Rusty Yates, whose ex-wife Andrea Yates drowned their five children one by one in 2001, has reportedly forgiven the notorious killer mom and even speaks with her on a monthly basis. Yates, 59, regularly calls Kerrville State Hospital in Texas –a facility for criminals who are deemed incompetent to stand trial or found “not guilty...
A woman was arrested in connection with a nearly 37-year-old cold case in which a newborn baby was found dead in a California dumpster, according to police. Melissa Jean Allen Avila, now 55, was taken into custody Friday on a murder charge and was booked into the Larry D. Smith Correctional Facility on $1.1 million...
A powerful former North Dakota lawmaker pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to a charge that he traveled to Europe with the intent to pay for sex with a minor. Ray Holmberg, 80, of Grand Forks, admitted in court that he had paid young male masseuses, with some of whom he had sexual contact, during...
As a child, Michael Franzese suspected his father was in the mafia. “My dad took me and my mom one day to my grandmother’s house on Long Island,” the Brooklyn native recalled to Fox News Digital. “I was probably four or five years old at that point. We hadn’t seen him for a couple of...
A California man was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, the second-longest sentence yet in hundreds of prosecutions of riot participants. David Nicholas Dempsey pleaded guilty in January to two counts of assaulting police officers with a dangerous weapon, landing him a...
Two men have been arrested in connection with a shooting on the campus of Vanderbilt University on Saturday afternoon that left one person wounded, the Metro Nashville Police told Fox News Digital. Police said the incident happened around 4:30 p.m. on Saturday after an argument between members of a construction crew who were working at...
The San Francisco district attorney has charged 26 people in connection to an April anti-Israel protest that shut down the Golden Gate Bridge for nearly five hours, trapping hundreds of drivers including a mother with her baby and a surgeon who had to reschedule an operation. District Attorney Brooke Jenkins announced the charges on Saturday,...
Nineteen-year-old Melissa Witt was abducted, then murdered on her way to an Arkansas bowling alley to surprise her mother in December 1994.Nearly 30 years later, her killer has still not been apprehended. Investigators would find blood and signs of an apparent struggle in the Fort Smith Bowling World parking lot and in Witt’s abandoned car....
The 19-year-old main suspect in the alleged foiled terrorist plot to attack Taylor Swift concerts in Austria this week had grown a long beard and became a “bit unusual” in the leadup to his arrest, his neighbors are revealing. The suspect, identified in Austrian media as Beran A., hailed from Ternitz, a town about 50...
Authorities are saying that the woman found dead inside the baggage claim of a Chicago airport is being considered a suicide. The 57-year-old woman was found “pinned” inside the baggage conveyor belt machinery at O’Hare International Airport on Thursday. The medical examiner’s office has determined the cause of death to be asphyxiation from being hanged...
