pennsylvania, nearly two hours before he opened fire on former President Donald Trump and attendees at a campaign rally. The short clip, released by the clothing company Iron Clad USA, shows Crooks at 4:26 p.m. dressed in shorts...
A federal appeals court ruled that Minnesota’s law that bans people ages 18 to 20 from obtaining permits to carry guns is unconstitutional, prompting criticism over Governor Tim Walz’s stance on the Second Amendment. “As a staunch supporter of the Second Amendment, I welcome the federal appeals court’s decision regarding Minnesota’s law. This ruling affirms...
Masked police officers in Romania carried out fresh raids early Wednesday at the home of divisive internet influencer Andrew Tate, who is awaiting trial on charges of human trafficking, rape and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women. Romania’s anti-organized crime agency, DIICOT, said it was searching four homes in Bucharest and nearby Ilfov...
Democrats’ 1994 crime law is back in the spotlight as its sponsors, President Biden and former President Clinton, take the stage at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this week. Three decades ago, when Biden was a U.S. senator representing Delaware, he authored the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, which Clinton signed into...
Seattle Police detectives are searching for the suspect who carjacked an 80-year-old dog walker, dragging her, then running over her with her own car Tuesday morning. Just before 10 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 20, police responded to a neighborhood in Seattle for reports of a carjacking. When officers arrived, they located a woman in her 80s...
The United Kingdom is looking to treat some forms of misogyny as a form of extremism under the new government’s Home Office, according to reports. “Hateful incitement of all kinds fractures and frays the very fabric of our communities and our democracy,” British Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said during an interview with LBC. “Action against...
Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of killing George Floyd, was transferred to a federal prison in Texas almost nine months after he was stabbed in a different facility, the federal Bureau of Prisons told The Associated Press on Tuesday. Chauvin, 47, is now housed at the Federal Correctional Institution in Big Spring,...
The mayor of a small town in Georgia faces felony charges alleging that he illegally stashed a bottle of gin in a ditch for a state prison work crew to access. Thomson Mayor Benjamin “Benji” Cary Cranford, 52, was indicted on Wednesday and arrested by Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents on felony charges of furnishing...
An assistant principal at a school in Texas was released from the hospital on Friday following a “classroom disruption” that left her seriously injured. Candra Rogers, the assistant principal at The Collins Intermediate School in Corsicana, TX, was airlifted on Thursday, Aug. 15, to a local hospital following what school district officials called a disruption...
