FBI Review LA Shooting Security Video
The FBI is currently reviewing security camera footage for clues in the hunt for the gunman that shot and wounded two men at a Los Angeles synagogue. LAPD detective Rich Wheeler said that federal authorities are enhancing and clarifying the rather grainy footage, which was taken Thursday in the parking garage at the Adat Yeshurun [...]
Police Say Dozen People Observed Gang Rape
Members of the Richmond Police Department reported that roughly a dozen people watched a fifteen-year-old girl get beaten and gang raped outside her high school homecoming dance, and did not report it. Two suspects have been arrested as of Monday, though police say that as many as five others attacked the girl over a period [...]
Jury Selection in First Polygamist Trial
Members of the jury continue to be selected in the first criminal trial as a result of the raid of a polygamist cult’s ranch in Texas last year. Over one hundred potential jurors have been asked to come back on Tuesday. Lawyers are seeking twelve jurors and two alternates for the criminal trial of Raymond [...]
Man Charged for 1989 Killing of Ex’s Child
A San Diego attorney has been charged with murder for allegedly killing his girlfriend’s daughter twenty years ago so that she could take custody of her granddaughters. Eric Fagan was charged with premeditated murder and attempted murder on Thursday, a day after being arrested at his home in the San Diego suburb of Chula Vista. [...]
Two Teens Admit Involvement in School Shooting Plot
Two teenagers have admitted to being involved in a plot to shoot students and administrators at schools in the farming town of Turner, Oregon. A fourteen-year-old girl admitted to conspiracy to commit assault in a juvenile court hearing on Thursday. A teenage boy also confessed to a similar charge, and has been ordered to serve [...]
Teen’s Hidden Camera Catches Locker Thief
An adult hall monitor at a New York high school is currently facing charges of petit larceny after being caught on video breaking into school lockers. The video camera on which the thief was caught was planted by Newfield High School senior Tiana Rapp, who says that she had been stolen from on two occasions [...]
DA: Arson-Related Heart Attacks are Murder
Five men were victims of heart attacks during the 2003 blaze that swept through the foothills of San Bernadino, including 70-year-old James McDermith. McDermith was a church deacon who was camping when he noticed smoke, attempting to pack together his things, and suffered a fatal heart attack. Prosecutors charged the suspected arsonist this week with [...]
Woman Says She Lied About Being Tortured by Whites
An African-American woman who was at the center of a torture case in 2007 says she lied about being a victim. The case raised many questions about racism in West Virginia at the time. Attorney Byron L. Potts said that Megan Williams will be attending a Wednesday afternoon news conference, during which Potts and Williams [...]
Ohio Children Caged by Adoptive Parents Sue
Two Ohio teenagers that were forced by their adoptive parents to sleep in cages have sued. The lawsuit is against both their adoptive parents and the caseworkers that arranged the adoption. The lawsuit was filed on Tuesday in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court in Cleveland, on behalf of eighteen-year-old Sharen Gravelle and seventeen-year-old Michael Gravelle. [...]
Burglar Gets Prison in Cop-Shoots-Cop Chase
A man has been sentenced to one and a half years in prison for breaking into the car of an off-duty New York City police officer who was later killed in a friendly fire shooting. Miguel Goitia was sentenced on Wednesday in a court in Manhattan. He pled guilty to criminal mischief in September. Officer [...]