Crime

A 32-year-old Pennsylvania woman who served just two days in jail after her infant son died while she was high is back in custody, this time for allegedly falling asleep while babysitting a 2-year-old boy who wandered barefoot into a busy road in York County. Pennsylvania prosecutors charged Arissa Ward with felony child endangerment and […]

Federal agents arrested multiple illegal immigrants with convictions for child sexual assault, aggravated sexual assault, strangulation, and methamphetamine distribution as part of a nationwide enforcement sweep during National Crime Victims Week, the Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday. The arrests spanned at least five locations, from Southern California to southeastern Pennsylvania, and targeted individuals DHS […]

Jamar Johnson, a U.S. citizen, pleaded guilty Monday to defrauding taxpayers of more than $1 million through the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program, money he funneled into cryptocurrency and foreign accounts instead of keeping any amateur basketball league afloat. The Department of Homeland Security announced Johnson’s plea, stating he submitted a PPP loan application […]

A 14-year-old boy was arrested and charged with assault after video captured him allegedly body-slamming a 15-year-old girl onto a New York City sidewalk and stomping on her head, an attack that began, sources told the New York Post, after she refused to give him her phone number. The confrontation took place around 3:30 p.m. […]

A 43-year-old Florida inmate smiled, laughed, and told the judge “You are amusing” as she handed him a life sentence without parole for stabbing his cellmate to death with a pen inside Dade Correctional Institution in 2021. Marcus Terry had already been serving a life sentence for armed burglary and armed robbery when he killed […]

University of California, Berkeley police are investigating two separate deaths discovered on campus in a single 24-hour span, a 21-year-old student who fell from a residence hall building and an unidentified man whose body was found in bushes near one of the university’s most heavily trafficked public spaces. The back-to-back discoveries, reported Tuesday evening and […]

The Gates Foundation is cutting roughly one-fifth of its workforce, up to 500 positions, while launching an external review of founder Bill Gates’ ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a pair of moves that land as the billionaire faces a scheduled appearance before the House Oversight Committee this summer. CEO Mark Suzman disclosed the […]

A Cuban national with a final removal order dating back to 1980 sat in a Florida jail last month awaiting trial on drug and weapons charges, forty-five years after a federal judge ordered him out of the country. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement finally took him into custody, and the agency is pointing directly at […]

Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D-Fla., announced Tuesday that she is resigning from the House of Representatives, effective immediately, minutes before a House Ethics Committee hearing was set to recommend sanctions against her and days before a scheduled vote to expel her from the chamber. She was not on the House floor when her resignation letter was […]

A car exploded during an alleged street takeover on Chicago’s South Side over the weekend, sending a fireball into the night sky while a large crowd looked on, and police made zero arrests. The incident in the city’s Gresham neighborhood marks the latest in a string of takeover events that Chicago’s leadership has struggled to […]